18 books like Waking Gods

What to read after Waking Gods — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Only Human Sylvain Neuvel · 2018 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus Reviews). In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team… Shares: Women physicists, Robots

Sleeping Giants Sylvain Neuvel · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of… Shares: Women physicists, Robots

Junkyard Planet H. Beam Piper · 1631 · ★ 2.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Demanding This novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard Planet.Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The… Shares: Scientists, Science Fiction

A Vision of Fire Gillian Anderson · 2014 · ★ 3.4 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A Vision of Fire is the explosive first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: “Fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child will find a lot to like” (Publishers Weekly).Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the… Shares: Technological, Science Fiction, Adventure

Isaac Asimov's Inferno Roger MacBride Allen · 1994 · ★ 3.3 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In a Universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The Second Law states, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban... the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or to respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.… Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

The Runaway Robot Lester del Rey · 1964 · ★ 4.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate this is one of the first sf books that I read and will always remember it. Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Caliban Roger MacBride Allen · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The First Law states, A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created... A robot without guilt or conscience. A robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity. A robot… Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

The killer thing Kate Wilhelm · 1967 · ★ 3.2 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A robot destroys its inventor and programs itself to kill all life. How much must be sacrificed to stop it? Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Utopia Roger MacBride Allen · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The Third Law states, A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The world of Inferno is dying. A world where Spacers work with Settlers, where standard Three-Law robots exist alongside the controversial New-Law robots. A world that will be uninhabitable… Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

Dark Matter Blake Crouch · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his… Shares: Technological, Science Fiction

Saturn Ben Bova · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 "An epic tale. . . . evokes old-school space opera . . . but cutting-edge extrapolation breathes vivid life into this universe of scoundrels, heroes and romantics." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning sci-fi writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

Champion of Mars Guy Haley · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Moderate After Dr. Holland and his team discover an artifact deep in the caverns of Mars, profound consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland's present, the distant days of disgraced champion Yoechakanon Val Mora and the eras that bridge the eons between. Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

Dr. Slump 鳥山 明 [Akira Toriyama] · 2005 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Inventor Senbe Norimaki, pleased with himself for creating his masterpiece robot Arale, goes about finding the accessories he needs to convince the residents of Penguin Village that Arale is a real girl. Shares: Scientists, Robots, Science Fiction

The Robot Novels Isaac Asimov · 1954 · ★ 4.4 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Robots, Science Fiction Shares: Robots, Science Fiction

Triplanetary Edward E. Smith · 1948 · ★ 3.7 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Lensman series, Book 1 of 7 Even back before the first bits of this story hit the newsstands, the folks who published it in Amazing Stories (January through April, 1934) knew they were on to something special. "We are sure that our readers will be highly pleased to have us give the first installment of a story by Dr. Smith. It will continue for several numbers and is a worthy follower of the… Shares: Scientists, Science Fiction

State Tectonics Malka Older · 2018 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking… Shares: Technological, Science Fiction

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