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6 Books To Read If You Like John Scalzi

6 Books To Read If You Like John Scalzi

John Scalzi is an accomplished science fiction author, who has been honored with the prestigious Hugo Award and has also achieved New York Times Bestselling status. His notable works include Head On, The Collapsing Empire, Redshirts, and the Old Man’s War series. His next book, The Consuming Fire, is set to release in October 2018. If you’re a fan of science fiction and crave new thrills and excitement, explore our selection of recommended books to read if you enjoy John Scalzi’s writing.


Lost Arrow

by Marshall Ross

Release Date: September 4, 2018

Geologist Sarah Long has made the discovery of a lifetime. An impossibly big and extremely old ship has been found buried in the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. It is not from this planet, but it isn’t alien… or dead. At the same time, the ship makes its own discovery and Captain Jan Argen must decide between his duty to the mission and a shocking new reality.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story

by Mur Lafferty

Release Date: September 4, 2018

Han Solo dreams of one day flying into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving the gritty industrial planet of Corellia behind him. However, reaching the distant stars seems impossible because he is trapped in a life of poverty and crime. When he tries to escape the sinister Lady Proxima and her gang, he makes it out, but his girlfriend does not.

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Breakout

by David Ryker & Douglas Scott

Release Date: September 4, 2018

When an alien intelligence is unleashed after a metoer strike, only a ragtag band of marines can stop them from taking over the human race. The only problem with this is that they are in prison for a crime they didn’t commit… For the next 98 years. The fact that their prison is two and a half billion kilometers from Earth and their fellow inmates want them dead, means saving the world won’t be easy.

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Invasion

by Jay Allan

Release Date: September 10, 2018

The Rim is ablaze with the fires of war and destruction. The Hegemony has launched the invasion Tyler Barron and his Confederation comrades feared. The Hegemony have vast fleets, advanced technology, and endless legions of cyborg warriors. Their goal is to impose a system of rigid hierarchy over all humanity and the Rim. The Confederation may be outmatched but they will fight to hold back the onslaught any way the can.

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Salvation

by Peter F. Hamilton

Release Date: September 4, 2018

The year is 2204 and humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy. Any place on earth and every distant planet that humankind has settled is only a step away thanks to a cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates. Transportation and starships have become virtually obsolete. Everything is going great… until a crashed alien spaceship is found in a newly located world eighty-nine light years away.

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The Accidental War

by Walter John Williams

Release Date: September 4, 2018

The end of the Naxid War was seven years ago. Captain Gareth Martinez and Captain the Lady Sula are in exile, sidelined for their unorthodox tactics. They are frustrated and impatient by the fact they can’t exercise the effective and lethal skills they were born to use to fight the enemy. Martinez, Sula, and their confederate Nikki Severin must escape the clutches of their enemies, rally the fleet, and somehow restore peace.

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