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A furious, mind-bending journey of unlearning everything you were raised to believe in the cold vacuum of space. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Some Desperate Glory.
- claustrophobic
- explosive
- desperate
- mind-bending
- 01
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
A warm, character-driven journey through the stars that feels like coming home to a family you never knew you had.
- 02
The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
A gritty, time-fractured military thriller that weaponizes memory against a backdrop of brutal corporate warfare.
- 03
Gods War
Kameron Hurley
A brutal, bug-infested fever dream of a science-fantasy that revels in its own grime and moral decay.
- 04
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
A brilliant, paranoid plunge into the seductive heart of an expansionist empire, where poetry is a weapon and memory is a ghost.
- 05
Victories Greater Than Death
Charlie Jane Anders
A thrilling, friendship-fueled space opera about stepping into a massive legacy and realizing the universe is far more dangerous and wondrous than expected.
- 06
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A furious, structurally brilliant descent into a dying world where grief and geology are wielded as weapons.
- 07
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
A wildly irreverent, bone-crunching gothic mystery wrapped in internet humor and devastating queer longing.
- 08
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
A fractured, cold-blooded meditation on identity and empire, told from the perspective of a starship trapped in a single human body.
- 09
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
A cerebral, high-stakes space opera where language and empathy are the ultimate weapons against annihilation.
- 10
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
A warm, quiet slice-of-life journey through the everyday lives of people finding their place in a vast, changing universe.
- 11
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
A haunting exploration of radical empathy and toxic devotion set against the harsh extremes of a tidally locked world.
- 12
Upright Women Wanted
Sarah Gailey
A gritty, fast-paced pulp Western that trades traditional cowboys for queer librarian spies dismantling a fascist regime.
