10 books for fans of L'Ogive du Jugement dernier
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Dominion of Blades
Dominion of Blades • Book 1
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Thirty years of virtual sword-and-sorcery gaming ends when immersion technology kills players in real life, driving Dominion of Blades underground where the danger intensifies.
★ 4.17 Goodreads (4.3K ratings) -
Operation Bounce House
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Oliver Lewis just wants to run his family ranch, but Earth gamers have turned his planet into their latest conquest target in this high-concept blend of rural life and interplanetary warfare.
★ 4.06 Goodreads (10.8K ratings) -
The Martian
The Martian • Book 1
by Andy Weir
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Weir's debut follows botanist Mark Watney's resourceful attempt to survive alone on Mars after his crew evacuates, believing him dead during a dust storm.
★ 4.42 Goodreads (1.3M ratings) -
Starsight
Skyward • Book 2
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Pilot Spensa infiltrates the alien Superiority to steal hyperdrive technology, posing as one of their own while her people remain trapped on their besieged planet.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (109.9K ratings) -
Ender's Game
The Ender Saga • Book 1
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Card examines childhood manipulation and military ethics through Ender's tactical brilliance at Battle School, where children train for interstellar warfare through elaborate games.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.5M ratings) -
Kindred
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A contemporary Black woman finds herself repeatedly transported to a Maryland plantation to save her white ancestor, forcing her to navigate slavery's horrors firsthand. Butler's time-travel premise creates visceral connections between historical trauma and present-day racism.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K ratings) -
Assembly's Folly (Antecedents' Legacy Book 5)
Antecedents' Legacy • Book 5
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When wiping out three massive alien threats with minimal casualties makes you a political target, survival becomes more complex than combat. Schinhofen delivers space opera where legendary military feats create deadlier enemies in boardrooms.
★ 4.75 Goodreads (904 ratings) -
MX Hub
Antecedents' Legacy • Book 2
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Grief becomes fuel for revenge when a soldier loses everything in an alien multiverse and vows to kill every Entoma he encounters. Schinhofen builds an intricate sci-fi world where personal loss drives larger conflicts across dimensions.
★ 4.67 Goodreads (1.6K ratings) -
Soul Mirrors
by Wiley A. Haydon III
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Twin siblings possess the devastating ability to absorb another person's memories, but their gift comes with a lethal price that has already claimed other children like them before their eighteenth birthday.
★ 4.67 Goodreads (15 ratings) -
Perhaps the Stars (Part 3 of 3) (Dramatized Adaptation): Terra Ignota
Terra Ignota • Book 4
by Ada Palmer, Full Cast
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Palmer's conclusion to Terra Ignota explodes the carefully maintained facade of utopian Hive nations into all-out civil war. Dense philosophical arguments about gender, governance, and human nature fuel this spectacular finale.
★ 4.67 Goodreads (3 ratings)