10 books for fans of Nero
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L'Ogive du Jugement dernier
Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 2
by Matt Dinniman, Chloé Atangana
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The deadly dungeon crawler reality show continues as Carl and his cat companion must choose character builds that will define their survival—or doom them completely.
★ 4.50 Goodreads (209.9K ratings) - 2
For We Are Many
Bobiverse • Book 2
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Bob's AI copies have spent forty years searching for habitable worlds, but now face system-wide civil war and an alien species that wants humanity extinct.
★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K ratings) - 3
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) - 4
Not Till We Are Lost
Bobiverse • Book 5
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Post-Starfleet War, the Bobs no longer gather as one happy family, and their scattered existence makes them vulnerable to a challenge that could end everything.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (19.1K ratings) - 5
Komarr
Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) • Book 11
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Bujold sends Miles to investigate the sabotage of Komarr's solar mirror, where he discovers a conspiracy that could transform the conquered planet from a potential garden into a permanent wasteland.
★ 4.30 Goodreads (18.7K ratings) - 6
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) - 7
Terran Tactics (Antecedents' Legacy Book 3)
Antecedents' Legacy • Book 3
★ 4.74 Goodreads (1.3K ratings) - 8
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) - 9
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) - 10
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)