Books like Cloud Atlas
If you liked Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Girl with All the Gifts
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Hungry girl Melanie loves myths while teacher, soldier, and scientist use her.
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Starship Troopers
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Rico earns citizenship through Mobile Infantry drops against Bugs.
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Sea of Tranquility
Because shares tags: science fiction, literary fiction.
Edwin in 1912, Olive in 2203, and Gaspery in 2401 hear the same impossible sound and chase an anomaly across time.
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Speaker for the Dead
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Ender speaks whole truths for alien deaths on a fenced colony where biology confuses murder.
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Sophie's World
Because shares tags: philosophy, literary fiction.
Sophie gets philosophy lessons by mail, then finds she is fiction in a father birthday book for Hilde.
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Hyperion
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Seven pilgrims cross Hyperion telling tales of faith, war, and time while the Shrike waits at the Tombs.
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Homo Deus
Because shares tags: history, philosophy.
After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.
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Breakfast of Champions
Because shares tags: literary fiction, science fiction.
A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
Because shares tags: history, philosophy.
The 1611 King James Bible in a 1,472-page Thomas Nelson edition: from Genesis to Revelation, law, prophets, Gospels, and letters.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
A Mars-raised man lands on Earth, learns religion and love, and founds a church that shocks everyone.
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The Three-Body Problem
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: philosophy, history.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
