Books like Too Like the Lightning
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer reads as intellectual, ornate. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
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83% genome match
Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1983
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69% genome match
Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
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69% genome match
The Goblin Emperor
Sarah Monette · 2014
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69% genome match
The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker
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69% genome match
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson · 1999
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69% genome match
The Dragonbone Chair
Tad Williams · 1988
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69% genome match
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · 2019
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69% genome match
Helliconia Spring
Brian W. Aldiss · 1982
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69% genome match
Iron Council
China Miéville · 2004
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69% genome match
The Deryni archives
Katherine Kurtz · 1986
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69% genome match
The Einstein intersection
Samuel R. Delany · 1967
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69% genome match
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