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Richard Swan 2026

Genre: Science fiction Thriller
Feels: Hopeful Urgent Defiant Propulsive Dark

Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.

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Red Rising

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Why it fits

As urgent and defiant as yours, only more visceral and gritty

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Chain-gang All-stars

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Why it fits

Just as urgent and defiant, but more searing and visceral

Science fiction Thriller Crime Defiant Urgent Visceral Searing

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein 2011

Why it fits

Just as defiant and propulsive, but more gritty and cerebral

Science fiction Defiant Propulsive Cerebral Gritty

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Metro 2033

Dmitrij Gluhovski 2020

Its own thing

Hard, and nobody dresses it up

Science fiction Thriller Dark Propulsive Gritty Ominous

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Parable Of The Sower

Octavia E. Butler 1993

Why it fits

The same hopeful and urgent, and science fiction too

Science fiction Defiant Urgent

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Autonomous

Annalee Newitz 2017

Its own thing

No good guys here

Science fiction Urgent Dark Cerebral Morally grey

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