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24 alternatives to Death by Black Hole

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Death by Black Hole launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Black Hole Focus▲70
freaking awesome self improvement/motivational book
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Death's End▲62
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The Road to Relativity▲55
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Ender's Game▲93
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Black Swan▲80
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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And Then You're Dead▲69
A gleeful look at the science behind impossible deaths
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Physics of the Future▲73
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Einstein▲6
His Life and Universe
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes▲53
Evolution, Theoretical Physics and Computer Science
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Dark Matter▲73
What if you could have made different choices in life?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs▲67
The astounding interconnectedness of the universe
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Quantum Labyrinth▲67
Life and work of two of our most eminent physicists
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Killing and Dying▲71
This book will convert the literati to graphic novels
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56
A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview
2015 · bookshop.org · its alternatives →
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Being Mortal▲56
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Six Not So Easy Pieces▲24
Einstein’s relativity, symmetry, and space-time
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Moonwalking with Einstein▲72
The story and science of memory.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Einstein: His Life And Universe▲81
How did his mind work? What made him a genius?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Light▲58
A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home▲95
An incredible journey from outer space… back home.
2015 · wonderbly.com · its alternatives →
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole▲67
Extraordinary journeys into the human brain
2016 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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What If?▲107
Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
2015 · whatif.xkcd.com · its alternatives →

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