The Rediscovery of Man
By: Cordwainer Smith
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
This is the 1999 British edition from Gollancz that includes 12 of the most famous short stories fr…
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1. The Demolished Man
By: Alfred Bester
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
By: Jack Finney
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more
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- classics
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- science fiction fantasy
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Way Station
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.03
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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"Delectable,"-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
4. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
5. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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- classics
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"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
6. Last and First Men
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clark… read more
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- classics
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7. The Rediscovery of Man
By: Cordwainer Smith
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
This is the 1999 British edition from Gollancz that includes 12 of the most famous short stories fr… read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
8. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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- classics
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
9. Martian Time-Slip
By: Philip K. Dick
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophre… read more
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- fiction
10. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
11. Double Star
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more
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12. The Fountains of Paradise
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.95
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more
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13. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
14. A Fall of Moondust
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a se… read more
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15. Armor
By: John Steakley
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover edition can be found . The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix… read more
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16. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
By: Gene Wolfe
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberusis a… read more
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18. Tau Zero
By: Poul Anderson
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more
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19. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
By: James Tiptree Jr.
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphys… read more
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20. Lord of Light
By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more
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21. A Time of Changes
By: Robert Silverberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more
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