9 best-selling science fiction books like The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard

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The Crystal World

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent …

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1. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

Cover of Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick

2. Clans of the Alphane Moon

By: Philip K. Dick

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no id… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Mükemmel savunma yoktur. Koruma diye bir şey yoktur. Hayatta olmak, tehlikelere açık olmaktır; hayatın doğasında var tehlike, yaşamak böyle bir şey."

-Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

"Diga-me por que você prefere a mim — pediu — Doente e mesquinha do jeito que eu sou. — Não consigo explicar com exatidão — Na verdade, não saberia explicar nem mesmo parcialmente; era um mistério. Ai…"

-Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

"— Ele está refletindo — disse Coelho —Experimentando a ideia. Não é, Chuck? — É… é — Chuck conseguiu responder. Agora tinha certeza de que Lorde Gosma Veloz procurara Hentman. Alguma coisa avassalado…"

-Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

"Começou a caminhar sem destino, as mãos nos bolsos, descendo a canaleta de pedestres. Os minutos passavam e cada vez o medo e o desalento aumentavam mais. Tudo desmoronava ao seu redor. Ele se sentia…"

-Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

Cover of Metropole by George Szirtes, Ferenc Karinthy

3. Metropole

By: George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless plane… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard

5. The Crystal World

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent … read more

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  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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6. The Death of Grass

By: John Christopher

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
Cover of His Master's Voice by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel

7. His Master's Voice

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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8. We Who Are About To...

By: Joanna Russ

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an u… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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9. Red Planet

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

10. Berserker (Berserker, #1)

By: Fred Saberhagen

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met--and fought a war of mutual extincti… read more

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11. The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

12. The Snail on the Slope

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

3.93

Format: 40 pages,

"Ulitka na sklone" - samoe strannoe, samoe neodnoznachnoe proizvedenie v bogatom tvorcheskom nasled… read more

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13. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more

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14. The Ophiuchi Hotline

By: John Varley

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for ex… read more

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15. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

By: William Gibson , Pat Cadigan , Greg Bear , James Patrick Kelly , Paul Di Filippo , John Shirley , Marc Laidlaw , Bruce Sterling , Rudy Rucker , Lewis Shiner , Tom Maddox

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech … read more

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16. The Man in the Maze

By: Robert Silverberg

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonis… read more

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17. Infinite Ground

By: Martin MacInnes

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the en… read more

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18. Galactic Patrol (Lensman, #3)

By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , John Clute

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Galactic Patrol has been given the ultimate weapon in its war against the evil pirate Boskone: … read more

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19. Hothouse

By: Brian W. Aldiss , Matilde Horne

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a … read more

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20. The Pastel City

By: M. John Harrison

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ru… read more

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21. Conversazioni dopo un funerale

By: Yasmina Reza

3.27

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Aveva venticinque anni, Yasmina Reza, quando ha scritto questa pièce, e ci si stupisce, rileggendol… read more

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard

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Ice

Anna Kavan

3.67

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Clans of the Alphane Moon

Philip K. Dick

3.74

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Metropole

George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

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3.39

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A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

4.02

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Clans of the Alphane Moon

Philip K. Dick

3.74

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Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS Trilogy, #3)

Philip K. Dick

4.08

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