6 must-read fantasy books like A Circus of Hells (Flandry) by Poul Anderson

Cover of A Circus of Hells (Flandry) by Poul Anderson

A Circus of Hells (Flandry)

By: Poul Anderson

3.35

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A interstellar soldier/spy/adventurer at a remote outpost of the Terran (human) empire seeks person…

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Cover of Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

1. Jirel of Joiry

By: C.L. Moore

3.72

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

C. L. Moore created Jirel, ruler of Joiry, in reaction to the beefy total-testosterone blood-and-th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium, #1)

By: Keith Laumer

3.94

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds

4. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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5. Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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6. Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.08

Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five stories of Ursula K. Le Guin's world-renowned realm of Earthsea are collected in one volume. F… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"True art requires a single heart."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Things came round if you could wait for them."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

7. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)

By: Robert E. Howard , Mark Schultz , Patrice Louinet

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellaneadrafts, notes, maps by author. Cimmeria … read more

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8. Deathworld 2 (Deathworld, #2)

By: Harry Harrison

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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9. Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1)

By: Susan Cooper

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house t… read more

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10. Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.87

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • collections
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

11. Against the Fall of Night

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.00

Format: None pages,

The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the o… read more

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12. Earthlight

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.42

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

14. This Immortal

By: Roger Zelazny

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Comm… read more

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15. City of Illusions

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

1.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more

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16. 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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17. The Emperor's Soul

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Also available in . A heretic thief is the empire's only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabi… read more

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18. Deathworld 3 (Deathworld, #3)

By: Harry Harrison

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Note: The 1991 Orbit edition uses the same ISBN. The planet was called Felicity. The name was a jok… read more

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19. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

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  • science fiction
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20. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Circus of Hells (Flandry) by Poul Anderson

21. A Circus of Hells (Flandry)

By: Poul Anderson

3.35

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A interstellar soldier/spy/adventurer at a remote outpost of the Terran (human) empire seeks person… read more

Similar categories in Poul Anderson's A Circus of Hells (Flandry) book and Poul Anderson's A Circus of Hells (Flandry)

  • robots
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • collections
  • fiction
  • military science fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

10 must-read fiction books like A Circus of Hells (Flandry) by Poul Anderson

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C.L. Moore

3.72

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Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium, #1)

Keith Laumer

3.94

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Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

4.25

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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

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The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

Mark Lawrence

4.10

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