The Best of Damon Knight
By: Damon Knight
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Dark of the Knight • (1976) • essay by Barry N. Malzberg Not with a Bang • (1950) To Serve Man • …
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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
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- fantasy
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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. The Burglar
By: David Goodis
4.00
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the … read more
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- fiction
"At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn."-David Goodis, The Burglar
3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. Nightfall
By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis
3.87
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more
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- fiction
5. Alas, Babylon
By: Pat Frank
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
6. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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- fiction
7. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- fiction
8. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
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- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
9. The Name of the Game Is Death (Drake, #1)
By: Dan J. Marlowe
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
"Two guys with guts and a go-to-hell-with-you-Jack regard for consequences have about three chances… read more
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- fiction
10. They'd Rather Be Right
By: Mark Clifton , Frank Riley , None
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Bossy was right. Always. Invariably. She was limited only in that she had to have facts -- not assu… read more
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- science fiction
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- fiction
11. The Compleat Traveller in Black
By: John Brunner , Martin Springett
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
This is a collection of stories of the Traveller in Black. It is set in a world where chaos rules. … read more
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- short stories
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- fantasy
12. A Gift of Dragons: Illustrated Stories
By: Anne McCaffrey , Tom Kidd
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- science fiction
- fantasy
13. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon
3.90
Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more
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- short stories
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- horror
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"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
14. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more
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- fiction
15. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
By: Philip José Farmer
4.54
Format: None pages,
To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more
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- science fiction
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- fantasy
- fiction
16. They Walked Like Men
By: Clifford D. Simak
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Money was worthless; it had no value! It couldn't buy housing, clothing, or food. Someone with enor… read more
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- science fiction
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17. Shakespeare's Planet
By: Clifford D. Simak
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carter Horton and three other crew members are sent on a mission to find a planet which would be su… read more
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18. The Ice Limit (Ice Limit #1)
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a f… read more
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19. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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20. Cosmos
By: Carl Sagan
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
21. The Prestige
By: Christopher Priest
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more
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22. Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
By: Alfred Bester
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative in… read more
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23. Dark Passage
By: David Goodis , None
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Sentenced to life in San Quentin for the alleged murder of his wife, Vince Parry escapes in a despe… read more
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24. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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25. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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26. The Bad Seed
By: Elaine Showalter , William March
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Now reissued - William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as … read more
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27. The Computer Connection
By: Alfred Bester
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess… read more
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28. Non-Stop
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarter… read more
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29. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
By: Terry Miles
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
30. The Complete Crime Stories
By: James M. Cain
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indem… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
31. The Best of Damon Knight
By: Damon Knight
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Dark of the Knight • (1976) • essay by Barry N. Malzberg Not with a Bang • (1950) To Serve Man • … read more
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- fantasy
