19 Best fiction books like Flatlander by Larry Niven

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Flatlander

By: Larry Niven

3.99

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuitio…

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1. The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

By: John Scalzi

3.33

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that univ… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
"I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

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2. West of Honor

By: Jerry Pournelle

4.06

Format: 213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Reprints the Laser Books (1976) paperback original. Military science fiction, part of Pournelle's "… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Trouble with Lichen

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"Trouble with Lichen" by John Wyndham is a captivating work of speculative fiction that delves into… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What makes you think I want to “inspire confidence"

-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

"[A] nation’s science simply has to keep up with the Jones’s these days."

-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

"Once an idea has been planted no one can tell when and where it will stop growing."

-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

"[T]he purity of emotional response seemed to have been sullied by a tincture of thought."

-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

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4. The Genesis Machine

By: James P. Hogan

3.13

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

In an America becoming repressive in the face of world tensions, Brad Clifford, a young mathematica… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • fiction
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5. Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)

By: Richard Kadrey

3.91

Format: 360 pages,

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this gripping, gritty new series b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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7. The Door Into Summer

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"The more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to …"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

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8. Friday

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from … read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

"[A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

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9. A Talent for War (Alex Benedict, #1)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into th… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
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10. Crosstalk

By: Connie Willis

4.15

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

11. Ammonite

By: Nicola Griffith

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly… read more

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12. Beacon 23 (Beacon 23, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a l… read more

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13. Chess With A Dragon

By: David Gerrold

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Humanity tries to escape enslavement by intergalactic aliens. read more

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14. 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

15. The Algebraist

By: Iain M. Banks

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasquer… read more

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16. The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ing… read more

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17. Coming Home (Alex Benedict, #7)

By: Jack McDevitt

4.30

Format: 503 pages,

Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread … read more

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18. The Deluge Drivers (Icerigger, #3)

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)

By: John Scalzi

3.29

Format: 368 pages, ebook

The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning,… read more

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20. Vick's Vultures (Union Earth Privateers, #1)

By: Scott Warren

4.07

Format: 71 pages,

In the far future, alien technology captured by the Union Earth Privateers has fueled Earth's tenuo… read more

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21. The Worm Ouroboros

By: E.R. Eddison , Keith Henderson

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lo… read more

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22. The Engines of God (The Academy, #1)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a h… read more

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23. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3)

By: Jason Pargin

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the desert, which every year precedes t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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25. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

By: Sue Burke

3.91

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

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26. The Last Astronaut

By: David Wellington

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. A Change of Plans

By: Dennis E. Taylor

3.80

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search… read more

Similar categories in Dennis E. Taylor's A Change of Plans book and Larry Niven's Flatlander

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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28. Flatlander

By: Larry Niven

3.99

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuitio… read more

Similar categories in Larry Niven's Flatlander book and Larry Niven's Flatlander

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

29. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of To Turn the Tide by S.M. Stirling

31. To Turn the Tide

By: S.M. Stirling

4.55

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

New time travel military adventure from New York Times best-selling novelist S.M. StirlingIT’S THE … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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