11 must-read science fiction fantasy books like Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling

Cover of Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling

Involution Ocean

By: Bruce Sterling

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boa…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William Gibson

1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

Cover of Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

2. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) by Jack Vance

3. 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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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • 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)

Cover of Freedom's Landing (Catteni, #1) by Anne McCaffrey

4. Freedom's Landing (Catteni, #1)

By: Anne McCaffrey

3.98

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above… read more

Similar categories in Anne McCaffrey's Freedom's Landing (Catteni, #1) book and Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) by William Gibson

5. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

Cover of The Palace Of Eternity by Bob Shaw

6. The Palace Of Eternity

By: Bob Shaw

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'The planet Mnemosyne, surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, was known throughout t… read more

Similar categories in Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity book and Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling

7. Involution Ocean

By: Bruce Sterling

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boa… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean book and Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. 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
  • fiction
Cover of Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter

9. Dr. Adder

By: K.W. Jeter

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclav… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

10. A Stranger in Olondria

By: Sofia Samatar

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where boo… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

11. Orphans of the Sky

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

A fix-up consisting of the novelette "Universe" (1941) and the novella "Common Sense" (1941). First… read more

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12. Tower of Glass

By: Robert Silverberg

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes … read more

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13. Galaxy in Flames

By: Ben Counter

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces a… read more

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14. Super-Cannes

By: J.G. Ballard

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself,… read more

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15. Electric Forest

By: Tanith Lee

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that… read more

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16. Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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17. Flashforward

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.24

Format: 376 pages,

FLASHFORWARD Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world Suddenly, without warning, al… read more

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18. Frontera

By: Lewis Shiner

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's… read more

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Cover of Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

19. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

20. 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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21. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

12 best-selling fiction books like Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling

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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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Freedom's Landing (Catteni, #1)

Anne McCaffrey

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

Jirel of Joiry

C.L. Moore

3.72

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Roadside Picnic

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

4.14

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The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

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