21 must-read science fiction books like For The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

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For The Cold Equations

By: Tom Godwin

4.30

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the o…

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Cover of Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith

1. Scanners Live in Vain

By: Cordwainer Smith

3.98

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

Man has conquered space, but not without costs. To maintain the space lanes, Scanners have to under… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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2. Surface Tension

By: James Blish

3.90

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In this acclaimed short story, a human colonization ship crash lands on a distant planet where the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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3. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • short stories
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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4. The Nine Billion Names of God

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

This collection of science fiction short stories includes: * The Nine Billion Names of God * I Reme… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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5. That Only a Mother

By: Judith Merril

3.52

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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6. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more

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  • short stories

7. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. Coming Attraction

By: Fritz Leiber

3.69

Format: 98 pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook

9. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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10. First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster

By: Murray Leinster

4.67

Format: 88 pages,

A collection of the trend-setting stories of "the Dean of Science Fiction" which opened and explore… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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11. Miss Mole

By: E.H. Young

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more

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"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"

-E.H. Young, Miss Mole

12. The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

By: Neil Gaiman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

Neil Gaiman, has posted an audio recording of him reading his story "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbur… read more

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13. Nightfall

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen… read more

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14. The Last Question

By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more

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15. Fondly Fahrenheit

By: Alfred Bester

3.67

Format: 363 pages,

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16. Arena

By: Fredric Brown

3.74

Format: 646 pages,

It was hot, and he was lying on sand, and a rock embedded in the sand was hurting his back. He roll… read more

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17. A Sound of Thunder

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Free online fiction. The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where ri… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

18. Born Of Man And Woman

By: Richard Matheson

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

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19. Huddling Place

By: Clifford D. Simak

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

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20. Flowers for Algernon - Short Story

By: Daniel Keyes

4.43

Format: 60 pages, Library Binding

THE SHORT STORY, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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21. Mimsy Were The Borogoves

By: Lewis Padgett

4.05

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist is attempting to build a time machin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook

22. Twilight

By: John W. Campbell Jr.

3.39

Format: None pages, None

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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23. Microcosmic God

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.14

Format: 20 pages, None

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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24. Helen O'Loy

By: Lester del Rey

3.34

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

RACCONTO (15 pagine) - FANTASCIENZA - Avere una donna di casa che pulisce, stira e cucina senza dov… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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25. The Roads Must Roll

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.79

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Anson Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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26. It's a Good Life

By: Jerome Bixby

4.09

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

What is more idyllic than a small Midwestern agricultural town? Peaksville would sound like a scene… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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27. The Country of the Kind

By: Damon Knight

3.30

Format: 22 pages, Paperback

The story is set in a future world in which violence and crime have been almost entirely eradicated… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

28. Mars is Heaven

By: Ray Bradbury

4.04

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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29. For The Cold Equations

By: Tom Godwin

4.30

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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30. First Contact

By: Murray Leinster

3.84

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

A dilemma in the Nebula! Two spaceships meet in deep space. How do they establish trust, not only b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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31. The Quest for Saint Aquin

By: Anthony Boucher

4.14

Format: None pages, None

Thomas, secretly a Catholic priest in post-apocalyptic America, travels in search of the lost tomb … read more

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  • science fiction

10 must-read audiobook books like For The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

Transform Your Habits

Scanners Live in Vain

Cordwainer Smith

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Surface Tension

James Blish

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Coming Attraction

Fritz Leiber

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mimsy Were The Borogoves

Lewis Padgett

4.05

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16 best-selling fiction books like Mars is Heaven by Ray Bradbury

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Ecclesiastes

Roger Zelazny , Theodore Sturgeon

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Scanners Live in Vain

Cordwainer Smith

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Surface Tension

James Blish

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg , Robert A. Heinlein , Clifford D. Simak , Ray Bradbury , Fritz Leiber , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny , Damon Knight , Alfred Bester , Richard Matheson , Daniel Keyes , James Blish , Murray Leinster , Theodore Sturgeon , C.M. Kornbluth , Lester del Rey , Fredric Brown , A.E. van Vogt , Jerome Bixby , Anthony Boucher , Tom Godwin , Cordwainer Smith , Judith Merril , John W. Campbell Jr. , Stanley G. Weinbaum , Lewis Padgett

4.32

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