16 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

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The Wanderer

By: Fritz Leiber

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artifici…

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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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"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

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2. Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.90

Format: 526 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete i… read more

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"Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics."

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years… but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman’s terms. In publ…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated is…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

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3. Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.18

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

In a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons, royal dowager Ista, released from the … read more

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"...a great man. But...not quite great enough."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

"Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

"Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

"I am old enough to have many regrets. I’ve made my share of mistakes, some"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

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4. 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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"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

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5. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Cover of A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) by Greg Bear, James Blish

6. A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

By: Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is al… read more

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7. Dreamsnake

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the si… read more

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  • post apocalyptic
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8. The Wanderer

By: Fritz Leiber

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artifici… read more

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9. 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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10. Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary … read more

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11. 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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12. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

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13. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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14. The Fountains of Paradise

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more

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15. Rite of Passage

By: Alexei Panshin

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth… read more

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16. Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal p… read more

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17. The Einstein Intersection

By: Neil Gaiman , Samuel R. Delany

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the m… read more

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18. Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.43

Format: 509 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persu… read more

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"Save me from the virtuous."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"God save me from another such victory."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"You try to give away what you want yourself."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

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19. The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.27

Format: 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting … read more

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"The count somehow managed to smile at her and frown menacingly at miles at the same time. The sergeants frown was democratically universal."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

"- Su padre y el Estado Mayor ya lo intentaron hace quince años; les llevó dos años poner los reglamentos al día. - Bueno, eso es lo que pasa con los comités."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

20. Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. H… read more

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21. Forever Peace (The Forever War, #2)

By: Joe Haldeman

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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22. The Ophiuchi Hotline

By: John Varley

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for ex… read more

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23. Beyond This Horizon

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Three centuries past tomorrow: The place is Earth - an Earth just beyond the horizon, free of pover… read more

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24. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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25. 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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26. Man Plus (Man Plus #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biologica… read more

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27. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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28. The Healer's War

By: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A novel of the Vietnam War, with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexper… read more

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29. Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind.… read more

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30. The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.27

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under hou… read more

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"He who plots revenge must dig two graves."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"He’d slam his fist into the wall in frustration but the wall was sure to slam back with greater devastation."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of, how shall I put this precisely, subordination. You argue too much."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

31. The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

By: Joan D. Vinge

4.00

Format: None pages,

This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-no… read more

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16 must-read fiction books like The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

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Alfred Bester

3.97

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C.J. Cherryh

3.90

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Lois McMaster Bujold

4.18

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4.03

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David Brin

4.04

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David Brin

3.69

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David Weber

3.82

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Megan Whalen Turner , Chad Cameron

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