14 Top science fiction fantasy books like The Rock by Bob Mayer

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The Rock

By: Bob Mayer

4.04

Format: None pages,

Fascinating, imaginative and nerve-wracking. Kirkus Reviews A crackling science thriller in the vei…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Rock by Bob Mayer , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Congo

By: Michael Crichton

3.62

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"No one escapes from life alive."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch wi…"

-Michael Crichton, Congo

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2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

Cover of The Mission (Area 51 #3) by Bob Mayer, Robert Doherty

3. The Mission (Area 51 #3)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.91

Format: 344 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Now we know what the government hid there.  It's time we found out why....Hidden deep in the Amazon… read more

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  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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4. Ole Doc Methuselah: The Intergalactic Adventures of the Soldier of Light

By: L. Ron Hubbard

3.68

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Ole Doc Methuselah was the name by which he was known on a myriad of scattered planets, for he was … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Legend (Area 51, #9) by Bob Mayer, Robert Doherty

5. Legend (Area 51, #9)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

FROM THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON TO THE MISTS OF AVALON—THEY WERE THERE. NOW THEY ARE OUR ONLY HOPE. Th… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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6. Nosferatu (Area 51, #8)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY ARE THEIR HOME. THE BLOOD OF HUMANS IS THEIR SUSTENANCE. NOW THE FUTURE BELO… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Grail (Area 51 #5) by Bob Mayer, Robert Doherty

7. The Grail (Area 51 #5)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

4.02

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Holy Grail -- is it the key to a miracle ... or a terrifying truth? The Great Wall of China, t… read more

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  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Meg (MEG, #1) by Steve Alten

8. Meg (MEG, #1)

By: Steve Alten

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Paperback

Revised and Expanded. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor fo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) by David Brin

9. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

By: David Brin

3.69

Format: None pages,

Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered tech… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Tuf Voyaging

By: George R.R. Martin

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland T… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. The Lost World

By: Michael Crichton

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1) by Stephen Baxter

12. Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

By: Stephen Baxter

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginn… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Rock by Bob Mayer

13. The Rock

By: Bob Mayer

4.04

Format: None pages,

Fascinating, imaginative and nerve-wracking. Kirkus Reviews A crackling science thriller in the vei… read more

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  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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14. Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (Santiago #1)

By: Mike Resnick

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none...has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Hellstrom's Hive

By: Frank Herbert

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world:… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Octagon

By: Fred Saberhagen

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Project Aura (Psychic Warrior, #2) by Bob Mayer, Robert Doherty

17. Project Aura (Psychic Warrior, #2)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Mind control is only the first step... World domination is the next... Bright Gate. HAARP. Remote V… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mayer's Project Aura (Psychic Warrior, #2) book and Bob Mayer's The Rock

  • science fiction
  • fiction

18. Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3)

By: David Brin

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnific… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

19. Bermuda Triangle (Atlantis, #2)

By: Bob Mayer , Greg Donegan

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a nuclear missile is launched from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, ex-Green Beret Eric Dan… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy

20. Sphere

By: Michael Crichton

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the … read more

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21. Psychic Warrior (Psychic Warrior, #1)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Paperback

HE'S THE ULTIMATE COMMANDO: INVISIBLE. INVULNERABLE. INVINCIBLE. PSYCHIC WARRIOR In 1981 psychics w… read more

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22. 2010: Odyssey Two

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two book and Bob Mayer's The Rock

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Humor was the enemy of desire."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

23. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

By: Neal Stephenson

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more

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24. Protector (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, … read more

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25. Excalibur (Area 51, #6)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

EXCALIBUR: LOST RELIC. LEGENDARY TALISMAN. ULTIMATE WEAPON. Once thought of as myth, the legendary … read more

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26. Timescape

By: Gregory Benford , None

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard scie… read more

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27. The Truth (Area 51, #7)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

At last, we will learn the truth about humankind's origins... But do we really want to know? The Ar… read more

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28. Area 51 (Area 51, #1)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.77

Format: None pages,

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29. The Sphinx (Area 51, #4)

By: Bob Mayer , Robert Doherty

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Performance by Colin Stinton Two Cassettes, 2 hrs. Are there aliens among us? Have the highest eche… read more

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Cover of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) by Dan Simmons

30. Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

By: Dan Simmons

4.19

Format: 563 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the worl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore...." "What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. "Nothing," she …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

31. Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #2)

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skie… read more

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3.62

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