13 Best science fiction books like Victory by Lester del Rey

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Victory

By: Lester del Rey

3.24

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

It seemed Earth was a rich, and undefended planet in a warring, hating galaxy. Things can be decept…

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1. A Scanner Darkly

By: Philip K. Dick

4.02

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We're all dreaming,"

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"I have seen myself backward."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • war
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. Great Classic Science Fiction

By: H.G. Wells , Fritz Leiber , Andre Norton , Philip K. Dick , Frank Herbert , James H. Schmitz , Stanley G. Weinbaum

3.42

Format: 48 pages, Audio CD

An exciting grouping of classic science fiction short stories by various award-winning authors. Sto… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Moon Is Green

By: Fritz Leiber

3.24

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

Anybody who wanted to escape death could, by paying a very simple price--denial of life! read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Witch Shall Be Born

By: Robert E. Howard

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventur… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"you civilized men are soft; your lives are not nailed to your spines as are ours"

-Robert E. Howard, A Witch Shall Be Born

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7. What I Believe

By: Bertrand Russell

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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10. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction

11. A Martian Odyssey

By: Stanley G. Weinbaum

4.53

Format: 194 pages,

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
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12. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

By: Joshua Hammer

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls o… read more

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  • war
  • audiobook
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13. The Road to San Giovanni

By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory e… read more

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  • short stories
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14. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

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15. The Defenders

By: Philip K. Dick

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

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  • war
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook

16. The Eyes Have It

By: Philip K. Dick

4.05

Format: 336 pages, ebook

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another p… read more

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17. Paycheck

By: Philip K. Dick

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

Electronic engineer Jennings cannot remember the last two years working for Retherick Construction.… read more

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18. The Door in the Wall

By: H.G. Wells

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

The Door in the Wall, considered by both readers and critics, to be Wells's finest tale, examines a… read more

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19. Jason and the Golden Fleece

By: Apollonius of Rhodes , Richard L. Hunter

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Argonauticais the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with … read more

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20. Missing Link

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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21. Second Variety

By: Philip K. Dick

5.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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22. Black Amazon of Mars

By: Leigh Brackett

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city -- with every step he cursed the ta… read more

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23. All Cats Are Gray

By: Andre Norton

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in d… read more

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24. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

25. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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26. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

By: Philip K. Dick

3.65

Format: 192 pages, ebook

He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more

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27. Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

By: Jacqueline Carey

4.02

Format: 1040 pages, Paperback

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found … read more

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  • fiction
"All knowledge is worth having."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"Wars come and go; politics endure."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"For every victory there is a price."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"That which yields is not always weak."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

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28. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. Hubert Vernon Rudolph Cla… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"YA doesn't get librarians fired!"

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"Death is cured! USA! USA! USA!" “This is Canada."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

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30. Victory

By: Lester del Rey

3.24

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

It seemed Earth was a rich, and undefended planet in a warring, hating galaxy. Things can be decept… read more

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  • war
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
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31. The Winds of Time

By: James H. Schmitz

3.33

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

16 Best fiction books like Victory by Lester del Rey

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A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Great Classic Science Fiction

H.G. Wells , Fritz Leiber , Andre Norton , Philip K. Dick , Frank Herbert , James H. Schmitz , Stanley G. Weinbaum

3.42

Transform Your Habits

The Moon Is Green

Fritz Leiber

3.24

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Beatrix Potter

3.87

Transform Your Habits

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Beatrix Potter

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (World of Beatrix Potter, #12)

Beatrix Potter

4.05

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3.78

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