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…
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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
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)
3. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars f… read more
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"[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That’s po…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecr…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
4. Slan (Slan, #1)
By: A.E. van Vogt
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W.… read more
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5. Among Others
By: Jo Walton
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of … read more
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"I like her. She's restful."-Jo Walton, Among Others
"I wish magic was more dramatic"-Jo Walton, Among Others
"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."-Jo Walton, Among Others
"I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day."-Jo Walton, Among Others
6. 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
7. The Big Time
By: Fritz Leiber
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past fr… read more
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8. The Windup Girl
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager… read more
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9. Farmer in the Sky
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to b… read more
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10. Rainbows End
By: Vernor Vinge
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it t… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
16. The Iron Dream
By: Norman Spinrad
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad. The book has a ne… read more
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17. Nemesis
By: Isaac Asimov
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orb… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3)
By: C.J. Cherryh
3.87
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose… read more
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23. Forever Peace (The Forever War, #2)
By: Joe Haldeman
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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24. Starship Troopers
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.01
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
25. 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
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"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
26. Tau Zero
By: Poul Anderson
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more
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27. 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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28. 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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29. Mission of Gravity
By: Hal Clement
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Ed Emshwiller Mission of Gravityis an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on… 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 Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
