5 Best science fiction books like Saturn Rising by Arthur C. Clarke

Saturn Rising

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.62

Format: None pages, None

Saturnaufgang Als die erste Expedition vom Saturn zurückkehrt, ist vor allem einer mehr als Der H…

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1. Aurora Leigh

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.74

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

This verse-novel tells the story of a female writer, balancing work and love. It is and based on El… read more

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"Italy/Is one thing, England one."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Good aims not always make good books."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"The world of books is still the world."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest..."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

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2. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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5. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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6. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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7. Fifteen Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot

By: Neil Gaiman

4.04

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
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8. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

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  • short stories
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9. A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , None

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to recover blackmail evidence, held by the woman whom the ki… read more

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  • short stories
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10. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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11. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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12. The Werewolf

By: Angela Carter

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A tale of a girl who goes visit her grandmother, but encounters a mysterious werewolf on the way... read more

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13. Ulysses

By: Alfred Tennyson

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to h… read more

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14. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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15. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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16. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • short stories
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

17. Eleonora

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

Eleonorais a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literar… read more

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18. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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19. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.53

Format: 256 pages, ebook

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20. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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21. Once Upon a Time

By: Nadine Gordimer , Alex Kingston

3.53

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer is anything but a fairy tale. It's more of a dystopian fantasy … read more

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22. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

23. Salomé

By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more

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24. The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

By: Alfred Bester

5.00

Format: 400 pages,

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25. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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  • science fiction
"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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26. She Unnames Them

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.06

Format: None pages, None

*short **published in The New Yorker, January 21, 1985 read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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27. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories

28. Bread

By: Margaret Atwood

3.75

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
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29. The Subliminal Man

By: J.G. Ballard

4.03

Format: None pages, None

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  • science fiction

30. Saturn Rising

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.62

Format: None pages, None

Saturnaufgang Als die erste Expedition vom Saturn zurückkehrt, ist vor allem einer mehr als Der H… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

31. The Lotos-Eaters and Choric Song

By: Alfred Tennyson

3.77

Format: None pages, None

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4.15

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3.78

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