17 best-selling science fiction books like The Best of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock

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The Best of Michael Moorcock

By: Michael Moorcock

3.56

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

"Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can.” —L…

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Cover of The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5) by John Scalzi

1. The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

By: John Scalzi

3.33

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that univ… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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"I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

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2. Stranger in a Strange Land

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Secrecy begets tyranny."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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3. The Sheep Look Up

By: John Brunner , David Brin , James John Bell

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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6. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari

By: James K. Morrow

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The infamous Dr. Caligari: psychiatrist or psychopath? In this wry and satiric tour de force, award… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Emerald Circus

By: Jane Yolen

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Enter the Emerald Circus and be astonished by the transformations of your favorite tales. Ringmaste… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
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8. After the Coup (Old Man's War, #4.5)

By: John Scalzi

2.33

Format: None pages, ebook

In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy--when possible… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories

By: Frank Herbert

4.19

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Even the author of DUNE--the best-selling science fiction novel of all time--had trouble getting pu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

10. Word Puppets

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduct… read more

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11. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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12. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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13. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more

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14. More Than Human

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out… read more

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15. Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)

By: John Scalzi

3.27

Format: None pages,

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm… read more

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16. 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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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

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17. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.90

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Teach me to speak the language of men."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

18. Imager's Battalion (Imager Portfolio, #6)

By: L.E. Modesitt Jr.

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Quaeryt, now holding the rank of subcommander in the Telaryn army of Lord Bhayar, leads history's f… read more

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19. The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant H… read more

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20. The Monstrous

By: John Langan , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Jeffrey Ford , Adam-Troy Castro , Steve Rasnic Tem , Gemma Files , Kim Newman , Glen Hirshberg , Christopher Fowler , Peter Straub , Gardner Dozois , Brian Hodge , Ellen Datlow , Jack Dann , Terry Dowling , Stephen Graham Jones , Dale Bailey , Sofia Samatar , Livia Llewellyn , A.C. Wise , Carole Johnstone , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

From the best horror editor in the business comes the quintessential horror anthology: The Monstrou… read more

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21. Inside Job

By: Connie Willis

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly l… read more

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22. The Complete Stories and Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.72

Format: 294 pages,

The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more

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23. Creatures of Light and Darkness

By: Roger Zelazny

3.20

Format: 160 pages,

Two gods, two houses, one quest & the eternal war between life & death: To save his kingdom, Anubis… read more

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24. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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25. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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26. Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

By: John Scalzi

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It’s war, you jackasses,"

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"Christ on a Popsicle stick."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"What we don't know can't hurt us."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"We don’t get to choose our battles."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

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27. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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28. Og-Grim-Dog: The Three-Headed Ogre (Me Three #1)

By: Jamie Edmundson

4.16

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

Two heads are better than one Three can be a real pain in the arseEveryone knows ogres can't be he… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Apocalypse Nyx (Bel Dame Apocrypha #1.5, 1.7) by Kameron Hurley

29. Apocalypse Nyx (Bel Dame Apocrypha #1.5, 1.7)

By: Kameron Hurley

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter Nyx is good at solving other people’s problems. Her fav… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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30. The Best of Michael Moorcock

By: Michael Moorcock

3.56

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

"Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can.” —L… read more

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  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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31. The People’s Republic of Everything

By: Nick Mamatas

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“[Mamatas] is the People’s Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcom… read more

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  • collections
  • anthologies
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18 best-selling fiction books like The Best of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock

Transform Your Habits

The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

John Scalzi

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Sheep Look Up

John Brunner , David Brin , James John Bell

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

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15 Best fiction books like A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett

Transform Your Habits

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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