The Idiot Gods
By: David Zindell
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Quite simply the best book about a whale since Moby Dick. The Idiot Gods is an epic tale told by an…
Want to Read $ 5.99"From my readings, I had learned of a vast pool of human knowledge that both included books and went far beyond them in content and reach. The humans, of course, having only the faintest of intimations of quenging, use a different though related metaphor for the noosphere in which they like to dip their feet. Instead of seeing the truth of all things as a single, superluminal substance that everywhere flows like water, they conceive of it as a collection of things, and they content themselves with fashioning nets with their minds in the hope of casting them out in order to capture here a prettier pebble and there a smoother shell. Hence their name for the Oceanic wisdom that should flow among all beings: the worldwide Net."-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
"From my readings, I had learned of a vast pool of human knowledge that both included books and went far beyond them in content and reach. The humans, of course, having only the faintest of intimations of quenging, use a different though related metaphor for the noosphere in which they like to dip their feet. Instead of seeing the truth of all things as a single, superluminal substance that everywhere flows like water, they conceive of it as a collection of things, and they content themselves with fashioning nets with their minds in the hope of casting them out in order to capture here a prettier pebble and there a smoother shell. Hence their name for the Oceanic wisdom that should flow among all beings: the worldwide Net."-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
"Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the right questions.’ ‘But those questions are nearly always asked through the voices of materialism, mechanism, and reduction. Has it occurred to you that the only aspects of the universe that such an approach will reveal are those that are materialistic, mechanistic, and reductionist?’ ‘Has it occurred to you,’ he countered, ‘that the universe really is nothing more than matter and energy, which we can understand through, and only through, analysis?’ I suddenly felt like launching myself out of the pool and landing on top of him. Instead I said, ‘And analyzing as you scientists do, every year you understand more and more about less and less until someday you will know everything about nothing."-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
"Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the right questions.’ ‘But those questions are nearly always asked through the voices of materialism, mechanism, and reduction. Has it occurred to you that the only aspects of the universe that such an approach will reveal are those that are materialistic, mechanistic, and reductionist?’ ‘Has it occurred to you,’ he countered, ‘that the universe really is nothing more than matter and energy, which we can understand through, and only through, analysis?’ I suddenly felt like launching myself out of the pool and landing on top of him. Instead I said, ‘And analyzing as you scientists do, every year you understand more and more about less and less until someday you will know everything about nothing."-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
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1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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- science fiction
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- fiction
"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
2. 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
- fantasy
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"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
3. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more
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- science fiction
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4. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more
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- science fiction
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5. The Queen's Gambit
By: Walter Tevis
4.30
Format: 543 pages,
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is un… read more
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6. Cosmos
By: Carl Sagan
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
7. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
By: Marina Lewycka
3.93
Format: None pages,
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianwas bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut n… read more
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8. Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
By: Amie Kaufman , Jay Kristoff
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she'd have to do. This after… read more
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9. Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen, #1)
By: John Gwynne
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A black sun is rising ... Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors under King Brenin'… read more
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10. Eversion
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more
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- fiction
11. Build Your House Around My Body
By: Violet Kupersmith
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more
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- fantasy
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"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
12. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
13. Vox
By: Christina Dalcher
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable … read more
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"<>"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"you can't protest what you don't see coming."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Everything lately seems to be a choice between degrees of hate."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
14. The Wall
By: John Lanchester
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more
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- fantasy
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"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. The One Impossible Labyrinth (Jack West Jr, #7)
By: Matthew Reilly
4.41
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The seventh electrifying thriller in the Jack West, Jr. series from New York Times -bestselling aut… read more
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17. A Game of Gods (Hades Saga, #3)
By: Scarlett St. Clair
4.04
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Told in multiple POVs, A Game of Gods is the final installment in the Hades Saga by USA Today Bests… read more
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18. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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19. How We Fall Apart (How We Fall Apart, #1)
By: Katie Zhao
3.34
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, g… read more
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"No lonelier feeling in the world than having people stare at you all the time, but nobody truly seeing you."-Katie Zhao, How We Fall Apart (How We Fall Apart, #1)
20. The Dreamers
By: Karen Thompson Walker
3.63
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more
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- fantasy
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"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
21. The Idiot Gods
By: David Zindell
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Quite simply the best book about a whale since Moby Dick. The Idiot Gods is an epic tale told by an… read more
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- fiction
- animals
- fantasy
"From my readings, I had learned of a vast pool of human knowledge that both included books and went far beyond them in content and reach. The humans, of course, having only the faintest of intimation…"-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
"Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the right questions.’ ‘But those questions are nearly always asked thro…"-David Zindell, The Idiot Gods
