16 Best science fiction books like The Shores of Another Sea (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 3) by Chad Oliver

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The Shores of Another Sea (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 3)

By: Chad Oliver

3.52

Format: 214 pages, hardback

Chad Oliver's The Shores of Another Sea is a chilling account of alien contact and thought-provokin…

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Cover of Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

1. Jirel of Joiry

By: C.L. Moore

3.72

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

C. L. Moore created Jirel, ruler of Joiry, in reaction to the beefy total-testosterone blood-and-th… read more

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2. The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

By: Philip José Farmer

3.87

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a … read more

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"By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!"

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Out of nothing I come, through a world populated by asses I pass, and into nothing I go."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

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3. Inherit the Stars

By: James P. Hogan

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and … read more

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4. Galactic Pot-Healer

By: Philip K. Dick

3.61

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drabl… read more

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"No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it."

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"For a time Joe considered. In his mind he considered his room, the cubicle in which he worked, the loss of his coins, the police—he thought about it all and tried to make it add up. What ties me here…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, ea…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"Già suo padre, prima di lui, era stato un guaritore di vasi. E così anche lui guariva vasi, e a dire il vero qualsiasi manufatto di ceramica risalente ai Vecchi Tempi, prima della guerra, quando anco…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

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5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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Cover of The Best of C. L. Moore by C.L. Moore, Lester del Rey

6. The Best of C. L. Moore

By: C.L. Moore , Lester del Rey

3.73

Format: 256 pages,

Forty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by… read more

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7. 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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8. The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum

By: Stanley G. Weinbaum

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: A Martian Odyssey (1934) Valley of Dreams (1934) The Adaptive Ultimate (1935) Parasite Pl… read more

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Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

9. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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10. The Best of Leigh Brackett

By: Edmond Hamilton , Leigh Brackett , None

4.01

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very… read more

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11. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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12. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

By: Alastair Reynolds

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diamond Dogs The planet Golgotha--supposedly lifeless--resides in a remote star system, far from th… read more

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Cover of Axis (Spin, #2) by Robert Charles Wilson

13. Axis (Spin, #2)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.50

Format: 224 pages,

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spinwon science fiction's high… read more

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14. 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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15. What Dreams May Come

By: Richard Matheson

3.77

Format: None pages,

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16. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is … read more

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17. Downward to the Earth

By: Robert Silverberg

3.90

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more

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18. 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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19. The Best of John W. Campbell

By: Lester del Rey , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL Here are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly c… read more

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20. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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21. The Man in the Maze

By: Robert Silverberg

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonis… read more

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22. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

23. Hothouse

By: Brian W. Aldiss , Matilde Horne

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a … read more

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24. Chocky

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more

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25. The Genocides

By: Thomas M. Disch

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First p… read more

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26. Behold the Man

By: Michael Moorcock

4.00

Format: None pages,

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-he… read more

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27. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

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28. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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29. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Cover of Made Things (Made Things, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

30. Made Things (Made Things, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

She was good at making friends. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist.… read more

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Cover of The Shores of Another Sea (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 3) by Chad Oliver

31. The Shores of Another Sea (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 3)

By: Chad Oliver

3.52

Format: 214 pages, hardback

Chad Oliver's The Shores of Another Sea is a chilling account of alien contact and thought-provokin… read more

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14 must-read fiction books like Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

Transform Your Habits

The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

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