14 Best fantasy books like Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella: A Library of America eBook Classic by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella: A Library of America eBook Classic

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin’s ambitious and experimental novel Always Co…

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1. A Scanner Darkly

By: Philip K. Dick

4.02

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more

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"We're all dreaming,"

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"I have seen myself backward."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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2. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

By: Ann Leckie

4.08

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of … read more

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"Captain,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"Do you even know,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

" Not tea but blood! "

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"I’d run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time…"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

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3. Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty, #2)

By: Anne Rice , A.N. Roquelaure

3.55

Format: 199 pages,

An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel … read more

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4. Rocket Ship Galileo

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Winner of four Hugo Awards and the Grand Master Nebula Award for Lifetime Achievement. Three high s… read more

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5. Firstborn

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

Of the son of a High Duke of the interstellar Empire, much glory is expected. And expected. And sti… read more

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6. R.U.R.

By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver

3.83

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more

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"Nobody can hate man more than man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

7. Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)

By: Sebastien de Castell

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

There are three things that earn you a man's name among the Jan'Tep. The first is to demonstrate th… read more

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8. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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9. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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10. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl

By: Thomas M. Disch , Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dick's works has continued to grow, and his… read more

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11. Agent to the Stars

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar f… read more

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12. Fuzzy Nation

By: John Scalzi

4.07

Format: None pages,

Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCo… read more

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13. The Android's Dream

By: John Scalzi

4.36

Format: 94 pages,

A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior a… read more

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14. The Wizards of Odd

By: Peter Haining

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

This first-time collection showcases the Wizards of Odd--the masters of science fiction and fantasy… read more

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15. 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)

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16. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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17. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

By: Micaiah Johnson

3.94

Format: 336 pages, None

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fr… read more

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  • fantasy
"Of course, humanity couldn't just look. We had to enter. We had to touch and taste and take."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"„An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

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18. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

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"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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19. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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20. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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21. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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22. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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23. Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

By: Fonda Lee

4.41

Format: 587 pages, Hardcover

In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battl… read more

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"If you're not sure you're in love, then you're not."

-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

"We're getting into a dangerous game, Hilo." "You have to go where your enemies are," Hilo said. "And then further."

-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

"The possibility of death was like the weather—you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to threat of rain."

-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

"The possibility of death was like the weather - you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to the threat of rain."

-Fonda Lee, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)

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24. Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

By: Fonda Lee

4.64

Format: 713 pages, Paperback

Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is n… read more

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"Nonreactive to bullshit"

-Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

"Don't ever make the mistake that I did. Don't show mercy."

-Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

"Don't show off how much you hate a man until you're ready to be his enemy."

-Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

"Only children and gods are arrogant enough to judge what they can't understand. There's no point being afraid of their opinions."

-Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3)

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25. Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella: A Library of America eBook Classic

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin’s ambitious and experimental novel Always Co… read more

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Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

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Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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