The World in Winter
By: John Christopher
3.37
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Penguin reissues a classic work of science fiction from the author of The Death of Grass - now with…
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1. The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
By: Greg Bear
3.86
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hidin… read more
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- science fiction
- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- fiction
2. The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
By: Len Deighton
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Pa… read more
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- thriller
- novels
- fiction
"He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf."-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
"I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information…"-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
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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- science fiction
- novels
- fiction
4. Hot Sky at Midnight
By: Robert Silverberg
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At Samurai Industries, Paul Carpenter studies his computer monitors to predict the movement of toxi… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
5. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
6. 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
- fiction
7. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
8. Heavy Weather
By: Bruce Sterling
3.68
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid i… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- thriller
- novels
- science fiction
9. Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
After years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened w… read more
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- science fiction
- climate change
- climate change fiction
- fiction
10. Camp Concentration
By: Thomas M. Disch
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Louis Sacchetti is a poet and pacifist imprisoned for refusing to enlist in the war against Third W… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
11. The Girl with All the Gifts
By: M.R. Carey
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie … read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- post apocalyptic
- fiction
12. On the Beach
By: Nevil Shute
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in south… read more
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- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
13. The City and the Stars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.08
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- novels
"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
14. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
15. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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16. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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17. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- 20th century
18. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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19. The Black Cloud
By: Fred Hoyle
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred H… read more
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20. The Gods Themselves
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more
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21. Lucifer's Hammer
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to mea… read more
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22. 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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23. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- science fiction
- novels
- fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
24. Death of Mr. Dodsley (Francis McNab, #5)
By: John Ferguson
3.45
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,’ he continued. ‘One can remain in it … read more
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- 20th century
- fiction
25. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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- fiction
26. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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27. Termination Shock
By: Neal Stephenson
3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- thriller
- climate change
- science fiction
28. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- 20th century
- science fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
29. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)
By: C. Robert Cargill
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more
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- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
30. The Hopkins Manuscript
By: R.C. Sherriff
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more
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- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
31. The World in Winter
By: John Christopher
3.37
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Penguin reissues a classic work of science fiction from the author of The Death of Grass - now with… read more
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- apocalyptic
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- 20th century
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- thriller
- novels
- climate change
- science fiction
