13 must-read science fiction books like Inside Earth by Poul Anderson

Inside Earth

By: Poul Anderson

3.38

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The Valgolia rule the Galaxy. But they're fomenting revolt throughout their own empire. Their hope …

If you liked the science fiction plot in Inside Earth by Poul Anderson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1) by Greg Bear

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
Cover of Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

2. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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  • science fiction
"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

Cover of The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

3. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

By: Steven Johnson

3.89

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more

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"New ideas need old buildings."

-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."

-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"

-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"

-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

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4. Anathem

By: Neal Stephenson

4.17

Format: 937 pages, Hardcover

Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians,… read more

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  • science fiction
"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

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5. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.19

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

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6. 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
"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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7. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

8. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

9. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

By: Philip José Farmer

4.54

Format: None pages,

To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

10. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

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  • science fiction

11. 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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12. Immortality, Inc.

By: Robert Sheckley

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more

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13. Triplanetary (Lensman, #1)

By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , None

3.43

Format: 232 pages,

Eddore and Arisia fought desperately to control the Universe. The ultimate battleground was a tiny,… read more

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14. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • science fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

15. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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16. This Immortal

By: Roger Zelazny

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Comm… read more

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17. Remnant Population

By: Elizabeth Moon

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time f… read more

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Cover of Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1) by Cory Doctorow

18. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

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  • science fiction
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

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19. The City Inside

By: Samit Basu

3.31

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reali… read more

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  • science fiction
"They're on display. Indi's making sure her body catches the light as it changes colour off his smartatt reads, always a spectacular angle, never missing a beat, turning and placing his partner in an …"

-Samit Basu, The City Inside

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20. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • science fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

21. Inside Earth

By: Poul Anderson

3.38

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The Valgolia rule the Galaxy. But they're fomenting revolt throughout their own empire. Their hope … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories

21 must-read fiction books like The City Inside by Samit Basu

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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