10 Best short stories books like Victory Unintentional by Isaac Asimov

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Victory Unintentional

By: Isaac Asimov

4.10

Format: 20 pages, ebook

"Victory Unintentional" is a humorous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally publi…

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1. Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy) The… read more

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"Er wollte sagen: Wie könnt ihr so nett und gleichzeitig so dumm sein?"

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"So funktioniert die Geschichte leider nicht. Erst das Blut, dann der Verstand."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"Und jetzt sink auf die Knie, wenn du nicht auf andere Weise kleiner werden willst."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

"Der Mann schien für seine Freunde mindestens ebenso gefährlich zu sein wie für seine Feinde."

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

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2. The Tree

By: H.P. Lovecraft

2.99

Format: 77 pages, ebook

Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But wh… read more

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  • short stories
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3. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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4. The Terrible Old Man

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more

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  • short stories
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5. The Thing on the Doorstep

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.84

Format: 208 pages,

"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos … read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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  • short stories
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7. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison

5.00

Format: 398 pages, ebook

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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9. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It w… read more

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10. Herbert West: Reanimator

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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11. The Statement of Randolph Carter

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it w… read more

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12. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more

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"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

13. The Temple

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp m… read more

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14. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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15. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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16. The Doom That Came to Sarnath

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: None pages,

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17. 2010: Odyssey Two

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more

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  • science fiction
"Humor was the enemy of desire."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

18. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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19. 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.61

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most… read more

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"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fram…"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

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20. 3001: The Final Odyssey

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning S… read more

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"Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

"Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

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21. Victory Unintentional

By: Isaac Asimov

4.10

Format: 20 pages, ebook

"Victory Unintentional" is a humorous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally publi… read more

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6 must-read science fiction books like Victory Unintentional by Isaac Asimov

Transform Your Habits

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Herbert West: Reanimator

H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Transform Your Habits

2010: Odyssey Two

Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Transform Your Habits

2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

Arthur C. Clarke

3.61

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7 Best fiction books like Herbert West: Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft

Transform Your Habits

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Transform Your Habits

The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Manuscript Found in a Bottle

Edgar Allan Poe

4.27

Transform Your Habits

R Is for Rocket

Ray Bradbury

5.00

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