11 Top fantasy books like The Best of David Brin by David Brin

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The Best of David Brin

By: David Brin

4.24

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by Patrick Farley. Introduction by Catherine Asaro. One doesn’t have…

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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2. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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3. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

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4. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

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5. Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)

By: Harry Harrison

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements we… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. Edges: Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the Imagination

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

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7. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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8. Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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9. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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10. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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11. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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12. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

15. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Noor

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. My Brother's Keeper

By: Tim Powers

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONT Ë SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT. This is a ghost story. It… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Shadows of Eternity

By: Gregory Benford

3.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shadows of Eternity is legendary author Gregory Benford’s return to interstellar science fiction as… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Eye of the Sh*t Storm (The Frost Files, #3) by Jackson Ford

19. Eye of the Sh*t Storm (The Frost Files, #3)

By: Jackson Ford

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Teagan Frost might be getting better at moving sh*t with her mind – but her job working as a teleki… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Sam Gunn Jr.

By: Ben Bova

3.49

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

The final completed novel by Ben Bova Intergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova S… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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21. The Best of David Brin

By: David Brin

4.24

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by Patrick Farley. Introduction by Catherine Asaro. One doesn’t have… read more

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  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

14 Best fiction books like The Best of David Brin by David Brin

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

Ann Leckie

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

Vernor Vinge

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)

Harry Harrison

4.02

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11 Top adult books like What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2) by Randall Munroe

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

Cody Cassidy

4.06

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