13 Best fiction books like Chains of the Sea by Robert Silverberg

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Chains of the Sea

By: Robert Silverberg

3.76

Format: None pages, paper

Mass market paperback by Dell/Laurel Leaf, 1974. Edited by Robert Silverberg with introduction. Thr…

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1. Close to Critical

By: Hal Clement

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Crisis on Tenebra Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere Tenebra was a hostile plan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Sekret Machines: Gods An Official Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon by Peter Levenda, Tom DeLonge, None

2. Sekret Machines: Gods An Official Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon

By: Peter Levenda , Tom DeLonge , None

3.94

Format: 160 pages,

An exceptional examination from award-winning author and producer Tom DeLonge with renowned researc… read more

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3. Imperial Earth

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Satur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomen… read more

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5. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

6. Outland

By: Dennis E. Taylor

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimenta… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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7. The Grays

By: Whitley Strieber

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Whit… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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8. 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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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

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9. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

10. 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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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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12. Chasing Shadows (Sekret Machines #1)

By: Paul Costanzo , A.J. Hartley , Tom DeLonge

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Chasing Shadows is the first book in the multimedia Sekret Machines franchise that will reveal fasc… read more

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13. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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14. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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  • fiction
"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

15. UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record

By: Leslie Kean , John Podesta

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An Air Force major approaches a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempt… read more

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16. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds

By: Jacques F. Vallée

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings,… read more

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17. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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18. A Fire Within (Sekret Machines #2)

By: Tom DeLonge

4.04

Format: 673 pages, Hardcover

They have witnessed what is beyond the bounds of possibility. Lights sailing across Nevada's desert… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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19. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more

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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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20. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program

By: Colm A. Kelleher

4.12

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon unmasks the massive scope of the Pentagon’s landmark UFO study that ran… read more

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21. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more

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Cover of In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023 by Ross Coulthart

22. In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

By: Ross Coulthart

4.33

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right ther… read more

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23. UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe

By: Chris Bledsoe

4.40

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

* * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * *Are the biblical stories of angels in the Old Testament be… read more

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24. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more

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25. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

By: Graham Hancock

4.14

Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative versio… read more

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"...as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"Massive wildfires occurred at the onset of the Younger Dryas, representing the most anomalous episode of biomass burning in at least 120,000 years and possibly in the past ~386,000 years."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record."

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand…"

-Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Cover of ABOVE BLACK - Project Preserve Destiny - An Insider's Account of Alien Contact and Government Coverup by Dan Sherman

26. ABOVE BLACK - Project Preserve Destiny - An Insider's Account of Alien Contact and Government Coverup

By: Dan Sherman

3.77

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

ABOVE BLACK documents the true life experience of a USAF member, while working for the National Sec… read more

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27. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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28. Trinity

By: Tom DeLonge

3.96

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling new novel by the creators of Sekret Machines who, with the help of a team of government… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Chains of the Sea

By: Robert Silverberg

3.76

Format: None pages, paper

Mass market paperback by Dell/Laurel Leaf, 1974. Edited by Robert Silverberg with introduction. Thr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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31. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.38

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

11 best-selling science fiction books like Chains of the Sea by Robert Silverberg

Transform Your Habits

Close to Critical

Hal Clement

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Imperial Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Outland

Dennis E. Taylor

3.86

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7 Top audiobook books like Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka

Transform Your Habits

A Fire Within (Sekret Machines #2)

Tom DeLonge

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program

Colm A. Kelleher

4.12

The Invisible College

Jacques F. Vallée

4.15

Transform Your Habits

In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

Ross Coulthart

4.33

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