11 must-read science fiction books like Mortal Gods by Jonathan Fast

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Mortal Gods

By: Jonathan Fast

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Can Nick Harmon do something right for a change as PR man at Mutagen Laboratories? Can Nick's dead …

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1. Odd John

By: Olaf Stapledon

3.69

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

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"My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one."

-Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

"Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food -…"

-Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

"With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dea…"

-Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

"The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (rioto…"

-Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

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2. The Dragon Masters

By: Jack Vance

3.80

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Man against dragon. Each bred for slaughter. "The Dragon Masters is a story grounded in genetic … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them."

-Jack Vance, The Dragon Masters

Cover of The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Katya Reimann

3. The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Katya Reimann

3.49

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. On Wings of Song

By: Thomas M. Disch

3.74

Format: 359 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a pu…"

-Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song

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5. Space Viking

By: H. Beam Piper

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Vengeance is a strange human motivation -- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would n… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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6. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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7. Rogue Queen

By: L. Sprague de Camp

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Worker Iroedh was confused. Though she was a lover of antiquity, she really could put no faith in t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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8. 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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  • 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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9. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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  • fiction
"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

10. Beyond Apollo

By: Barry N. Malzberg

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the ot… read more

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11. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

12. Kampus

By: James E. Gunn

4.17

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more

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14. Mission of Gravity

By: Hal Clement

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Cover Artist: Ed Emshwiller Mission of Gravityis an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on… read more

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15. Norse Mythology

By: Neil Gaiman

4.10

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182 Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient … read more

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  • fiction
"Ragnarok is coming."

-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

"And the game begins anew."

-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

"Rebirth always follows death."

-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

"Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki."

-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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16. Mortal Gods

By: Jonathan Fast

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Can Nick Harmon do something right for a change as PR man at Mutagen Laboratories? Can Nick's dead … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

12 Best fiction books like Mortal Gods by Jonathan Fast

Transform Your Habits

Odd John

Olaf Stapledon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Dragon Masters

Jack Vance

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Katya Reimann

3.49

Transform Your Habits

On Wings of Song

Thomas M. Disch

3.74

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3)

Andrzej Sapkowski

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4)

Terry Pratchett

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

Andrzej Sapkowski

4.27

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