Dream Makers
By: Charles Platt
3.92
Format: 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Twenty-eight science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, Ray Brad…
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1. The Glass Teat
By: Harlan Ellison
4.17
Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Criticizes the lack of creativity in television programs and describes the author's experiences as … read more
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- nonfiction
2. Fevre Dream
By: George R.R. Martin
3.89
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more
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"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
3. Jaws
By: Peter Benchley
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more
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4. The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
By: Michael Connelly
4.12
Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he e… read more
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"You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions."-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
"one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into th…"-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
5. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon
3.90
Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more
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"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
6. Dying Inside
By: Robert Silverberg
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to pro… read more
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7. A Lit Fuse, The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison
By: Nat Segaloff
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An unguarded, uncensored, unquiet tour of the life of Harlan Ellison. In late 2011 Harlan Ellison--… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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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"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)
9. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
10. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
11. Starship Troopers
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.01
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
By: Mira Grant
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good he… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Night Shift
By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald
4.04
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more
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- anthologies
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."-Stephen King, Night Shift
"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."-Stephen King, Night Shift
"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"-Stephen King, Night Shift
"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."-Stephen King, Night Shift
15. The Cipher
By: Kathe Koja
3.54
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more
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16. The Kraken Wakes
By: John Wyndham
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more
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"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
17. Pronto
By: Elmore Leonard
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more
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18. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
19. Eversion
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more
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20. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
21. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
By: Edward Ashton
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more
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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
22. Dead Silence
By: S.A. Barnes
3.80
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more
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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence
23. The Thousand Earths
By: Stephen Baxter
3.95
Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning. In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a cl… read more
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24. Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
By: Bev Vincent
4.44
Format: 243 pages, ebook
Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year career,… read more
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- biography
25. Dream Makers
By: Charles Platt
3.92
Format: 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Twenty-eight science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, Ray Brad… read more
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- biography
- anthologies
26. Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson
By: Pat Cadigan
3.52
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel b… read more
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