Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories
By: Lucius Shepard
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by de…
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1. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
2. Way Station
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.03
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more
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"Delectable,"-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
3. Limekiller
By: Avram Davidson , Henry Wessells , Grania Davis
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Collected here for the first time, Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and c… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
5. The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
1886. John Carter, forever 30, returns to Mars and again fights enemies with green Tars Tarka and r… read more
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6. Viriconium Nights
By: M. John Harrison
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Contents: The Lamia and Lord Cromis (1971) Lamia Mutable (1972) Viriconium Knights (1981) Events Wi… read more
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7. The Floating Gods
By: M. John Harrison
3.92
Format: None pages,
Third book in the Viriconium sequence. The city is beset by a mysterious plague that affects the ar… read more
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8. Chthon
By: Piers Anthony
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Chthonwas Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He… read more
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9. Reassuring Tales
By: T.E.D. Klein
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Meticulously crafted and highly memorable, T.E.D. Klein's work represents some of the best the horr… read more
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10. 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
11. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more
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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
12. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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13. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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- fantasy
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
14. Hothouse
By: Brian W. Aldiss , Matilde Horne
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a … read more
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15. A Storm of Wings
By: M. John Harrison
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
IN THE WASTELANDS OF A FUTURE WORLD, THE PASTEL CITY STRUGGLES IN THE GRIP OF THE SIGN OF THE LOCUS… read more
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16. The Autopsy: Best Weird Stories of Michael Shea
By: Michael Shea
4.05
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
From as early as the 1970s, Michael Shea (1946-2014) distinguished himself as one of the most compe… read more
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17. Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories
By: Lucius Shepard
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by de… read more
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