Science Fiction: A Literary History
By: Roger Luckhurst
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey…
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1. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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- science fiction
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
2. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
By: Ann Leckie
4.08
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of … read more
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- science fiction
"Captain,"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
"Do you even know,"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
" Not tea but blood! "-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
"I’d run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time…"-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
3. Hard to Be a God
By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky
3.39
Format: 440 pages,
The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an… read more
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- science fiction
4. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless plane… read more
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- science fiction
5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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6. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more
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- science fiction
7. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings
By: Rob Latham
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a c… read more
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- science fiction
8. 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
"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)
9. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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10. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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11. House of Leaves
By: Mark Z. Danielewski
4.09
Format: 710 pages, Paperback
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more
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"I must read. I must read. I must read."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
12. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
13. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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14. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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15. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more
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16. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- science fiction
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
17. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
18. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
19. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
By: Jon Klassen
4.26
Format: 105 pages, None
Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more
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20. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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- science fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
21. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
22. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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23. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
24. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
By: Mac Barnett
4.34
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Bi… read more
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25. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.96
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more
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- science fiction
26. Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
3.58
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more
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- science fiction
"Death stalked the city like the plague."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Each of us has a measure of criminality."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"None of us should think only of ourselves."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
27. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- science fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
28. The Saturday Night Ghost Club
By: Craig Davidson
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more
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"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
29. Mr. Breakfast
By: Jonathan Carroll
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Graham Patterson’s life has hit a dead end. His career as a comedian is failing. The love of his li… read more
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30. Science Fiction: A Literary History
By: Roger Luckhurst
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey… read more
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- theory
- reference
- science fiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
31. Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
By: Sherryl Vint
3.88
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change… read more
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- literary criticism
"Design choices are the real-world equivalent of what the sf community calls worldbuilding."-Sherryl Vint, Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"The social imagination and the stories we tell, the worlds we build with our stories, matter."-Sherryl Vint, Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"The struggle to shape the future is not only material: it is equally affective and imaginative, and sf modes of extrapolation and narrative immersion are powerful tools."-Sherryl Vint, Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"Science fiction describes a way of thinking and perceiving, a toolbox of methods for conceptualizing, intervening in, and living through rapid and widespread socio-technical change."-Sherryl Vint, Science Fiction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
