14 must-read science fiction books like Good Mountain by Robert Reed

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Good Mountain

By: Robert Reed

4.18

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

In the far future, on a world made of water and little else, one desperate man rides inside a giant…

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Cover of Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds

1. 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
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2. 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
"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)

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3. Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

By: Alastair Reynolds , None , None

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. 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
"...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

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5. The Voyage of the Space Beagle

By: A.E. van Vogt

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

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  • science fiction
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6. Rogue Farm

By: Charles Stross , Gideon Emery

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Audio CD

Joe and Maddie are a married couple making do in a post-apocalyptic future. But when a bio-technolo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

7. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 88 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #88)

By: Aliette de Bodard , Yoon Ha Lee , Ken Liu , Neil Clarke , Robert Charles Wilson , Cheng Jingbo , None , Craig DeLancey , Carl Abbott

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

FICTION "The Clockwork Soldier" by Ken Liu "Grave of the Fireflies" by Cheng Jingbo, translated by … read more

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8. Where the Golden Apples Grow

By: Kage Baker

3.73

Format: None pages,

Via Barnes and Noble: Overview Growing up anywhere is hard, but it may be hardest of all on Mars. B… read more

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9. Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.54

Format: 608 pages,

Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of… read more

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10. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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11. Lonely Castle in the Mirror

By: Mizuki Tsujimura

4.27

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face thei… read more

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"In another world, we were already friends."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

12. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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13. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) by Chris Hadfield

14. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)

By: Chris Hadfield

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more

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  • science fiction
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15. 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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  • science fiction
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16. 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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  • science fiction
"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)

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17. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction

18. The Potter of Bones

By: Eleanor Arnason

3.52

Format: None pages, None

Standalone short story, listed as part of the Hwarhath Universe in some sources. Has been publishe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. Good Mountain

By: Robert Reed

4.18

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

In the far future, on a world made of water and little else, one desperate man rides inside a giant… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

20. Glory

By: Greg Egan

3.33

Format: 21 pages, None

Sci fi story about aliens and mathematics. Can be found here https://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog… read more

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21. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

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  • short stories

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