9 Best science fiction books like The Questor Tapes by D.C. Fontana

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The Questor Tapes

By: D.C. Fontana

3.69

Format: 156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Del Rey / Ballantine, 1979. Mass market paperback, stated 2nd printing. Novelization of the 1974 TV…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Questor Tapes by D.C. Fontana , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

2. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • fiction
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

3. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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  • fiction
"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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5. The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars, #1)

By: Greg Cox

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"The most critical period in Earth's history." -- Gary Seven, Supervisor 194 Even centuries later, … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • star trek
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6. Spock Must Die! (Star Trek Adventures, #1)

By: James Blish

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

When a transporter experiment goes horribly awry, suddenly there are two Mr. Spocks! One is the tru… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • star trek
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7. I Am Spock

By: Leonard Nimoy

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the actor behind the most beloved character from the Star Trek universe-… read more

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  • star trek
Cover of The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

8. The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

By: Nancy Gibbs , Michael Duffy

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Ho… read more

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9. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

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10. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

12. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more

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13. The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By: Jill Lepore

3.81

Format: 320 pages,

A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing… read more

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14. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

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15. The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

3.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more

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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

Cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

17. Nor Crystal Tears (Humanx Commonwealth, #9)

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional ra… read more

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18. Encounter at Farpoint

By: David Gerrold

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and th… read more

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19. Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more

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20. Red Nails

By: Robert E. Howard

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventur… read more

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21. White Fang

By: Jack London , K.A. Applegate

4.02

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he … read more

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  • fiction
"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Các sự vật không phải bao giờ cũng đúng như vẻ bề ngoài."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."

-Jack London, White Fang

"Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out."

-Jack London, White Fang

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22. 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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  • star trek
Cover of The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) by Chris Hadfield

23. 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
  • fiction
Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

24. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Questor Tapes by D.C. Fontana

25. The Questor Tapes

By: D.C. Fontana

3.69

Format: 156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Del Rey / Ballantine, 1979. Mass market paperback, stated 2nd printing. Novelization of the 1974 TV… read more

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  • star trek

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4.02

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4.03

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Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

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4.06

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Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

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George MacDonald

3.48

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Andrew Peterson

4.33

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