No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Book 5)
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.22
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
Twelve tales of the unknown from a master of science fiction Clifford D. Simak had a sublime abil…
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1. The Demolished Man
By: Alfred Bester
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more
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- science fiction
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"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
2. Inherit the Stars
By: James P. Hogan
4.06
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
3. Trouble with Lichen
By: John Wyndham
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"Trouble with Lichen" by John Wyndham is a captivating work of speculative fiction that delves into… read more
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- science fiction
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"What makes you think I want to “inspire confidence"-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen
"[A] nation’s science simply has to keep up with the Jones’s these days."-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen
"Once an idea has been planted no one can tell when and where it will stop growing."-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen
"[T]he purity of emotional response seemed to have been sullied by a tincture of thought."-John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen
4. Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.22
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on… read more
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- science fiction
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"I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]"-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
5. Farmer in the Sky
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to b… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
6. Glory Road
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
7. Metropolis
By: Thea von Harbou
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fri… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
8. 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
- 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)
9. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
10. Harvest of Stars (Harvest of Stars, #1)
By: Poul Anderson
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Winner of seven Hugo and three Nebula Awards, Poul Anderson is one of science fiction's supreme mas… read more
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11. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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12. To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)
By: Tad Williams
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
As the evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King prepare for the kingdom-shattering culmination o… read more
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13. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (Giants, #2)
By: James P. Hogan
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
THE END OF EXILE Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race… read more
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14. Revival
By: Stephen King
3.80
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side o… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"There’s no tonic like an old friend."-Stephen King, Revival
"Frightened people live in their own special hell."-Stephen King, Revival
"When you’re travelling far, it’s best to travel light."-Stephen King, Revival
"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."-Stephen King, Revival
15. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more
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16. The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm… read more
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17. Expedition To Earth
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. Contents: Second Dawn If I Forge… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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- science fiction
- fiction
"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
20. The Man in the Maze
By: Robert Silverberg
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonis… read more
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21. Nightwings
By: Robert Silverberg
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A tale of pilgrimage and hope, betrayal and transformation. It was Avluela the Flier's scarlet and … read more
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- fiction
22. Crossfire (Crossfire, #1)
By: Nancy Kress
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Caught in the Crossfire A human colony settles on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman-… read more
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23. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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24. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.03
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more
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- fiction
25. The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching … read more
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26. The Object
By: Joshua T. Calvert
4.19
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more
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27. Lost Horizon
By: James Hilton
3.95
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greates… read more
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"Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue..."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander..."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without"-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
28. The Expert System’s Champion (Expert System, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.01
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s been ten years since Handry was wrenched away from his family and friends, forced to wander a … read more
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29. Made Things (Made Things, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
She was good at making friends. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist.… read more
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30. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
31. No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Book 5)
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.22
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
Twelve tales of the unknown from a master of science fiction Clifford D. Simak had a sublime abil… read more
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