16 Best fantasy books like This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star by Sylvia Engdahl

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This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

By: Sylvia Engdahl

4.08

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wr…

If you liked the fantasy plot in This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star by Sylvia Engdahl , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Among Others

By: Jo Walton

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Among Others book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"I like her. She's restful."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I wish magic was more dramatic"

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

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2. War for the Oaks

By: Emma Bull

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Be… read more

Similar categories in Emma Bull's War for the Oaks book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves"

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

"Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so."

-Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

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3. The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

By: Brent Weeks

4.15

Format: 645 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks... For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and … read more

Similar categories in Brent Weeks's The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Your Majesty,"

-Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

"Is that all your life is?"

-Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

". “Let me make this real simple,"

-Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

"Relationships are ropes, love is a noose"

-Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)

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4. The Dragon Waiting

By: John M. Ford

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

alt cover for ISBN 9780575073784 The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England,… read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Growing Up Weightless

By: John M. Ford

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Talented, imaginative, and self-confident, Matthias Ronay has never known any life but that on the … read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • young adult
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6. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

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7. Matter (Culture, #8)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means… read more

Similar categories in Iain M. Banks's Matter (Culture, #8) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. 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

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood’s End book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"...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

9. Surface Detail (Culture #9)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will no… read more

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10. House of Blades (Traveler's Gate, #1)

By: Will Wight

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

Simon can only watch, helpless, as his family is killed and his friends captured by enemy Travelers… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

Similar categories in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • 20th century
  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

13. Beyond the Aquila Rift

By: Alastair Reynolds , Tom Dheere

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Audio CD

Beyond the Aquila Rift. It s shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one … read more

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14. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

15. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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16. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Big Bad book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, l… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
" Jimmy: “What, you’re my goddamn drugs counsellor now, are you?"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)

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18. The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

By: Jennifer Sherman Roberts

3.78

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

In seventeenth-century England, a female healer enflames the fury of a witchfinder in this propulsi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Sherman Roberts's The Village Healer’s Book of Cures book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Lord of Stariel (Stariel, #1)

By: A.J. Lancaster

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The Lord of Stariel is dead. Long live the Lord of Stariel. Whoever that is.Everyone knows who the … read more

Similar categories in A.J. Lancaster's The Lord of Stariel (Stariel, #1) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Hetta had quite enjoyed the loose morals of the Meridon theatre scene, but she had no intention of bringing that up in front of her brothers."

-A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel (Stariel, #1)

"Of course, there was one other way she could attract attention. She pulled off her left glove and stared thoughtfully at her palm. Concentrating, she called up an image she’d used in the play yesterd…"

-A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel (Stariel, #1)

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20. The Prince of Secrets (Stariel, #2)

By: A.J. Lancaster

4.19

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Well-bred women should not be seen kissing their butlers. Even when the butler in question is secre… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Lancaster's The Prince of Secrets (Stariel, #2) book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

By: Sylvia Engdahl

4.08

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren knew that his world was not as it should be—it was wr… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star book and Sylvia Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide: aka Heritage of the Star

  • post apocalyptic
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • young adult science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

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4.01

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4.15

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3.59

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2.67

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3.48

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4.33

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