Last Men in London
By: Olaf Stapledon
3.55
Format: 269 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Though this is a work of fiction, it does not pretend to be a novel. It has no hero but man. Since …
Want to Read $ 1.99"No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledge of the doom which your own imperfection imposes on you. Even if we could, we would not change it; for it is a theme required in the strange music of the spheres."-Olaf Stapledon, Last Men in London
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1. Vacuum Diagrams (Xeelee Sequence, #5)
By: Stephen Baxter
4.06
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 200… read more
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2. Descent into Hell
By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams
3.93
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams'… read more
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"It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else."-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
", Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: "The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round." "The substantive?" Pauline asked blankly. "Good. It contains terror, …"-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
". Nature's so terribly good. Don't you think so, Mr. Stanhope?" Stanhope was standing by, silent, while Mrs. Parry communed with her soul and with one or two of her neighbours on the possibilities of…"-Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
3. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
4. Time Out of Joint
By: Philip K. Dick
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Time Out of Jointis Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the wo… read more
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5. Many Dimensions
By: Charles Williams
4.06
Format: None pages,
...One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.- Tim… read more
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6. The Place of the Lion
By: Charles Williams
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Novelist, poet, critic, and dramatist Williams uses fiction to explore how people react when the su… read more
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7. The Last of Days
By: Paul Doherty
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
'In the final days of Henry VIII, one man is there to witness the demise of a legend... In his 100t… read more
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8. The Worm Ouroboros
By: E.R. Eddison , Keith Henderson
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lo… read more
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9. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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10. No Country for Old Men
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more
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11. The Night Land
By: William Hope Hodgson
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"---this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in … read more
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12. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
13. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
14. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.20
Format: 596 pages, ebook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more
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15. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
16. Ogres
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.24
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more
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17. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
By: qntm
4.34
Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition
qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more
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18. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
By: Philip Goff
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more
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19. 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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20. Last Men in London
By: Olaf Stapledon
3.55
Format: 269 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Though this is a work of fiction, it does not pretend to be a novel. It has no hero but man. Since … read more
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"No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledg…"-Olaf Stapledon, Last Men in London
21. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
