13 best-selling science fiction books like The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything and Target: Berlin!: Stories by George Alec Effinger

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The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything and Target: Berlin!: Stories

By: George Alec Effinger

3.38

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

These two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awar…

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1. Our Friends from Frolix 8

By: Philip K. Dick

3.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely conc… read more

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  • science fiction
"I am life,’ the girl said. ‘What?’ he said, startled. ‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re …"

-Philip K. Dick, Our Friends from Frolix 8

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2. When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the adva… read more

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  • science fiction
"There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."

-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes

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3. Sucker's Portfolio

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.85

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. Chronospace

By: Allen M. Steele

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A time-traveling crew from the twenty-fourth century journeys back in time to 1937, just in time to… read more

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  • science fiction
  • alternate history
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5. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • short stories
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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6. The Big Time

By: Fritz Leiber

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past fr… read more

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  • science fiction
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7. We Can Build You

By: Philip K. Dick

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of… read more

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  • science fiction
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8. Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (Richard Matheson Series)

By: Richard Matheson

4.40

Format: 82 pages,

Available only in e-book format, Backteria and Other Improbable Tales is a brand new collection of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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9. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)

By: David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.63

Format: None pages,

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for sa… read more

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10. The Cosmic Puppets

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the… read more

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11. All Flesh is Grass

By: Clifford D. Simak

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A mysterious invisible barrier suddenly encloses a small, out-of-the-way American town. It's been p… read more

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12. The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more

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13. Riverworld and other stories

By: Philip José Farmer

3.58

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: * Riverworld [revised from Worlds of Tomorrow Jan '66; Riverworld] * na * * J.C. on the D… read more

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14. Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless when … read more

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15. The Weapon Shops of Isher

By: A.E. van Vogt

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story S… read more

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16. Venus Plus X

By: Theodore Sturgeon

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange … read more

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17. Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8)

By: Marko Kloos

4.56

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to dis… read more

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  • science fiction
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18. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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  • short stories
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20. Quantum Radio

By: A.G. Riddle

4.12

Format: 562 pages, Kindle Edition

At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery – a breakthrough that may answer the dee… read more

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  • science fiction
  • alternate history
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21. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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  • short stories
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22. Duplex

By: Orson Scott Card

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Book 5) by Clifford D. Simak

23. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything and Target: Berlin!: Stories

By: George Alec Effinger

3.38

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

These two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awar… read more

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  • alternate history
  • short stories

8 Top short stories books like The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything and Target: Berlin!: Stories by George Alec Effinger

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.85

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Arthur Machen

3.69

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Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (Richard Matheson Series)

Richard Matheson

4.40

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John Scalzi

4.18

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The Ghost Writer

Loreth Anne White

3.96

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The Other Side of the Road

Andrea Bartz

3.73

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Liv Constantine

3.48

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Elle Marr

3.58

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