The Island
By: Peter Watts
4.22
Format: 76 pages, ebook
Fantascienza - racconto lungo (46 pagine) - Un essere vivente grande come un sistema solare e con l…
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1. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
2. Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds
By: David Conyers , David Kernot , Jeff Harris
3.79
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Two decades ago astronomers confirmed the existence of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. T… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
3. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
4. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
5. Permanence
By: Karl Schroeder
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- … read more
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6. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
7. Armor
By: John Steakley
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover edition can be found . The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix… read more
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8. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 96 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #96)
By: Ken Liu , Peter Watts , Susan Palwick , Leigh Kennedy , Alethea Kontis , Neil Clarke , Alvaro Zinos-Amaro , Xia Jia , Brendan DuBois , None , J.Y. Yang
3.04
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
FICTION "Weather" by Susan Palwick "Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points" by JY Ya… read more
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9. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
By: None
3.50
Format: 519 pages, Paperback
In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that ca… read more
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10. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
11. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
12. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more
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13. Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)
By: Miles Cameron
4.32
Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition
Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.With their vast cargo holds and… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
14. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
15. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
16. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
17. Walking to Aldebaran
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more
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- novella
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
18. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- hard science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
19. Pulling the Wings Off Angels
By: K.J. Parker
3.70
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to thi… read more
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- novella
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove."-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't…"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more…"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
"He's perfect, so He must be like us and not a bit like them across the border. He thinks like us, obviously; He likes what we like and hates what we hate, and here's Scripture (recorded, translated, …"-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels
20. The Island
By: Peter Watts
4.22
Format: 76 pages, ebook
Fantascienza - racconto lungo (46 pagine) - Un essere vivente grande come un sistema solare e con l… read more
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- novella
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- hard science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
