19 must-read fiction books like Travel By Wire! by Arthur C. Clarke

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Travel By Wire!

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.69

Format: None pages, short story

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula A…

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1. The Tomb

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.51

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

Jervas Dudley was only a child when he found the mausoleum of the Hyde family. The place becomes ve… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Tomb

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2. The Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.11

Format: 81 pages, ebook

The Sworn Sword is a novella by George R. R. Martin that first appeared in the Legends II anthology… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"A modest fellow, this one,"

-George R.R. Martin, The Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2)

"Common boys fight with wooden swords too, only theirs are sticks and broken branches."

-George R.R. Martin, The Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #2)

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3. The Last Man

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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4. He

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.50

Format: 231 pages, ebook

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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6. Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, Harlan Ellison, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, P. Craig Russell, Dick Giordano, Todd Klein, Kelley Jones, George Pratt

7. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

By: Neil Gaiman , Matt Wagner , Harlan Ellison , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , P. Craig Russell , Dick Giordano , Todd Klein , Kelley Jones , George Pratt

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of … read more

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  • fiction
"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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8. A Game of You (The Sandman #5)

By: Neil Gaiman , Bryan Talbot , Colleen Doran , Stan Woch , Dick Giordano , Shawn McManus , Todd Klein , George Pratt

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking sev… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

10. Breaking Strain (Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime, Book 1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Paul Preuss

3.75

Format: 304 pages,

When a team of scientists is trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, Sparta must risk her life to … read more

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11. The Fog

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more

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12. Ex Oblivione

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1… read more

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13. The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.36

Format: 209 pages, ebook

A novella originally published August 25, 1998 in the Legends anthology, edited by Robert Silverber… read more

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14. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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15. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

16. The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)

By: John Scalzi

3.29

Format: 368 pages, ebook

The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning,… read more

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17. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

18. Untitled (The Interdependency #2)

By: John Scalzi

3.84

Format: 255 pages,

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19. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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  • fiction
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

20. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages,

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more

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21. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

By: Philip K. Dick

3.65

Format: 192 pages, ebook

He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more

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22. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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23. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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

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24. Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.29

Format: 17 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 16 hours and 57 minutes Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, ep… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Subtlety: I no haz it."

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"Sadly, it was like most political arguments. No one was willing to debate their base assumptions or justify them or compromise on them. The simple tactic being that if you repeated your assertion oft…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"We'd gotten onto the concept or morality and Frida had just asked Theresa how she could have any sense of morality without a deity to define what was or was not moral. [...] "What deities give you ar…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

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25. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

By: Matt Dinniman

4.70

Format: 694 pages, Kindle Edition

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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26. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

By: John Scalzi

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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27. The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

By: Matt Dinniman

4.68

Format: 726 pages, Kindle Edition

Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run. A lush jungle te… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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28. Travel By Wire!

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.69

Format: None pages, short story

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula A… read more

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  • short stories
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29. The Fifth Step

By: Stephen King

4.00

Format: 10 pages, ebook

Stephen's short story will appear in the March 2020 edition of Harper's. About a man who meets an a… read more

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  • short stories
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30. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.38

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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31. 2000 A.D. (1977-) Programme 1

By: Tharg

3.17

Format: None pages, ebook

Thrill 1: Invasion! Part 1 - Britain is overwhelmed by the armies of the Volgan Republic, and Bill… read more

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3.78

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