18 best-selling short stories books like A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon

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A Saucer of Loneliness

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Theodore Sturgeon's masterpiece short story.

If you liked the short stories plot in A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler

1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.19

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more

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  • fiction
"To say goodbye is to die a little."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

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2. Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Os mais espetáculares contos do mestre da ficção científica estão reunidos nesta antologia. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)"

-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

"Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other f…"

-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

"And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--w…"

-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. The Tunnel Under the World

By: Frederik Pohl

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine. On the morning of June… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

By: Harlan Ellison , Rick Berry

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rebel inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities and the Ticktockman ca… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. All You Zombies

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.80

Format: 152 pages, ebook

First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - March, 1959 - the story involves a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Sandkings

By: George R.R. Martin

3.58

Format: 448 pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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8. Piper in the Woods: A Short Science Fiction Novel

By: Philip K. Dick

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

"Piper in the Woods" is a short science fiction novel written in 1953 for Imagination: Stories of S… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

By: Jerome K. Jerome

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927), English author, known for his humorous essays."What readers ask… read more

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10. The Fog Horn

By: Ray Bradbury

3.32

Format: None pages,

Creative Education's short story collections are ideal introductions to some of the world's best-kn… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. Works of Art

By: James Blish , Gregory Feeley , James Mann

3.62

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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12. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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13. The Defenders

By: Philip K. Dick

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

14. The Variable Man

By: Philip K. Dick , Gregg Margarite

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Audiobook

Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you're going to win… read more

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15. The Skull

By: Philip K. Dick

3.78

Format: 416 pages,

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man… read more

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16. Dark They Were and Golden Eyed

By: Ray Bradbury

4.48

Format: None pages, Audio

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17. Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

By: Isaac Asimov , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Ursula K. Le Guin , Orson Scott Card , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Robert A. Heinlein , Ray Bradbury , Arthur C. Clarke , Edmond Hamilton , Harry Turtledove , Frederik Pohl , Karen Joy Fowler , C.J. Cherryh , Harlan Ellison , Larry Niven , James Patrick Kelly , Brian W. Aldiss , James Blish , Theodore Sturgeon , George Alec Effinger , Poul Anderson , John Kessel , Terry Bisson , R.A. Lafferty , Lisa Goldstein , Lloyd Biggle Jr.

3.44

Format: 216 pages,

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18. The Crystal Crypt: A Short Science Fiction Novel

By: Philip K. Dick

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

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19. Colony

By: Philip K. Dick

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

"Colony" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magaz… read more

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20. Call Me Joe

By: Poul Anderson , Frank Kelly Freas

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

Call Me Joe is a science fiction novelette written by Poul Anderson and published in 1957. The plot… read more

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21. Inconstant Moon

By: Larry Niven

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld. INCONSTANT MOON: a moon so … read more

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22. Who Can Replace a Man?

By: Brian W. Aldiss

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Contents: Who Can Replace a Man? (1958) Not for an Age (1955) Psyclops (1956) Outside (1955) Dumb S… read more

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23. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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24. Los nueve mil millones de nombres de Dios

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.76

Format: 21 pages, None

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. Passengers

By: Robert Silverberg

3.89

Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition

He didn't want to be afflicted by the passengers, his own body housing them against his will. This… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. The Assistant Murderer

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.44

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic mystery from Dashiell Hammett. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

27. Devolution

By: Edmond Hamilton

3.58

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Amazing Science Fiction, December 1936 read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. A Saucer of Loneliness

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Theodore Sturgeon's masterpiece short story. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

29. Eurema's Dam

By: R.A. Lafferty

2.92

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

30. The Tunesmith

By: Lloyd Biggle Jr.

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

31. Pots

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.33

Format: 17 pages, None

Short story about authorities and scientists in the far future. Their civilization has found Voyag… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

13 best-selling fiction books like A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon

Transform Your Habits

The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

Isaac Asimov

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnel Under the World

Frederik Pohl

5.00

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L'arte di essere felici

Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)

James B. Stockdale

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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