The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #12)
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.03
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre’s most revered Grand Maste…
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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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"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
2. Inherit the Stars
By: James P. Hogan
4.06
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and … read more
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3. Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.22
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on… read more
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"I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]"-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
"It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end."-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
4. Matter (Culture, #8)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means… read more
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- science fiction
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5. Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Despera… read more
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6. The Inverted World
By: Christopher Priest
4.07
Format: 213 pages,
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more
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7. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more
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8. Surface Detail (Culture #9)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will no… read more
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9. The Algebraist
By: Iain M. Banks
3.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasquer… read more
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10. Earth Abides
By: George R. Stewart
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more
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11. Lies, Inc.
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages,
A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported… read more
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12. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (Giants, #2)
By: James P. Hogan
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
THE END OF EXILE Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race… read more
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13. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more
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14. The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm… read more
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15. Expedition To Earth
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
A collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. Contents: Second Dawn If I Forge… read more
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16. The Man in the Maze
By: Robert Silverberg
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonis… read more
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17. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)
By: Veronica Roth
3.86
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more
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- short stories
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"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)
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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- short stories
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19. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.01
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more
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20. Ark
By: Veronica Roth
3.60
Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition
On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more
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"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"-Veronica Roth, Ark
"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"-Veronica Roth, Ark
"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"-Veronica Roth, Ark
"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"-Veronica Roth, Ark
21. Emergency Skin
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.03
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more
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"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
22. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
23. The Object
By: Joshua T. Calvert
4.19
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more
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24. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
By: Bethany Jacobs
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more
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- fiction
25. Summer Frost
By: Blake Crouch
4.10
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more
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- short stories
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"Because sometimes life is so rich and complicated and surprising that it takes your breath away."-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost
"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness…"-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost
"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectiveyly, which is allowed by consciousnes…"-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost
26. The Test
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.83
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more
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27. Cage of Souls
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.13
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all citi… read more
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"He'll be my catamite."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls
"Living in a cage teaches you helplessness."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls
"When surrounded by ignorance, the educated man can get away with anything."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls
"Even the simplest plans go wrong, especially when put together by the simplest people."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls
28. Until the Last of Me (Take Them to the Stars, #2)
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's fam… read more
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29. For the First Time, Again (Take Them to the Stars #3)
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Aster believes she is a normal teenage girl - she is very wrong . . . Teenager Aster barely esca… read more
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"As Aster would say: crud."-Sylvain Neuvel, For the First Time, Again (Take Them to the Stars #3)
30. The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #12)
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.03
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre’s most revered Grand Maste… read more
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- short stories
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31. Oracle (Sci-Fi Sizzlers)
By: Craig A. Falconer
4.40
Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition
With Oracle in your pocket, the future is yours to claim...When Judy Fletcher's life is at its lowe… read more
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