11 must-read science fiction books like War Game by Philip K. Dick

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War Game

By: Philip K. Dick

3.34

Format: 15 pages, None

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1. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction
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"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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5. The Depressed Person

By: David Foster Wallace

3.84

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Depressed Person" was published in Harper's Magazine, January 1998. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Reborn (The Anderson Project, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Richard Anderson , None

4.40

Format: 82 pages, ebook

Free online fiction from tor.com. Part 1 of The Anderson Project. Please enjoy "Reborn," by Ken Liu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

7. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison

5.00

Format: 398 pages, ebook

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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9. 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
  • fiction
"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

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10. Replay

By: Ken Grimwood

4.15

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Sometimes isolation can be shared."

-Ken Grimwood, Replay

"He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well."

-Ken Grimwood, Replay

"Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' " "True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide."

-Ken Grimwood, Replay

"Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the …"

-Ken Grimwood, Replay

11. Metro 2034 (Metro #2)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky , M. David Drevs

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

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12. The Day Before the Revolution

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

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13. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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14. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

15. The Martian Chronicles

By: Ray Bradbury

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more

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16. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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17. The Gods Themselves

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more

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18. The Android's Dream

By: John Scalzi

4.36

Format: 94 pages,

A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior a… read more

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19. A Sound of Thunder

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Free online fiction. The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where ri… read more

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  • short stories
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20. Philip K. Dick's Electric ant

By: Philip K. Dick , Pascal Alixe , David W. Mack

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Garson Poole wakes up in a hospital after a horrific accident, he's surprised to find that he'… read more

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21. War Game

By: Philip K. Dick

3.34

Format: 15 pages, None

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13 must-read fiction books like War Game by Philip K. Dick

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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Chrysalids

John Wyndham

3.93

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22 must-read novels books like Solaris by Stanisław Lem

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A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

4.02

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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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