If you liked the science fiction plot in A Game of Unchance by Philip K. Dick , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.85
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more
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- science fiction
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
2. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.17
Format: 50 pages,
Originally appearing in the Dangerous Women anthology and now available as a solo ebook, Shadows fo… read more
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- short stories
"Hush now, my dear one... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake...."-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
"What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle,obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence."-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
3. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
4. 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
"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
5. Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.92
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more
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- science fiction
"Secrecy begets tyranny."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
6. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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- short stories
7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
By: Blake Crouch
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and … read more
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- science fiction
9. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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- science fiction
10. 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
"...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
11. 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
"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
12. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
By: Ann Leckie
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more
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13. Cryptonomicon
By: Neal Stephenson
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more
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14. The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)
By: Mark Greaney
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, m… read more
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15. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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16. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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17. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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18. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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19. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more
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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. The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
By: T.L. Huchu
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
When a child goes missing in Edinburgh's darkest streets, young Ropa investigates. She'll need to c… read more
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"If I'm going down, I'm taking it with me. M.A.D., bitch. I'm up for Mutually Assured Destruction - if that's what it takes."-T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
"It’s in the most trying times, when we ourselves have nothing, that we mustn’t forget there are higher virtues like compassion, kindness and solidarity. Doing something when it is hard, because it is…"-T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
"There’s a world of a difference between reading and hearing. I mean, you extract the same juice out of the fruit of knowledge – whether it’s coming off pod or page. But with audio, I like hearing the…"-T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
22. Upgrade
By: Blake Crouch
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You are the next step in human evolution. At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s diffe… read more
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- science fiction
"I had extraordinary dreams, and an ordinary mind."-Blake Crouch, Upgrade
"I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them."-Blake Crouch, Upgrade
"Human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man.- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man"-Blake Crouch, Upgrade
"It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize. No one teaches you how to handle the death of a dream."-Blake Crouch, Upgrade
23. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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24. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.03
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more
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- science fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
25. The Lover
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.80
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more
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- short stories
26. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
By: Edward Ashton
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more
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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
27. Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.17
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruc… read more
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- science fiction
"If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
28. The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
By: Samantha Shannon
3.82
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The lavishly reimagined 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.… read more
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"I do."-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
"No, Paige. I am trying to help you."-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
"Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,"-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
"Nothing’s worse than a story without an end."-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
29. 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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- short stories
30. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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31. A Game of Unchance
By: Philip K. Dick
3.36
Format: 18 pages, Paperback
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