9 Top science fiction books like Beam Us Home by James Tiptree Jr.

Beam Us Home

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.25

Format: None pages, ebook

Hobie's parents might have seen the first signs if they had been watching about eight-thirty on Fri…

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Cover of Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Seddon Boulet

1. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Susan Seddon Boulet

3.91

Format: 79 pages, Hardcover

In this intriguing tale (not for children), storyteller extraordinaire Ursula K. Le Guin explores t… read more

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  • science fiction
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2. Surface Tension

By: James Blish

3.90

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In this acclaimed short story, a human colonization ship crash lands on a distant planet where the … read more

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3. Nova

By: Samuel R. Delany

3.80

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more

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"The inevitable is that unprepared for."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"How many notes have you made on this book?"

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

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4. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien

2.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Unfinished Talesis a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth t… read more

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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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"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

Cover of Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

6. Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2) by Douglas Adams

7. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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  • science fiction
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8. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

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  • science fiction
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9. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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Cover of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ted Nasmith

10. The Silmarillion

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more

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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

11. The Incal

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more

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12. The Music Master of Babylon

By: Edgar Pangborn

2.92

Format: None pages, ebook

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum? Now if only he could av… read more

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13. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

By: Åsne Seierstad , Sarah Death

4.17

Format: None pages,

A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put… read more

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14. The Star

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.44

Format: 212 pages, ebook

The Staris a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the sci… read more

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15. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

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16. The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.49

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more

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"Yet dawn is ever the hope of men."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)

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17. Batman: Last Knight on Earth

By: Scott Snyder

3.62

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder reunites with Dark Nights: Metal artist Greg Capull… read more

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18. Beam Us Home

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.25

Format: None pages, ebook

Hobie's parents might have seen the first signs if they had been watching about eight-thirty on Fri… read more

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C.L. Moore

3.72

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Alfred Bester

3.97

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

4.14

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