17 Best science fiction books like Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When…

"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

If you liked the science fiction plot in Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

1. The Demolished Man

By: Alfred Bester

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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2. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

Cover of Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) by David Brin

3. Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

By: David Brin

4.04

Format: 458 pages, Mass Market Paperback

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever writ… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach."

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell thi…"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

4. Roadside Picnic

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

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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5. Dreamsnake

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the si… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

6. Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds

7. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

8. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more

Similar categories in Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) book and Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

Cover of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

9. The Mote in God's Eye

By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle

3.58

Format: 448 pages, ebook

In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

10. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

By: Philip José Farmer

4.54

Format: None pages,

To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
Cover of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

11. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
Cover of The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

12. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"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

Cover of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

13. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

14. The Fountains of Paradise

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman

15. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

Cover of Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

16. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

17. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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21. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

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  • science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

16 best-selling fiction books like Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

Transform Your Habits

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

David Brin

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Roadside Picnic

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

4.14

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8 best-selling novels books like The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

Transform Your Habits

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

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The Big Time

Fritz Leiber

3.75

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Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

4.25

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