16 Top science fiction books like The Cage of Sand by J.G. Ballard

The Cage of Sand

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William Gibson

1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. Air Raid

By: John Varley

3.73

Format: 12 pages,

Short story by John Varley which became the basis for his novel "Millennium," as well as a 1990 mov… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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5. The Star

By: H.G. Wells , Goran Lowie

4.03

Format: 453 pages, ebook

First published in the magazine The Graphic, December 1897. In January (about 1900, presumably), th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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6. All You Zombies

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.80

Format: 152 pages, ebook

First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - March, 1959 - the story involves a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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7. That Only a Mother

By: Judith Merril

3.52

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

8. A Martian Odyssey

By: Stanley G. Weinbaum

4.53

Format: 194 pages,

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in t… read more

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  • short stories

9. Bloodchild

By: Octavia E. Butler

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more

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  • short stories

10. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • short stories
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11. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

12. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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13. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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14. Day Million

By: Frederik Pohl

4.21

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Day Million (1966) The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass (1962) The Day the Martians Came (1… read more

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15. The Conquest of Gola

By: Leslie F. Stone

4.33

Format: 240 pages,

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16. Reason

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 240 pages, ebook

"Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue … read more

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17. The Veldt

By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more

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18. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

19. The Evening And The Morning And The Night

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

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20. Fondly Fahrenheit

By: Alfred Bester

3.67

Format: 363 pages,

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21. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

By: Philip K. Dick

3.65

Format: 192 pages, ebook

He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more

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22. La Mémoire de Babel

By: Christelle Dabos

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deux ans et sept mois qu'Ophelie se morfond sur son arche d'Anima. Aujourd'hui il lui faut agir, ex… read more

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23. Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories

By: Samuel R. Delany

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student comm… read more

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24. There Will Come Soft Rains

By: Ray Bradbury

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more

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25. 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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26. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"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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27. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • short stories
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

28. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • short stories
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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29. When It Changed

By: Joanna Russ

3.84

Format: None pages, None

A science fiction short story about an all-female human colony planet whose inhabitants produce off… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

30. The Heat Death of The Universe

By: Pamela Zoline

4.20

Format: 10 pages, ebook

An example of feminist science-fiction writing. Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent youn… read more

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  • short stories

31. The Cage of Sand

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

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