14 must-read science fiction books like Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #9) by Clifford D. Simak

Cover of Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #9) by Clifford D. Simak

Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #9)

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.25

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishi…

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Cover of Robots and Empire (Robot, #4) by Isaac Asimov

1. Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.22

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on… read more

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  • science fiction
"I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]"

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

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2. Glory Road

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Isis Orb (Xanth, #40) by Piers Anthony

3. Isis Orb (Xanth, #40)

By: Piers Anthony

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A quest to fulfill a lifelong wish turns into an adventure rife with magical creatures and arduous … read more

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  • science fiction
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4. High-Opp

By: Frank Herbert

4.08

Format: 31 pages,

This is FRANK HERBERT's never-before published dystopian novel, written between his classics The Dr… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Seventh Decimate (The Great God's War #1) by Stephen R. Donaldson

5. Seventh Decimate (The Great God's War #1)

By: Stephen R. Donaldson

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles launches a powerful new trilogy about a prin… read more

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  • science fiction
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6. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Pawn's Gambit: And Other Stratagems by Timothy Zahn

7. Pawn's Gambit: And Other Stratagems

By: Timothy Zahn

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This collection showcases the career-launching short fiction of Timothy Zahn, acclaimed author of B… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

8. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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9. The Ophiuchi Hotline

By: John Varley

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for ex… read more

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10. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more

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11. The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm… read more

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12. Half Way Home

By: Hugh Howey

4.13

Format: None pages,

Five hundred of us were sent to colonize this planet. Only fifty or so survived. We woke up fifteen… read more

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13. Teckla (Vlad Taltos, #3)

By: Steven Brust , Olaf Schenk

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"Die Teckla proben den Aufstand. Ich wusste, irgendwann musste das passieren. Teckla sind faule, du… read more

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14. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Machine (White Space, #2) by Elizabeth Bear

15. Machine (White Space, #2)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.92

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White S… read more

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  • science fiction
"People are so complicated."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Sneaky manipulative bundle of code."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Anxiety was a distraction I did not need."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

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16. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

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  • science fiction
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

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17. Descent (The Palladium Wars, #4)

By: Marko Kloos

4.36

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A nationalist uprising triggers an interstellar wrest for control in an epic novel of embattled wor… read more

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  • science fiction
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18. Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #9)

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.25

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17) by Craig Alanson

19. Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)

By: Craig Alanson

4.49

Format: 806 pages, Kindle Edition

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder stars… read more

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  • science fiction
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20. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Cover of The Lovers * Dark Is the Sun * Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer

21. The Lovers * Dark Is the Sun * Riders of the Purple Wage

By: Philip José Farmer

3.72

Format: 742 pages, ebook

From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring … read more

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  • science fiction

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