11 must-read short stories books like Lord of a Thousand Suns by Poul Anderson

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Lord of a Thousand Suns

By: Poul Anderson

3.29

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

He got the lock open as they retreated for another charge. For an instant his teeth flashed under t…

If you liked the short stories plot in Lord of a Thousand Suns by Poul Anderson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Drive (The Expanse, #2.7) by James S.A. Corey

1. Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.05

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Read "Drive", a Prequel to The Expanse series. The Expanse, premiering in December 2015 on Syfy,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adventure
"The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

"That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter."

-James S.A. Corey, Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

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2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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3. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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4. The Strike at Shayol Ghul (Wheel of Time, #0.1)

By: Robert Jordan

4.33

Format: None pages, Online

The Strike at Shayol Ghul was a short piece written by Robert Jordan in 1996 to explain the events … read more

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  • short stories
  • adventure
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5. My Name is Legion

By: Roger Zelazny

4.22

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

He did not exist...or did he? He had destroyed his punchcards and changed his face. There was no cr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

6. The Golden Man

By: Philip K. Dick

4.29

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Comprising: - The Golden Man(1954) - Return Match(1967) - The King of the Elves(1953) - The Mold of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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7. The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)

By: Harry Harrison

3.67

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel R… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adventure
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8. The Door Into Summer

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • adventure
"The more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

"Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to …"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

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9. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • science fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

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10. Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

11. Binary/System

By: Eric Brown

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A devastating starship crash. An alien world. An incredible adventure. After surviving a catastroph… read more

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12. City at World's End

By: Edmond Hamilton , Mark Nelson

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. … read more

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13. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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14. The Last Question

By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more

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15. The Last Defender of Camelot

By: Robert Silverberg , Roger Zelazny

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are 16 strange, beautiful stories spanning the full spectrum of Roger Zelazny's remarkable car… read more

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16. The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #0.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.62

Format: None pages,

A new story set in the world of The Expanse. One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero… read more

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17. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • adventure
"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

18. Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind.… read more

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19. The Minority Report

By: Philip K. Dick

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of… read more

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20. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more

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21. 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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  • science fiction
  • 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 Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

22. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. Earlier-Ravens (Wheel of Time 0.2)

By: Robert Jordan

3.68

Format: 34 pages, None

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adventure
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24. Lord of a Thousand Suns

By: Poul Anderson

3.29

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

He got the lock open as they retreated for another charge. For an instant his teeth flashed under t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • adventure

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Drive (The Expanse, #2.7)

James S.A. Corey

4.05

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Robert Jordan

4.33

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The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)

Harry Harrison

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Door Into Summer

Robert A. Heinlein

4.02

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Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

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Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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