12 must-read fantasy books like Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

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Sailing to Byzantium

By: Robert Silverberg

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraord…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) by Jack Vance

1. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.89

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

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2. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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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3. The Wind's Twelve Quarters

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man te… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"El ocio es un estado natural y bendito"."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"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 Wind's Twelve Quarters

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4. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. The Rediscovery of Man

By: Cordwainer Smith

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

This is the 1999 British edition from Gollancz that includes 12 of the most famous short stories fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

7. Sailing to Byzantium

By: Robert Silverberg

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraord… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's Sailing to Byzantium book and Robert Silverberg's Sailing to Byzantium

  • time travel
  • novella
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

8. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Godmakers

By: Frank Herbert

2.77

Format: 130 pages,

Godmakers explores concepts of war and peace, good government and religious belief. It can be seen … read more

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

10. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

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11. Untouched By Human Hands

By: Robert Sheckley

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

12. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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13. Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

14. The Einstein Intersection

By: Neil Gaiman , Samuel R. Delany

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the m… read more

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15. Immortality, Inc.

By: Robert Sheckley

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more

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Cover of City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1) by Tad Williams

16. City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.93

Format: 780 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the netwo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Welcome to the Information Jungle."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

17. More Than Human

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out… read more

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18. A Gift from Earth (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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19. Chocky

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more

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20. Walking to Aldebaran

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. A Change of Plans

By: Dennis E. Taylor

3.80

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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