8 Best fantasy books like The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury

Cover of The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun

By: Ray Bradbury

4.06

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This deluxe hardcover includes never before published material. [ This edition is NOT signed by Mr.…

"Hers was simply not a pew shaped spine."

-Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

"Hers was simply not a pew shaped spine."

-Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

"Let us go into her room and strangle her,"

-Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

"Let us go into her room and strangle her,"

-Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1) by Kameron Hurley

1. God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)

By: Kameron Hurley

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nyx is a bel dame, a bounty hunter paid to collect the heads of deserters – by almost any means nec… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert."

-Kameron Hurley, God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)

"Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster. Maybe she was."

-Kameron Hurley, God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)

"The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand. She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for …"

-Kameron Hurley, God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)

"Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other p…"

-Kameron Hurley, God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)

Cover of The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1) by Julian  May

2. The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1)

By: Julian May

4.06

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

In the year 2034, Theo Guderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Rhine Journey

By: Ann Schlee

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, David Brin, James John Bell

4. The Sheep Look Up

By: John Brunner , David Brin , James John Bell

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick

5. Now Wait for Last Year

By: Philip K. Dick

4.00

Format: 158 pages,

Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

6. Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3)

By: David Brin

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnific… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

7. Deus Irae

By: Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick

3.68

Format: 191 pages,

In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poiso… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1) by H. Beam Piper

8. Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1)

By: H. Beam Piper

3.71

Format: 412 pages,

Friends of Little Fuzzy Vs. the Chartered Zarathustra Company The chartered Zarathustra Company had… read more

Similar categories in H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1) book and Ray Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun

  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

9. Halting State (Halting State, #1)

By: Charles Stross

3.41

Format: None pages,

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. … read more

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10. Glasshouse

By: Charles Stross

3.72

Format: 640 pages,

When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to disc… read more

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11. Protector (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, … read more

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12. Damia (The Tower and the Hive, #2)

By: Anne McCaffrey

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant and the one who inherited the Talent. It … read more

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13. The Golden Apples of the Sun

By: Ray Bradbury

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering … read more

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14. The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

By: Joan D. Vinge

4.00

Format: None pages,

This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-no… read more

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15. Neutron Star (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

4.47

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and … read more

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16. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

Similar categories in Therisa Peimer's Taming Flame book and Ray Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun

  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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17. The Last Sunset

By: March Lions

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more

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"Trust is a strange bedfellow."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"He sounds like a politician running for office."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

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18. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

Cover of The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue by Trevor Alan Foris

19. The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

By: Trevor Alan Foris

4.04

Format: 520 pages, None

Publishers note: The Octunnumi does not exist. Fosbit and any files relating to a Fosbit do n… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He licked my face, sir."

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"That’s Vegan not Vulcan!"

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"Veebeebe ve ve – Beeeeb..."

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"Hey, I didn’t come here to lose,"

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

Cover of The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

20. The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.28

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

[A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Los detalles corroboraban lo que ella decía que era, y eso se agregaba a una sensación sólida, aunque subliminal, de algo cierto que tal vez escapaba a la paranoia profesional de los que trabajan en …"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1)

"Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his achievement. In his secret mind he had imagined himself keeping that oath through blazing battle, e…"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1)

Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

21. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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