13 Top science fiction books like Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith

Cover of Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard

By: Cordwainer Smith

3.90

Format: None pages, None

Zu schön, um wahr zu sein Nach der Wiederentdeckung der Menschheit wird das übervorsichtige Sicher…

"I myself went into a hospital and came out French."

-Cordwainer Smith, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard

If you liked the science fiction plot in Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lech Jęczmyk

1. The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The king was pregnant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"The light is the left hand of darkness"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Cover of The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke

2. The Nine Billion Names of God

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

This collection of science fiction short stories includes: * The Nine Billion Names of God * I Reme… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

3. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2) by Isaac Asimov

4. 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
  • fiction
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

5. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • fiction
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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6. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

7. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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8. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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9. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

10. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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11. 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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12. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

13. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

14. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

15. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

16. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0) by Christopher Paolini

17. Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.44

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited pla… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The melatonin hit like a meteorite"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"That was the moment he had fallen for her. It wasn't love at first sight. Hell, it wasn't even lust at first sight. But it was close enough."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, "Now what?"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, "We were here." Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

18. The Gernsback Continuum

By: William Gibson

3.39

Format: None pages, None

Ein 1980, das es nie gab Ein Fotograf erhält den Auftrag, die einst futuristische, jetzt allerdi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

19. The Warlords of Saturn's Moons

By: Eleanor Arnason

3.56

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

This is a short story by Eleanor Arnason which is found in the Women of Wonder: The Classic Years e… read more

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Cover of Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith

20. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard

By: Cordwainer Smith

3.90

Format: None pages, None

Zu schön, um wahr zu sein Nach der Wiederentdeckung der Menschheit wird das übervorsichtige Sicher… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"I myself went into a hospital and came out French."

-Cordwainer Smith, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard

21. A Few Things I know About Whileaway

By: Joanna Russ

2.67

Format: None pages, None

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Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

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Arthur C. Clarke

3.86

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James M. Cain

3.72

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3.33

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Chandler Baker

3.77

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Jason Mott

3.77

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