17 must-read science fiction books like Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1) by Ben Bova

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Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1)

By: Ben Bova

3.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System …

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1. Cachalot (Humanx Commonwealth, #8)

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.70

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

Cachalot - landless ocean planet, long ago reserved by man as a refuge for the great sea-creatures … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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2. Time for the Stars

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is one of the classic titles originally know as the "Heinlein Juveniles," written in the 1950 … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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3. Sand (Sand, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is burie… read more

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  • science fiction
  • 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Slow Bullets

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, be… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space

6. 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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7. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 4: 1957-1958

By: Charles M. Schulz , Jonathan Franzen

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

As the 1950s close down, Peanutsdefinitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to … read more

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8. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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9. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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10. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Teleport (Teleport, #1)

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.15

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In Lake Maracaibo, in the northwestern part of Venezuela, a long-hidden extraterrestrial artifact u… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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12. Village in the Sky (Alex Benedict #9)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt’s ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict scien… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space
  • fiction
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13. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Grea… read more

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  • fiction
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I’m happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work ha…"

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

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14. 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 fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"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)

Cover of The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) by Jack McDevitt

15. The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy seri… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
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16. Colony Three Mars (Colony Mars #3)

By: Gerald M. Kilby

4.17

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. Now that the truth of the genetic … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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17. Colony One Mars (Colony Mars #1)

By: Gerald M. Kilby

4.03

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. All contact is lost with the first… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space
  • fiction
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18. The Last Shadow (The Shadow Series, #6)

By: Orson Scott Card

3.63

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Entanglement (The Belt #1) by Gerald M. Kilby

19. Entanglement (The Belt #1)

By: Gerald M. Kilby

3.92

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. **You can run but you can’t hide —… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • space
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20. Misbegotten Missionary

By: Isaac Asimov

4.14

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

It was a lovable little creature, anxious to help solve the troubles of the world. Moreover, it had… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1) by Ben Bova

21. Uranus (Outer Planets Trilogy, #1)

By: Ben Bova

3.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space

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Alan Dean Foster

3.70

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Robert A. Heinlein

3.98

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Hugh Howey

4.04

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Therisa Peimer

4.30

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Megan E. O'Keefe

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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