15 Top science fiction books like The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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The Demolished Man

By: Alfred Bester

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic…

"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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Cover of The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

1. The Demolished Man

By: Alfred Bester

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more

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"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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2. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

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3. The Big Time

By: Fritz Leiber

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
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4. 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
  • classics
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5. A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

By: Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is al… read more

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Cover of Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

6. Dreamsnake

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the si… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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7. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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8. The Wanderer

By: Fritz Leiber

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artifici… read more

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9. They'd Rather Be Right

By: Mark Clifton , Frank Riley , None

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Bossy was right. Always. Invariably. She was limited only in that she had to have facts -- not assu… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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Cover of Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

10. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more

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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

11. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • hugo awards
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12. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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  • hugo awards
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13. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

14. 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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15. 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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Cover of The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman

16. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • classics
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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

17. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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18. This Immortal

By: Roger Zelazny

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Comm… read more

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19. A Time of Changes

By: Robert Silverberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more

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20. 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

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  • novels
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  • fantasy
"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

Cover of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) by Barry Kirwan

21. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

By: Barry Kirwan

4.23

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more

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"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

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