The Iron Dream
By: Norman Spinrad
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad. The book has a ne…
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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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- science fiction
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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
2. The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)
By: Roger Zelazny , Tim White
4.18
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows... For… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
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"Corwin,"-Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)
"You forgive me?"-Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)
"Sorry about the horse,"-Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)
"You will have my old cell,"-Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber, #5)
3. The Businessman
By: Thomas M. Disch
3.47
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Philanderer Bob Glandier thinks nothing of cheating on his wife, Giselle, but when his spouse takes… read more
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"But there you put your finger on what it is that separates the sheep from the goats, and vice versa: imagination. Those who possess it have an afterlife; those who don't possess it, or in whom it has…"-Thomas M. Disch, The Businessman
4. The Science of Discworld (The Science of Discworld, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett , Ian Stewart , Jack Cohen
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly… read more
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"It is known that knowledge is power, and power is energy, and energy is matter, and matter is mass, and therefore large accumulations of knowledge distort time and space."-Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld (The Science of Discworld, #1)
"Hundert Meter entfernt tauchte der größte Tintenfisch auf, den Rincewind jemals gesehen hatte, schlug wild mit den Tentakeln und versank wieder in den reißenden Fluten ... Das Ende der Welt rückte nä…"-Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld (The Science of Discworld, #1)
"Triboplasts played a crucial role in evolution, precisely because they did have internal organs, and in particular they could ingest food and excrete it. Their excreta became a major resource for oth…"-Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld (The Science of Discworld, #1)
"Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leav…"-Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld (The Science of Discworld, #1)
5. 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
- 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)
6. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless plane… read more
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- dystopia
- fantasy
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7. 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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8. The Iron Dream
By: Norman Spinrad
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad. The book has a ne… read more
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- dystopia
- alternate history
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- fantasy
9. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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- fantasy
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10. The Guns of Avalon (The Chronicles of Amber #2)
By: Roger Zelazny
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers hi… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
11. Dying Inside
By: Robert Silverberg
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to pro… read more
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12. The Inverted World
By: Christopher Priest
4.07
Format: 213 pages,
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
13. Sign of the Unicorn (The Chronicles of Amber #3)
By: Roger Zelazny
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betray… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. Downward to the Earth
By: Robert Silverberg
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more
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16. The Hand of Oberon (The Chronicles of Amber #4)
By: Roger Zelazny
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Across the mysterious Black Road, demons swarm into Shadow. The ancient, secret source of the royal… read more
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17. Bend Sinister
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average M… read more
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18. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)
By: Roger Zelazny
3.75
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more
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19. Hothouse
By: Brian W. Aldiss , Matilde Horne
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a … read more
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20. Norstrilia
By: Cordwainer Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rod McBan is only a boy from the planet 'Norstrilia', Old North Australia, where rich farmers grow … read more
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21. Greatest Hits
By: Harlan Ellison
4.18
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more
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- fiction
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