13 Top science fiction fantasy books like To Live Forever by Jack Vance

Cover of To Live Forever by Jack Vance

To Live Forever

By: Jack Vance

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever - if you can make the grade. In Clarges, ev…

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Cover of Hegira by Greg Bear

1. Hegira

By: Greg Bear

3.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Hegira is a huge, unmapped planet, home to hundreds of tribes and dozens of exotic cities. And scat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. 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
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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4. To Live Forever

By: Jack Vance

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever - if you can make the grade. In Clarges, ev… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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5. 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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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1)

By: Greg Egan

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. An… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Godmakers

By: Frank Herbert

2.77

Format: 130 pages,

Godmakers explores concepts of war and peace, good government and religious belief. It can be seen … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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8. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

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9. Century Rain

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catast… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. The Queen of the Swords (Corum, #2)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.79

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The second novel in the Corum series - The Swords trilogy read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

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12. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

13. The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun #2)

By: Gene Wolfe

3.78

Format: 416 pages,

Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic… read more

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14. The Sword of the Lictor

By: Gene Wolfe

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the dying sun the disgraced torturer, Severian, at last comes to his place of exile - Thrax… read more

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15. Armor

By: John Steakley

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover edition can be found . The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package Felix… read more

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16. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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17. 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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18. The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

By: Harlan Ellison

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which… read more

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19. The Knight of the Swords (Corum, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

THE HAND OF KWLL AND THE EYE OF RHYNN IN EXCHANGE FOR THE HEART OF AIRIOCH There were Gods abroad i… read more

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20. Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend … read more

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21. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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22. A Country Doctor

By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane… read more

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23. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

24. The Man in the Maze

By: Robert Silverberg

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the future, technology is advanced, lives are long, and the galaxy has been partially colonis… read more

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25. Nightwings

By: Robert Silverberg

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A tale of pilgrimage and hope, betrayal and transformation. It was Avluela the Flier's scarlet and … read more

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

26. Planet of Exile

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years--& ten of Werel's years are ove… read more

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27. Judge Anderson: Year One

By: Alec Worley

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The untold story behind Mega-City One's most famous telepath and Judge Dredd partner, Judge Anderso… read more

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28. 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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29. Chocky

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more

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Cover of A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Seelye

30. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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31. The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spr…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategi…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

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4.18

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