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…
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1. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
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"Drop dead-but first get permit"-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
2. The Palace Of Eternity
By: Bob Shaw
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
'The planet Mnemosyne, surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, was known throughout t… read more
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- science fiction
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- space opera
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3. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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- space opera
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- audiobook
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
4. 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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- space opera
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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)
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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- aliens
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6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
7. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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- science fiction
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
Similar categories in A.E. van Vogt's The Voyage of the Space Beagle book and Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye
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9. 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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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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10. Spin (Spin, #1)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more
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- fantasy
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11. The Book of Skulls
By: Robert Silverberg
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, colleg… read more
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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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12. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
13. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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"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
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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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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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 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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"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. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
18. House of Suns
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more
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19. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
20. The Gods Themselves
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more
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21. 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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