17 Best fiction books like The Best of Hal Clement by Hal Clement, Lester del Rey

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The Best of Hal Clement

By: Hal Clement , Lester del Rey

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Impediment (1942) Technical Error (1944) Uncommon Sense (1946) Assumption Unjustified (19…

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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
  • fiction
Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. Cemetery World

By: Clifford D. Simak

3.65

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was rec… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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4. Inherit the Stars

By: James P. Hogan

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and … read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of She: A History of Adventure (She, #1) by H. Rider Haggard

5. She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.57

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. I… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core."

-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)

"Life is not worth the trouble of life, except when one in love."

-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)

"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."

-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)

"Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."

-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)

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6. 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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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"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)

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7. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Best of Leigh Brackett

By: Edmond Hamilton , Leigh Brackett , None

4.01

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
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9. The Best of Hal Clement

By: Hal Clement , Lester del Rey

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Impediment (1942) Technical Error (1944) Uncommon Sense (1946) Assumption Unjustified (19… read more

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  • collections
  • anthologies
  • hard science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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10. 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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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Children of the Sky  (Zones of Thought, #3) by Vernor Vinge

11. The Children of the Sky (Zones of Thought, #3)

By: Vernor Vinge

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestsel… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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12. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

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13. 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

14. Hybrids (Neanderthal Parallax, #3)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

In the Hugo-Award winning Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forg… read more

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15. The High Crusade

By: Poul Anderson

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edwa… read more

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16. Earth Abides

By: George R. Stewart

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more

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17. Telzey Amberdon

By: James H. Schmitz

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Telzey Amberdon was only in her teens when she discovered that she was a telepath. Not only a telep… read more

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18. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

19. The Shrinking Man

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidenta… read more

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20. The Best of John W. Campbell

By: Lester del Rey , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL Here are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly c… 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. This Is the Way the World Ends

By: James K. Morrow

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Gulliver's Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly… read more

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23. The Best of Fredric Brown

By: Robert Bloch , Fredric Brown , None

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Wit and Whimsy of Fredric Brown Twenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics c… read more

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24. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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25. 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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26. Humans (Neanderthal Parallax, #2)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, … read more

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27. The Genocides

By: Thomas M. Disch

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First p… read more

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28. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

By: Michio Kaku

3.75

Format: 273 pages,

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more

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29. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

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30. 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
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

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Greg Bear

3.34

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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Cemetery World

Clifford D. Simak

3.65

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Inherit the Stars

James P. Hogan

4.06

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Jirel of Joiry

C.L. Moore

3.72

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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Bob Shaw

3.80

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