20 best-selling fiction books like Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2) by Isaac Asimov

Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . A stunning t…

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Cover of Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1) by Gregory Benford

1. Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

By: Gregory Benford

3.85

Format: 608 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monu… read more

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"But a lady forced is never a lady won"

-Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

"Sometimes being human is harder than it looks."

-Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

"How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger"

-Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

"Because the desire to possess the other is... love"

-Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

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2. The Garden of Rama (Rama, #3)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.80

Format: 593 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enoug… read more

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"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme...."

-Arthur C. Clarke, The Garden of Rama (Rama, #3)

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3. Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy, #3)

By: David Brin

4.00

Format: 392 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental s… read more

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Cover of Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy #2) by Greg Bear

4. Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy #2)

By: Greg Bear

4.18

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A major science fiction author continues one of the most famous SF stories of all time. read more

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  • fantasy
"It was when a society became most distressed and antiquated that it would recreate an overwhelming fantasy of some Golden Age, a time when all was great and glorious, when people were more noble and …"

-Greg Bear, Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy #2)

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5. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more

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6. Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . A stunning t… read more

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Cover of The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

7. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more

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"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Cover of The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons

8. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

By: Dan Simmons

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more

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9. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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10. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more

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"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

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11. 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)

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12. 2010: Odyssey Two

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more

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"Humor was the enemy of desire."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

Cover of 2061: Odyssey Three  (Space Odyssey, #3) by Arthur C. Clarke

13. 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.61

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most… read more

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"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fram…"

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)

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14. Rama II (Rama #2)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.70

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Rama est revenu ! Rama, ou plutôt son double, son clone, son jumeau : Rama II. Soixante-dix ans plu… read more

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"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

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15. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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16. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

By: Frank Herbert

3.96

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more

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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

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

17. 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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18. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

By: Frank Herbert

3.86

Format: 669 pages, Paperback

Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."

-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

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19. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

By: Frank Herbert

3.88

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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"But you invite ..."

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"In the wrong hands,"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"Only fools prefer the past!"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"For what do you hunger, Lord?"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

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20. Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adv… read more

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"What does a mirror look at?"

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"I am not the river I am the net."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

"Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded."

-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

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21. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)

By: Baoshu

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more

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19 best-selling fantasy books like Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2) by Isaac Asimov

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Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy, #1)

Gregory Benford

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Garden of Rama (Rama, #3)

Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy, #3)

David Brin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy #2)

Greg Bear

4.18

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Fluency (Confluence, #1)

Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

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Rewrite Redemption

J.H. Walker

3.60

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Bound By Blood

Danielle Bourdon , Kimberly Hoyt

5.00

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A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court

Mari Mancusi

3.48

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