7 Best speculative fiction books like The Demon Princes by Jack Vance

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The Demon Princes

By: Jack Vance

4.29

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

This 2005 SFBC Edition contains all 5 of the stories previously printed in Vols 1 & 2 : 'The Star…

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1. The Demon Princes

By: Jack Vance

4.29

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

This 2005 SFBC Edition contains all 5 of the stories previously printed in Vols 1 & 2 : 'The Star… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • collections
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  • mystery
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

2. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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3. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

4. Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Elizabeth Hand , George R.R. Martin , Robert Silverberg , Neil Gaiman , Tanith Lee , Glen Cook , Dean Koontz , Dan Simmons , Mike Resnick , Gardner Dozois , Howard Waldrop , Kage Baker , Tad Williams , Terry Dowling , Elizabeth Moon , Walter Jon Williams , Jack Vance , Paula Volsky , John C. Wright , Lucius Shepard , Liz Williams , Phyllis Eisenstein , None , Tom Kidd , Matt Hughes , Hillary Pearlman

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Today, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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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 fantasy
  • space opera
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  • fantasy
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6. Drood

By: Dan Simmons

3.50

Format: None pages,

Drood... is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his lif… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of An Autumn War (Long Price Quartet, #3) by Daniel Abraham

7. An Autumn War (Long Price Quartet, #3)

By: Daniel Abraham

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliantly original and engaging first novel, an… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
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Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

8. 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
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"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)

9. A Betrayal in Winter (Long Price Quartet, #2)

By: Daniel Abraham

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliant, original, and engaging first novel, A … read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons

10. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2) by Ken Liu

11. The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)

By: Ken Liu

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. 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
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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  • 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

Cover of Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2) by Terry Pratchett

13. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more

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  • mystery
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

14. Jack of Shadows

By: Roger Zelazny

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Earth no longer rotates. Science rules the dayside of the globe. Magic rules the World of Night… read more

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15. The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)

By: Mervyn Peake , Anthony Burgess , Quentin Crisp

4.00

Format: None pages,

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical worl… read more

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16. The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)

By: Ken Liu

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Two men rebel together against tyranny--and then become rivals--in this first sweeping book of an e… read more

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17. The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

By: Charles Stross

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret gove… read more

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Cover of A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge

18. 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)

19. The Weapon Shops of Isher

By: A.E. van Vogt

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story S… read more

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20. The Last Defender of Camelot

By: Robert Silverberg , Roger Zelazny

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are 16 strange, beautiful stories spanning the full spectrum of Roger Zelazny's remarkable car… read more

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21. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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