20 must-read science fiction books like Ole Doc Methuselah: The Intergalactic Adventures of the Soldier of Light by L. Ron Hubbard

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Ole Doc Methuselah: The Intergalactic Adventures of the Soldier of Light

By: L. Ron Hubbard

3.68

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Ole Doc Methuselah was the name by which he was known on a myriad of scattered planets, for he was …

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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

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  • science fiction
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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2. Ole Doc Methuselah: The Intergalactic Adventures of the Soldier of Light

By: L. Ron Hubbard

3.68

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Ole Doc Methuselah was the name by which he was known on a myriad of scattered planets, for he was … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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3. Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

By: David Brin

4.04

Format: 458 pages, Mass Market Paperback

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever writ… read more

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  • science fiction
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  • fiction
"Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach."

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell thi…"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

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4. Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)

By: David Brin

3.91

Format: 661 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jijo es un planeta prohibido, un mundo que se recupera lentamente de un grave desastre ecológico y … read more

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  • science fiction
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  • fiction
"Responsibility was our cruel mooring...."

-David Brin, Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)

"Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora."

-David Brin, Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)

"It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused."

-David Brin, Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)

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5. Cobra Strike (Cobra, #2)

By: Timothy Zahn

3.95

Format: 269 pages,

Will the COBRAS turn mercenary under Troft command? If anyone had told Jonny Moreau the Cobras woul… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

By: David Brin

3.69

Format: None pages,

Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered tech… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Tuf Voyaging

By: George R.R. Martin

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland T… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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8. Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

By: Stephen Baxter

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginn… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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9. A World Out of Time (The State, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Highway of Eternity

By: Clifford D. Simak

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

"One of the best-loved authors in SF, Simak has built an appealing private universe with his rural … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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11. The Rock

By: Bob Mayer

4.04

Format: None pages,

Fascinating, imaginative and nerve-wracking. Kirkus Reviews A crackling science thriller in the vei… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (Santiago #1)

By: Mike Resnick

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none...has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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13. Hellstrom's Hive

By: Frank Herbert

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world:… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Octagon

By: Fred Saberhagen

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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15. Eon (The Way, #1)

By: Greg Bear

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

16. Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3)

By: David Brin

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnific… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Last Coin (Christian Trilogy, #1)

By: James P. Blaylock

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Twenty-nine of the coins are already in the possessio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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18. 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
  • fiction

19. Planet of the Damned

By: Harry Harrison , John Rose , Robbie Rogers

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Audiobook

Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift… read more

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20. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"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

21. A Time of Changes

By: Robert Silverberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more

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22. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

By: Neal Stephenson

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more

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23. Cobra (Cobra, #1)

By: Timothy Zahn

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Cobras wonder if they can return home after the wars--since humans fear their talents. read more

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24. Protector (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, … read more

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25. Timescape

By: Gregory Benford , None

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard scie… read more

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26. The Engines of God (The Academy, #1)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a h… read more

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27. Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

By: Dan Simmons

4.19

Format: 563 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the worl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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"The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore...." "What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. "Nothing," she …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

28. Kiln People

By: David Brin , Beth Meacham

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of thei… read more

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29. Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #2)

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skie… read more

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30. Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind.… read more

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31. The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

By: Joan D. Vinge

4.00

Format: None pages,

This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-no… read more

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