11 Top science fiction books like Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford, Ford Jeffrey

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Physiognomy

By: Jeffrey Ford , Ford Jeffrey

3.10

Format: 151 pages,

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Cley has mastered the art of physiognomy--and now…

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1. That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote

By: K.J. Bishop

3.76

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Duellists in a decadent urban dream. Lost creatures in a bizarre post-apocalypse. Fables lingering … read more

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  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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2. Thomas the Rhymer

By: Ellen Kushner

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
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3. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

By: Greg Egan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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5. Ombria in Shadow

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Ombria is a place heaped with history -- and secrets. There is a buried city beneath it inhabited b… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
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6. The Unholy Consult (Aspect-Emperor, #4)

By: R. Scott Bakker

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasurimbor Kellhus rules all the… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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7. The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl , C.M. Kornbluth

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found . It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world … read more

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  • science fiction
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8. Only Forward

By: Michael Marshall Smith

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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9. Physiognomy

By: Jeffrey Ford , Ford Jeffrey

3.10

Format: 151 pages,

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Cley has mastered the art of physiognomy--and now… read more

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  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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  • fantasy
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10. We Who Are About To...

By: Joanna Russ

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an u… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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11. The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space th… read more

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  • fantasy
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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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"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

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13. Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.08

Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five stories of Ursula K. Le Guin's world-renowned realm of Earthsea are collected in one volume. F… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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"True art requires a single heart."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Things came round if you could wait for them."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

14. Darwinia

By: Robert Charles Wilson

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia,… read more

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15. Poems by Walt Whitman

By: Walt Whitman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable… read more

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16. 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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17. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more

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18. Veniss Underground

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triu… read more

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19. Palimpsest

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the Cities of Coin and Spiceand In the Night Gardenintroduced readers to the unique and intoxica… read more

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20. Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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21. Bring the Jubilee

By: Ward Moore

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition can be found . A classic Alternate History story - the first to ask 'What… read more

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22. Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4)

By: Gene Wolfe

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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23. Viriconium

By: Neil Gaiman , M. John Harrison

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of … read more

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24. The Carpet Makers

By: Orson Scott Card , Andreas Eschbach , None

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of th… read more

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25. The Book of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #1-4 omnibus)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene W… read more

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26. 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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27. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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"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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28. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."

-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

29. Stara Słaboniowa i spiekładuchy

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wy to, Slaboniowa, zawsze tak zakrecicie, ze czlowiek sam nie wie, w co wierzyc, i widzi rzeczy, kt… read more

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30. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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31. The Broken Sword

By: Poul Anderson

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"

-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword

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3.76

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3.79

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3.97

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