15 Best fantasy books like Other Days, Other Eyes by Bob Shaw

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Other Days, Other Eyes

By: Bob Shaw

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Slow glass was an amusing scientific toy. Light traveled through it so slowly that, looking through…

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1. Bios

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.49

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely ex… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kavan's Ice book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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3. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

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4. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.89

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more

Similar categories in Jack Vance's The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

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5. The Female Man

By: Joanna Russ

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Russ's The Female Man book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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6. A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

By: Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is al… read more

Similar categories in Greg Bear's A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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7. Dr. Adder

By: K.W. Jeter

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclav… read more

Similar categories in K.W. Jeter's Dr. Adder book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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8. Pavane

By: Keith Roberts

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of e… read more

Similar categories in Keith Roberts's Pavane book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Farewell, Earth's Bliss

By: D.G. Compton

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in D.G. Compton's Farewell, Earth's Bliss book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

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11. 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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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)

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12. Other Days, Other Eyes

By: Bob Shaw

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Slow glass was an amusing scientific toy. Light traveled through it so slowly that, looking through… read more

Similar categories in Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • time travel
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

13. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

14. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. 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

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's The Stars My Destination book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • 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

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16. Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)

By: Harry Harrison

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements we… read more

Similar categories in Harry Harrison's Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1) book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more

Similar categories in Greg Bear's Blood Music book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

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18. Downward to the Earth

By: Robert Silverberg

3.90

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

19. Immortality, Inc.

By: Robert Sheckley

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more

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20. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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21. Beyond Apollo

By: Barry N. Malzberg

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the ot… read more

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22. More Than Human

By: Theodore Sturgeon

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out… read more

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23. The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

By: Harlan Ellison

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which… read more

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24. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more

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25. The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized… read more

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26. Electric Forest

By: Tanith Lee

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that… read more

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27. The Drowned World

By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more

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28. 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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29. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

Similar categories in John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos book and Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

30. 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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31. Non-Stop

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarter… read more

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