Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #2)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
When the gods of the Whorl speak to him about the future, clergyman Patera Silk begins a quest to s…
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1. Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)
By: Mervyn Peake
3.45
Format: 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner… read more
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"But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the…"-Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)
2. 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
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"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)
3. Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
By: Gene Wolfe , Michael Andre-Driussi
4.34
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Lexicon Urthus (second edition) is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene … read more
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4. The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2)
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque … read more
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5. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
By: R. Scott Bakker
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more
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6. The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)
By: R. Scott Bakker
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
"Book Two of The Prince of Nothing" finds the Holy War continuing its inexorable march southward. B… read more
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7. National Lampoon's Doon
By: Ellis Weiner
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
National Lampoon's Doonbrings the hottest science fiction phenomenon ever to a new, hysterical foam… read more
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8. The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
By: R. Scott Bakker
4.43
Format: None pages,
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9. 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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"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)
10. Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #2)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
When the gods of the Whorl speak to him about the future, clergyman Patera Silk begins a quest to s… read more
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11. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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12. Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
By: Mervyn Peake
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrin… read more
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13. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more
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14. Finch (Ambergris, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
4.10
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In Finch,mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fant… read more
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15. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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16. 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
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"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
17. The Floating Gods
By: M. John Harrison
3.92
Format: None pages,
Third book in the Viriconium sequence. The city is beset by a mysterious plague that affects the ar… read more
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18. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)
By: Jack Vance
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more
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19. The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Roberto Bolaño , Marcela Valdes , Sybil Perez , None , None
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
With the release of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain disc… read more
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20. 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)
21. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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22. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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23. Rhialto the Marvellous (The Dying Earth, #4)
By: Jack Vance
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: The Murthe (1984) Fader's Waft (1984) Morreion (1973) read more
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24. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
By: Mervyn Peake
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more
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25. The Lions of Al-Rassan
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by t… read more
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26. 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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27. The Pastel City
By: M. John Harrison
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ru… read more
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28. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
29. Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
By: Christopher Ruocchio
4.62
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more
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"Your road will not be easy, nor your burden light." "That does not matter," I said. "It must be."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
"I was nothing at all. The barest drop in a limitless ocean. One photon against the infinite Dark."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
"You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
30. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.51
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more
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31. Greatest Hits
By: Harlan Ellison
4.18
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more
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