The Seedling Stars
By: James Blish
3.87
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first pu…
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1. Hegira
By: Greg Bear
3.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hegira is a huge, unmapped planet, home to hundreds of tribes and dozens of exotic cities. And scat… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
2. Borne (Borne, #1)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.93
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"People with packs are people with purpose."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
3. The Seedling Stars
By: James Blish
3.87
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
The Seedling Stars is a collection of science fiction short stories by James Blish. It was first pu… read more
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- short story collection
- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
4. 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
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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
5. 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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- science fiction
- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- short stories
"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)
6. Kesrith (The Faded Sun, #1)
By: C.J. Cherryh
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the story of three people: Sten Duncan, a soldier of humanity; Niun, last warrior of the mr… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
7. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
8. The World Inside
By: Robert Silverberg
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Earth 2381: The hordes of humanity have withdrawn into isolated 1000-story Urbmons, comfortably con… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
9. Shipwreck
By: Charles Logan
3.78
Format: None pages,
Galactic Crusoe. When an atomic explosion destroys a huge expedition ship, Tansis becomes the sole … read more
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- science fiction
10. 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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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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
11. 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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12. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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13. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
By: Gene Wolfe
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberusis a… read more
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14. Embassytown
By: China Miéville
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient … read more
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15. The Syndic
By: C.M. Kornbluth
3.71
Format: 436 pages,
Syndic versus Mob! The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once bee… read more
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16. 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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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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)
17. 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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18. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more
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19. 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
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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)
20. 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
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"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)
21. 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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