15 Best science fiction books like The World Inside by Robert Silverberg

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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Earth 2381: The hordes of humanity have withdrawn into isolated 1000-story Urbmons, comfortably con…

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Cover of Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

1. 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

Cover of A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) by Greg Bear, James Blish

2. 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 Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss

3. Greybeard

By: Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger g… read more

Similar categories in Brian W. Aldiss's Greybeard book and Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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4. 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 Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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5. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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

6. 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 fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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7. The Mote in God's Eye

By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle

3.58

Format: 448 pages, ebook

In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

8. 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 Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • 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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9. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Cover of The World Inside by Robert Silverberg

10. 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

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's The World Inside book and Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

11. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

By: Philip José Farmer

4.54

Format: None pages,

To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more

Similar categories in Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) book and Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ

12. 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

Similar categories in Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To... book and Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

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

13. 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

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's The Inverted World book and Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

14. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • 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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15. 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 fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • 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

16. Earth Abides

By: George R. Stewart

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more

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17. 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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18. The Last Castle

By: Jack Vance

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. 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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20. 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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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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4.03

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4.67

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4.17

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3.64

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Joanna Russ

3.59

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