13 must-read science fiction books like To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

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…

If you liked the science fiction plot in To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Demolished Man

By: Alfred Bester

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"

-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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2. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • 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 Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) by David Brin

3. Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

By: David Brin

4.04

Format: 458 pages, Mass Market Paperback

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever writ… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
"Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach."

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

"The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell thi…"

-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

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4. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

By: David Brin

3.69

Format: None pages,

Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered tech… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
Cover of A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) by Greg Bear, James Blish

5. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
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6. Dreamsnake

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the si… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
Cover of Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

7. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

Cover of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

8. 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 To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

9. 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

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
Cover of Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein

10. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins … read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction

11. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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12. The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

1886. John Carter, forever 30, returns to Mars and again fights enemies with green Tars Tarka and r… read more

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13. Tower of Glass

By: Robert Silverberg

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes … read more

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14. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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15. 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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16. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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17. The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

By: Joan D. Vinge

4.00

Format: None pages,

This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-no… read more

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18. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

Cover of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) by Barry Kirwan

19. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

By: Barry Kirwan

4.23

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

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20. The Polymorph

By: Max Nowaz

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

Cover of Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel by Todor Bombov

21. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

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  • science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

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