10 Best science fiction fantasy books like Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg

Cover of Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg

Born with the Dead

By: Robert Silverberg

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The master of science fiction presents three variations on the themes of human frustration and immo…

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Cover of Titan (Gaea, #1) by John Varley

1. Titan (Gaea, #1)

By: John Varley

3.95

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and her crew are captured by Gaea, a plan… read more

Similar categories in John Varley's Titan (Gaea, #1) book and Robert Silverberg's Born with the Dead

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Maybe I’m crazy,"

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"I call him Whistletop."

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"We will be going on, won’t we?"

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"Admit it, Rocky. You’re a tourist at heart."

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

Cover of The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold

2. The Man Who Folded Himself

By: David Gerrold

3.81

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

This classic work of science fiction is widely considered to be the ultimate time-travel novel. Whe… read more

Similar categories in David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself book and Robert Silverberg's Born with the Dead

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral."

-David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

"I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think."

-David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

"Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones."

-David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

"My body may be male or it may be female, but I am neither — I am me."

-David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

Cover of Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

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
  • 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

Cover of Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg

4. Born with the Dead

By: Robert Silverberg

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The master of science fiction presents three variations on the themes of human frustration and immo… read more

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  • short story collection
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Twilight of Briareus by Richard Cowper

5. The Twilight of Briareus

By: Richard Cowper

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this tale England has been transformed, through a disruption in world weather caused by a supern… read more

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

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

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of City by Clifford D. Simak

7. 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
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

8. 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
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"...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 Saliva Tree/Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg, Brian W. Aldiss

9. The Saliva Tree/Born with the Dead

By: Robert Silverberg , Brian W. Aldiss

3.57

Format: None pages,

Contains the two Nebula-winning novellas, The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss and Born with the Dead… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson

10. Spin (Spin, #1)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more

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

11. 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 Robert Silverberg's Born with the Dead

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

12. The Man Who Fell to Earth

By: Walter Tevis

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more

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13. The Star King (Demon Princes, #1)

By: Jack Vance

4.23

Format: 121 pages,

The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonist's parents were murdered by a pos… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. China Mountain Zhang

By: None

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best s… read more

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18. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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19. The Long Tomorrow

By: Leigh Brackett

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered in… read more

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20. The Thing Itself

By: Adam Roberts

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale… 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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