Stand on Zanzibar
By: John Brunner
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati…
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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
- science fiction
- hugo awards
"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
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
"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
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
- hugo awards
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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)
4. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
5. The Big Time
By: Fritz Leiber
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past fr… read more
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- science fiction
- hugo awards
- classics
- fiction
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
- hugo awards
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
7. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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- science fiction
- classics
- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
8. The Wanderer
By: Fritz Leiber
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artifici… read more
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- science fiction
- hugo awards
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
9. 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
"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)
10. 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
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- hugo awards
11. Stand on Zanzibar
By: John Brunner
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more
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- classics
- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- hugo awards
12. 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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13. Beyond Apollo
By: Barry N. Malzberg
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the ot… read more
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14. 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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15. This Immortal
By: Roger Zelazny
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Comm… read more
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16. 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
- fiction
"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
17. 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
"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)
18. 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
19. The Last Sunset
By: March Lions
4.34
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more
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"Trust is a strange bedfellow."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"He sounds like a politician running for office."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
20. 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
21. Dhalgren
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.77
Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
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"What?"-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
