16 must-read science fiction books like Shipwreck by Charles Logan

Cover of Shipwreck by Charles Logan

Shipwreck

By: Charles Logan

3.78

Format: None pages,

Galactic Crusoe. When an atomic explosion destroys a huge expedition ship, Tansis becomes the sole …

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Cover of Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William Gibson

1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

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2. 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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  • science fiction
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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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"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 Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

4. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • science fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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5. The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.42

Format: 679 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Foundation begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barba… read more

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"It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me."

-Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

"The young man is handsome, pleasant, and extremely charming. Don't let him fool you."

-Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

"But I'd be killed, and I never like to count on that when I'm making plans. It doesn't pay off."

-Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

"It is an affair of a romantic idiot; but even a romantic idiot can be a deadly weapon when an unromantic rebel uses him as a tool."

-Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)

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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
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7. 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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"...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 Who Goes There? by William F. Nolan, John W. Campbell Jr.

8. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

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  • science 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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  • science fiction
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10. 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
Cover of Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Manuel Espín, None

11. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Cover of The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg

12. The Book of Skulls

By: Robert Silverberg

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, colleg… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons

13. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

By: Dan Simmons

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more

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  • science fiction
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14. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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  • science fiction
"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

15. 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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16. The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

By: D.G. Compton , Lisa Tuttle

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the re… read more

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17. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more

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18. Dr. Bloodmoney

By: Philip K. Dick

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Dr. Bloodmoneyis a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick's most memorable c… read more

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Cover of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) by Dan Simmons

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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"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)

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20. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

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21. Molly Zero

By: Keith Roberts

3.65

Format: 251 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Raised, tested, trained and indoctrinated in the Blocks, Molly Zero is being groomed for the govern… read more

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  • science fiction

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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

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The Seedling Stars

James Blish

3.87

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Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

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Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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Nova

Samuel R. Delany

3.80

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A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

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Pavane

Keith Roberts

4.11

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