13 must-read science fiction books like Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10) by Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, Ward Moore

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Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10)

By: Isaac Asimov , George Zebrowski , Ward Moore

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out o…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10) by Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, Ward Moore , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Guardians of Time

By: Poul Anderson , Enric

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

HARD TIMES That's what leads Manson Everard to answer an ad offering "high pay and foreign travel f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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2. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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3. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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4. Hard to Be a God

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

3.39

Format: 440 pages,

The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. Deadeye Dick

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more

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  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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6. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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7. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite

By: None , Gabriel Bá , Gerard Way , Nate Piekos , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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9. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon

3.90

Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

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10. Make Room! Make Room!

By: Harry Harrison

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system-… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • fiction
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11. Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10)

By: Isaac Asimov , George Zebrowski , Ward Moore

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out o… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Asimov's Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10) book and Isaac Asimov's Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10)

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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12. 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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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"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

13. 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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14. 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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15. The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more

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  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

16. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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17. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

18. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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19. Who?

By: Algis Budrys

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded… read more

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20. The Prestige

By: Christopher Priest

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more

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21. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

22. Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more

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23. Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life

By: Philip José Farmer

3.27

Format: None pages,

Biography of the famed Clark Savage, Jr. The author swears every word is true! Includes a biographi… read more

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24. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)

By: Mervyn Peake

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more

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25. Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more

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26. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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27. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • fiction
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

28. The Computer Connection

By: Alfred Bester

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess… read more

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29. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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30. The N'Gustro Affair

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.51

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadisti… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Book on the Edge of Forever: The Facts, the Figures, and the Delusions Behind Harlan Ellison's Never-Published Anthology

By: Christopher Priest

3.69

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The Book on the Edge of Forever is about Harlan Ellison's third volume of his famed triptych of sci… read more

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18 Best fiction books like Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10) by Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, Ward Moore

Transform Your Habits

Guardians of Time

Poul Anderson , Enric

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Hard to Be a God

Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

3.39

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10 Best horror books like The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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