14 must-read science fiction books like The Asutra (Durdane, #3) by Jack Vance

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The Asutra (Durdane, #3)

By: Jack Vance

4.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the furthest borders of the Durdane, strange rumours are spreading. For in Caraz's land of exi…

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1. A Scanner Darkly

By: Philip K. Dick

4.02

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more

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"We're all dreaming,"

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"I have seen myself backward."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Cover of Small Gods (Discworld, #13) by Terry Pratchett

2. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

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3. The Man Who Japed

By: Philip K. Dick

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In The Man Who Japed, a world that has survived a nuclear holocaust has given way to a rigid system… read more

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  • fantasy
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4. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.19

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

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5. 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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"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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6. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle, #3) by Gordon R. Dickson

7. Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle, #3)

By: Gordon R. Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

A Hugo Award-winning novel of destiny and revenge. On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had cha… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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8. Tuf Voyaging

By: George R.R. Martin

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland T… read more

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  • space opera
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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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9. The First And The Last

By: Adolf Galland

2.74

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more

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10. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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11. The Asutra (Durdane, #3)

By: Jack Vance

4.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the furthest borders of the Durdane, strange rumours are spreading. For in Caraz's land of exi… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.92

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more

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"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

13. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

By: Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick , Steven Owen Godersky

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. … read more

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  • science fiction
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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Untouched By Human Hands

By: Robert Sheckley

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human … read more

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  • fantasy
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15. The Cosmic Puppets

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the… read more

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16. The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)

By: Ken Liu

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Two men rebel together against tyranny--and then become rivals--in this first sweeping book of an e… read more

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17. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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18. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

19. The Black Cloud

By: Fred Hoyle

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred H… read more

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20. The Wooden Spaceships (Land and Overland Series, #2)

By: Bob Shaw

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Twenty-three years ago, the inhabitants of Overland left Land to escape the Plague. In this sequel … read more

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21. The Status Civilization

By: Robert Sheckley

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal… read more

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22. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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23. The Weapon Shops of Isher

By: A.E. van Vogt

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story S… read more

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24. Leviathan

By: Paul Auster

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathanwith the tearin… read more

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25. On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, #1)

By: Piers Anthony

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Zane shoots Death, he has to take the job, speeding over the world riding Mortis, his pale hor… read more

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26. 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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27. Necromancer (Childe Cycle, #2)

By: Gordon R. Dickson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

aka No Room for Man Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected … read more

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28. Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)

By: Gordon R. Dickson

0.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

aka The Genetic General Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respec… read more

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29. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) by Peter F. Hamilton

30. Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke… read more

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  • space opera
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"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

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4.02

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Terry Pratchett

4.32

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3.58

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4.19

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Stanisław Lem

3.99

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4.14

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