If you liked the science fiction plot in The Stars in Shroud by Gregory Benford , here is a list of 13 books like this:
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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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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. 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
- science fiction fantasy
- 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
3. A World Out of Time (The State, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under … read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
4. Only Forward
By: Michael Marshall Smith
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
5. The Death of Grass
By: John Christopher
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvat… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
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8. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
9. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of… read more
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10. Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more
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11. Podkayne of Mars
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Podkayne Fries, a clever Martian maid with dreams of becoming the first female starship pilot, is d… read more
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12. Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biologica… read more
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13. 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.61
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fram…"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
14. Earth
By: David Brin
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As… read more
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15. 3001: The Final Odyssey
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning S… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]"-Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
16. I Am Legend
By: Richard Matheson
4.06
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
17. The Ashes of Tomorrow (Star Trek: Coda #2)
By: James Swallow
4.33
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
18. Oblivion's Gate (Star Trek: Coda #3)
By: David Mack
4.18
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"«This is it, people! Give those bastards everything we've got - because there is no tomorrow.»"-David Mack, Oblivion's Gate (Star Trek: Coda #3)
19. Moments Asunder (Star Trek: Coda #1)
By: Dayton Ward
4.03
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
20. Life for Sale
By: Yukio Mishima
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more
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- fiction
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
21. On Harrow Hill (Dave Gurney #7)
By: John Verdon
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When an old colleague comes to him for help solving the mysterious death of his town's most promin… read more
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- fiction
"El sistema no es perfecto. Se producen errores. Errores humanos. Es sabido que AFIS la ha cagado a veces. Los algoritmos de búsqueda dependen de un criterio humano. No hay nada perfecto en el sistema."-John Verdon, On Harrow Hill (Dave Gurney #7)
