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…
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1. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
By: Jack Vance
3.89
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
2. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"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
3. 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 fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
4. Greybeard
By: Brian W. Aldiss
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger g… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
5. Pavane
By: Keith Roberts
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of e… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
6. The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl , C.M. Kornbluth
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found . It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
7. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
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8. The Phantom Ship
By: Frederick Marryat
3.71
Format: None pages,
A sharply written tale of adventure on the seas, The Phantom Shipwill grip the reader from the outs… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
9. The Inverted World
By: Christopher Priest
4.07
Format: 213 pages,
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
10. 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 fantasy
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
11. The Stars My Destination
By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester
4.06
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination
12. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
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. Gods in Darkness: The Complete Novels of Kane
By: Karl Edward Wagner
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
Kane An immortal, cursed to wander the Earth until he is destroyed by the violence that he himself … read more
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16. 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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17. Emphyrio
By: Jack Vance
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of t… read more
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18. Starfish (Rifters, #1)
By: Peter Watts
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the botto… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- thriller
- fantasy
"Lenie " odzywa się Joel "Słucham?" "Próbowałaś się kiedyś zabić?" "Jasne, jak każdy" odpowiada"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful."-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"Don’t lecture me in my own field! We’ve got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don’t have anything like that. Speech might just be one …"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
"Miałam 11 lat. Poprzyklejałam sobie na ciele plastry, straciłam przytomność, obudziłam się w publicznym szpitalu." "O, cholera! To tylko szczebelek wyżej od szukania pomocy w internecie." "W sumie ta…"-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)
19. Hothouse
By: Brian W. Aldiss , Matilde Horne
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this science fiction classic, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a … read more
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20. Behold the Man
By: Michael Moorcock
4.00
Format: None pages,
Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-he… read more
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21. Non-Stop
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarter… read more
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