13 must-read science fiction books like A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

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A Fire in the Sun

By: George Alec Effinger

3.15

Format: None pages,

Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Buday…

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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  • fiction
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Cover of Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3) by Richard K. Morgan

2. Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established hims… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
"Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides, even those between generations."

-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

"It's always far easier to murder and tear down than it is to build and educate. Easier to let power accumulate than diffuse."

-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

"You know, the aspirants believe this is the only true existence. That everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored re…"

-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

"Kovacs to a female believer in New Revelation: "..I’m calling you a gutless betrayer of your sex. I can see your husband’s angle, he’s a man, he’s got everything to gain from this crapshit. But you? …"

-Richard K. Morgan, Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

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3. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

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4. The Windup Girl

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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5. Islands in the Net

By: Bruce Sterling

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In the high-tech twenty-first century, a family of "corporate associates" descends into an underwor… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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6. Baudolino

By: Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri

3.79

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked… read more

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  • fiction
"Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the g…"

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

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7. Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gib… read more

Similar categories in Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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8. Aristoi

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Successful in its efforts to create a glittering interstellar empire, founded on the use of an ultr… read more

Similar categories in Walter Jon Williams's Aristoi book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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9. Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)

By: Richard K. Morgan

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn'… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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10. A Fire in the Sun

By: George Alec Effinger

3.15

Format: None pages,

Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Buday… read more

Similar categories in George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science fiction
Cover of Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) by William Gibson

11. Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, s… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3) by William Gibson

12. All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages,

Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction

13. Johnny Mnemonic

By: William Gibson , Terry Bisson

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Synopsis: Johnny is a courier. He carries data, uploaded into his brain through a jack implanted in… read more

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14. Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.30

Format: 237 pages,

Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she… read more

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15. The High Crusade

By: Poul Anderson

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edwa… read more

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16. The Sundering (Dread Empire's Fall, #2)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom rem… read more

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17. Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall #3)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no mo… read more

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18. The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, #1)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis. For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the … read more

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Cover of Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

19. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

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20. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's Jenny Trapdoor book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • science fiction
Cover of Agency (Jackpot #2) by William Gibson

21. Agency (Jackpot #2)

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Agency (Jackpot #2) book and George Alec Effinger's A Fire in the Sun

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"I dislike calling them stubs,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"You’re too young to remember it,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

14 Best fiction books like A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

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Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan

3.76

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Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3)

Richard K. Morgan

4.02

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Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

William Gibson

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

3.84

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Jirel of Joiry

C.L. Moore

3.72

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

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