7 Top space opera books like The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

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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…

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"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

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

If you liked the space opera plot in The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

Cover of Roadside Picnic by Theodore Sturgeon, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis, None

2. Roadside Picnic

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

4.14

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Keep your head high,"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"

-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic

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3. The Palace Of Eternity

By: Bob Shaw

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'The planet Mnemosyne, surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, was known throughout t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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4. 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
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5. Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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6. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) by Frederik Pohl

7. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

4.06

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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  • space
  • fantasy
"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

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8. 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 fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

9. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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10. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

11. 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
Cover of The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

12. 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

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's The Stars My Destination book and Neil Gaiman's The Stars My Destination

  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • 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

Cover of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

13. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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14. 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
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • 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

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15. Downward to the Earth

By: Robert Silverberg

3.90

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

16. 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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17. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • fantasy
"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)

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

18. 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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"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)

19. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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20. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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21. 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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17 Top fiction books like The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

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Stanisław Lem

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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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A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

David Brin

4.04

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

4.14

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