10 must-read science fiction books like Dangerous Visions by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, Carol Emshwiller, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Bloch, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Brian W. Aldiss, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Lester del Rey, Samuel R. Delany, J.G. Ballard, R.A. Lafferty, Philip José Farmer, Joe L. Hensley, Henry Slesar, Sonya Dorman, Kris Neville, David R. Bunch, James Cross, Miriam Allen deFord

Dangerous Visions

By: Isaac Asimov , John Brunner , Robert Silverberg , Carol Emshwiller , Fritz Leiber , Michael Moorcock , Frederik Pohl , Roger Zelazny , Robert Bloch , Damon Knight , Philip K. Dick , Keith Laumer , Norman Spinrad , Harlan Ellison , Larry Niven , Brian W. Aldiss , Theodore Sturgeon , Poul Anderson , Lester del Rey , Samuel R. Delany , J.G. Ballard , R.A. Lafferty , Philip José Farmer , Joe L. Hensley , Henry Slesar , Sonya Dorman , Kris Neville , David R. Bunch , James Cross , None , Miriam Allen deFord , None , None , None

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminar…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Dangerous Visions by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, Carol Emshwiller, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Bloch, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Brian W. Aldiss, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Lester del Rey, Samuel R. Delany, J.G. Ballard, R.A. Lafferty, Philip José Farmer, Joe L. Hensley, Henry Slesar, Sonya Dorman, Kris Neville, David R. Bunch, James Cross, None, Miriam Allen deFord, None, None, None , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2) by Frank Herbert

1. The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beyond the God Wall Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, cond… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin."

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy."

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition"

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher. — Dosadi aphorism"

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

Cover of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Alfred Bester, Richard Matheson, Daniel Keyes, James Blish, Murray Leinster, Theodore Sturgeon, C.M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Fredric Brown, A.E. van Vogt, Jerome Bixby, Anthony Boucher, Tom Godwin, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, John W. Campbell Jr., Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lewis Padgett

2. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg , Robert A. Heinlein , Clifford D. Simak , Ray Bradbury , Fritz Leiber , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny , Damon Knight , Alfred Bester , Richard Matheson , Daniel Keyes , James Blish , Murray Leinster , Theodore Sturgeon , C.M. Kornbluth , Lester del Rey , Fredric Brown , A.E. van Vogt , Jerome Bixby , Anthony Boucher , Tom Godwin , Cordwainer Smith , Judith Merril , John W. Campbell Jr. , Stanley G. Weinbaum , Lewis Padgett

4.32

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

3. Farmer in the Sky

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein

4. Glory Road

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

5. Dreamsnake

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the si… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

By: Cory Doctorow

3.82

Format: 340 pages,

On The Skids In The Transhuman Future Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long en… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7. Dangerous Visions

By: Isaac Asimov , John Brunner , Robert Silverberg , Carol Emshwiller , Fritz Leiber , Michael Moorcock , Frederik Pohl , Roger Zelazny , Robert Bloch , Damon Knight , Philip K. Dick , Keith Laumer , Norman Spinrad , Harlan Ellison , Larry Niven , Brian W. Aldiss , Theodore Sturgeon , Poul Anderson , Lester del Rey , Samuel R. Delany , J.G. Ballard , R.A. Lafferty , Philip José Farmer , Joe L. Hensley , Henry Slesar , Sonya Dorman , Kris Neville , David R. Bunch , James Cross , None , Miriam Allen deFord , None , None , None

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminar… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

8. The Penultimate Truth

By: Philip K. Dick

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. … read more

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9. Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3)

By: Greg Bear

3.82

Format: None pages,

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10. The Truce at Bakura

By: Kathy Tyers

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a ca… read more

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11. Orphans of the Sky

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

A fix-up consisting of the novelette "Universe" (1941) and the novella "Common Sense" (1941). First… read more

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12. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report

By: Philip K. Dick

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

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13. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphys… read more

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14. Protector (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, … read more

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15. The Hammer of God

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golde… read more

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16. The Positronic Man (Robot #0.6)

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

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17. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

Cover of Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1) by A.R. Merrydew

18. Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.23

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

When inventor Godfrey Davis arrived at the ministry that Monday morning he had his first experience… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sir, I think you need to read this,’ he said, nervously handing over the mainframe’s dissertation of its own wellbeing."

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’ Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’     "

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed. ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously. ‘I had t…"

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly. ‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between …"

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

Cover of Child of Another Kind by Steven Decker

19. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

Cover of The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue by Trevor Alan Foris

20. The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

By: Trevor Alan Foris

4.04

Format: 520 pages, None

Publishers note: The Octunnumi does not exist. Fosbit and any files relating to a Fosbit do n… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He licked my face, sir."

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"That’s Vegan not Vulcan!"

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"Veebeebe ve ve – Beeeeb..."

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

"Hey, I didn’t come here to lose,"

-Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

21. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

11 best-selling fiction books like Dangerous Visions by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, Carol Emshwiller, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Bloch, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Brian W. Aldiss, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Lester del Rey, Samuel R. Delany, J.G. Ballard, R.A. Lafferty, Philip José Farmer, Joe L. Hensley, Henry Slesar, Sonya Dorman, Kris Neville, David R. Bunch, James Cross, Miriam Allen deFord

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The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

Frank Herbert

3.83

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg , Robert A. Heinlein , Clifford D. Simak , Ray Bradbury , Fritz Leiber , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny , Damon Knight , Alfred Bester , Richard Matheson , Daniel Keyes , James Blish , Murray Leinster , Theodore Sturgeon , C.M. Kornbluth , Lester del Rey , Fredric Brown , A.E. van Vogt , Jerome Bixby , Anthony Boucher , Tom Godwin , Cordwainer Smith , Judith Merril , John W. Campbell Jr. , Stanley G. Weinbaum , Lewis Padgett

4.32

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Farmer in the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein

3.73

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Glory Road

Robert A. Heinlein

3.73

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The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

Philip José Farmer

3.87

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The Devil's Trinity

Michael Parker

4.26

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Scavenger Hunt

Chad Boudreaux

4.30

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The Three Witches and The Master

Max Nowaz

4.30

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