The Islanders
By: Christopher Priest
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple award-winni…
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1. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
2. Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
By: David Brin
4.04
Format: 458 pages, Mass Market Paperback
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever writ… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Tormentas de estrellas Sobre el fragor de las olas... ¿Nos mojaremos, amor?"-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
"Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach."-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
"The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell thi…"-David Brin, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
Similar categories in Sharon Shinn's Reader and Raelynx (Twelve Houses, #4) book and Christopher Priest's The Islanders
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
4. Fortune and Fate (Twelve Houses, #5)
By: Sharon Shinn
4.29
Format: 256 pages,
For the Rider Wen, peace in Gillengaria has only brought despair. Plagued by guilt for failing to p… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
5. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
6. The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.23
Format: 192 pages,
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Marsw… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
7. Central Station
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.51
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Culture… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"...these fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which …"-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station
"Other humans believed the same way they breathed: it came natural to them. The world was filled with synagogues and churches, mosques and temples, shrines to Elron and Ogko. New faiths rose and fell …"-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station
"But he knew, too, that there is more than one story in this world at a time; and that her story was not his. Their stories had entwined, but they had different trajectories, different conclusions. He…"-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station
"It is, perhaps, the prerogative of every man or woman to imagine, and thus force a shape, a meaning, onto that wild and meandering narrative of their lives, by choosing genre. A princess is rescued b…"-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station
8. Heavy Weather
By: Bruce Sterling
3.68
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid i… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
9. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
10. The Islanders
By: Christopher Priest
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple award-winni… read more
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- literary fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- mystery
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- science fiction
11. Dark Moon Defender (Twelve Houses, #3)
By: Sharon Shinn
3.75
Format: None pages,
In this story of hidden magic and forbidden love, the King's Rider Justin befriends Ellynor, a youn… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
12. 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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13. Under the Skin
By: Michel Faber
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more
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14. The Man Who Fell to Earth
By: Walter Tevis
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more
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15. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
16. Mystic and Rider (Twelve Houses, #1)
By: Sharon Shinn
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a … read more
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17. The Thirteenth House (Twelve Houses, #2)
By: Sharon Shinn
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
After joining an unlikely band of soldiers and sorcerers to rescue the kidnapped regent Romar Brend… read more
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19. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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- fiction
"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
20. Black River Orchard
By: Chuck Wendig
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
21. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
