7 must-read speculative fiction books like Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6) by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ric Binkley

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Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6)

By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , Ric Binkley

4.30

Format: None pages,

It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange …

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6) by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ric Binkley , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1) by C.J. Cherryh

1. Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.90

Format: 526 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete i… read more

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  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics."

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years… but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman’s terms. In publ…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated is…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

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2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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3. 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
  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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)

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4. Job: A Comedy of Justice

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.78

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Robert Heinlein at his superlative best. A fascinating and thought-prov… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe"

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

"Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

"But plenty of money (how well I knew it!) made hard things easy and impossible things merely difficult."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

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5. On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)

By: David Weber

3.41

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
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6. The Female Man

By: Joanna Russ

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. 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
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary … read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington, #5)

By: David Weber

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the ma… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
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10. Eon (The Way, #1)

By: Greg Bear

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
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11. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Puppet Masters

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the wh… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Owlknight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #3) by Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon

13. Owlknight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #3)

By: Mercedes Lackey , Larry Dixon

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

From fantasy legends Mercedes Lackeyand Larry Dixoncomes the third and final volume in a powerful s… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Dragon Harper (Pern, #20)

By: Anne McCaffrey , Todd McCaffrey

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

For millions of readers the world over, the name Pern is magical, conjuring up grand vistas of a di… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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15. The Forerunner Factor

By: Andre Norton

4.27

Format: 67 pages,

Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner andForerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young F… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6) by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ric Binkley

16. Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6)

By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , Ric Binkley

4.30

Format: None pages,

It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange … read more

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  • classics
  • pulp
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook

17. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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18. Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.43

Format: 509 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Save me from the virtuous."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"God save me from another such victory."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"You try to give away what you want yourself."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

19. Retreat, Hell! (The Corps, #10)

By: W.E.B. Griffin

3.60

Format: 212 pages,

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20. Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. H… read more

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21. The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)

By: David Weber

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as a prelude to conquest. That's w… read more

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22. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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23. Labyrinth

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.04

Format: None pages, ebook

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24. Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Saga, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.36

Format: 94 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The familiar old SF "planet of women" chestnut is reversed in the planet of Athos -- an all-male pl… read more

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25. The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales)

By: Robert E. Howard

3.37

Format: 204 pages,

"The Tower of the Elephant" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and s… read more

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26. Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga, #9)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The latest installment in the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan. Miles and Cousin Ivan travel to Cetag… read more

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27. The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.27

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under hou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He who plots revenge must dig two graves."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"He’d slam his fist into the wall in frustration but the wall was sure to slam back with greater devastation."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of, how shall I put this precisely, subordination. You argue too much."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

28. Norstrilia

By: Cordwainer Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rod McBan is only a boy from the planet 'Norstrilia', Old North Australia, where rich farmers grow … read more

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29. Toll of Honor (Expanded Honorverse, #1)

By: David Weber

4.33

Format: 617 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW SOLO NOVEL IN DAVID WEBER'S NYT BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE “It is our duty to pay for our lib… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Ambassador For Mars (Starship's Mage, #15) by Glynn Stewart

30. Ambassador For Mars (Starship's Mage, #15)

By: Glynn Stewart

4.56

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark shadow awakens on the edge of known space. Long lost and long forgotten, an alien foe rises… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

31. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

20 best-selling fiction books like Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6) by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ric Binkley

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C.J. Cherryh

3.90

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

3.89

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The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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Job: A Comedy of Justice

Robert A. Heinlein

3.78

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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

David Brin

4.04

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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

David Brin

3.69

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Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington, #5)

David Weber

3.82

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Megan Whalen Turner , Chad Cameron

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