14 Top science fiction fantasy books like The Palace Of Eternity by Bob Shaw

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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…

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Cover of The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) by Jack Vance

1. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"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)

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

Similar categories in Theodore Sturgeon's Roadside Picnic book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Similar categories in Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) by Greg Bear, James Blish

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

Similar categories in Greg Bear's A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4) book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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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
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"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)

Cover of Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

6. 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

Similar categories in Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17 book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Farewell, Earth's Bliss by D.G. Compton

7. Farewell, Earth's Bliss

By: D.G. Compton

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in D.G. Compton's Farewell, Earth's Bliss book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

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

Similar categories in Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ

9. We Who Are About To...

By: Joanna Russ

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an u… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To... book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

10. 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

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's The Inverted World book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Stars My Destination by Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester

11. 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 Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"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 Blood Music by Greg Bear

12. 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

Similar categories in Greg Bear's Blood Music book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

13. 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

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

14. Beyond Apollo

By: Barry N. Malzberg

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the ot… read more

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15. 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

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) book and Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"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)

16. Electric Forest

By: Tanith Lee

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that… read more

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17. Star of the Unborn

By: Franz Werfel

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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18. 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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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 Bob Shaw's The Palace Of Eternity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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)

20. 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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21. Non-Stop

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarter… read more

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15 Best fiction books like The Palace Of Eternity by Bob Shaw

Transform Your Habits

The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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)

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4.67

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Jirel of Joiry

C.L. Moore

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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4.14

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Bob Shaw

3.80

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