If you liked the science fiction plot in Orbitsville by Bob Shaw , here is a list of 9 books like this:
1. The Demolished Man
By: Alfred Bester
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reic… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"The mind is the reality. You are what you think."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"İnsana fazla güç verip bunları kullanmasına engel olan işlevini kaybetmiş kusurlarını ortadan kaldırmayan, aman bilmez evrim gücüne öfkelenmişti."-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using t…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
"Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheter…"-Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
2. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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3. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
4. Way Station
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.03
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Delectable,"-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
Similar categories in Bob Shaw's Orbitsville book and Bob Shaw's Orbitsville
- adventure
- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- collections
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
6. The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld #2)
By: Larry Niven
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-A… read more
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- adventure
- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
7. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
Similar categories in D.G. Compton's Farewell, Earth's Bliss book and Bob Shaw's Orbitsville
- science fiction
- collections
- fiction
9. 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
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
10. Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)
By: Harry Harrison
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements we… read more
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- adventure
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
11. Helliconia Spring (Helliconia, #1)
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
12. A House at the Bottom of a Lake
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing … read more
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13. The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld, #3)
By: Larry Niven
3.73
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the twenty-ninth century, Louis Wu, a 200-years-young adventurer, became one of the first humans… read more
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14. Against the Fall of Night
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.00
Format: None pages,
The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the o… read more
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15. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more
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"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
16. Who?
By: Algis Budrys
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded… read more
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17. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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18. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (Giants, #2)
By: James P. Hogan
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
THE END OF EXILE Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race… read more
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19. 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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20. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more
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21. The Sands of Mars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Space writers holiday. When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to… read more
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