12 must-read fantasy books like Blood Music by Greg Bear

Cover of Blood Music by Greg Bear

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…

"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"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

"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

If you liked the fantasy plot in Blood Music by Greg Bear , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Solaris by Stanisław Lem

1. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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

2. 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

Similar categories in Jack Vance's The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) book and Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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

3. 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 Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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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4. 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 Greg Bear's Blood Music

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

5. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) by Peter Watts

6. Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)

By: Peter Watts

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsigh… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) book and Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of City by Clifford D. Simak

7. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

Similar categories in Clifford D. Simak's City book and Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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 Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

9. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

10. Dying Inside

By: Robert Silverberg

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to pro… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's Dying Inside book and Greg Bear's Blood Music

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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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 Greg Bear's Blood Music

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

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

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. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

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Cover of A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge

16. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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)

17. 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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18. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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19. 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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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. Black Easter (After Such Knowledge, #2)

By: James Blish

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires… read more

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14 Best fiction books like Blood Music by Greg Bear

Transform Your Habits

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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

Transform Your Habits

The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

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14 must-read fiction books like Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

Transform Your Habits

The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Jack Vance

3.89

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The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

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Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

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