7 must-read classics books like Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

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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…

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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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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  • fantasy
  • 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)

Cover of The Palace Of Eternity by Bob Shaw

2. 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

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

3. 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
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4. Greybeard

By: Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger g… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

5. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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6. 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

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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8. Rogue Moon

By: Algis Budrys

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • science fiction
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  • audiobook
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9. To Live Forever

By: Jack Vance

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever - if you can make the grade. In Clarges, ev… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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10. 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

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

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

12. 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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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • 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

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13. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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"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

14. The Einstein Intersection

By: Neil Gaiman , Samuel R. Delany

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the m… read more

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Cover of Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

15. 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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  • classics
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

16. Past Master

By: R.A. Lafferty

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The golden planet of Astrobe, made in the image of Utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy i… read more

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17. 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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18. The Last Castle

By: Jack Vance

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

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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. The Genocides

By: Thomas M. Disch

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First p… read more

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21. 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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14 must-read fiction books like Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg

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Jack Vance

3.89

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The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

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

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

Transform Your Habits

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Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

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3.64

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Joanna Russ

3.59

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