9 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS. These novels, Rocannon's world, Planet of Exile, and Cit…

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1. The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

By: Starhawk

4.22

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of … read more

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"The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequen…"

-Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

"We hope for a harvest, we pray for rain, but nothing is certain. We say that the harvest will only be abundant if the crops are shared, that the rains will not come unless water is conserved and shar…"

-Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Roadmarks

By: Roger Zelazny

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

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6. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

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"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

7. Angel Station

By: Walter Jon Williams

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ubu Roy and Beautiful Maria, two orphans genetically engineered to be expert star pilots, live by t… read more

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8. Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS. These novels, Rocannon's world, Planet of Exile, and Cit… read more

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9. Provenance (Imperial Radch)

By: Ann Leckie

3.84

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more

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"Diplomat does not mean nice,"

-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)

10. The Cyberiad

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel , Daniel Mróz

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. … read more

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11. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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12. A Time of Changes

By: Robert Silverberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more

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13. Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4)

By: Gene Wolfe

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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14. Viriconium

By: Neil Gaiman , M. John Harrison

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of … read more

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15. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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16. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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17. The Oppenheimer Alternative

By: Robert J. Sawyer

3.91

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J… read more

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18. The Best of R.A. Lafferty

By: R.A. Lafferty

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Edited and collated by Jonathan Strahan, with a volume introduction by Neil Gaiman, THE BEST OF R.A… read more

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19. The Complete ElfQuest, Volume Five

By: Wendy Pini

4.27

Format: 792 pages, Kindle Edition

This fifth volume of the New York Times bestselling series weighs in at a hefty 720 pages. It colle… read more

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20. The All-Consuming World

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of the… read more

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"She watches Verdigris from the bed, mouth full of the right words, all of them stillborn."

-Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

"Maya is older than the first sin, but she’s got nothing on Reyha, nothing on a life lived calm as deep water."

-Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

"Through it all, she holds eye contact like it's a lifeline, although only the devil dead on his throne knows which one of them needs saving more."

-Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

"Rita flashes a winning smile down at the dog she calls Maya and good mutt that she is, Maya is immediately suffused by joy, chemical opiate of the chronically codependent."

-Cassandra Khaw, The All-Consuming World

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21. You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts

By: M. John Harrison

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres –… read more

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"Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which first it guards, then, eventually, eats. It's some kind of winter dog, a …"

-M. John Harrison, You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts

14 best-selling fiction books like Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Transform Your Habits

The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

Starhawk

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Female Man

Joanna Russ

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

4.25

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Thomas M. Disch

3.64

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The Female Man

Joanna Russ

3.59

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

Greg Bear , James Blish

4.67

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Brian W. Aldiss

4.17

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