14 Top science fiction books like Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield

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Between the Strokes of Night

By: Charles Sheffield

3.72

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

By leaving their home planet after the final nuclear war, a group of young people live to see the s…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • 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

Cover of Titan (Gaea, #1) by John Varley

2. Titan (Gaea, #1)

By: John Varley

3.95

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and her crew are captured by Gaea, a plan… read more

Similar categories in John Varley's Titan (Gaea, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Maybe I’m crazy,"

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"I call him Whistletop."

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"We will be going on, won’t we?"

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

"Admit it, Rocky. You’re a tourist at heart."

-John Varley, Titan (Gaea, #1)

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3. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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4. 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 Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

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

5. 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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"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 A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) by Vernor Vinge

6. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

Cover of Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Manuel Espín, None

7. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

Similar categories in Philip K. Dick's Ubik book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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8. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Davis's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • fiction

9. What Mad Universe

By: Fredric Brown

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

The editor of a sci-fi pulp magazine is accidentally transported to a parallel universe where space… read more

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10. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)

By: Jack Vance

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more

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Cover of Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield

11. Between the Strokes of Night

By: Charles Sheffield

3.72

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

By leaving their home planet after the final nuclear war, a group of young people live to see the s… read more

Similar categories in Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

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

12. The Black Cloud

By: Fred Hoyle

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred H… read more

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13. The Dark Side of the Earth

By: Alfred Bester

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EAR… read more

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14. Jem

By: Frederik Pohl

3.86

Format: 536 pages,

En un futuro muy lejano, la Tierra vive un equilibrio precario: la poblacion crece inversamente a l… read more

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15. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) by Edward Ashton

16. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

17. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

18. Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

3.86

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Rabbits (Rabbits, #1) by Terry Miles

19. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

By: Terry Miles

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more

Similar categories in Terry Miles's Rabbits (Rabbits, #1) book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."

-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"

-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

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20. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

7 must-read speculative fiction books like Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

Vernor Vinge

4.32

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8 best-selling novels books like The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

4.03

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The Big Time

Fritz Leiber

3.75

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Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

4.25

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