11 must-read science fiction fantasy books like The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham

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The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir…

"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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

1. 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 John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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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2. The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

By: Philip José Farmer

3.87

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"By the shattered hymen of Thor's bride!"

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Out of nothing I come, through a world populated by asses I pass, and into nothing I go."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

"Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate."

-Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)

Cover of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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4. Inherit the Stars

By: James P. Hogan

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

THE MAN ON THE MOON WAS DEAD. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beyond the God Wall Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, cond… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin."

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy."

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition"

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

"Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher. — Dosadi aphorism"

-Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)

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6. Job: A Comedy of Justice

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.78

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Robert Heinlein at his superlative best. A fascinating and thought-prov… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe"

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

"Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

"But plenty of money (how well I knew it!) made hard things easy and impossible things merely difficult."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice

7. The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants, #1)

By: Frederik Pohl , C.M. Kornbluth

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found . It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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8. The Death of Grass

By: John Christopher

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvat… read more

Similar categories in John Christopher's The Death of Grass book and John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes

  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
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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
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Rule 34 (Halting State, #2) by Charles Stross

10. Rule 34 (Halting State, #2)

By: Charles Stross

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • 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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  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

12. The Man Who Fell to Earth

By: Walter Tevis

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more

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13. 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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14. Man Plus (Man Plus #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biologica… read more

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15. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

Similar categories in John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes book and John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes

  • apocalyptic
  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

16. Earth

By: David Brin

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As… read more

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Cover of Taming Flame by Therisa Peimer

17. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

Cover of The Last Sunset by March Lions

18. The Last Sunset

By: March Lions

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more

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"Trust is a strange bedfellow."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"He sounds like a politician running for office."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

Cover of Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel by Todor Bombov

19. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

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  • science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

Cover of Child of Another Kind by Steven Decker

20. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

Similar categories in Steven Decker's Child of Another Kind book and John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

21. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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3.95

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Lisa Kaniut Cobb

4.37

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Michael G. Kramer

4.36

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