The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant…
Want to Read $ 6.99"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
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1. The Philosopher's Stone
By: Colin Wilson
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Wilson probably has earned a reputation more as a scholar & biographer than as a novelist; but this… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
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- fantasy
"I never write purely for the fun of it. I write as a mathematician uses a sheet of paper for doing calculations: because I think better that way"-Colin Wilson, The Philosopher's Stone
2. Cemetery World
By: Clifford D. Simak
3.65
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was rec… read more
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- speculative fiction
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3. Marianne Dreams (The Magic Drawing Pencil, #1)
By: Catherine Storr
4.15
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house,… read more
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4. 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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5. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
6. 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
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- science fiction
- classics
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- horror
7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
By: Philip José Farmer
4.54
Format: None pages,
To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more
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8. The Night of the Triffids
By: Simon Clark
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the end of The Day of the Triffids,the hero, Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave t… read more
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9. The City and the Stars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.08
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more
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- novels
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"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
10. 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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"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
11. 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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12. Captive Universe
By: Harry Harrison
4.12
Format: 652 pages, paper
"For the first fifty pages you'll swear that Harrison has been rummaging in an old trunk. Here's th… read more
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13. The Long Tomorrow
By: Leigh Brackett
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered in… read more
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14. Los hijos de nuestros hijos
By: Clifford D. Simak
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un dia de verano como otro cualquiera, se abre una puerta en el vacio y empiezan a salir cientos, m… read more
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15. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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16. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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- british literature
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- novels
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
17. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
By: Barry Kirwan
4.23
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more
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- fiction
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"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
18. The Polymorph
By: Max Nowaz
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
19. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
20. Decluna
By: Federica Leonardi
3.80
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Italia, anni Novanta. Alba ha trent’anni e si barcamena tra lavori poco impegnativi e relazioni che… read more
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- horror
21. Viimase sõja viimane sõdur
By: Veiko Belials
3.77
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Veiko Belials jätkab antoloogiaga „Viimase sõja viimane sõdur“ vene ulme tutvustamist, seekord teem… read more
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