20 best-selling science fiction books like Rama II (Rama #2) by Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee

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Rama II (Rama #2)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.70

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Rama est revenu ! Rama, ou plutôt son double, son clone, son jumeau : Rama II. Soixante-dix ans plu…

"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

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1. Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A … read more

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  • space opera
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  • audiobook
"The Galaxy seems to be crowded with things I don't understand."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)

"Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)

"There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)

"Are you truly a robot?" "Truly, sir," said Daneel. Pelorat's face seemed to shine with joy. He said, "There are references to a robot named Daneel in the old legends. Are you named in his honor?" "I …"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)

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2. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.19

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • fiction
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  • audiobook
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

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3. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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  • audiobook
"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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4. Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.22

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on… read more

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  • space opera
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  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I am a creature of dreams as well as of reason."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]"

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

"It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end."

-Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)

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5. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, #2)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.69

Format: None pages,

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • science fiction
  • aliens
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6. The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld #2)

By: Larry Niven

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-A… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • aliens
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  • audiobook
Cover of Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks

8. Excession (Culture, #5)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.20

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical ta… read more

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"[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past."

-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)

"the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces."

-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)

"But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be."

-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)

"Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness."

-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)

9. Second Foundation (Foundation #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The … read more

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  • space opera
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10. Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . A stunning t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Prelude to Foundation

By: Isaac Asimov

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for ISBN:  It is 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Impe… read more

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  • space opera
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  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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14. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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15. The Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga, #4)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.69

Format: 32 pages,

Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored… read more

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16. Heechee Rendezvous (Heechee Saga, #3)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Once the galaxy was ruled by Heechee, benevolent aliens with almost godlike powers. 500,000 years a… read more

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17. The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonizatio… read more

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18. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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19. Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless s… read more

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20. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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21. Rama II (Rama #2)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.70

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Rama est revenu ! Rama, ou plutôt son double, son clone, son jumeau : Rama II. Soixante-dix ans plu… read more

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  • novels
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

22. Bright Messengers (Rama, #1.5)

By: Gentry Lee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

As civilization on earth faces destruction, two vastly different people share a vision both hopeful… read more

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23. Forever Free (The Forever War, #3)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

You can't lose for winning--especially, it would seem, if you're Joe Haldeman. Suffering the same f… read more

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24. 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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"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

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25. 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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  • space opera
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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)

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26. 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

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27. 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
  • novels
"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

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28. Against the Machine: Evolution

By: Brian Van Norman

4.33

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Earth, 2212: The novel, third in the Against The Machine trilogy, yet free standing on its own, tel… read more

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  • science fiction
"Manager Mangione,"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"What’s your business, Sir?"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"Rule # 1: keep the crowd’s interest."

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"Why is your species so dissatisfied?"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

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29. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
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30. Colony War (The Elderon Chronicles, #2)

By: Tarah Benner

4.03

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Colony One comes an action-packed sequel to the near-future conspiracy. An army … read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

31. 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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