Books like Behold The Man
30 science fiction books to read after Behold The Man, by Moorcock, Michael, the closest match first.
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1. Breakfast In The Ruins
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same series
- Same author
Breakfast in the Ruins is Michael Moorcock's novel of Karl Glogauer, a man who moves through times of violence in a story of history and cruelty.
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2. The Langoliers
by King, Stephen
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This novella was published in a collection of stories called 'Four Past Midnight'. Ten people awake on a red-eye flight, only to find that the other passengers and crew are...
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3. Thief Of Time
by Pratchett, Terry
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Time itself is threatened— and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld® series Everybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only...
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4. 1988: Replay
by Grimwood, Ken
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At the age of 43, Jeff Winston has a heart attack in his office... and wakes up to discover that he is 18 and a college student again. It's 1963,...
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5. Bid Time Return (1976)
by Matheson, Richard
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Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson won the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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6. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.
by E. E. Smith
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"Space opera" was a disparaging term coined by Wilson Tucker for the sort of brash interstellar adventure that has been the staple of science fiction magazines before the Second World...
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7. The Door Into Summer
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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1970. A.D. Daniel Boone Davis is an inventor of household robots, who's been cheated out of his patents and company by a conniving friend and girlfriend, who stop just short...
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8. The Accidental Time Machine
by Haldeman, Joe
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Imagine inventing a time machine by accident! Well, Matt does, and it's a doozie. Built-in safety: can only travel into the future. Built-in quirk: every subsequent jump will be longer...
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9. Lightning
by Dean Koontz
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The second best of Koontz's novels (the best was 'Strangers') uses time-travel as a device by Adolf Hitler to change the outcome of WW2. (It didn't end too well for...
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10. Thrice Upon A Time
by James P. Hogan
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Sending objects back in time—that is, from the 'now' to somewhere before the 'now'—is pretty much the same things as sending 'information' in general. Same goes for the future. The...
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11. A Sound Of Thunder
by Bradbury, Ray
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An example of time tourism, this novel is the source of the phrase, "butterfly effect" because a butterfly dies and the traveller's future is altered.
The future, not so far away. Neo-fascists are still battling it out with liberals. Time machines exist. Eckles, hunter extraordinaire, wants to go back in time on a safari to...
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12. The End Of Eternity
by Asimov, Isaac
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Guardians of time steer history along safe paths, ultimately stagnating humanity--an example of the common theme of time police.
'Eternity' is an organization that's kind of 'above time', is that makes any sense at all. I mean, how can you be? Still, they are, and they can go here...
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13. Millennium
by John Varley
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Another story about things gone bad in the future (the story's present). A gazillion nuclear wars, general pollutions and what-have-you, and the human gene-pool doesn't look too good by now. ...
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14. A Rebel In Time
by Harry Harrison
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Colonel McCulloch is a good old-fashioned white racist. Agent Troy Harmon, who is black, is supposed to find out what's going on when McCulloch becomes a murder suspect. McCulloch is...
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15. Hawksbill Station
by Silverberg, Robert
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Prison's overflowing, costing taxpayers too much money and occasioning bleeding-heart liberals to bemoan the terrible state of the penal system? Here's the solution: get rid of the blighters; without killing...
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16. The Proteus Operation
by James P. Hogan
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Unlike Hogan's 'Thrice Upon A Time' (#6), here we have people going back in time physically. The story is set in a universe in which the Axis countries (Germany, Italy,...
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17. The Chronoliths
by Robert Charles Wilson
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Scott and his buddy Hitch chance upon a huge monolith, made of an indestructible material, that suddenly appears in the Thai jungle. And it doesn't just appear quietly, but with...
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18. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane
by M. John Harrison
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With The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison provided the foundation text of the British Renaissance, or the New Space Opera, or both (depending on who you listen to). Then he...
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19. River Of Gods
by Ian Mcdonald
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The future is here, William Gibson once said, it's just not evenly distributed. That unevenness of distribution is especially apparent in what we still call the Third World, those countries...
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20. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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Trilogies have more or less become the default form of science fiction these days. But even so, producing all three volumes of a trilogy in a year is not exactly...
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21. The Cornelius Quartet
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
The new wave can, all too easily, be presented as humourless, worthy stuff, but it was often exuberant, funny and full of vivid ideas. The best exemplars of this are...
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22. A Cure For Cancer
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
Michael Moorcock's A Cure for Cancer continues Jerry Cornelius's wanderings through a world that is ending, in a comic and strange story of war and secret agents.
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23. The English Assassin
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
Michael Moorcock's The English Assassin follows Jerry Cornelius as he returns to England and finds his family, his enemies and the end of the world waiting.
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24. The Adventures Of Una Persson & Catherine Cornelius In The 20th Century
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
Michael Moorcock's The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century is a collage of stories about time travel, empire and the Cornelius family.
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25. The Entropy Tango
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
In The Entropy Tango, Jerry Cornelius's story continues in Michael Moorcock's stylish, comic tale of power games at the end of time.
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26. The Lives And Times Of Jerry Cornelius: Stories Of The Comic Apocalypse
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
A collection of the early Jerry Cornelius stories by Michael Moorcock, which made him a hero of 1960s British science fiction.
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27. Dancers at the End of Time
by Moorcock, Michael
- Same author
A lighthearted tale that is slightly absurd at times.
The protagonists go to absurd lengths to keep ennui at bay.
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28. Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky
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During the Cold War, little of the science fiction being written in the Soviet Union managed to reach the West. The one exception was the work of the brothers Arkady...
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29. Rogue Moon
by Algis Budrys
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A novel that makes the reader confront death.
A massive alien structure is discovered on the moon. In order to explore it, volunteers are scanned in a matter transmitter on Earth and their doppelgangers are projected onto the...
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30. Timescape (1981)
by Benford, Gregory
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A novel about ecological issues and scientific experiments that address current events at the time of writing.
In 1998 an ecological catastrophe is poisoning the oceans and the atmosphere. A group of scientists in Cambridge try to send a message back in time using tachyons, particles that...
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