Books like Mission Of Gravity
30 science fiction books to read after Mission Of Gravity, by Hal Clement, the closest match first.
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1. Close To Critical
by Hal Clement
- Same series
- Same author
From back cover Ballantine paperback July 1975: CRISIS ON TENEBRA Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet... a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree...
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2. Star Light
by Hal Clement
- Same series
- Same author
Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out...
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3. Witch World
by Lackey, Andre Norton And Mercedes
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Simon Tregarth is a man on the run from various shadowy ruffians, people he associated with because he was wrongly convicted of working the black market while in the military....
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4. The Robot Stories
by Asimov, Isaac
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A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings,...
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5. The Cold Equations
by Tom Godwin
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These were the great years of the sf short story; magazines like Astounding, F&SF, Galaxy and If were in their pomp and most of the brilliant novels of the period...
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6. Who?
by Algis Budrys
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At the height of Cold War paranoia, Algis Budrys wrote a novel that perfectly captured the doubts and distrusts of the time. There is an explosion at an allied research...
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7. A Case Of Conscience
by James Blish
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A Jesuit investigates an alien race. The aliens have no religion, but have an innate sense of morality.
From Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, there was something of a trend in the 1950s for bringing Catholicism into a science fiction...
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8. The Sirens Of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
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This is the novel in which we first encounter some of the themes and ideas that would later emerge in Slaughterhouse-Five. There are Tralfamadorians, there's the familiar resignation in the...
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9. The Body Snatchers
by Jack Finney
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Aliens replace the people of a California town with emotionless copies, the paranoid novel behind Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
If you had to name one science fiction movie that encapsulated America's national paranoia in the mid-50s it would have to be Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and this is...
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10. The Space Merchants
by Pohl, Frederik
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In his pioneering study of science fiction, New Maps of Hell, Kingsley Amis argued that The Space Merchants was possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. In the fifty-odd...
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11. The Rediscovery Of Man
by Cordwainer Smith
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Practically all of Cordwainer Smithâs fiction belongs within a future history that starts just a few years from now and extends for tens of thousands of years into the future....
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12. Childhood S End
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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An alien race invades Earth, but they are benevolent and a golden age begins on Earth.
You're going to hate me for this. Really. See, Clarke is one of the three giants of science fiction, old-school science fiction. He was writing this novel in 1953 at...
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13. The Best Of
by Moore, C. L.
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We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...
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14. A Canticle For Leibowitz
by Jr., Walter M. Miller
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After a nuclear war monks preserve civilization.
A Canticle for Leibowitz follows the rejuvenation of "civilization" after a devastating nuclear holocaust. It has three distinctive chapters, each one disconnected by centuries, focusing on life at a desert...
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15. The Day Of The Triffids
by John Wyndham
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The world changes when a meteor shower leaves most of the world's population blind. The event is augmented by the flesh-eating and mobile plants.
In Billion Year Spree, his epic history of science fiction, Brian Aldiss coined the term "cosy catastrophe" for the sorts of novels that John Wyndham wrote. Well, they are certainly...
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16. Hal Clement's Needle
by Hal Clement
- Same author
The Hunter is a small gel-type creature that lives inside of its host. Two such creatures have crashed their ship on Earth. They escaped separately and now the Hunter, who...
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17. Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray
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A classic "What if?" story about book banning, happiness, and knowledge.
Everyone loves the idea of the thinking man's fireman (particularly middle aged women who read Fifty Shades of Grey), but that's not why Fahrenheit 451 made it to second on...
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18. 1984
by George Orwell
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A classic novel that is definitively a dystopia.
The words have become so commonplace we hardly realise we are using them: Big Brother is watching you, the Ministry of Truth, Room 101, Newspeak, thoughtcrime. George Orwell gave us...
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19. More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon
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There was a period when science fiction tended to refer to the next stage in human evolution as homo superior, and one of the ways of achieving this state was...
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20. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
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A mechanic is the sole survivor on a ship that is just a wreck.
He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead. Gully Foyle is a shipwrecked sailor abandoned out in space, and when ships pass him by without stopping...
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26. A Princess Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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In the latter years of the 19th century, astronomers detected lines on the surface of Mars, and before long these were being identified as irrigation canals, suggesting notm only that...
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27. Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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The whole series over time shows the colonization and taming of the wild planet Dune over thousands of years.
A blend of sci-fi and fantasy, Frank Herbert's Dune created a foundation for many of the themes in modern genre fiction. Its exploration of ecology, pacifism, and mysticism pairs with...
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28. To The Moon
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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An award winning novel about a colony that rebels against the Lunar Authority that controls it.
Science fiction-roman.
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29. The Man In The High Castle
by Dick, Philip K.
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A novel where Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan win WWII.
Philip K. Dick was one of the most idiosyncratic and successful writers in science fiction. Okay, he's probably better known these days for all the films that have been based...
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30. R.u.r.
by Karel Capek
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Czech is hardly a widely spoken language, and in the years immediately after the First World War Czechoslovakia had barely gained its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire which had largely...
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