Books like Rogue Moon
30 science fiction books to read after Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys, the closest match first.
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1. Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf
by Algis Budrys
- Same author
There wasn't much in the way of serious criticism of science fiction until a trio of authors started writing reviews for the magazines. The three were James Blish (see The...
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2. The Gods Themselves (1973)
by Asimov, Isaac
- On the same lists
In the 2070s, a scientist realises that a sample of tungsten has turned into plutonium that cannot exist in our universe. His discovery leads to the Electron Pump, which gives...
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3. Ice
by Shane Johnson
- On the same lists
Like Stephen Baxter, Johnson imagines that the Apollo programme continued. In this case, Apollo 19 arrives at a point on the Moon where ice has been detected, but when it...
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4. Who?
by Algis Budrys
- Same author
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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5. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.
by E. E. Smith
- On the same lists
"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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6. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane
by M. John Harrison
- On the same lists
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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7. River Of Gods
by Ian Mcdonald
- On the same lists
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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8. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- On the same lists
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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9. The First Men In The Moon
by Wells, H. G.
- On the same lists
First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...
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10. Luna: New Moon
by Ian Mcdonald
- On the same lists
Ian McDonald's diptych, Luna: New Moon and its forthcoming sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, is the first full-blooded description of a lunar colony that science fiction has seen for decades. It's...
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11. A Fall Of Moondust
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- On the same lists
This is one of those short, intense novels that encapsulates all the dangers of life on the space frontier in one gripping episode. In this case, a cruise ship on...
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12. From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon
by Verne, Jules
- On the same lists
Talking of scientific knowledge, one of the fascinating things about this early account of a journey to the Moon is that Verne dispatches his space voyagers from a base not...
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13. Steel Beach
by John Varley
- On the same lists
Alien invaders have obliterated human life on Earth, and the survivors have scattered through the rest of the Solar System. The most heavily populated colony is Luna, the Steel Beach...
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14. The Ceres Solution
by Bob Shaw
- On the same lists
There has been a theory put about that the Moon's gravitational influence played a part in the development of intelligence on Earth; here, Bob Shaw turns that idea on its...
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15. Moon Is Hell, The & Green World, The
by John W. Campbell Jr.
- On the same lists
Before he became the most influential editor in the history of science fiction, Campbell was an author of remarkable, scientifically savvy stories that clearly presaged the golden age he helped...
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16. The Moon Maid
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- On the same lists
Omnibus fixup of: 1. "Moon Maid" (1923) 2. "The Moon Men" (1925) 3. "The Red Hawk" (1925) Originally all serialized in *Argosy All-Story Weekly*
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17. Moonfall
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- On the same lists
One of the things we see time and again on this list is that the Moon is very often presented as a threat, whether it's the threat of invasion in...
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18. Trouble With Tycho
by Clifford D. Simak
- On the same lists
Like Rogue Moon, which came out at around the same time, and presaging Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey in odd ways, this is a novel about the Moon...
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19. Griffin's Egg
by Swanwick, Michael
- On the same lists
If many of the stories we've included on this list treat the Moon as a threat, there are equally those, like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Steel Beach,...
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20. L'autre Monde
by Cyrano De Bergerac
- On the same lists
We said earlier that Godwin's The Man in the Moone was one of the most influential works in the history of science fiction, and this is one of the earliest...
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21. Lunar Justice
by Charles L. Harness
- On the same lists
If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...
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22. Double Planet/reunion
by John Gribbin
- On the same lists
John Gribbin and Marcus Chown are two highly respected science writers who occasionally turn their talents, and their expertise, to science fiction. So you know that what you are going...
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23. The Moonbase Saga
by Ben Bova
- On the same lists
For the last 30 years, Ben Bova has been composing an intricately interconnected sequence of novels that explore the human colonisation of the entire solar system. Inevitably, the Moon plays...
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24. Farside Cannon
by Roger Macbride Allen
- On the same lists
This is yet another novel with the Moon as threat, and another which plays with the idea of the dark side of the Moon. In this instance a superweapon is...
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25. Behold The Man
by Moorcock, Michael
- On the same lists
A story that is inspired by the Gospel of John and is about a man who travels back in time with the intent of meeting Jesus.
The grandfather paradox – which states that if you go back in time and accidentally kill your grandfather you will never be born, so you cannot travel back in time...
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26. 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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27. Schismatrix Plus
by Bruce Sterling
- On the same lists
This series is a pioneering example of this sub-genre.
Almost as important as Greg Egan’s work in describing posthumanity is Bruce Sterling’s sequence of Mechanist and Shaper stories in which posthumanity is divided between those who use mechanical means...
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28. The Man In The Moone
by Francis Godwin
- On the same lists
Godwin was Bishop of Hereford, and this extraordinary story was discovered among his papers after his death. Read today it is hard to realise what an amazing work it was,...
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29. Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
- On the same lists
Despite his credentials championing hard, rational science fiction, John W. Campbell was a fervent believer in psi powers. Perhaps because of that, whenever telepathy appeared in science fiction, as in...
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30. Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
- On the same lists
Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...
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