Books like Space Machine, The
29 science fiction books to read after Space Machine, The, by Priest, Christopher, the closest match first.
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1. White Mars
by Brian Aldiss
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It was a time of colour-coded Mars Red, Green, Blue Mars, for instance so it is hardly surprising to find one that offers yet another twist on the spectrum. But...
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2. Martian Time-slip
by Dick, Philip K.
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Just as Ray Bradbury's Mars ignores both contemporary scientific knowledge about Mars and the colourful landscape of the planetary romance in order to create a Mars that is peculiarly his...
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3. Moving Mars (1995)
by Bear, Greg
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Casseia Majumdar grows up in a powerful family on a Mars that is settled, self-governing and increasingly at odds with Earth. As a young politician she is drawn into the...
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4. Redemption Ark
by Alastair Reynolds
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The great wall is a massive construction, large enough to enclose an entire city, and the atmosphere above it. The wall encloses the base of the Conjoiners, a group that...
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5. Sand Of Mars
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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Back to a Mars that draws on contemporary scientific knowledge of the red planet. In this version, Mars is little more than a research establishment, as a very small colony...
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6. Desolation Road
by Ian Mcdonald
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This is the closest modern science fiction has come to the haunting, magical sense of Mars as it appeared in The Martian Chronicles, and McDonald has mixed it with elements...
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7. Red Dust: A Path Through China
by Ma Jian
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The revival of interest by NASA in sending missions to Mars in the early 1990s kickstarted a revival of interest in the planet as a setting for science fiction, with...
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8. Rose For Ecclesiastes
by Zelazny, Roger
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This novelette is one of the best works of fiction that Roger Zelazny wrote. It concerns a poet who visits Mars to learn the language of the Martians. The Martians...
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9. Voyage To The Red Planet
by Terry Bisson
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There aren't that many funny novels about Mars, but this is one of them. A satire on contemporary America and particularly on Hollywood, a spoof of many old fashioned sf...
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10. Aelita
by Alexei Tolstoy
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Written in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, this is one of the classics of Soviet science fiction. A pair of human adventurers arrive on Mars and discover an...
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11. Out Of The Silent Planet
by Lewis, C. S.
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Dr Ransom is kidnapped by Weston and Devine and spirited away to the planet Malacandra, where they plan to sacrifice him to the alien sorns. When they arrive on Malacandra,...
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12. The Sword Of Rhiannon
by Leigh Brackett
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An unlikely hero is plunged into Mars' past.
Leigh Brackett was the queen of the planetary romance, indeed her vivid and highly coloured work practically defined the form. She set many of her stories on the same Mars,...
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13. Rainbow Mars
by Niven, Larry
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Already in this list we have met H.G. Wellss Martian invaders with their huge heads and tentacles, Ray Bradburys Martians who can appear just like the family you left at...
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14. No Man Friday
by Rex Gordon
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A lone astronaut stranded on Mars isnt original with The Martian (see above), nearly 60 years earlier the plot was played out in this extraordinary novel.A secret British rocket is...
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15. The Martian Race
by Benford, Gregory
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When the rocket about to launch the first manned mission to Mars blows up at take off, NASA abandons the project. Instead, a $30 billion prize is offered for the...
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16. Mars
by Ben Bova
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This was the first in what became Ben Bovas huge and on-going Grand Tour sequence of novels detailing human exploration of the Solar System. In this novel six men and...
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17. By Hannu Rajaniemi:the Quantum Thief [hardcover]
by Hannu Rajaniemi
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If you want a Martian society now that is as flamboyant and as varied as the old planetary romances, then your best bet is the digital extravagance of a post-human...
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18. The Separation
by Priest, Christopher
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As if alternate histories weren't confusing enough, The Separation wants to further test its readers' intelligence by giving the readers a story about twin brothers during World War 2 who...
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19. The Islanders
by Priest, Christopher
- Same author
In the late-70s, Christopher Priest wrote a series of stories about the Dream Archipelago, a string of islands that represent neutral territory for the warring nations of the northern continent....
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20. The Affirmation
by Priest, Christopher
- Same author
In contemporary Britain, a young man called Peter Sinclair loses his job and his girlfriend, and retreats to a remote cottage where he sets out to write his life story....
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21. Inverted World
by Priest, Christopher
- Same author
He had reached the age of 650 miles. With its very first words, Inverted World tells us we are in a very different world. In fact, this is one of...
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22. The Space Machine
by Priest, Christopher
- Same author
Two people are dropped onto the Martian surface in a time before Wells' War of the Worlds. Of note, this is one of the first influencers of Steampunk.
Two people are dropped onto the Martian surface in a time before Wells' War of the Worlds. Of note, this is one of the first influencers of Steampunk.
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23. The Martian Chronicles
by Bradbury, Ray
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A chronology of the human colonization of Mars, after fleeing an atomically devastated Earth, including the conflicts between humans and the native Martians.
Ray Bradbury's science fiction is unlike anything else being written at the time, and that is particularly true of The Martian Chronicles. A collection of linked stories that tell of...
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24. A Martian Odyssey
by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
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A Martian Odyssey was Weinbaums first science fiction story; but within eighteen months he was dead, having written barely enough to make a collection. But with that first story he...
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25. The War Of The Worlds
by Wells, H. G.
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An example of the first contact between humanity and an alien race on the violent end of spectrum and crossing genres with Alien Invasion.
This is the only book on this list that doesn't actually set foot on Mars, so in a sense it's not a Martian novel at all. But it was the...
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26. Stranger In A Strange Land
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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A Martian visits Earth and teaches humanity a few things--some believe it to be a guide to social change.
An expedition to Mars is lost. Twenty five years later, a second expedition finds there is one survivor of the first expedition, Valentine Michael Smith, who was raised by Martians....
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27. The Martian
by Weir, Andy
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The...
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28. Red Mars (1994)
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
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A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.
In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival...
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29. 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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