Books like Stranger In A Strange Land
30 science fiction books to read after Stranger In A Strange Land, by Heinlein, Robert A., the closest match first.
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1. To The Moon
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
An award winning novel about a colony that rebels against the Lunar Authority that controls it.
Science fiction-roman.
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2. Starship Troopers
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
The world government in this future Earth is run by veterans and citizens must earn the right to vote and hold public office with federal service.
Book Flap Description A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. ...
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3. Farnham's Freehold
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
This novel was first published in 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation—a real apocalypse!—still fresh on people's minds. In this...
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4. The Door Into Summer
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
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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5. Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray
- On the same lists
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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6. Rocket Ship Galileo
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.
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7. Space Cadet
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular...
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8. Red Planet
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists...
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9. Farmer In The Sky
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- Same author
A father and son leave an overpopulated Earth and become colonists on the third moon of Jupiter, Ganymede.
Farmer In The Sky is a 1950 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in...
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10. White Mars
by Brian Aldiss
- On the same lists
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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11. Martian Time-slip
by Dick, Philip K.
- On the same lists
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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12. Moving Mars (1995)
by Bear, Greg
- On the same lists
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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13. Redemption Ark
by Alastair Reynolds
- On the same lists
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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14. The Dosadi Experiment
by Herbert, Frank
- On the same lists
This novel is a fan-lovers secret. It didn't win anything. But, it should have. Usually readers find a copy by accident recognizing Herbert from his Dune series. Nothing prepares you...
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15. Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
- On the same lists
A craft crash lands on the Big Planet and the survivors face a 40,000 mile trek across a dangerous landscape.
Big Planet is BIG. Really big, but with a surface gravity about equal to that of Earth. It was colonized by a whole bunch of colorful characters, ranging from rebels,...
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16. World Of Null-a
by A. E. Van Vogt
- On the same lists
Protagonist lives in one body and then dies, and awakens in another.
Aristotelian logic for dummies 101: "X results of necessity from Y and Z if it would be impossible for X to be false when Y and Z are true." Clear...
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17. The Deep Range
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- On the same lists
Most of the population is now fed from the sea--whale and plankton farms. Plausible adventures about the mysteries of the sea.
While we associate Clarke with stories about, or set in, space, this one's set underwater in the 21st century. Oceans are fenced off like fields and whales are cattle. Wardens...
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18. The Jupiter Legacy
by Harry Harrison
- On the same lists
A.K.A. The Plague From Space or The Jupiter Plague. The explorer ship Pericles returns from Jupiter. The single surviving crewman is infected with a deadly plague that has the potential...
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19. Seahorse In The Sky
by Edmund Cooper
- On the same lists
Like his later novel, Transit, this here is a story of—what looks like—an abduction of a bunch of humans by aliens (in this instance from the interior of a transatlantic...
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20. Macroscope
by Anthony, Piers
- On the same lists
Probably the most significant of Piers Anthony's SF (he did mostly fantasy). The Macroscope floats in orbit; it's like a super Hubble Space Telescope, only that it doesn't use light,...
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21. The Dragon Masters
by Vance, Jack
- On the same lists
On the rocky planet Aerlith, humans have managed to gain a spotty foothold. They live in the valleys with fertile soil and fight occasional battles for territory and general dominance....
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22. Lord Valentine's Castle
by Silverberg, Robert
- On the same lists
First novel in the 'Majipoor' series, comprising a total of 11 novels and novellas. Majipoor is, one might argue, direct offspring of Vance's Big Planet (#3 in this list); a...
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23. Sand Of Mars
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- On the same lists
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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24. Desolation Road
by Ian Mcdonald
- On the same lists
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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25. Space Machine, The
by Priest, Christopher
- On the same lists
One of the signs of how influential H.G. Wells was in the history of science fiction can be seen in the number of later writers who have produced sequels to...
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26. Red Dust: A Path Through China
by Ma Jian
- On the same lists
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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27. Rose For Ecclesiastes
by Zelazny, Roger
- On the same lists
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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28. Voyage To The Red Planet
by Terry Bisson
- On the same lists
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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29. Aelita
by Alexei Tolstoy
- On the same lists
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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30. Out Of The Silent Planet
by Lewis, C. S.
- On the same lists
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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