Books like The Anubis Gates
30 science fiction books to read after The Anubis Gates, by Powers, Tim, the closest match first.
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1. Footprints Of Thunder
by James F. David
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This book was made into a movie, and a pretty good one at that, though by necessity not as complex and in-depth as the book. Crichton does have a habit...
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2. Mindplayers
by Pat Cadigan
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Allie Haas likes to get high. Her dealer likes to get her high. One day he convinces her to try a new, stolen madcap' - very illegal. The experience nearly...
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3. 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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4. Transit
by Edmund Cooper
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First published published in 1964, this novel it hasn't lost anything of its appeal 40+ years later, mainly because its themes are timeless. Two men and two women are abducted...
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5. Vurt
by Jeff Noon
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A first time novelist, Noon has received high praise for this hip novel. A sister is lost in a coloured virtual reality that's existence is questionable and from which there is no escape. The story unfolds as her brother searches for her.
Feathers come in many colours, and each colour a different thing. There's. Black - painful, gentle; and Pink - for porno, your every eroticism fulfilled. Blues are legal, for dreaming...
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6. The Magicians
by Grossman, Lev
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A prequel novel about a high school senior who is admitted to a school for gifted children, for a magical education in upstate New York. A typical quest story that turns dark. Things are not black and white in this world and the characters are psychologically rich.
School fantasy is often aimed at children, and it's very successful at hitting that market. It's much harder to appeal exclusively to adults, and that's where The Magicians shines. Rather...
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7. 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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8. Boneshaker
by Priest, Cherie
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Steampunk in an alternate American Civil War, also a gold rush, and some zombies. A literary novel that blends the fantasy, science fiction, horror, and alternate history genres.
This one is for the discerning steampunk reader who loves a well-thought-out tale, great writing, and an interesting premise. Set in an alternative American Civil War, a son’s quest to...
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Count Zero
by Gibson, William
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Bobby Newmark, the self-styled 'Count Zero' is just getting started as a hacker, and is still an amateur. There comes a day when he is asked to test some new...
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12. The Men In The Jungle
by Norman Spinrad
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On the planet Sangre (Spanish for 'blood') there exists a divided society so brutal that it makes your average Earth-bound slavery society look like a humanitarian enterprise. The sub-class is...
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13. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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When people hear 'Ayn Rand', they tend to think of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Anthem is a David to her other Goliaths. It may originally have been conceived as...
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14. Mission To Universe
by Gordon R. Dickson
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This is a classic 'first interstellar journey' story by the amazing Gordon Dickson. Impatient with the bureaucracy who is delaying the launch of the new-technology 'phase ship', (very cool technology!)...
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15. Rewind
by Terry England
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What would it be like if your mind, memories, feelings, identify suddenly ended up in the body of a prepubescent child (no sex change involved)? Well, for 17 people that's...
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16. Islands In The Net
by Bruce Sterling
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Imagine the world as an alternate 1985, where Whitney Houston's ubiquitous voice, those eyeball-raping neon colors, leg warmers, Kirk Cameron's ubiquitous face didn't exist. Actually, anything would have been better...
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17. Hardwired
by Walter Jon Williams
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Cowboy used to be a Delta pilot, up till the Soviet Orbital took out his business. Now he is a smuggler ridin' around in a tricked out hovertank that he...
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18. Crashcourse
by Wilhelmina Baird
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Nobody wants to live on Earth. The place is a hole, and a lethal one at that. Cass, Moll, and Dosh are working on getting off-world and never coming back....
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19. The Fortunate Fall
by Raphael Carter
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The narrator of this novel is a whale in a technological future society. There is no privacy, not even your own thoughts, and homosexuality is a crime.
Maya Andreyeva is a camera in a world that has become ever more wired, and everywhere is a third world country - except for Africa, where you need to have...
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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