Books like The Deep Range
30 science fiction books to read after The Deep Range, by Clarke, Arthur C., the closest match first.
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Big Planet book 1 Start here
1. Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
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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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2. World Of Null-a
by A. E. Van Vogt
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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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3. The Jupiter Legacy
by Harry Harrison
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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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4. Seahorse In The Sky
by Edmund Cooper
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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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5. Macroscope
by Anthony, Piers
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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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6. The Dragon Masters
by Vance, Jack
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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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7. Lord Valentine's Castle
by Silverberg, Robert
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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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8. Childhood S End
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
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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9. Babel-17 (1967)
by Delany, Samuel R.
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The literary side of this Sci Fi book is high in its experimentation with language and its exploration of language's role in meaning, action, identity, politics, and culture.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes won the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novel along with Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. This is the only time since the start of...
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10. Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven And Jerry Pournelle
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and Jerry Pournelle. Jerry Pournelle. The villainous asteroid has become a common trope of this sub-genre.
Its anticipated to zip close past Earth, so they send to a space-mission to visit it, and then end up realizing that the damn thing is going to hit us...
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11. 2001 A Space Odyssey
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
This novel is an epic story, a story in which two astronauts must fight for their lives, against an extraordinary computer named HAL.
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas...
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12. Rendezvous With Rama (1974)
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
Has several echoes of ancient myths, the myth of Prometheus in particular.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke won the 1974 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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13. 2010: Odyssey Two
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily...
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14. 2061: Odyssey Three
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
2061: Odyssey Three is Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2010, in which a spaceship visits Halley's Comet while another team lands on Europa.
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15. 3001: The Final Odyssey
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
3001: The Final Odyssey is Arthur C. Clarke's last Space Odyssey novel, in which Frank Poole is found alive a thousand years after his death.
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16. Rama Ii
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
From the back cover of Bantam paperback December 1990: THE RAMANS ARE BACK... Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called *Rama* sailed trough our solar system as mind-boggling proof...
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17. The Garden Of Rama
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- Same author
Book 3 of Clarke's Rama series is about an alien ghost ship that enters the solar system. This book picks up with the story of the crew who stayed aboard...
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19. To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Farmer, Philip Jose
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This series can also be considered Science Fiction. Humanity is resurrected (from across all of history) on the banks of a constructed world.
There are some problematic things about this series, but it's an interesting concept and the action scenes are some of the most fun to come out of the 70s. The...
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20. 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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21. The Disappearance
by Philip Wylie
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The apocalypse here is kind of personal. The world's just fine to start with, but... From one moment to the next all the women disappear from the world of men—and...
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22. 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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23. The New World
by Stackpole, Micheal A.
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A startling look at the role of government, including eugenics.
The three grandchildren of the royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a mapmaker whose magic can reshape reality, must save their world from destruction. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those...
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24. Stand On Zanzibar
by John Brunner
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In the 1960s, when overpopulation was a common worry for the future, it was often said that the entire population of the world could stand on the Isle of Wight....
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25. 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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26. Foundation
by Asimov, Isaac
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Some softer elements, like FTL and antigrav cars, but otherwise a rational series.
Book Flap Description One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive...
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Ringworld book 1 Start here
27. Ringworld (1971)
by Niven, Larry
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One of the most famous books of the genre, that follows the pros and cons of living on a spinning ring instead of a round planet. The fact that makes this book so famous is that after the author’s ideas were proven impracticable, he wrote a sequel explaining the inadequacies.
In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a...
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28. The Forever War (1976)
by Haldeman, Joe
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In this novel, time travel is a kind of side effect of space travel at near light speeds.
William Mandella is a physics student drafted into an elite force to fight an alien enemy on the far side of the galaxy. Travel between the front lines takes a...
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29. 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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30. 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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