The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Books like The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
30 science fiction books to read after The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, the closest match first.
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 2
1. The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
- Same author
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel....
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 3
2. Life, the Universe and Everything
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
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Cricket paraphernalia is of utter and absurd importance in this humorous sci fi tale.
Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction "trilogy" by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the...
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 4
3. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
- Same author
Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1] So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by Douglas...
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 5
4. Mostly Harmless
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
- Same author
In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out a cross-galactic...
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 6
5. And Another Thing...
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
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And Another Thing... is the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide series, written by Eoin Colfer after the death of Douglas Adams. Arthur Dent and his friends are rescued just...
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book 1 Start here
6. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
- Same series
- Same author
In this comedic series, Marvin is a paranoid robot with a “brain the size of a planet.”
Perhaps the most popularly recognized Comic Sci Fi this series of books was based on Adams' radio show of the same name. .
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7. Lilith's Brood
by Butler, Octavia E.
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Science fiction isnât always meant to be comfortable or easy reading. Quite the opposite, any literature so based on ideas must challenge the reader, make them think differently (if only...
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Dirk Gently book 1 Start here
8. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
- Same author
A convoluted and twisted book involving murdering ghosts, time travel, and interconnectedness.
Dirk Gently, who was a minor character in one of Adamsâ other works, becomes a private eye in this novel. The character is not the type who checks DNA and...
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Ringworld book 1 Start here
9. 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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10. Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)
by Brown, Pierce
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Books in this sub-genre focus almost entirely on magic, but Red Rising stands in stark contrast to that. Part dystopia, part sci-fi fantasy, Red Risingfocuses on the story of a...
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The Commonwealth Saga book 1 Start here
11. Pandora's Star
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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Hummanity can live forever by uploading themselves into new bodies.
The Commonwealth Saga is a vast, sprawling space opera that is spread over several novels and short stories. In a precursor to the main series, Misspent Youth, a rejuvenation procedure...
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Takeshi Kovacs book 1 Start here
12. Altered Carbon
by Morgan, Richard K.
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Humans can transfer their conciousness into new bodies. This sets up a detective style story about a murder.
After dying in a particularly gruesome death, ex UN-envoy Takeshi Kovacs wakes up to find himself "re-sleeved" into a fresh body with a job offer: find who killed Laurens Bancroft...
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Firefall book 1 Start here
13. Blindsight
by Peter Watts
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A group of freaks (who are also astronauts) are sent on a one way mission to investigate a mysterious object that appears at the edge of human space. Atmospheric and creepy.
This novel has been hailed as one of the best hard sf stories written this century. It's an awesome novel, packed with invention and new ideas and challenges to the...
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Night's Dawn book 1 Start here
14. The Reality Dysfunction
by Iii, David R. George
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Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a...
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Revelation Space book 1 Start here
15. Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds
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A complex novel that postulates many different lifeforms who struggle against ancient, machine-like intelligences seeking to destroy all new organic life.
Throughout its history, one of the strongest and most interesting aspects of science fiction has been its use in satire. And this is just about the most stunning of contemporary...
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16. Tales Of The Dying Earth
by Vance, Jack
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A series, and the reason there is a Dying Earth sub-genre.
Tale of the Dying Earth truly stands as one of the greatest works ever penned. Everything that's good and bad about the human condition is eloquently expressed within this tale....
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Space Odyssey book 1 Start here
17. 2001 A Space Odyssey
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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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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Nanotech book 1 Start here
18. Queen City Jazz
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
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Of course, we like to imagine that we won’t change; but nothing is going to stop the environment around us changing, and that is inevitably going to have an effect...
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Dirk Gently book 2
19. The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul
by Douglas Adams
- Same author
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the...
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The Ender Quintet book 1 Start here
20. Ender's Game (1986)
by Card, Orson Scott
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The first in a famous series that seems to become more literary as its characters age. Follows a child prodigy and in the process makes the reader think about war, the means to war, and even loneliness.
Earth has survived two invasions by an insect-like alien race, and the International Fleet is training the most gifted children to lead the next defence. Six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is...
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Heechee Saga book 1 Start here
21. Gateway (1978)
by Pohl, Frederik
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Robinette Broadhead is rich, and he has a lot to feel guilty about. In sessions with his robot psychiatrist, he talks about how he got there: he won a lottery...
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22. Flowers For Algernon (1967)
by Keyes, Daniel
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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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23. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Verne, Jules
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The classic example.
When Hugo Gernsback wanted to define "scientifiction" in the very first issue of Amazing, he called it the "Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells type of story". It puts...
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24. Miles Vorkosigan Saga
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
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There's a time for everything. There's a time to read heavy novels filled with grand ideas and space, the universe, and the destiny of mankind through Hard Science Fiction. There's...
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25. We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
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In the early 1920s, the manuscript of Zamiatin's novel, We, was smuggled out of Soviet Russia to be published in the West. One of the people who reviewed that novel...
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Storyteller book 2
26. Cry Of The Wind
by Sue Harrison
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We all know what happens when aliens invade: there's a big fight and then the aliens are driven off, or humanity is reduced to servitude. Well, no. We've got enough...
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27. Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide To David Brin's Uplift Universe
by Brin, David
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When the black monolith appears in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey, or the demons in Childhood's End, that is Uplift. But what if humanity has reached into space...
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Spin book 1 Start here
28. Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
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The stars go out—replaced by an alien-made barrier that slows the passage of time on Earth and the danger the sun poses comes ever closer.
One night, when he is 12 years old, Tyler Dupree and two friends witness all the stars in the sky suddenly disappearing. It turns out that a membrane has been...
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Old Man's War book 1 Start here
29. Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
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Geriatrics are transferred into healthier bodies and enhanced soldier bodies.
John Scalzi is one of the shining lights of today’s science fiction landscape. His first novel, Old Man’s War, was an incredible introduction, bringing Scalzi to international attention, as well...
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Oxford Time Travel book 1 Start here
30. Doomsday Book (1993)
by Willis, Connie
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In 2054, Oxford historians send students back in time to study the past. Kivrin Engle, a young historian, is sent to the English countryside in 1320. But a technician falls...
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