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30 science fiction books to read after The Wanderer, by Leiber, Fritz, the closest match first.

  1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go

    1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go

    by Farmer, Philip Jose

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 1972

    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...

  2. Dying Inside

    2. Dying Inside

    by Silverberg, Robert

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    Despite his credentials championing hard, rational science fiction, John W. Campbell was a fervent believer in psi powers. Perhaps because of that, whenever telepathy appeared in science fiction, as in...

  3. Stand On Zanzibar

    3. Stand On Zanzibar

    by John Brunner

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 1969

    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....

  4. Inverted World

    4. Inverted World

    by Priest, Christopher

    • On the same lists

    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...

  5. The Atrocity Exhibition

    5. The Atrocity Exhibition

    by J. G. Ballard

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    Whenever you put a list of books together, you'll always get disagreements. But this could well be the most controversial choice of all, because J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has...

  6. Ringworld (1971)

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    6. 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...

  7. The Day Of The Triffids

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    7. 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...

  8. Lord Of Light

    8. Lord Of Light

    by Zelazny, Roger

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 1968

    Clones and transfer technology make the doctrine of reincarnation a literal truth.

    Zelazny may be famous in the fantasy world for his Amber series, but his best work may just be his stand alone novel, Lord of Light. It's a work that's...

  9. Flowers For Algernon (1967)

    9. 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...

  10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

    10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

    by Verne, Jules

    • On the same lists

    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...

  11. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

    11. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

    by James Tiptree Jr.

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    In the late 1960s stories suddenly started to appear from a writer no-one had heard of before, and no-one had met. But the stories were just too good, too quirky,...

  12. We Were Liars

    12. 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...

  13. Cry Of The Wind

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    13. Cry Of The Wind

    by Sue Harrison

    • On the same lists

    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...

  14. Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide To David Brin's Uplift Universe

    14. 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...

  15. The Mind Spider And Other Stories

    15. The Mind Spider And Other Stories

    by Leiber, Fritz

    • Same author

    A collection of Fritz Leiber stories in the Change War, a conflict fought through time by two sides that change the past.

  16. Changewar

    16. Changewar

    by Leiber, Fritz

    • Same author

    Fritz Leiber's Changewar collects stories about a war fought through time by two sides, the Spiders and the Snakes, who change history to win.

  17. Night’s Black Agents

    17. Night’s Black Agents

    by Leiber, Fritz

    • Same author

    This collection of short series includes one called “The Man Who Never Grew Young” and time runs backwards in this universe, but one man does not.

    This collection of short series includes one called “The Man Who Never Grew Young” and time runs backwards in this universe, but one man does not.

  18. The Silver Eggheads

    18. The Silver Eggheads

    by Leiber, Fritz

    • Same author

    A pulpy and humorous story that takes place in a world where robots are the authors of books. One such robot has a bit of a crush on another robot.

    A pulpy and humorous story that takes place in a world where robots are the authors of books. One such robot has a bit of a crush on another robot.

  19. Dhalgren

    19. Dhalgren

    by Delany, Samuel R.

    • On the same lists

    NOTE: THIS IS #26 on the TOP 100 LIST. The first 1-25 entries are found on THE TOP 25 BEST SCIENCE FICTION LIST. Dhalgren is one of the peculiarities of...

  20. Pavane

    20. Pavane

    by Keith Roberts

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    Pavane is a sequence of linked stories set in the 1960s in a world in which the Spanish Armada had succeeded, Catholicism had defeated Protestantism, and the Church ruled Britain...

  21. The Road

    21. The Road

    by Mccarthy, Cormac

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    A father and son walk a burned-out America toward the sea, in McCarthy's bleak and beautiful end-of-the-world novel.

    robably one of the most depressing books I’ve read in my life. Oh yes, it’s well written, brilliant maybe, and all that. However, this book stripped all hope away and...

  22. I Am Legend

    22. I Am Legend

    by Matheson, Richard

    • On the same lists

    One of the first to make vampirism or zombies have a scientific origin with plenty of medical inquiry and rational causation provided.

    This is the story that influenced the zombie genre and popularized the concept of a worldwide zombie apocalypse. Robert Neville is the last human on the earth. He is immune...

  23. A Clockwork Orange

    23. A Clockwork Orange

    by Burgess, Anthony

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    Another famous Sci Fi novel made into a popular movie. A take on a future Britain in which behaviour modification is taken to an extreme in the quest for social order. Unique because the dystopia is still forming and is seen through the eyes of an adolescent protagonist.

    Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central...

  24. Contact

    24. Contact

    by Sagan, Carl

    • On the same lists

    Scientists discover a message from an intelligent source and must travel deep into space to meet it.

    In the year 1999 a multinational team of astronauts sets out to discover the secrets of the universe.

  25. Modern Classics The Death Of Grass

    25. Modern Classics The Death Of Grass

    by John Christopher

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    Also known as No Blade of Grass, this was one of John Christopher's classic cosy catastrophes, although there is very little that is cosy in this post-apocalyptic tale.In Asia, a...

  26. The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    26. The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    by Chabon, Michael

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2008 Nebula winner 2007

    What if the State of Israel was destroyed? They would live in Alaska.

    In this book, Chabon created a world where Israel had never been founded after World War II. Instead the state of displaced Jews is located in Sitka, Alaska. Chabon used...

  27. 1984

    27. 1984

    by George Orwell

    • On the same lists

    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...

  28. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.

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    28. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.

    by E. E. Smith

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    "Space opera" was a disparaging term coined by Wilson Tucker for the sort of brash interstellar adventure that has been the staple of science fiction magazines before the Second World...

  29. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane

    29. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane

    by M. John Harrison

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    With The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison provided the foundation text of the British Renaissance, or the New Space Opera, or both (depending on who you listen to). Then he...

  30. River Of Gods

    30. River Of Gods

    by Ian Mcdonald

    • On the same lists

    The future is here, William Gibson once said, it's just not evenly distributed. That unevenness of distribution is especially apparent in what we still call the Third World, those countries...

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