Books like To Your Scattered Bodies Go
30 science fiction books to read after To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Farmer, Philip Jose, the closest match first.
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2. Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
- On the same lists
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...
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3. Dayworld
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
Philip Jose Farmer's career was revitalised by his engagement with the new wave. The taboo-defying fiction that he had already written in works like The Lovers (1952) suddenly became relevant,...
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4. Stand On Zanzibar
by John Brunner
- On the same lists
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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5. 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...
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6. A Private Cosmos
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The third book in the World of Tiers series, this book is an action packed adventure story where our hero must fend off an invasion by artificial lifeforms who transfer and store memories.
The third book in the World of Tiers series, this book is an action packed adventure story where our hero must fend off an invasion by artificial lifeforms who transfer...
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7. The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
- On the same lists
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...
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8. 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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9. The Day Of The Triffids
by John Wyndham
- On the same lists
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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10. Lord Of Light
by Zelazny, Roger
- On the same lists
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...
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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,...
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14. 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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15. 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...
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16. 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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17. Dayworld Rebel
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The second novel in Philip José Farmer's Dayworld trilogy, set in a future where each person lives only one day a week and a rebel tries to break the system.
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18. Dayworld Breakup
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The third novel in Philip José Farmer's Dayworld trilogy, about a society in which people live one day a week and a rebel hero who fights it.
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19. The Dark Design
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The Dark Design is the third Riverworld novel by Philip José Farmer, in which the resurrected dead along the great river discover what or who brought them back.
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20. The Magic Labyrinth
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The Magic Labyrinth is the fourth Riverworld novel by Philip José Farmer, in which the dead reach the source of the river to learn the truth.
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21. The Gods Of Riverworld
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Same author
The Gods of Riverworld is the fifth Riverworld novel by Philip José Farmer, in which the people of the river meet the beings that made it.
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22. 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...
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23. Pavane
by Keith Roberts
- On the same lists
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...
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24. 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...
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25. I Am Legend
by Matheson, Richard
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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...
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26. 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...
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27. Contact
by Sagan, Carl
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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.
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28. 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...
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29. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Chabon, Michael
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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...
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30. 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...
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