Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
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30 science fiction books to read after Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, by Verne, Jules, the closest match first.
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1. The Mysterious Island
by Verne, Jules
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Five Union prisoners escaping in a balloon from the siege of Richmond set down on the shores of an uncharted island.
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2. Five Weeks In A Balloon
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's first novel: a British doctor and his companions cross Africa by balloon, in an adventure that began the Voyages Extraordinaires.
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3. The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras follows an English captain set on reaching the North Pole, through ice, mutiny and the wonders of the Arctic.
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4. From The Earth To The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Of all the works of translated science fiction, there can be few rivals for the mass and continuing popularity of Jules Verne's extraordinary voyages. Between 1863 and his death in...
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5. In Search Of The Castaways; Or The Children Of Captain Grant
by Verne, Jules
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The story begins in July of 1864. While on boardthe Duncan, a yacht, Lord Edward Glenarvan, LadyHelena Glenarvan, and Major McNabbs, LordGlenarvan's cousin, find a bottle and break it opento...
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6. Round The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne's Round the Moon is the sequel to From the Earth to the Moon: three men in a projectile loop the moon and try to return to earth.
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7. A Floating City
by Verne, Jules
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A Floating City is Jules Verne's story of an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic and a man's tangled romance and quarrel on board.
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8. The Blockade Runners
by Verne, Jules
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The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock,...
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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...
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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Space Merchants
by Pohl, Frederik
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In his pioneering study of science fiction, New Maps of Hell, Kingsley Amis argued that The Space Merchants was possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. In the fifty-odd...
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15. 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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16. 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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18. Lord Of Light
by Zelazny, Roger
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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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. The Rediscovery Of Man
by Cordwainer Smith
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Practically all of Cordwainer Smithâs fiction belongs within a future history that starts just a few years from now and extends for tens of thousands of years into the future....
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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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