My Favorite Science Fiction (with a little fantasy)
Explore my top picks for science fiction and fantasy books! Discover must-read favorites in these thrilling genres, from epic space adventures to magical realms.
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Eye
by Frank Herbert
Featuring lush interior illustrations by Jim Burns, the artist who provides cover art for the Arthur C. Clarke "Venus Prime" series, "Eye" is a collection …
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The River of Time
by David Brin
Eleven stories deal with a team searching for extraterrestrials, a strange epidemic, parallel worlds, space exploration, a memory drug, androids, and a man hunted by …
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Murasaki
by Poul Anderson
Six Nebula Award-winning authors--Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy Kress, and Frederik Pohl--have produced a stellar work of hard science fiction that …
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2001: a Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
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 …
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Three Complete Novels
by Dean Ray Koontz
Three complete novels with shocking suspense, Explosive Drama and riveting terror. The first is Shattered, Second is Whispers, and third is Watchers.
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The Bachman Books
by Richard Bachman
A collection of Stephen King's early works, written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman.
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The Chronicles of Narnia Rack Box Set (Books 1 to 7)
by C. S. Lewis
Collection includes all seven of the novels in the series.
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Cold Allies
by Patricia Anthony
A science fiction tale, combining humor, horror, high-tech tanks and artillery, and enigmatic visitors who read the darkest longings of the human mind.
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Way Station
by Clifford D. Simak
The long talks Enoch Wallace, a Civil War veteran, enjoys with interstellar travelers may cease when war threatens the earth and his way station may …
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Rendezvous With Rama
by Arthur Charles Clarke
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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Swan Song
by Robert McCammon
An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force …
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Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven
“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer The gigantic comet had slammed into …
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Out of the Silent Planet
by Clive Staples Lewis
Dr. Ransom is abducted to the eerie red planet, Malacandra, where his escape and flight endanger both his life and his chances of ever returning …
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to a Master Wizard.
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Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that …
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Silverlock
by John Myers Myers
In this classic of fantasy fiction, John Myers transports readers to a world as limitless as the human imagination, where a shipwrecked American meets up …