Truly Great Single-Afternoon Sci-Fi Reads
Discover the best single-afternoon sci-fi reads! Dive into captivating short sci-fi books perfect for a quick escape. Ideal for busy readers craving great stories in one sitting.
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Red Planet
by Robert Anson Heinlein
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all!
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The Essential Ellison
by Harlan Ellison
"But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison's first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."".
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The Big Time
by Fritz Leiber
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War. It's been going on for a billion years and it'll last another billion or so. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and R&R for tired time warriors.
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus
by Gene Wolfe
First published in 1972, this SF masterpiece has been out of print for most of a decade. Now, this "subtle, ingenious, and poetic book" (Ursula Le Guin) entertains a new generation of readers with the story of two far-flung sister planets and a man's quest to find remnants of a lost.
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Venus Plus X
by Theodore Sturgeon
The Ledom have made a world without war, without fear -- a world in which each individual is free to love, to create, to explore. This gentle and kindly new race have made their twentieth-century guest, Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise, where Charlie thinks he is in heaven. But when he finds out where and when he is, all that may change. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Jumper
by Steven Gould
Story of Davy, a young man, who discovers he has a power that sets him apart from others, teleporting.
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip José Farmer
Richard Francis Burton attempts to fight his way out of the Riverworld in which he finds himself trapped after death.