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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorThe Shadow Out of Time
H.P. Lovecraft · 260 pages
End of an Era
Robert J. Sawyer · 247 pages
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells · 292 pages
The Poison Belt
Arthur Conan Doyle · 112 pages
Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee and Mr E. D. M alone, the discoverers of "The Lost World".
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 96 pages
There is a monster lurking in the depths of the ocean. Join scientist Pierre Arronax as he goes on an expedition to find it. Is it an animal or a man-made War machine?
The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells, Steve McLean · 213 pages
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by mo
His Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem · 239 pages
The Mind Parasites
Colin Wilson · 222 pages
The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein · 189 pages
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in whic
Anthem
Ayn Rand · 93 pages
Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunte
A Thousand Pieces of You
Claudia Gray · 368 pages
Marguerite's physicist parents' most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes. When her father is murdered, the killer (her parents' handsome, enigmatic assistant, Paul) escapes into another dimension. Marguerite refuses to let him go free, so she races after him through different universes. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt as well as
The Humans
Matt Haig · 282 pages
When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete his task and hurry back to his own utopian planet. Disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as
The Flicker Men
Ted Kosmatka · 338 pages
"Eric Argus has one last chance. His earlier scientific work-- groundbreaking and infamous--jeopardized his reputation and threatened his sanity. But an old university friend hires him at Hansen Research, a Boston laboratory that provides researchers a probationary period of free reign. Argus has a final opportunity to regain his standing and renew his faith in science. He replicates Feynman's dou
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Herbert George Wells · 112 pages
Shipwrecked in the south Pacific Ocean, Englishman Edward Prendick awakens aboard a ship where a man named Montgomery and his beastly looking servant were transporting animal cargo. Soon, they arrive on an island and more and more of these bizarre humanlike creatures appear. Prendick senses a sinister secret to the island after he meets with the owner, a one Dr. Moreau...The Island of Doctor Morea
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer · 608 pages
The Southern Reach trilogy is a Sci-Fi series written by Jeff VanderMeer in 2014. The series follows an event in which an area in the US is taken over by an alien presence that mutates and alters life inside the zone, known as Area X. The series follows multiple individuals as they seek to understand the cause and intent of Area X under the will of the secret government organization The Southern R
Bones of the Earth
Michael Swanwick · 400 pages
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 229 pages
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cr
Ghost Planet
Sharon Lynn Fisher · 352 pages
Interstellar
Greg Keyes · 288 pages
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyages.
Parasites Like Us
Adam Johnson · 341 pages
Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy linked to the Ice Age.
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 248 pages
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performe