4.29 avg rating — 1,622,806 ratings

"A novel of extraordinary depth of complexity. Epic, poetic. Stunning."

4.10 avg rating — 219,629 ratings

"It's a powerful novel with a fully realised background. Stays with you"

3.59 avg rating — 235,041 ratings

"One of the most fascinating alternate history novels ever written and one of Dick's best novels."

4.03 avg rating — 29,752 ratings

"I loved this book when I first read it, and have reread it many times since. In one way it's a eulogy for an America that has been lost, and also a charming, engrossing combination of backwoods America and alien technology."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768,401 ratings

"A singular and brilliant work. Original and unsurpassed."

3.71 avg rating — 2,108 ratings

"This is perhaps the novel that heralded the sea-change in SF of the 60s. Sturgeon cleverly contrasts the peaceful lives of the hermaphrodite humans of Ledom with examples of sexist attitudes of the 1950s. For its time, very daring and controversial and a prelude to the New Wave of the 60s"

3.98 avg rating — 130,305 ratings

"Hard to explain in a few sentences, but at base it's an exploration of communication, and questions whether we could ever communicate effectively with aliens, when we have enough trouble communicating with each other. There's far far more to it than that though. Genius piece of work. "

3.93 avg rating — 1,182 ratings

"Vance takes another potshot at organised religion, and wins, in a wonderful satire set on a waterworld where the residents live on the giant floating leaves of ocean plants. "

3.49 avg rating — 655 ratings

"Silverberg's dark version of 'Stranger in a Strange land' where a charming amoral human from the future arrives and destabilises Earth's most cherished beliefs and dystems. "

3.76 avg rating — 8,253 ratings

"Another controversial work which seemingly never raised as much fuss as one would have imagined. Karl Glogauer travels back in time to the time of Christ, to find that the young Jesus is a drooling mental cripple. Disturbed and disillusioned, he assumes the mantle of Christ himself and lives the legend. "