The Best Alternative Fiction Today

Discover the best alternative fiction books today! Explore our curated list of unique and unconventional reads that challenge traditional storytelling. Perfect for avid readers seeking fresh perspectives.

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Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the …
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The Fall of Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

“State of the art science fiction . . . a landmark novel.”—Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Now, in the stunning continuation of the epic adventure …
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Endymion

by Dan Simmons

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion --with a novel …
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Rise of Endymion

by Dan Simmons

The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade …
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Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

by Tad Williams

Science fiction-roman.
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Otherland: River of Blue Fire

by Tad Williams

A group of unlikely heroes goes up against the ruthless Grail Brotherhood, who are exploiting Earth's children.
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Mountain of Black Glass

by Tad Williams

The struggle to control "Otherland" continues, as the wealthy elites seek hegemony over this dazzling cyber universe, and a cryptic message from an oddly familiar …
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Sea of Silver Light

by Tad Williams

The epic conclusion of the Otherland saga journeys back to the bizarre world of virtual realities in which the characters discover a multifaceted pathways to …
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The Many-colored Land

by Julian May

When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years …
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The Golden Torc

by Julian May

By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of …
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The Nonborn King

by Julian May

On Earth, six million B.C., two species of alien ruled, the graceful humanoid Tanu and their twisted brethren, the Firvulag. Then men from twenty-second century …
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The Adversary

by Julian May

The fourth and final volume of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. Until the arrival of Aiken Drum, the 100,000 humans who had fled backward in …