Doorways in the Sand

7 best books like Doorways in the Sand (Roger Zelazny): The Space Merchants, The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, Deus Irae, Dying Inside, The Devil in a Forest, Three Poems, The Emperor's Babe

AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0575075287
An alternate cover edition can be found here.

It is the 22nd Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers...
The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
AuthorStanisław Lem
ISBN0156849054

Although Solaris is Stanislaw Lem’s most esteemed work, I believe The Star Diaries—the contemporaneous memoirs of star-pilot Ijon Tichy—to be a better representative of his genius, for it is ambitious in scope, inventive, and often profound.

The Star Diaries, a series of interplanetary...
Deus Irae
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1400030072
In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville,...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743435087
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, his power began to die...

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AuthorGene Wolfe
I enjoy a good fantastical forest novel as much as the next guy. Gene Wolfe's dependably polished writing delivers thrills and chills in this relatively early work. Set alongside Fifth Head of Cerberus, and Peace, The Devil in a Forest reads almost like children's literature. That is not to say that...
Three Poems
AuthorHannah Sullivan
ISBN0571337678
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018
One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018

Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection is a revelation – three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters...
The Emperor's Babe
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0142001716
Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement....
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