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8 best books like The Voices Of Time (J.G. Ballard): Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, What Mad Universe, Little Fuzzy, The Big Time, Virtual Light, The Engagement, The Deep Range, Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN0393336867
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” —Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties—and the youth and...
What Mad Universe
AuthorFredric Brown


Fredric Brown was a true ubermensch of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and his short stories are still among the best ever written in the genre. I mean that. Best...Ever...Written.

What Mad Universe is one of only a handful of SF novels that he wrote, a tear-inducing shame given...
Little Fuzzy
AuthorH. Beam Piper
ISBN0843959118
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government....
The Big Time
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0312890788
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.

It's been going on for a billion years and...
Virtual Light
AuthorWilliam Gibson
ISBN0140157727
William Gibson begins his Bridge trilogy with this 1993 publication that was nominated for both the Hugo and the Locus awards.

In the air of great protagonist names won hands down by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunkapalooza Snow Crash with Hiro Protagonist, Gibson introduces us to Chevette...
The Engagement
AuthorGeorges Simenon
ISBN1590172280
On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling club, where...
The Deep Range
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575077115
This story takes place about 100 years in the future, when the earth's population is fed principally from the sea--on whale products or from plankton farms. Its hero is Walter Franklin, a grounded space engineer now assigned to a submarine patrol tending the whale herds.
DEEP RANGE vibrates with...
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
AuthorDan Ariely
ISBN0062651226
Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store? We think of money...
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