10 books for fans of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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Soul Mirrors
by Wiley A. Haydon III
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Twin siblings possess the devastating ability to absorb another person's memories, but their gift comes with a lethal price that has already claimed other children like them before their eighteenth birthday.
★ 4.67 Goodreads (15 ratings) - 2
Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance
by Jules Verne, Tim Curry
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Giant insects, prehistoric humans, and magma pits await when an eccentric professor leads his crew through Earth's molten heart.
★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K ratings) - 3
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Verne sends a German professor and his terrified nephew down a volcano shaft to discover mastodons and mushroom forests at Earth's core.
★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K ratings) - 4
A Journey To The Center Of The Earth
by Jules Verne
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German Professor Otto Lidenbrock believes volcanic tubes lead to Earth's center—so he drags his nephew along to prove it.
★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.3K ratings) - 5
The Good, the Bad, and the Merc
The Revelations Cycle • Book 8
by Chris Kennedy, Kacey Ezell, Jason Córdova, Terry Mixon, Terry Maggert, Kal Spriggs, T. Allen Diaz, Stephanie Osborn, Chris Smith, Mark Wandrey
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Multiple authors tackle humanity's role as galactic underdogs in this sprawling mercenary anthology—think space opera meets wild west, with humans scrapping for survival.
★ 4.28 Goodreads (259 ratings) - 6
An Old Man's Journey: A LitRPG Adventure
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Charles spent his final years watching movies and waiting for grandchildren's calls until VR world Crossroads offered him a second chance at purpose.
★ 4.12 Goodreads (945 ratings) - 7
Endeavour
The Sleeping Gods • Book 1
by Ralph Kern
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The Starship Endeavour launches humanity's first journey to another star system, seeking to answer why we've never encountered alien civilizations. Kern combines hard science fiction with the tantalizing mystery of cosmic silence.
★ 3.89 Goodreads (1.4K ratings) - 8
An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Jules Verne
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Verne attempts the impossible—continuing Poe's unfinished Antarctic nightmare—with mixed but fascinating results that blend scientific adventure with eldritch mystery.
★ 3.62 Goodreads (2.4K ratings) - 9
Advent 9 (Superpunk Book 1)
by T. Alan Horne, Paul Pederson, David Farland
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The age of heroes ended when the Powered abandoned their capes and symbols, leaving behind one flying, bullet-dodging child named Advent 9. Horne explores what happens when an entire generation's inspiration vanishes and only one remnant remains to shoulder their burden.
★ 3.51 Goodreads (67 ratings) - 10
Salvage System 2
Salvage System • Book 2
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Survivors dig through civilization's wreckage in this apocalyptic LitRPG where humanity's last hope lies buried beneath a fallen city's rubble.
★ 4.56 Goodreads (34 ratings)