Beyond the frontier vs Sphere: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Space vehicles, Space ships, Science Fiction, Fiction
Beyond the frontier
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of…
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Sphere
“For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky.”
Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Beyond the frontier highest: Beyond the frontier 4.4 · Sphere 3.8.
- Sphere has the widest readership — 202404 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Beyond the frontier | Sphere | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (18) | 3.8 (202404) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.7 (713) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (5) | 4.0 (6) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (340) | 4.0 (655) |
Reception
| Beyond the frontier | Sphere | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 340 | 202404 |
| Editions | — | 69 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 65586 |
| Written reviews | — | 5702 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 9442 |
| Pages | — | 371 |