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This Immortal
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Roger Zelazny |
Après une explosion atomique, la plupart des terriens survivants sont partis s'installer sur les planètes de la Confédération de Véga. L'espérance de vie de certains hommes a augmenté. Ainsi, personn… |
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Blackout
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Connie Willis |
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordina… |
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The Demolished Man
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Alfred Bester |
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, dri… |
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Hominids
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Robert J. Sawyer |
From back cover Tor paperback February 2003:
*Hominids* examines two unique species of people. *We* are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where *they* became… |
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Ancillary Justice
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Ann Leckie |
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was the *Justice of Toren*--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thou… |
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Rendezvous with Rama
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Arthur C. Clarke |
Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried effort to intercept it. The closest available ship rushes to rendezvous so as t… |
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The Calculating Stars
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Mary Robinette Kowal |
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render Ea… |
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Dreamsnake
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Vonda N. McIntyre |
In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, Snake is a healer. One of an elite band dedicated to caring for sick humanity, she goes wherever her skills are needed.
With her she takes the three dea… |
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Network Effect
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Martha Wells |
**Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.**
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with ye… |
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Walter M. Miller Jr. |
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and … |
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Neuromancer
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William Gibson |
The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, *Neuromancer* is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, *Neuromancer* was the first fully-realized glimp… |
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Stand on Zanzibar
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John Brunner |
"Originally published in 1968, Stand on Zanzibar was a breakthrough in science fiction storytelling technique, and a prophetic look at a dystopian 2010 that remains compelling today. Corporations hav… |
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Speaker for the Dead
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Orson Scott Card |
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers. |
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A Case of Conscience
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James Blish |
The citizens of the planet Lithia are some of the most ethical sentient beings Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez has ever encountered. True, they have no literature, no fine arts, and don't understand the co… |
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Paladin of Souls
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Lois McMaster Bujold |
E-Book Extras: ONE: The Keys to Chalion: A Dictionary of People, Places, and Things; TWO: Chalion MiscellanyIt's been three years since the curse was lifted, but Ista dy Baocia, Dowager Royina of Cha… |
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Startide Rising
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David Brin |
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983)
This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth)
crew of neo-dolphins and humans on the starship “The Streaker”.
Their mission is to find information about th… |
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The moon is a harsh mistress
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Robert A. Heinlein |
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect of life is overseen by the Federated Nations "Lunar Authority"; until one day when a self-aware … |
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Starship Troopers
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Robert A. Heinlein |
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flas… |
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman |
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiq… |
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Dune
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Frank Herbert |
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a d… |
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