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This Immortal This Immortal 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… OL13994W
Blackout Blackout 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… OL14914265W
The Demolished Man The Demolished Man 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… OL16027965W
Hominids Hominids 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… OL17020W
Ancillary Justice Ancillary Justice 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… OL17062644W
Rendezvous with Rama Rendezvous with Rama 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… OL17417W
The Calculating Stars The Calculating Stars 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… OL18021949W
Dreamsnake Dreamsnake 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… OL1921526W
Network Effect Network Effect 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… OL20735675W
A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz 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 … OL2626638W
Neuromancer Neuromancer 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… OL27258W
Stand on Zanzibar Stand on Zanzibar 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… OL3521966W
Speaker for the Dead Speaker for the Dead 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. OL49580W
A Case of Conscience A Case of Conscience 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… OL53404W
Paladin of Souls Paladin of Souls 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… OL56898W
Startide Rising Startide Rising 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… OL58710W
The moon is a harsh mistress The moon is a harsh mistress 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 … OL59704W
Starship Troopers Starship Troopers 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… OL59740W
The Graveyard Book The Graveyard Book 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… OL679348W
Dune Dune 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… OL893415W
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