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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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Darwin's radio
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Greg Bear |
"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregna… |
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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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All the Birds in the Sky
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Charlie Jane Anders |
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia, a bril… |
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The fountains of paradise
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Arthur C. Clarke |
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevat… |
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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 Stone Sky
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N. K. Jemisin |
Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.
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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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The Forever War
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Patrick Imbert,Joe Haldeman,Marvano,Edith Zilli |
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space … |
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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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Parable of the Talents
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Octavia E. Butler |
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous bigot wins his way into the White House. Lauren Olamina leads a… |
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Rite of Passage
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Alexei Panshin |
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. … |
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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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Stations of the Tide
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Michael Swanwick |
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in pos… |
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Babel-17
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Samuel R. Delany |
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovere… |
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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 Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969)
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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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