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The Great Escape
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Author: Ian Watson
Combining science fiction and fantasy into an amusing and eclectic mix, this collection of 19 short stories mixes the seasoned writing skills of a master writer with tales of the fantastic. From fallen angels mounting a breakout from Hell and computer game designers haunted by cyberghosts to alien coffins bombarding the solar system and Jesus' brot...
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The Minority Report
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Author: Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. The author of thirty-six novels, including the acclaimed Blade Runner, and five short story collections, he won a Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He died in 1982.
In the w...
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Schild's Ladder
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Author: Greg Egan
The Age of Death ended countless millennia ago. No longer burdened by limited lifespans, the immortal humans who populate inhabited space now have the luxury to travel vast distances effortlessly and to tinker with the intricate mechanics of spacetime. But one such experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic and unanticipated result, creat...
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Revelation Space
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Author: Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.
Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awe...
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Hominids
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Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception. Hominids is a strong, s...
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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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Author: Douglas Adams
“Above all, of course, Douglas Adams was a transcendent, multi-faceted, comic genius. What made Douglas’s work unique, I think, were the wildly contradictory attributes he displayed in his writing. He seamlessly blended world-class intelligence—and a daunting knowledge about an impossible variety of subjects (literature, computers, evolution, pop c...
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Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of the Clones
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Author: R. A. Salvatore
There is a great disturbance in the Force. . . .From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate ...
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of di...
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Foundation
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Author: Isaac Asimov
Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or break...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Author: Walter M. Miller Jr
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an ob...
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The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, Book 3)
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Author: Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl is going straight—as soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career...
After being held prisoner for five years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He's a new man—an honest man, much to Artemis's horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. But...
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