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Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a
8 ratingsIt is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity long ago transitioned to the era of holy technology. Now humans present as saintly animals, spending their days in meditation and drug-induced euphoria, far from the dark secrets their paradise is founded upon... -
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
10 ratingsFrom the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability... -
The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury
14 ratingsThe author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrated Man," The Veldt, "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," and twenty other classics... -
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Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
6 ratingsKurt Vonnegut’s signature qualities as a writer—what John Updike called “his free flow of invention, the surreal beauty of his imagery, and a colloquial American style justly ranked with Mark Twain’s”—are everywhere on display in this authoritative collection of his early fiction...Categorized as:
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Universo Star Wars by Tricia Barr, Daniel Wallace
10 ratings"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."Ultimate Star Wars is a comprehensive, wonderfully detailed encyclopedia of the entire Star Wars galaxy that explores characters, creatures, locations, vehicles, technology, and more... -
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros
10 ratingsPrize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society’s collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears. After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son are among the rare survivors in rural north-west Wales...Categorized as:
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The Road Is A River by Nick Cole
6 ratingsPart Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The Road is a River is a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American Southwest. The Road is a River concludes Nick Cole’s fantastic Wasteland Saga...Categorized as:
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The Warrior Race by T.C. Edge
6 ratingsKira Blackstone’s reputation precedes her. Rebel, warrior, genetically enhanced killer. She’s fought since she was a girl to save the city of Haven. Now, unfortunately, her friends are going to have to fight their war without her. Kidnapped during a fight by a group of mysterious soldiers, garbed in fine silver armour and flowing red robes, Kira finds herself waking in total darkness... -
The Chosen by T.C. Edge
6 ratingsThe world thinks them gods. Only she knows different… Amber lives in a world full of lies. Within the great city of Olympus, so-called gods and goddesses reside, praised and worshipped by those deemed beneath them. The Children of the Prime, as they’re called, are blessed with wondrous and mysterious powers... -
Trail of Misery by N.A. Broadley
6 ratingsA deadly virus has left Beth alone and afraid.She must leave her home with almost no supplies when she is attacked by a neighbor. Now forced to set out on the Appalachian Trail with only her backpack, two guns and a turkey carving knife...Categorized as:
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Voice of the Chosen by Lawrence P. White
8 ratingsVoice of the Chosen is the third book in the Spirit of Empire series. Readers are strongly encouraged to read the first two books before embarking on this third book. Struthers has suffered serious defeats at the hands of Terran forces, but he is fighting back. First on his list: convene the Imperial Senate, name himself emperor, and officially declare Imperial Forces in rebellion... -
Blindness / Seeing by José Saramago
8 ratingsIn Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic of blindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for a group of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for the reader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. We return to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, a satirical commentary on government in general and democracy in particular... -
The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders
10 ratingsNovelette, Free online fiction.From newyorker.com“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” deals with a family in a not-too-distant future (or perhaps an alternate present or past?) that is struggling to keep up with the Joneses—which, in this society, means leasing some unusual garden ornaments... -
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Exhalation by Ted Chiang
10 ratingsNight Shade Books PresentsFor your 2009 Hugo Award"Best Short Story" considerationTed Chiang’s "Exhalation"As Published inEclipse Two:New Science Fiction and FantasyEdited by Jonathan... -
We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat
12 ratingsIn a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers... -
Retrograde by Tom Abrahams
6 ratingsClayton Shepard dropped from the sky. Twice. Now, in the wake of twin cataclysmic blasts of energy from the sun, he is earthbound and far from home. While his family and friends seek safe harbor in an increasingly dangerous Texas, Clayton is forced underground in Colorado. He must free himself and finally find a way home in a world quickly slipping farther into the dark ages... -
The Branded by Jo Riccioni
6 ratingsIsfalk is divided into two classes: the Branded, who are vulnerable to disease, and the Pure, who are bigger, stronger and immune. Orphaned twins Nara and Osha are sequestered in the citadel, where their unbranded skin entitles them to a life of privilege, as precious breeding stock... -
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
6 ratingsA fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning authorOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart...Categorized as:
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Palm Sunday/Welcome to the Monkeyhouse by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
8 ratingsA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity... -
And Still the Earth by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
8 ratingsWelcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System--sinister, omnipotent, secret--rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden... -
The Change by S.M. Stirling
10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M...Categorized as:
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Motorman by David Ohle
10 ratingsFiction. It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good could go out of print so quickly. And it is most curious that an introduction would even be required for a novel that, if you examine it carefully in the right kind oflight, might actually be seen to be steaming... -
The Sword by S.M. Stirling, David Drake
10 ratingsFor five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue. With saber and bayonet he has conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord, Barholm Clerett, who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he is reduced to only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die... -
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The Anvil by S.M. Stirling, David Drake
10 ratingsWith the aid of a sentient battle computer from before the collapse of interstellar civilization, Raj Whitehall has come close to reuniting the entire planet of Bellevue. Raj is loved by the people, who hold him in awe, but the half-mad jealousy and fear of his emperor is about to force Raj to revolt or face death by torture... -
Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein
8 ratingsA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another...Categorized as:
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Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
8 ratingsEqual parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States... -
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea-Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers: English-French Parallel Text Paperback Edition Volume Two by Jules Verne, David Bannon
8 ratingsJules Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea—Vingt mille lieues sous les mers is presented in English-French parallel text, complete and unabridged. The story concludes in Volume Two as Aronnax and harpoonist Ned Land, imprisoned on the Nautilus, explore sunken ships, battle exotic creatures and face the misanthropic recluse, Captain Nemo...Categorized as:
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La Ballade de Lila K by Blandine Le Callet
8 ratingsLa Ballade de Lila K, c'est d'abord une voix : celle d'une jeune femme sensible et caustique, fragile et volontaire, qui raconte son histoire depuis le jour où des hommes en noir font brutalement arrachée a sa mère, et conduite dans un Centre, mi-pensionnat mi-prison, où on l'a prise en charge.Surdouée, asociale, polytraumatisée, Lila a tout oublié de sa vie antérieure... -
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville
8 ratingsIn this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the "The Machine of Understanding Other People," the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner worlds of those around him... -
The End of the Kai by Domenico Italo Composto-Hart
6 ratingsAlternate cover edition for original cover edition ISBN: 0985017732 (ISBN-13: 9780985017736)... -
Palace by Katharine Kerr, Mark Kreighbaum
6 ratingsBestselling author Katharine Kerr joins with Mark Kreighbaum to present a vivid, alluring and terrifying world of the future. They call it Palace, the capital of a planet located in a region of space known as the Pinch... -
Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp
6 ratingsIt's time for blueblood Bernard Johnson to leave his boring life behind and go on The Vacation, a yearlong corporate-sponsored odyssey. But instead of seeing the world, Bernard is captured by terrorists, becomes a key figure in secret drug wars, and, worse, doesn't once miss his secure American Dream... -
Antitype by M.D. Waters
6 ratingsAntitype is the prequel to acclaimed novels, Archetype and Prototype. Before Emma appears in their lives, two men face four months that will change their lives forever. One has dreams outside Richmond and away from his family business. The other wants to make the business his only focus... -
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A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury
12 ratingsGrandmaster of American Letters Ray Bradbury presents the 16 vintage stories and novellas that informed and prefigured the creation of his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451... -
The Vorkosigan Companion by Lillian Stewart Carl, Lois McMaster Bujold
12 ratingsLois McMaster Bujold's best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little-known facts about the Vorkosigan saga... -
King's Sacrifice by Margaret Weis
12 ratingsThe spellbinding conclusion to the star-spanning saga of adventure and intrigue. At the end of King's Test, Sagan--the man who overthrew Dion's father--pledged his allegiance to Dion as the new king. Now, Dion battles alien and human enemies, and must give up both his lover and one of his men as he learns what it truly means to be king... -
Cloud Warrior by Patrick Tilley
12 ratingsTen centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in the War of a Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes... -
Blood River by Patrick Tilley
10 ratingsTHE AMTRAK WARSTHE VISIONARY CHRONICLE OF THE ULTIMATE STRUGGLE TO RULE EARTHThe epic narrative that began with CLOUD WARRIOR continues to unfold. On the snow-swept overground, Steve, Cadillac and Clearwater meet with triumph and disaster as they try to evade the clutches of both the Iron Masters and the First Family... -
Death-Bringer by Patrick Tilley
10 ratingsTHE VISIONARY CHRONICLE OF THE ULTIMATE STRUGGLE TO RULE EARTHWith Clearwater now safely in their hands, the Federation hatches a plan to capture Cadillac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall: a plan which forces Steve to continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes... -
First Family by Patrick Tilley
10 ratingsAfter escaping from the clan M'Call in his handmade glider, wingman Steve Brickman expects a hero's welcome from his fellow Trackers. Kidnapped on his first mission above ground by the Mutes, he has spent the last five months under the enforced tutelage of Mr Snow, clan M'Call's wise and magically gifted wordsmith... -
Sirius by Stéphane Servant
10 ratingsAlors que le monde se meurt, Avril, une jeune fille, tente tant bien que mal d'élever son petit frère, Kid. Réfugiés au coeur d'une forêt, ils se tiennent à l'écart des villes et de la folie des hommes... jusqu'au jour où le mystérieux passé d'Avril les jette brutalement sur la route.Pourchassés, il leur faut maintenant survivre dans cet univers livre au chaos et à la sauvagerie...Categorized as:
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Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
8 ratingsIn her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations...Categorized as:
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Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
8 ratings"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated language; "the Historian" interviews the Guide and annotates the commentaries. Cathy Park Hong's passionate and artful poem sequence weaves an ultimately revitalizing dialogue on shared experience in a globalized world, using language as subversion and disguise... -
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Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard
6 ratingsContents:The Ultimate CityLow-Flying AircraftThe Dead AstronautMy Dream of Flying to Wake IslandThe Life and Death of GodThe Greatest Television Show on EarthA Place and a Time to DieThe Comsat AngelsThe Beach...Categorized as:
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Winter's King by Ursula K. Le Guin
6 ratings“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati EnquirerThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds...Categorized as:
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Mi petición de más espacio by John Hersey
6 ratingsUna calle en New Haven. Una fila de personas, cuadras de largo, más apretujadas que los subterráneos de las horas pico de los buenos viejos tiempos.Poynter ha estado en la línea desde antes del amanecer, al igual que miles de personas más, apretujadas, esperando su turno en la ventana para presentar sus peticiones individuales... -
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf
6 ratingsPalestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the...Categorized as:
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Year's Best SF 11 by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer
6 ratingsTravel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration of the very best short SF to appear over the past year... -
The Immortals by René Barjavel
14 ratingsThe Immortals is the story of a couple separated by an extraordinary event only to be reunited by exceptional circumstances that no man or woman ever knew. It is also the story of a mystery that, since 1955, secretly brought together the leaders of the most powerful nations...
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