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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Print book

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations...
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Diaspora

Greg Egan
Format: Book

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners...

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Blindsight

Peter Watts - Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

The Hugo Award-nominated novel by "a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive." --The Globe and MailTwo months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since--until...

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Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Orbit
Format: Paperback

Adrian Tchaikovksy's award-winning novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Who will inherit this new Earth?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among...

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The Forever War

Joe Haldeman - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John ScalziThe Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant...

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The Immortality Thief

TARAN HUNT - Solaris
Format: Book

The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.

Far off the edge of human existence,...

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The Last Human

Zack Jordan - Del Rey
Format: Book

The last human in the universe is on the run from a godlike intelligence in this rip-roaring debut. "Harkening back to Heinlein and Clarke, The Last Human gives us aliens, adventure, mystery, and big ideas in a thoroughly fresh package. If you love a good old-fashioned...

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K Le Guin - Ace Books
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic...

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Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinsons best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts....

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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson - William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic - a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

What would happen if the world were ending?

A catastrophic...

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The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu - Tor Books
Format: Book

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project...

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook

Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGens Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of historys lost calories. There,...

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