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Annihilation: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Book
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being... |
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The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov
Format: Book
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Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy - one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction - in a single hardcover volume.It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only... |
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Consider Phlebas
Iain Banks
Format: Book
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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at st |
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Moving Mars
Greg Bear
Format: Print book
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In a scenario based on the colonization of our neighboring planet by corporate interests, discontent on the part of the second and third generations of the original colonists lays the groundwork for a revolution destined to last for decades. 30,000 first printing. |
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The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Format: Book
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"Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they're doing what they have to do . . . " Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind's fears to the summit of their achievement |
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card - Tor Science Fiction
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person... |
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2001: a Space Odyssey: 25th Anniversary Edition
Arthur C Clarke - Ace
Format: Paperback
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The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film - and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system,... |
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Dhalgren
Samuel R Delany
Format: Book
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Delany's masterpiece about a wanderer who searches for meaning and identity in the ruins of a devastated city. |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick - Del Rey
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... |
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Neuromancer
William Gibson - Ace Books
Format: Print book
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SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADESTwenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula,... |
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Dune
Frank Herbert - Ace Books
Format: Book
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Famed Science Fiction novel |
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Trading in Danger
Elizabeth Moon
Format: Hardcover
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Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a |
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The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Format: Book
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In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various p |
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Ringworld: A Novel
Larry Niven
Format: Hardcover
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**Best Novel 1970 Nebula Award **Best Novel 1971 Hugo Award The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson's puppeteers--strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens--discovered this ''Ringworld'' in a hither |
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Forty Signs of Rain
Kim Stanley Robinson
Format: Book
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The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital - and in t |
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Fifty Degrees Below
Kim Stanley Robinson
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers-and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of |
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Sixty Days and Counting
Kim Stanley Robinson - Spectra; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing... |
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Time Machine
H G Wells
Format: Paperback
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Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travelsinto the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress andsuperior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4. |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A Heinlein
Format: Print book
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Valentine Michael Smith arrives from Mars, to visit Earth. His arrival sparks off all the things you'd imagine - excitement, horror and greed. A tremendous satire of human weaknesses, now expanded with up to 30,000 extra words. The author also wrote "Starman Jones" and & |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A Heinlein
Format: Print book
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Valentine Michael Smith arrives from Mars, to visit Earth. His arrival sparks off all the things you'd imagine - excitement, horror and greed. A tremendous satire of human weaknesses, now expanded with up to 30,000 extra words. The author also wrote "Starman Jones" and & |
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Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise - and take... |
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Crucible: Star Wars
Troy Denning - LucasBooks
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHan Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expectedand forever alter their understanding of life and the Force. When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissians Outer Rim mining... |
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In Fury Born
David Weber
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Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured |
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Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie - Orbit
Format: Paperback
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The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling trilogy. 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... |
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The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi - Night Shade
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the break-out science fiction debut.. Anderson Lake is AgriGens Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap... |
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The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unmissable milestone for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett: the first SF novel in over three decades in which the visionary inventor of Discworld has created a new universe of tantalizing possibilities - a series of parallel "Earths" with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue,... |
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New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Print book
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A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always... |
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The Martian
Andy Weir - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Houghton Mifflin Company
Format: Print book
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"Splendid."NEWSWEEKIt is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued... |
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The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
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"This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and |
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I, Robot (The Robot Series)
Isaac Asimov
Format: Print book
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The three laws of Robotics:1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.3) A robot must protect its own existence as long... |
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Saturn Run
John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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"Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up." --Stephen KingFor fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science... |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work... |
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Anathem
Neal Stephenson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians... |
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