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The Handmaid's Tale

MARGARET ATWOOD · ANCHOR

The seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author, soon to be a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food...
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Walkaway

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.

"Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle."...

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Cold Welcome

Elizabeth Moon · Del Rey
Pages: 431
Format: Hardcover

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence.

After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant...
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1984

· Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 304

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret...
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Spaceman of Bohemia

Jaroslav Kalfar · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery

Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD · Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel,...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai · Dutton
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

"A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging. A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart. And a novel this smart has no right to be this funny. Or insightful. Or immersive. Basically, this novel has no right to exist." - Jonathan Tropper, New...
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