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Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsKnown in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him... -
![The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson]()
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence...Categorized as:
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![The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman, Wade Wellman]()
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman, Wade Wellman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1897, the world changed forever when our planet came under attack from Martian invaders. The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, along with his friend Professor Challenger embark on one of their most dangerous adventures to date... to discover the nature and intent of their extra-terrestrial attackers... -
![Goliath by Scott Westerfeld]()
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAlek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really on?While on their top-secret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl disguised as a guy...she has feelings for Alek... -
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![Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith]()
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw... -
![Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld]()
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt... -
![To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis]()
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsConnie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...Categorized as:
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![The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson]()
The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA novel expanded from a short story (different from book 1 Pilgrimage which was a push of short stories connected by new material) of the alien PEOPLE and earthlings with gifts similar to those of the People -- who might be lost PEOPLE!The "People" stories inclulded in this book:No Different Flesh (1965)Deluge (1963)Angels Unawares (1966)Troubling of the Waters (1966)Return (1961)Shadow on the... -
![Spares by Michael Marshall Smith]()
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSpares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing all the taking.Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and with a zero credit rating at the luck bank. After five years lying low on a Spares farm, looking after inmates that can't even spell luck, he is finally faced with a chance at redemption... -
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Firestorm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect... -
![All Clear by Connie Willis]()
All Clear by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the... -
![Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning in the 1960s and 70s, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction...Categorized as:
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![Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Edward Dorn]()
Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Edward Dorn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature... -
![The Blacksmith's Bride: A Brides of Golden Valley Story by Laura D. Bastian]()
The Blacksmith's Bride: A Brides of Golden Valley Story by Laura D. Bastian
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarriage was never her plan until her inheritance depended on it. He just wants a family to call his own. Can they find a happy ever after even with such different backgrounds? Susan Hanson’s life is anything but normal...Categorized as:
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![Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith]()
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAuthorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation...Categorized as:
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![Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson]()
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany people are not aware of a startling recommendation that was made by our current Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. He was sharply critical of the call for a "New World Order" made by President George H. W. Bush...Categorized as:
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![Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny]()
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe most humorous – and arguably the finest – novel by the master of inventive science fiction. Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. But the harmony of the galaxy is endangered when they discover that the star-stone has disappeared. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate... -
![Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill]()
Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost in the Bayou...Selene has always had three great passions: men, food . . . and Gone With the Wind. Still, the glamorous model always seems to be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot before she chucks it all and begins a whole new life... -
![The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs]()
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century–a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western Lands... -
![Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling]()
Theater of Spies by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back...Categorized as:
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![The Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard by Sam Shepard]()
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard by Sam Shepard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand - Forensic and the Navigators - The Holy Ghostly - Back Bog Beast Bait - Shaved Splits - 4-H Club... -
![The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, Neil Gaiman]()
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive...Categorized as:
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![The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster]()
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee]()
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLove is made of more than mere flesh and blood....Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale--a beautiful, tragic, erotic, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future.For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering... -
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![BioShock: Rapture by John Shirley]()
BioShock: Rapture by John Shirley
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIt's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing . . . and many are desperate to take that freedom back... -
![Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon]()
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSpanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places... -
![The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter]()
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G...Categorized as:
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![Gray Lensman by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
Gray Lensman by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe action in Gray Lensman picks up immediately where Galactic Patrol left off, in the middle of the battle to destroy Helmuth's Main Base and, it is hoped, fully end the threat of Boskone. After the base falls, Kinnison finds some clues that lead him to think that Helmuth was perhaps not the head of Boskone after all... -
![The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon, Теодор Стърджън]()
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon, Теодор Стърджън
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight-year-old Horty Bluett is mocked by his classmates & abused by his adoptive parents until the day his father severs three of his fingers. He runs away, taking only a gem-eyed doll he calls Junky, & joins a carnival... -
![The Grapple by Harry Turtledove]()
The Grapple by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this stunning retelling of World War II, Harry Turtledove has created a blockbuster saga that is thrilling, troubling, and utterly compelling...Categorized as:
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![Rapture: The Big Daddy by Dustin Brubaker]()
Rapture: The Big Daddy by Dustin Brubaker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArthur Winter, his wife and daughter move to Rapture with the promise of a better life and more importantly a new start. He intends to work hard and one day be wealthy just like Ryan promises everyone who moves to Rapture. He opens a small business. For a few years things are good, almost idyllic. The good life is shattered when one day his daughter mysteriously vanishes without trace... -
![The Killing Machine by Jack Vance]()
The Killing Machine by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHaving brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, Gersen now sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes... -
![End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove]()
End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSix weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii’s throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources... -
![The Name is Archer by Ross Macdonald]()
The Name is Archer by Ross Macdonald
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMYSTERYIncludes the following Find the womanGone girlThe bearded ladyThe suicideGuilt-edged blondeThe sinister habitWild goose chaseMidnight blueSleeping... -
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![All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald]()
All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe nine original stories that Fitzgerald chose for All the Sad Young Men are included in this book of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition, along with eleven more works that were published between 1925 and 1928 but weren't collected by Fitzgerald while he was alive. This edition is based on numerous typescripts and manuscripts that have survived... -
![Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire]()
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNew Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous...Categorized as:
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![Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories by Theodore Sturgeon]()
Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:Case and the Dreamer (1973)If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? (1967)When You Care, When You Love... -
![Legacy by James H. Schmitz, D.A. Lockhart]()
Legacy by James H. Schmitz, D.A. Lockhart
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Federation of the Hub, an interstellar mosaic of governments and people. When ancient living biological machines suddenly begin to move after millennia of inaction many of the Hub's most powerful people and groups begin vying for the secret locked in these machines. Enter Trigger Argee, the closest associate of the man who first discovered these machines, Holati Tate... -
![The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays by Primo Levi]()
The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays by Primo Levi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi’s love for science with his keen perception of human nature...Categorized as:
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![The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt]()
The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA massive alien convoy is hurtling toward Earth, but its true purpose is a puzzle: “It’s time to discover Donald Moffitt.” —Greg Bear The Lunar Observatory on Earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for Earth... -
![A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer]()
A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNightmare at StonehengeWhen Legion meets a strange old millionaire called "Foster,"" he doesn't know that his whole life will never be the same again. For "Foster" has a strange story to tell. Part of his story is contained in his diary, which not only describes things in the very recent past, but goes back for centuries. . .Foster has hired Legion to help him regain his lost memory... -
![First Lensman by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
First Lensman by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSecret PlanetNo human being had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious barrier, hanging unseen in space, turned back all ships. Then the word came to Earth, inexplicably but compellingly:'GO TO ARISIA!'Virgil Samms, founder of the Galactic Patrol, went - and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave its wearer powers no man had ever possessed before... -
![What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown]()
What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe editor of a sci-fi pulp magazine is accidentally transported to a parallel universe where space travel is common, Earth is at war with creepy aliens, New York City isn't safe after dark, and his girlfriend is with someone else. Regularly appears on "Greatest science fiction" lists...Categorized as:
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![The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsIt's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters... -
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![The Blue World by Jack Vance]()
The Blue World by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified society, and a man in conflict with its rules. During the space of twelve generations, the descendents of a crash on a water-covered planet have managed to adapt to the marine culture. But they are always at the mercy of the kragen, giant, squidlike monsters... -
![Reach for Tomorrow by Arthur C. Clarke]()
Reach for Tomorrow by Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the grandmaster of science fiction, a dozen memorable tales filled with wonder and imagination.From the Paperback edition... -
![The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane, Stephen King]()
The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane, Stephen King
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy... -
![Engineer Garin and His Death Ray by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]()
Engineer Garin and His Death Ray by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a story, originally written in 1927, of an attempt to use a remarkable invention to establish the absolute power of one man throughout the world... -
![Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell]()
Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stunning follow-up to Ack-Ack Macaque, which featured the Spitfire pilot monkey hero of a computer game who turned out to be real. The first book was met with wide acclaim upon release...Categorized as:
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![Clockwork Heart by Heidi Cullinan]()
Clockwork Heart by Heidi Cullinan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove, adventure and a steaming good time. As the French army leader’s bastard son, Cornelius Stevens enjoys a great deal of latitude. But when he saves an enemy soldier using clockwork parts, he’s well aware he risks hanging for treason. That doesn’t worry him half as much, however, as the realization he’s falling for his patient...
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