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The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHow do you save the United States President from himself? What if the President is incompetent to deal with the greatest crisis of all? Jack Ryan never thought he would have to ask those questions as, the world order changing, he prepares the ground for the Middle Eastern peace plan that, at last, might be the one to work.But too many groups have invested too much blood...Categorized as:
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Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsRazio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse.He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage...Categorized as:
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Executive Orders by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsThe President is dead—and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. I don't know what to do...Categorized as:
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The Sphinx by Robert Doherty, Bob Mayer
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor thousands of years it has harbored mankind's greatest secret. Now someone or something has found the key to... the Sphinx.No place is safe from alien infiltration. Not even top secret Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte know that better than anyone. Secrets have been revealed. Codes have been broken. A countdown has begun...Categorized as:
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz...Categorized as:
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Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo, Tom Kratman
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe invaders are coming: the Posleen, a seemingly unstoppable horde who have conquered one star system after another, literally feeding on their conquests... -
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War in 2020: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by Ralph Peters
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDescribed as “the military counterpart of Orwell’s 1984, The War on 2020 is the breathtaking novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Red Army, Ralph Peters. Soviet Central Asia, 2020. A decaying Soviet Union is on the brink of disaster. Their only hope is American’s seventh cavalry. They’re plunging into the horrors of war in the new millennium...Categorized as:
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The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratings2047: for 60 years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. For the small community of San Onofre on the West Coast, life is a matter of survival: living simply on what the sea and land can provide, preserving what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications...Categorized as:
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Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhile young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch; the first of the trilogy with The Place of the Dead Roads and his final novel The Western Lands...Categorized as:
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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future...Categorized as:
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Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsHugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings...Categorized as:
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Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 81 ratingsThis Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin... -
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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsKoushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of 42 junior high school students are taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided with weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing... -
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V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 72 ratings"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd... -
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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 2 by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic -- and to hold the title Chrestomanci... There is a world in which the peaceful city-state of Caprona is threatened by the malevolent machinations of a mysterious enchanter..Categorized as:
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Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe "Mightiest" of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is back! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. One hundred percent pure bad-@$$. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission - and all the power she needs to make her own life a living hell...Categorized as:
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