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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... -
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The Last Man Alive by A.S. Neill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe adventures of a group who survived a poisonous cloud that turned everyone else into stone...Categorized as:
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z...Categorized as:
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Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsBefore you see the movie, read the original novel! First published more than thirty-five years ago, Pierre Boulle's chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history, from the classic 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, through four sequels and two television series . . . and now the newest film adaptation directed by Tim Burton...Categorized as:
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The Castle by Franz Kafka
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsTranslated and with a preface by Mark HarmanLeft unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle...Categorized as:
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsJason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future...Categorized as:
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![House of Stairs by William Sleator]()
House of Stairs by William Sleator
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives... -
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The Body Snatchers (Stephen King Horror Library) by Jack Finney, Stephen King
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThis edition of Finney's horror classic contains an introduction by Stephen King as well as a modernized text...Categorized as:
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![A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick]()
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations...Categorized as:
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Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union—suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K...Categorized as:
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Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhile sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels...Categorized as:
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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, Loren Eiseley
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades...Categorized as:
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The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D...Categorized as:
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Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2, edited by Ben Bova.Before 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing... -
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![Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny]()
Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae...Categorized as:
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![Blame!, Vol. 3 by Tsutomu Nihei]()
Blame!, Vol. 3 by Tsutomu Nihei
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." â€"Play Magazine Having been delivered an imperative by the Authority to find the Net Terminal Genes--the key to halting the rapid and random growth of Cluster Town--Killy and Cibo come closer to unlocking the secrets of the Netsphere... -
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Blame!, Vol. 5 by Tsutomu Nihei
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKilly has been blazing through the deadly caves of Toha Heavy Industries. But even as he comes closer to finding humans with Net Terminal Genes, the one thing he's been trying to avoid stands in his way... "Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down... -
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Blame!, Vol. 4 by Tsutomu Nihei
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Cibo's body dies during the battle between the Electrofishers and the Safeguard, her consciousness is teleported to a Backup Cyberspace, where she overloads the program the Safeguard is using to control its troops... -
![Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka]()
Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt may or may not be contagious. There seems to be no cure for it. Yet, Monmow Disease, a life-threatening condition that transforms a person into a dog-like beast, is not the only villain in this shocking triumph of a medical thriller by manga-god Osamu Tezuka...
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