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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsCryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe... -
![The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program...Categorized as:
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![The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly to Earth.But humanity must get a foothold on Mars...Categorized as:
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![Anathem by Neal Stephenson]()
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls... -
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![How Firm a Foundation by David Weber]()
How Firm a Foundation by David Weber
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know... -
![The Dance of Time by Eric Flint, David Drake]()
The Dance of Time by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Malwa and their evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again...Categorized as:
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![1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon]()
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNONA New Day in the New WorldIt’s 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start it off with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked...Categorized as:
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![The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late...Categorized as:
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![A Mighty Fortress by David Weber]()
A Mighty Fortress by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYoung Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he’s won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He’s smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm... -
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By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them... -
![Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra]()
Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel: This is the trip you gotta take. And then when you take it--wham--you are faced with a savage choice of do-overs to correct past blunders. Roy Hobbs blew the cash windfall from his best-seller book. Gone was his money, and then his wife Rachel was murdered with the killer never found. Roy chose to pick up the pieces, riding into his sunset as a crime reporter in a smaller market...Categorized as:
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![1636: Flight of the Nightingale by David Carrico]()
1636: Flight of the Nightingale by David Carrico
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTWO SHORT NOVELS SET IN ERIC FLINT'S BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES from David Carrico, coauthor of 1636: The Devil's Opera and The Span of Empire... -
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Revelations by Robert Storey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHidden deep beneath a remote desert is our planet’s biggest secret. Sarah Morgan’s only mistake? Finding it.The world holds its breath as the colossal asteroid 2011 AG5 hurtles towards the earth. As humanity is faced with extinction, archaeologist Sarah Morgan is in a race against time to uncover a secret that has been buried for millennia: that an advanced ancestor once populated the earth...Categorized as:
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![1635: Music and Murder by David Carrico]()
1635: Music and Murder by David Carrico
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1635: Murder and Music.Music . . .It's been said that musicians live for the next new sound. Well, the musicians of Europe were presented with the biggest new sound ever when the Ring of Fire brought the future back to 1631... -
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![Crosstime by Andre Norton]()
Crosstime by Andre Norton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsA DESPERATE SEACH ACROSS PARALLEL WORLDSAn orphan, Blake Walker has never really known who he was, and his strange flashes of intuition have always set him apart from those who raised him and everyone else he has known. Acting on one of those flashes, he prevented a murder...Categorized as:
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![Ovid’s Race by Leigh Lyn]()
Ovid’s Race by Leigh Lyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsOvid's Race is the story of Matt Archer, whose day job is frustrating and holding him back. But by night, he’s competing to build humanity’s destiny… Matt dreams of designing a cooler future. Fed up with churning out boring architecture in his corporate career, he yearns to apply his creative talents to more ambitious projects...Categorized as:
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![Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 by Murray Leinster]()
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 by Murray Leinster
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThe Wabbly, uncombatable engine of war, spreads unparalleled death and destruction—until Sergeant Walpole "strikes at the morale" of its crew...Categorized as:
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![A Lone Star in the Sky (A Future Classics Anthology Book 2) by J. Kathleen Cheney, William Ledbetter]()
A Lone Star in the Sky (A Future Classics Anthology Book 2) by J. Kathleen Cheney, William Ledbetter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThe Texans are at it again! A man sent to stop the world’s first zero-G birth. A deep space pilot who runs headlong into Einstein’s theory of relativity. A synthetic human fighting for survival in a world that sees her as disposable. All these stories and more can be found in A LONE STAR IN THE SKY, the second anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers' group of North Dallas...Categorized as:
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![Gods of Dawn by Steve White]()
Gods of Dawn by Steve White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsBook #6 in Steve White's exciting Jason Thanou series. Jason and his team from the Temporal Regulatory Authority must travel to late 20th century Earth to prevent a device that allows its user to see back in time from falling into the hands of the Transhumanist Underground. Jason Thanou has fought for the continued existence of humanity across the centuries...Categorized as:
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![Ghosts of Time by Steve White]()
Ghosts of Time by Steve White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsBook #4 of the Jason Thanou Time Travel series. Jason and his team travel to the latter days of the American Civil War to combat a transhumanist threat. Sequel to Pirates of the Timestream...Categorized as:
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![1637: The Volga Rules by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett]()
1637: The Volga Rules by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNEW ENTRY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING, GENRE-DEFINING ALTERNATE HISTORY SERIES. It’s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception...Categorized as:
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![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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![The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOn a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs... -
![1636: Calabar's War by Charles E. Gannon, Robert E. Waters]()
1636: Calabar's War by Charles E. Gannon, Robert E. Waters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsNEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES FROM NEBULA AND DRAGON AWARD NOMINEE CHARLES E. GANNON AND ROBERT WATERSDomingos Fernandes Calabar started out as a military advisor for the Portuguese in Brazil. But to his superiors, he was still nothing more than a mameluco, a man of mixed blood. Until, that is, the Dutch arrived and he switched sides...Categorized as:
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![The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer]()
The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history…with a twist.While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion—the mechanism that powers the sun...Categorized as:
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![The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith]()
The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDenver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own...Categorized as:
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![Steam Legion by Evan Currie]()
Steam Legion by Evan Currie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Library would not burn. Dyna of Sparta would not allow it, on her life and her ancestors she so swore.An Epic adventure set during the Early Roman Empire's era of expansion and unrest. Steam Legion develops from a real historical crossroads and explodes out in a new direction, derailing our history centuries before the first railroads were invented...Categorized as:
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![1636: The China Venture by Eric Flint, Iver P. Cooper]()
1636: The China Venture by Eric Flint, Iver P. Cooper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Ring of Fire Series Continues! The United States of Europe finds itself embroiled in international intrigue, as the uptimers attempt to establish an embassy in Ming Dynasty era China...Categorized as:
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![Grantville Gazette, Volume 7 by Eric Flint]()
Grantville Gazette, Volume 7 by Eric Flint
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 7 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com...Categorized as:
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![The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson by Kim Stanley Robinson, Jonathan Strahan]()
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson by Kim Stanley Robinson, Jonathan Strahan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries — these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson...Categorized as:
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![Macaque Attack! by Gareth L. Powell]()
Macaque Attack! by Gareth L. Powell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Spitfire pilot monkey Ack-Ack Macaque faces a world on the brink in this adventure, the conclusion to his astonishing trilogy...Categorized as:
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![Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds]()
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThree hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer, Arthur C. Clarke]()
The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer, Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsBLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND -- A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS....Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Haroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines...Categorized as:
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![Aztec Century by Christopher Evans]()
Aztec Century by Christopher Evans
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsBritain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race. Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to fight the invaders is Princess Catherine, elder daughter of the British monarch...Categorized as:
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![Assignment in Nowhere by Keith Laumer]()
Assignment in Nowhere by Keith Laumer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsTHE COMING OF THE BLIGHTIt seemed as though the world was eroding right under everyone's feet. Stories disappeared from magazines; the baron's silver coat of arms, polished in the morning, was pitted with corrosion by afternoon; toadstools were springing up from every corner...Categorized as:
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![The Amazing Dr. Darwin by Charles Sheffield]()
The Amazing Dr. Darwin by Charles Sheffield
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsNot that Darwin—his grandfather!18th Century Europe: It is an age when superstition is beginning to give way to the force of human reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer of the bizarre and the seemingly supernatural, no mystery can stand for long against Darwin’s enlightened analysis...Categorized as:
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![Antediluvian by Wil McCarthy]()
Antediluvian by Wil McCarthy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsWhat if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy.DEEP DIVE Before disaster erased the coastlines and river valleys of the Antediluvian age—before the mythic Flood—men and women struggled and innovated in a world of savage contrasts. It turns out that our legends of the Stone Age are even older than we think...Categorized as:
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![Earth Abides by George R. Stewart]()
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe cabin had always been a special retreat for Isherwood Williams, a haven from the demands of society. But one day while hiking, Ish was bitten by a rattlesnake, and the solitude he had so desired took on dire new significance. He was sick for days - although, somehow, he never doubted that he'd live through the ordeal...Categorized as:
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![Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker]()
Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist...Categorized as:
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![Zone Yellow: An Imperium Novel by Keith Laumer]()
Zone Yellow: An Imperium Novel by Keith Laumer
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsBrion Bayard, once of our own timeline and now Imperium Agent extraordinaire, had been on some pretty dangerous missions before - but never had he encountered so noxious a foe as the invading legions of giant plague-ridden rats who walked like men, spreading disease across the miltiple universes of the Imperium...Categorized as:
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![FRACTAL: A Time Travel Tale by Tony Ortiz]()
FRACTAL: A Time Travel Tale by Tony Ortiz
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsPrepare to embark on an epic journey that will challenge your very perception of reality. In " Fractal ," time is not a straight line but a tangled web waiting to be unraveled. Hector Herrera discovers an incredible power within himself - the ability to traverse time through his dreams. Imagine a world where you hold the key to righting the wrongs of the past...Categorized as:
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![Another Girl, Another Planet by Lou Antonelli]()
Another Girl, Another Planet by Lou Antonelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsDave Shuster has been confronted by secret government agents over a photo taken by a Mars lander of a graveyard complete with crosses on Mars. Shuster claims that – in an alternate timeline – he was a low-level bureaucrat in the administration of a joint U.S. – Soviet Mars colony when he was caught up in a murder mystery involving the illegal use of robot technology... -
![American Front by Harry Turtledove]()
American Front by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their longtime allies, Britain and France...Categorized as:
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![A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove]()
A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if when Columbus came to the New World he found, not Indians, but primitive apelike men who were soon dubbed "sims"?These immediate ancestors of modern man were less effective hunters, allowing prehistoric creatures such as mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to survive. Unable to learn human speech or conceptualize at a human level, sims could, however, be trained to do reliable work..Categorized as:
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![The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove, George R.R. Martin]()
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove, George R.R. Martin
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExplosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include: ¸ "Superiority": Arthur C...Categorized as:
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![Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel to the Adventures of Conrad Stargard by Leo Frankowski]()
Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel to the Adventures of Conrad Stargard by Leo Frankowski
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJust out of the Air Force, Tom looked up two of his old pals, one of whom had just wrangled with federal grant to study motorcycle gangs. For ease of study, the trio formed their own gang and hit the road. In their travels they come across a broken time machine - the world will never be the same again... -
![The Dervish House by Ian McDonald]()
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsISTANBUL: QUEEN OF CITIES. Here histories, empires, and continents meet and cross. It is the mid-twenty first century and Turkey is a proud and powerful member of a European Union that runs from the Atlantic to Mt. Ararat.In the sleepy Istanbul district of Eskiköy stands the former whirling dervish house of Adem Dede. Six characters' lives revolve around it... -
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Paths to Otherwhere by James P. Hogan
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsIn the face of planet-wide economic disaster, two totalitarian empires rise in China and Japan, threatening the world with a devastating war, and the police states of the U.S. and Europe place their hopes in a team of DNA scientists...Categorized as:
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