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Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home... -
![Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien]()
Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the third in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners and Plague Journal) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government... -
![Prepper's Collapse by A.J. Newman]()
Prepper's Collapse by A.J. Newman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPrepper's Collapse - Book 2 in the Prepper’s Apocalypse series.Prepper Post-Apocalyptic Survival FictionEMP blasts started the apocalypse during Tom and his family's return flight home from vacation. Surviving the crash only caused them to confront the chaos of the apocalypse head-on... -
![The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury]()
The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrated Man," The Veldt, "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," and twenty other classics... -
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![Paradyzja by Janusz A. Zajdel, Mirosław Neinert]()
Paradyzja by Janusz A. Zajdel, Mirosław Neinert
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNajlepsza współczesna fantastyka to ma więc i Janusz to miał. Poczucie misji i świadomość że świat nie jest taki jak się wydaje, a naszą rzeczą jest to odkryć, ujawnić, nazwać. Ten problem wykracza poza doświadczenie komunizmu, które Janusza prześladowało, intrygowało, inspirowało, ale nie odebrało uniwersalizmu jego dziełu i spojrzeniu... -
![The Across the Universe Trilogy (Across the Universe, #1-3) by Beth Revis]()
The Across the Universe Trilogy (Across the Universe, #1-3) by Beth Revis
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![Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Novels & Stories 1950–1962: Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKurt Vonnegut’s signature qualities as a writer—what John Updike called “his free flow of invention, the surreal beauty of his imagery, and a colloquial American style justly ranked with Mark Twain’s”—are everywhere on display in this authoritative collection of his early fiction...Categorized as:
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![The Family Experiment by John Marrs]()
The Family Experiment by John Marrs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived... -
![Nemesis by T.C. Edge]()
Nemesis by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCromwell has been taken. Brie and Zander must go after him. And over in the city of Haven, the war rages on… Return to Haven one final time in the pulsating, breathtaking GRAND FINALE of the Enhanced Series... -
![Awaken by K.A. Riley]()
Awaken by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTraining continues, and Ash has just begun to scratch the surface of the secrets behind the Blight—the disease that's been killing off the entire adult population—and about the Aristocracy, the powerful and wealthy residents of the Arc who control everything... -
![The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros]()
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPrize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society’s collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears. After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son are among the rare survivors in rural north-west Wales...Categorized as:
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![The Darkest Minds Series Boxed Set by Alexandra Bracken]()
The Darkest Minds Series Boxed Set by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAll four novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds series--The Darkest Minds, Never Fade, In the Afterlight, and Through the Dark--are now available in one thrilling paperback boxed set... -
![Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a]()
Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity long ago transitioned to the era of holy technology. Now humans present as saintly animals, spending their days in meditation and drug-induced euphoria, far from the dark secrets their paradise is founded upon... -
![The Road Is A River by Nick Cole]()
The Road Is A River by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The Road is a River is a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American Southwest. The Road is a River concludes Nick Cole’s fantastic Wasteland Saga...Categorized as:
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![The Embers of Hope by Nick Jones]()
The Embers of Hope by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternate cover for this ASIN can be found hereAfter narrowly escaping the Shiryaevo Vault, Nathan O’Brien is on the run, adapting to life without Jennifer Logan. In his possession: a powerful mind control device known as the Histeridae and evidence of the Hibernation Program’s true agenda... -
![The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories by Rod Serling]()
The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubmitted for your approval...These nineteen classic stories confirm Rod Serling as one of the finest fantasy writers of our time. Serling's legendary television series The Twilight Zone consistently demonstrated his remarkable gift for storytelling. In the years that have followed, millions have experienced and remembered these timeless scenarios, now airing regularly on the Sci-Fi Channel... -
![The Chosen by T.C. Edge]()
The Chosen by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world thinks them gods. Only she knows different… Amber lives in a world full of lies. Within the great city of Olympus, so-called gods and goddesses reside, praised and worshipped by those deemed beneath them. The Children of the Prime, as they’re called, are blessed with wondrous and mysterious powers... -
![Trial of the Chosen by T.C. Edge]()
Trial of the Chosen by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmber's true nature has been revealed to the people of Olympus, and in spectacular fashion. What will happen to her now? And what of Lilly and Jude, their fates still unknown. Continue Amber's adventure as she falls deeper into the world of Olympus, and comes into contact with some of the most powerful Children of the Prime... -
![Trail of Misery by N.A. Broadley]()
Trail of Misery by N.A. Broadley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA deadly virus has left Beth alone and afraid.She must leave her home with almost no supplies when she is attacked by a neighbor. Now forced to set out on the Appalachian Trail with only her backpack, two guns and a turkey carving knife...Categorized as:
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![The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense]()
The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis (The Maze Runner Series, Book 1) by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Award-winning author James Dashner’s The Maze Runner shows the influences of the author’s broad reading... -
![The Works of Jules Verne by Jules Verne]()
The Works of Jules Verne by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Works of Jules Verne: 3 Books in 1- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- A Journey to the Center of the Earth- Around the World in Eighty...Categorized as:
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![Origins by Isamu Fukui]()
Origins by Isamu Fukui
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFifteen years ago, the Mayor of the Education City was presented with an unwelcome surprise by his superiors: twin six-month-old boys. As the Mayor reluctantly accepted the two babies, he had no way of knowing that they would change the city forever….Raised in the comfort of the Mayoral mansion, Umasi and Zen are as different as two brothers can be. Umasi is a good student; Zen an indifferent one... -
![Invader by T.C. Edge]()
Invader by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContinue Brie's pulse-pounding adventure in book seven of The Enhanced!The High Tower has fallen, changing the city forever, and thousands of Savants have been killed. But there’s one, above all, that the Nameless want gone... -
![Avenger by T.C. Edge]()
Avenger by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSitting alone up on level 12 of the City Guard HQ, Brie is rocked by the revelation about her past. Knowing that there’s only one person who can provide answers, she goes seeking the truth. In the coming days, however, the secrets of her past might just pale into insignificance with what’s about to happen in her future... -
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![Blindness / Seeing by José Saramago]()
Blindness / Seeing by José Saramago
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic of blindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for a group of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for the reader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. We return to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, a satirical commentary on government in general and democracy in particular... -
![The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders]()
The Semplica-Girl Diaries (short story) by George Saunders
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNovelette, Free online fiction.From newyorker.com“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” deals with a family in a not-too-distant future (or perhaps an alternate present or past?) that is struggling to keep up with the Joneses—which, in this society, means leasing some unusual garden ornaments... -
![We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat]()
We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers... -
![Feral Fate by Kendall Talbot]()
Feral Fate by Kendall Talbot
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe nightmare is far from over. After surviving the EMP blast that crippled their cruise ship, the exhausted passengers from Rose of the Sea finally reach dry land. But the deserted island has a sinister history, and one wrong step on its sandy shores can mean the difference between life and death.Gunner... -
![Retrograde by Tom Abrahams]()
Retrograde by Tom Abrahams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClayton Shepard dropped from the sky. Twice. Now, in the wake of twin cataclysmic blasts of energy from the sun, he is earthbound and far from home. While his family and friends seek safe harbor in an increasingly dangerous Texas, Clayton is forced underground in Colorado. He must free himself and finally find a way home in a world quickly slipping farther into the dark ages... -
![Families First: A Post-Apocalyptic Next World Series by Lance K. Ewing]()
Families First: A Post-Apocalyptic Next World Series by Lance K. Ewing
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a devastating Electromagnetic Pulse is detonated over the USA, it leads to a total loss of power and a complete and catastrophic breakdown of everyday society. As the country descends into chaos and anarchy, one man makes an epic decision in order to save his loved ones and find a place of safety...Categorized as:
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![Prophet Song by Paul Lynch]()
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning authorOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart...Categorized as:
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![And Still the Earth by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão]()
And Still the Earth by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System--sinister, omnipotent, secret--rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden... -
![Motorman by David Ohle]()
Motorman by David Ohle
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction. It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good could go out of print so quickly. And it is most curious that an introduction would even be required for a novel that, if you examine it carefully in the right kind oflight, might actually be seen to be steaming... -
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![Palm Sunday/Welcome to the Monkeyhouse by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Palm Sunday/Welcome to the Monkeyhouse by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity... -
![La Ballade de Lila K by Blandine Le Callet]()
La Ballade de Lila K by Blandine Le Callet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLa Ballade de Lila K, c'est d'abord une voix : celle d'une jeune femme sensible et caustique, fragile et volontaire, qui raconte son histoire depuis le jour où des hommes en noir font brutalement arrachée a sa mère, et conduite dans un Centre, mi-pensionnat mi-prison, où on l'a prise en charge.Surdouée, asociale, polytraumatisée, Lila a tout oublié de sa vie antérieure... -
![The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville]()
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the "The Machine of Understanding Other People," the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner worlds of those around him... -
![Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp]()
Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's time for blueblood Bernard Johnson to leave his boring life behind and go on The Vacation, a yearlong corporate-sponsored odyssey. But instead of seeing the world, Bernard is captured by terrorists, becomes a key figure in secret drug wars, and, worse, doesn't once miss his secure American Dream... -
![Antitype by M.D. Waters]()
Antitype by M.D. Waters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntitype is the prequel to acclaimed novels, Archetype and Prototype. Before Emma appears in their lives, two men face four months that will change their lives forever. One has dreams outside Richmond and away from his family business. The other wants to make the business his only focus... -
![The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami]()
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance... -
![Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson]()
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT ALL.”From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships... -
![A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar]()
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Wondering if there’s a novel out there that gives Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a run for its money? Here you go. [A Guardian and a Thief is] an indelible piece of writing, in equal parts dazzling and devastating...Categorized as:
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![Why Visit America by Matthew Baker]()
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEqual parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States... -
![Sirius by Stéphane Servant]()
Sirius by Stéphane Servant
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlors que le monde se meurt, Avril, une jeune fille, tente tant bien que mal d'élever son petit frère, Kid. Réfugiés au coeur d'une forêt, ils se tiennent à l'écart des villes et de la folie des hommes... jusqu'au jour où le mystérieux passé d'Avril les jette brutalement sur la route.Pourchassés, il leur faut maintenant survivre dans cet univers livre au chaos et à la sauvagerie...Categorized as:
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![Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein]()
Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another...Categorized as:
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![Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh]()
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations...Categorized as:
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![Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong]()
Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated language; "the Historian" interviews the Guide and annotates the commentaries. Cathy Park Hong's passionate and artful poem sequence weaves an ultimately revitalizing dialogue on shared experience in a globalized world, using language as subversion and disguise... -
![Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard]()
Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Ultimate CityLow-Flying AircraftThe Dead AstronautMy Dream of Flying to Wake IslandThe Life and Death of GodThe Greatest Television Show on EarthA Place and a Time to DieThe Comsat AngelsThe Beach...Categorized as:
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![Winter's King by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
Winter's King by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati EnquirerThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds...Categorized as:
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![Mi petición de más espacio by John Hersey]()
Mi petición de más espacio by John Hersey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUna calle en New Haven. Una fila de personas, cuadras de largo, más apretujadas que los subterráneos de las horas pico de los buenos viejos tiempos.Poynter ha estado en la línea desde antes del amanecer, al igual que miles de personas más, apretujadas, esperando su turno en la ventana para presentar sus peticiones individuales...
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