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The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![Sex, Death, and Money: Season 1 by Cebelius]()
Sex, Death, and Money: Season 1 by Cebelius
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis season, on the most unfiltered reality show in the universe, the one to watch will be human … Succubi treat all other species as livestock. Gene seeds from every corner of the universe are bought and sold for sustenance, for labor … for fun. Yet, for all their advantages over natural breeding programs, gene seeds are not without risk... -
![The Egg by Andy Weir]()
The Egg by Andy Weir
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA short story about the universe and your place in it...Categorized as:
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![Ubik by Philip K. Dick]()
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation...Categorized as:
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![A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash]()
A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaised by a narcissistic mother, the Rowan children’s magical talents were twisted to fit her needs. When Rachel dies, her children must confront the past to have a future.Rachel Rowan could sniff out secrets and her antique shop, Rosemary Thyme, was a front to torment the residents of Grimsby. When she dies, her children are faced with the deadly fallout of blackmail, murder, and magic...Categorized as:
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![The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall]()
The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1925 three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphins. After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal... -
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Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse... -
![The Humans by Matt Haig]()
The Humans by Matt Haig
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsBody-snatching has never been so heartwarming . . .The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics, and that most interesting subject of all: ourselves. Combine Douglas Adams’s irreverent take on life, the universe, and everything with a genuinely moving love story, and you have some idea of the humor, originality, and poignancy of Matt Haig’s latest novel... -
![Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs by SubGenius Foundation, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs]()
Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs by SubGenius Foundation, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIts hour come round at last: the prophesied do-it-yourself end times religion for swinging mutants and terminal abnormals Eternal Salvation- or triple your money back. Beyond science, reason, and orgasm... -
![The Empty Men by Luke Smitherd]()
The Empty Men by Luke Smitherd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe long-awaited sequel to the #1 Amazon and Audible bestseller The Stone Man, shortlisted for Audible Book of the Year 2015 On a quiet seafront in the middle of the afternoon the sun sets, the clouds part, and something like a pale, elongated human figure appears on the horizon. For Maria, watching from the beach, it’s proof that she should never have dared to return... -
![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
![Intercepts by T.J. Payne]()
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
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Pastoralia by George Saunders
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWith this new collection, George Saunders takes us even further into the shocking, uproarious and oddly familiar landscape of his imagination.The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity-and our humanity-in a startling new light...Categorized as:
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![Reckoning by W. Michael Gear]()
Reckoning by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sixth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the Donovanian sky. The Corporation has returned. Donovan's wealth is a lure for the powerful families who control the Board... -
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![The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 28 ratings&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
![Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman]()
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over...Categorized as:
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![One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz]()
One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMichelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America...to a place she never knew existed--a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows--if she can find the key to survival...Categorized as:
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![Hidden by Eve Kenin, Eve Silver]()
Hidden by Eve Kenin, Eve Silver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTatiana has honed her genetic gifts to perfection. She can withstand the subzero temperatures of the Northern Waste, read somebody’s mind with the briefest touch, and slice through bone with her bare hands. Which makes her one badass chick, all right. Nothing gets to her. Until she meets Tristan. Villain or ally, she can’t be sure... -
![The Gathering Darkness by Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin]()
The Gathering Darkness by Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 KINDLE BESTSELLER in "Metaphysical & Visionary" Be careful what you wish for. A year earlier, with the help of enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, all of Penelope Drayton Spence’s dreams had come true. Now, as one of the country’s top journalists, she has discovered what she thought would make her happy was only making her busy... -
![Descent by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Descent by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead will rise and the living will fall. The zombies have trapped them. Just a small band of survivors, alone in a building surrounded by hordes.Ken's family is shattered. His wife doesn't trust him. His son is gone. And his daughters... are changing.The survivors want to fight. To live. But some of them will not survive. Some will die - or worse. And the rest will find that the only way out... -
![Thrum by Meg Smitherman]()
Thrum by Meg Smitherman
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmi awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems... -
![The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick]()
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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![Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLESCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN AWAKING NIGHTMARE...Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders... -
![VALIS by Philip K. Dick]()
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsVALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser... -
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![Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky]()
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Moscow and Paris, Ouspensky's only full-length novel explores the theme of "eternal recurrence", a theory of time developed in Ouspensky's classic book A New Model of the Universe... -
![Whiplash by Claudy Conn]()
Whiplash by Claudy Conn
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhy do second chances have to come with complications? Trevor, Prince of Lugh, had been thwarted from putting Pestale, the eldest Dark Prince, to death, but now he's been asked to investigate whether the Dark Prince has evaded punishment. This time, Trevor plans to make sure Pestale is taken care of permanently...Categorized as:
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![The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy]()
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective... -
![Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing alive just means you have more to lose. The zombies are changing. Growing faster. Stronger. Smarter. Working together to destroy all of humanity.Ken Strickland has found his family. But finding something and keeping it are two very different things.The survivors are bruised. They are broken. And they are about to find out that the worst monsters are among those they count as their friends... -
![The Reincarnationist Papers - Origins Prequel by D. Eric Maikranz]()
The Reincarnationist Papers - Origins Prequel by D. Eric Maikranz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Reincarnationist Papers is now the Paramount movie INFINITE starring Mark Wahlberg...Categorized as:
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![The Traitor's Bride by Alix Nichols]()
The Traitor's Bride by Alix Nichols
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDisgraced war hero Areg Sebi is on the scaffold, laying his head on the block. A priestess chants a prayer for the major's soul.In the crowd below, laundress Etana Tidryn stares into his eyes. Last night his lips were hot against hers. He worshipped her with the desperation of the damned.. -
![Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin]()
Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDystopian debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to contend with what they tried to forget, and the dissenting doctor who seeks to protect her patients from further harm...Categorized as:
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Lexicon by Max Barry
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science... -
![Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson]()
Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErickson's funniest and most intensely confessional novel edges Los Angeles up against the next millennium and into a vortex of fire. The city is a surreal landscape overrun by abducted strippers, nomadic artists, reluctant pornographers, subversive newspaper columnists, alienated movie critics, teenage hookers afraid of the rain, and legendary filmmakers who may or may not exist...Categorized as:
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![The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick]()
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ... -
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![No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson]()
No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll of humanity will get the virus. Who dies and who lives depends on her. Can Cady convince anyone that the virus to end all viruses is about to be released? Or will she have to quarantine her family and hope that at least their small haven will be spared? One loss, and then another and another bombard Cady and her small family and she realizes no one is safe... -
![I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison]()
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirst published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition... -
![Cost of Survival by Bonnie R. Paulson]()
Cost of Survival by Bonnie R. Paulson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy dad predicted World War III would happen in our lifetime. He was right. Mom's bleeding in my arms right now. She could die any moment, but not before she's made me promise three things: Pray. Don't trust anyone. Stay alive. I promised, but I don't know if I can keep them. Not surviving World War III doesn't scare me, it's surviving it that does... -
![The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love]()
The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest."A bravura, unforgettable performance."--Namwali Serpell, author of The FurrowsWhat if the life you didn't live was as real as the one you did?Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month... -
![The Body Snatchers (Stephen King Horror Library) by Jack Finney, Stephen King]()
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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![The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro]()
The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dead rise...A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.Humanity fallsA lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy...Categorized as:
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![Island by Aldous Huxley]()
Island by Aldous Huxley
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there...Categorized as:
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![Freeware by Rudy Rucker]()
Freeware by Rudy Rucker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme.The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic "Software... -
![Everyone Says That at the End of the World by Owen Egerton]()
Everyone Says That at the End of the World by Owen Egerton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEarth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. .Now the asylum is being shut down... -
![The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick]()
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn The Divine Invasion, Philip K...Categorized as:
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![The Return by Ben Bova]()
The Return by Ben Bova
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth... -
![A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims]()
A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The smartest zombie novel since Colson Whitehead's Zone One."-Ron Charles, The Washington Post"A Questionable Shape presents the yang to the yin of Whitehead’s Zone One, with chess games, a dinner invitation, and even a romantic excursion. Echoes of [Thomas] Bernhard’s hammering circularity and [David Foster] Wallace’s bright mind that can’t stop making connections are both present... -
![She Wouldn't Change a Thing by Sarah Adlakha]()
She Wouldn't Change a Thing by Sarah Adlakha
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha's story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves. A second chance is the last thing she wants.When thirty-nine year old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her seventeen-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there... -
![The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, a brilliant autobiographical portrayal of a father-son relationship... -
![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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![The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq]()
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished...
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