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The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNamed a Top 10 Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly • a national bestseller • a New York Times Editor's Choice pick“A contemporary writer of thrilling originality . . . The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty.” —The Washington Post“Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting...Categorized as:
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![The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem]()
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work...Categorized as:
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![The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov]()
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together... -
![The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford]()
The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis novel was the source text of Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". It follows the career of the sardonic narrator from the organized sadism of Marine basic training to an assignment as a combat reporter in Vietnam to his experiences as a platoon commander after the Tet offensive, portraying the descent into barbarism that marked America's intervention in Vietnam... -
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![The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore]()
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsNew York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win... -
![Permutation City by Greg Egan]()
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control... -
![Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov]()
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRobot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s----exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth... -
![Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict]()
Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and The Only Woman in the Room.Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments... -
![Paradox Alley by John DeChancie]()
Paradox Alley by John DeChancie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in STARRIGGER and RED LIMIT FREEWAY, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe don’t seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all... -
![Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson]()
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet... -
![True Names by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky]()
True Names by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDisaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities — their True Names — secret to avoid prosecution by their "Great Adversary" — the government of the United States... -
![The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl]()
The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOn completion of her training as an agent of the interstellar federation's Anthropological Service, Elana is sent to a world whose people may soon destroy their civilization... -
![Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long]()
Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNow or Never. . . It's the last chance for Cynthia Brightly, the ton's most bewitching belle. Driven out of London by a secret scandal, she must find a grand husband at the Redmonds' house party before word of her downfall spreads all over England... -
![Tau Zero by Poul Anderson]()
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration.Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything... -
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![The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobert Anson Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction"... -
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Word Processor of the Gods by Stephen King, Jean-Pierre Berman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the days when dedicated word processors were still popular, the main character, a middle-aged writer disenchanted with his wife (a large-figured, shrewish, tyrannical woman), teenage son (an amateur "musician" with an attitude disorder), and life in general, gets a gift from his nephew (a teenage genius) – a custom-built word processor... -
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Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events...Categorized as:
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![Midnight by Dean Koontz]()
Midnight by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsDean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, invites you into the shocking world of Moonlight Cove--where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature.The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges... -
![The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict]()
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the greatest scientists in history, written by New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict!In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow... -
![The World Inside by Robert Silverberg]()
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth 2381. Welcome to Urban Monad 116. A lofty spire reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony... -
![The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act by Ray Bradbury]()
The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA short story by Ray Bradbury, the prequel to "Fahrenheit 451".First published in The Reporter, August 7 1951... -
![The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak]()
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA dazzling debut novel—at once a charming romance and a moving coming-of-age story—about what happens when a fourteen-year old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soulmate.Billy Marvin’s first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky... -
![The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick, Mark Hurst]()
The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick, Mark Hurst
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHere's a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writers of today. This anthology is full of both new and classic ideas, brimming over with wit and the author's natural sense of fun...Categorized as:
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![Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford]()
Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio…and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926...Categorized as:
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![Pavane by Keith Roberts]()
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the year 1588, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated. That single tragedy set off a whole series of events, resulting in the Spanish Armada's defeat of England and subsequent demise of Protestantism. Now it's the 20th century, and the Church of Rome reigns supreme...Categorized as:
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![Dante's Equation by Jane Jensen]()
Dante's Equation by Jane Jensen
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn a breathless thriller that explores the relationship between science and the divine, good and evil, space and time, Jane Jensen takes us from the world we know into a reality we could only scarcely imagine. Until now.Rabbi Aharon Handalman’s expertise with Torah code–rearranging words and letters in the Bible–has uncovered a man’s name... -
![Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan]()
Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati... -
![Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer]()
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges...Categorized as:
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![Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling]()
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsLaura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is locked in computers and carefully rationed through a global communications network... -
![The Master of the World (Extraordinary Voyages, #53) by Jules Verne]()
The Master of the World (Extraordinary Voyages, #53) by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination... -
![C by Tom McCarthy, Stephen Hoye]()
C by Tom McCarthy, Stephen Hoye
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSerge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body - which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life...
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