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81) Exhalation
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse...
82) Radicalized
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Pub. Date
2019.
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From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one book. Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity...
83) Robot dreams
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Pub. Date
c1986
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Contains a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov between 1940 through the 1980s, that explore the themes of science fiction, such as robotics, space travel, and aliens
84) The soft machine
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Series
Nova series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1966]
Description
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
88) Variant
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Variant (Robison Wells) volume 1
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After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
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Pub. Date
1987
Description
A collection of stories from Katherine V. Forrest, a pioneer of lesbian fiction and a four-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. From erotic speculation to incisive investigation, from moral dilemma to chilling horror, and from peril to passion, Forrest takes readers across the vivid landscape of her mind.The collection features the treasured erotic novella "O Captain, My Captain." Also includes stories featuring LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield...
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Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle when she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Through an agreement with the Havenites and her government, she was given a command far away from the war's battle lines. What she didn't realize was that she would find herself on a collision course with the interstellar syndicate of criminals known as Manpower.
Series
Guys read volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.
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Series
Hainish series volume 7
Description
On the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, society is divided into owners and assets, and freedom is cherished above all else.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary...
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A fictional journal that traces the life of Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in 2020 in the aftermath of a war between the United States and China which has resulted in social chaos, but left him and his family relatively comfortable.
99) Destiny's road
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Like Earth, the space colony of Destiny has its trading caravans, except on Destiny they don't deal in spices but speckles, an ingredient necessary for mental health. The hero is a member of a caravan and as the novel follows his adventures it describes the colony's unusual culture.
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