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All Clear
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [2]: Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blit...
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow t...
Among Others
Jo Walton
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a sp...
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch [1]: A stunning space opera that asks what it means to be human in a universe guided by artificial intelligence.On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she se...
Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia Naismith [2]: Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on ...
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
You can't know there's a war on — for the Snakes coil and Spiders weave to keep you from knowing it's being fought over your live and dead body!1958 Hugo Award
Blackout
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [1]: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape histo...
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [3]: The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interpl...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead.All knowledge was gone.In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A hand-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound p...
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man - a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics... until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens...
The City & the City
China Miéville
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to po...
The Complete Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold
Omnibus of all three Chalion novels.The Curse of Chalion (2001)Seeking a position in the royal household, Cazaril is offered the post of secretary to the Royesse Iselle, the sister to the heir to Chalion's throne, but his new assignment brings him fa...
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
Cyteen [1]: The first part of C. J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained...
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [1]: This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep - but 30,000 years earlier.The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's...
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder.That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in ...
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Decades into the future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art inter...
The Dispossessed
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [5]: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist wor...
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors i...
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly ...
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh
Company Wars [1]: A blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies; a classic science fiction masterwork.1982 Hugo Award
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
McIntyre's tender and compassionate adventure story - a Hugo and Nebula Award winner and a New York Times bestseller.In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion,...
Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [1]: Dune is epic space opera, a saga of dynastic rivalry rooted in history and ecology, the story of the planet Arrakis 10 000 years from now, and of the conflicts over possession of Melange, a psycho-mutagenic "spice" vital to maintaining the ...
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin [1]: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parent...
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction...
Farmer in the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the...
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