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Man Plus
Frederik Pohl
Man Plus [1]: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mar...
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Walter Tevis
T. J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy.But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that ultimately ends in tragedy.SF Masterworks #146
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, t...
Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick
One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context.Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, wher...
A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick
Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that ev...
The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregna...
Mockingbird
Walter Tevis
Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction.Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to li...
Monday Begins on Saturday
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
When young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, where research into magic is serious business. W...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of three Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth....
More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the re...