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Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Escaping Earth just before it is demolished to make way for a new galactic highway, reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent embarks on a series of off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, accompanied by a variety of unusual companions.
215 p. 1980
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.
255 p. 1951
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
179 p. 1996
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Bujold, Lois McMaster
Cordelia's Honor
Includes the novels Shards of Honor, and Barrayar. Sick of combat, Cordelia Naismith is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, Aral become guardian of the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar. Cordelia soon finds herself allied with Aral to keep the child safe from high-tech assassins engaged in a dynastic civil war fought with biowar technology.
480 p. 1996
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him - but at what cost?
192 p. 1986
Adult Fiction Book
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Butler, Octavia E.
Parable of the Sower
Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina--who can feel the pain of others and is crippled by it--becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed".
299 p. 1993
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.
324 p. 2002
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Clarke, Arthur Charles
Childhood's End
The Overlords, a race of aliens, offer humankind a golden age of peace and prosperity, but at the cost of freedom.
240 p. 2001
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Crichton, Michael
Sphere
When a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the floor of the ocean, a group of American scientists race to the scene and are shocked by what they learn from the vessel, which apparently crashed some three hundred years earlier.
385 p. 1987
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
259 p. 1992
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Dickson, Gordon R.
Other
An established political figure on the planet Association, Bleys Ahrens sends his people to spread his message to all the new worlds, but his bid for power is challenged by Hal Mayne, whom Bleys must convert or destroy. Part of the Childe Cycle series by this Minnesota author.
378 p. 1994
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Farmer, Philip Jose
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
The great explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads a remarkable group of historical figures, including a wise extraterrestrial, on a search to discover why they have been granted new lives.
220 p. 1998
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Case is hired to steal data from one of the almighty megacorps. Riding shotgun is Molly, a wired-up samurai. They venture deep into the Matrix, amongst the gangsters of the Sprawl - only to confront the Neuromancer, who is playing a game far deadlier than their own.
278 p. 1994
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Heinlein, Robert A.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Valentine Michael Smith is the stranger. A young human, reared by Martians on Mars, he is brought to Earth where he must adapt not only to the planet's social injustices and its population's foibles, but to its strong gravitational field and rich atmosphere.
408 p. 1961
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Herbert, Frank
Dune
This epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by his rival.
517 p. 1984
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
This is the story of misfit Bernard Marx, who brings the innocent Savage into the neatly programmed "Brave New World" of test-tube babies and drug-controlled happiness.
270 p. 1989
Adult Fiction Book
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Keyes, Daniel
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon, who desperately wants to be able to read and write, undergoes a brain operation which dramatically increases his intelligence. But can his emotional development keep pace with the intellectual?
274 p. 1966
Adult Fiction Book
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L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
211 p. 1962
Children's Fiction Book
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Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.
304 p. 2000
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Lewis, C. S.
Out of the Silent Planet
Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the Earth. This is the first novel in CS Lewis' classic Space trilogy.
174 p. 1952
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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