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Fahrenheit 451
1953 novel by Ray Bradbury
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Childhood's End
1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
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Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. It centers on school teacher and former biologist Ryland Grace, who wakes up aboard a spacecraft, afflicted with amnesia.
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2010: Odyssey Two
1982 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
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Ringworld
Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in
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Martian Time-Slip
novel by Philip K. Dick
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A Case of Conscience
1958 novel by James Blish
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Omertà
novel by Mario Puzo
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The Space Merchants
novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
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The Wanderer
novel by Fritz Leiber
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The Blue World
1966 novel by Jack Vance
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Dragonflight
1968 novel by Anne McCaffrey
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The Eight
1988 novel by Katherine Neville
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The Population Bomb
essay by Paul R. Ehrlich
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Ready Player Two
2020 novel by Ernest Cline
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
non-fiction work by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Tales from the White Hart
1957 short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke
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Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
1976 Star Wars novel by Alan Dean Foster
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The Passage
2010 novel by Justin Cronin
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Expedition to Earth
short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke
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Dragonquest
Dragonquest is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the sequel to Dragonflight, set seven years later and the second book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. Dragonquest was first published by Ballantine Books in May 1971.
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Protector
1973 novel by Larry Niven
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1992 book by Carl Sagan
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The October Country
short story collection by Ray Bradbury
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The Lovers
1961 novel by Philip José Farmer
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The Squares of the City
novel by John Brunner
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Bring the Jubilee
1953 novel by Ward Moore
Diet for a Small Planet
book by Frances Moore Lappé
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Reach for Tomorrow
1956 short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke
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Up the Line
novel by Robert Silverberg
Seconds
2014 graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Chthon
novel by Piers Anthony
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Thorns
novel by Robert Silverberg
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The Tolkien Reader
omnibus of several previously published books and works by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Murder at Mt. Fuji
1982 novel
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The Green Odyssey
novel by Philip José Farmer
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The Whole Man
novel by John Brunner
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Untouched by Human Hands
1954 short story collection by Robert Sheckley
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The White Dragon
1978 novel by Anne McCaffrey
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The Charlemagne Pursuit
2008 novel by Steve Berry
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
novel by Anne Rice
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World of Ptavvs
1966 novel by Larry Niven
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Norstrilia
Norstrilia is a science fiction novel by American writer Paul Linebarger, published under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. The novel takes place in the universe of Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind. It was heavily influenced by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Norstrilia is in part a sequel to Smith's 1962 short story "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell", which features some of the same characters and settings. The novel was first published as a single book in 1975, after appearing earlier as two short novels in 1964 and 1968.
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Rocks of Ages
book by Stephen Jay Gould
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Daisy Jones & the Six
2019 novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid