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41) Sunstorm
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A woman stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
42) Feed
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
44) Friday
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"Friday's an Artificial Person, a product of test-tube eugenics, with enormously enhanced intelligence, senses and reflexes (she's beautiful too). In a balkanized US, she's the top agent/courier working for Boss (alias Kettle Belly Baldwin, whom Heinlein-ers will recall from Assignment in Eternity), head of a vague, benevolent security network. And though Friday's idyllic group marriage falls apart (her partners are prejudiced against A.P.'s), she...
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From the Publisher: John Carter of Virginia-soldier, adventurer, swordsman, and perfect Southern gentleman-has been transported to the planet Mars. There he finds a wondrous world of fierce green giants, strange animals, unearthly adventure, and the beautiful Dejah Thoris, a captive princess. Can Carter adapt to this strange new environment? Can he save Dejah Thoris from a terrible death and return her to her people? And can love survive between an...
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High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet, to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves.
The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks,
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"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
48) Heretics of Dune
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Several millenia after the 3500 year rule of the God Emperor Leto II, various forces contend for power, and the freedom of humanity rests on avoiding Leto's grand design.
49) Artemis: a novel
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The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something...
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something...
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The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.
51) Farside
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When an Earth-sized planet circling a star thirty light-years away is detected, the race is on to build an astronomical observatory on Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth--a dangerous task plagued by accidents and breakdowns.
53) Insurgent
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
54) The Universe
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It's time for a new look at a very old universe. In its mysteries, we are finding the secrets of our past and the key to our future. This is a history of how we know what we do about space. Fifty years have flown by since man first ventured into space.
55) Anvil of stars
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The “provocative and entertaining follow-up” to The Forge of God: Exiled from their planet, humans unite with one alien race in the fight against another (Publishers Weekly).
The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists—and children. After one alien culture destroyed their home, another offered the opportunity for revenge...
The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists—and children. After one alien culture destroyed their home, another offered the opportunity for revenge...
56) Catching fire
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By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
57) Tono-Bungay
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A combination of social satire and science fiction, this novel presents the story of George Ponderovo, a young man who leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market a bogus medicine named Tono-Bungay.
58) Blue Mars
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The First Hundred settlers on Mars have succeeded in making Mars into a green, water-rich land, but are now facing a crisis due to an impending ice-age and problems on Earth that are causing its people to seek a better life on the former desert planet.
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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Written over the course of 40 years following a pivotal healing experience in 1867, Science and Health is the result of extensive Biblical study by Mary Baker Eddy. This woman, who discovered Christian Science in 1866 and felt inspired to write her book soon after, poses in her work an entirely metaphysical view of Christianity. Eddy conceives of sin, sickness, and death as not of God, and hence not real. She strives to assert that reaching for a...
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