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The man in the high castle
by Philip K Dick
After the defeat of the Allies during World War II, the United States is divided up and ruled by the Axis powers
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Dawn's light
by Terri Blackstock
In the final book of the Restoration Series by bestselling author Terri Blackstock, the end of a global electrical blackout signals the beginning of the Branning family's ultimate test. Murder and affairs of the heart form the backdrop for a family sifting through the lessons they have learned--and how well they have truly learned them
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Parable of the talents
by Octavia E Butler
Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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Gridlinked : The First Agent Cormac Novel
by Neal L. Asher
The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow.
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The illustrated man by Ray BradburyThis is a collection of eighteen stories, depicting startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast space of stars and blackness, the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outposton a road that leads nowhere, the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets
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The edge of worlds
by Martha Wells
"An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be the last home of their ancestors and ask for help getting inside. But the Raksura fear it was built by their own distant ancestors, the Forerunners, and the lastsealed Forerunner city they encountered was a prison for an unstoppable evil. Prior to the groundlings' arrival, the Indigo Cloud court had been plagued by visions of a disaster that could destroy all the courts in the Reaches. Now, the court's mentors believe the ancient city is connected to the foretold danger. A small group of warriors, including consort Moon, an orphan new to the colony and the Raksura's idea of family, and sister queen Jade, agree to go with the groundling expedition to investigate. But the predatory Fell have found the city too, and in the race to keep the danger contained, the Raksura may be the ones who inadvertently release it. The Edge of Worlds, from celebrated fantasy author Martha Wells, returns to the fascinating world ofThe Cloud Roads for the first book in a new series of strange lands, uncanny beings, dead cities, and ancient danger. "
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Acorna : the unicorn girl
by Anne McCaffrey
A girl with the horn of a unicorn and supernatural powers is discovered amid the asteroids and taken to a planet run by child slave labor, where she grows up to fight the injustice in the series' first book. Reprint.
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City of Pearl
by Karen Traviss
Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland joins a mission to the remote planet of Cavanagh's Star, only to run afoul--along with the rest of her party and a small colony of fundamentalist humans--of the planet's guardian, Aras, an omnipotent being that will destroy anything--or anyone--that threatens the world's fragile native population. Original.
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Enclave
by Thomas Locke
"Four-time Christy award-winner crafts a compelling novel of scientific suspense with complex characters, intrigue, and cover-up in a world where nothing is as it seems."
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