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Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov · 240 pages

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Impe

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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · 562 pages

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entir

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Seven Surrenders

Ada Palmer · 400 pages

"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and to

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Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert · 256 pages

**Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time** Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the po

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The Map of Time

Félix J. Palma · 613 pages

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FreakAngels, Volume 1

Warren Ellis, Paul Duffield

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1633

Eric Flint, David Weber · 643 pages

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The Children of the Sky

Vernor Vinge · 444 pages

"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines

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All Clear

Connie Willis · 641 pages

When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.

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1634: The Galileo Affair

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis · 688 pages

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Seed to Harvest

Octavia E. Butler · 784 pages

The Patternist series, originally published from 1977-1984, details a secret history continuing into from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague. A profile of Butler in Black Women in America notes that the themes of the series include "racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering,

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FreakAngels, Volume 5

Warren Ellis, William Christensen, Paul Duffield · 144 pages

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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

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Island in the Sea of Time

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, i

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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

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The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 517 pages

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galax

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The Sending

Isobelle Carmody · 768 pages

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More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon · 233 pages

From the back cover of Del Rey paperback November 1978: The coming of the superman without a superego! Take six people -- extraordinary people. And stir in the melting pot of creation. Take away their human frailties. Burnish their strengths. And create a superman -- **Homo gestalt**, the last step in man's evolution. Now step back... and learn the meaning of fear!

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Mountain of Black Glass

Tad Williams · 736 pages

Teacher Renie Sulaweyo, the Bushman!Xabbu, and their companions struggle to solve the mysteries of Otherland before the virtual reality realm run by the ruthless Grail Brotherhood takes over the minds of Earth's children forever.

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FreakAngels, Volume 3

Warren Ellis

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The Urth of the New Sun

Gene Wolfe · 372 pages

Sequel to: The book of the new sun. Severian, the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die.

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Time's Eye

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter · 328 pages

Earth under observation by the ancient Firstborn, is carved up into a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Two groups of refugees are determined to win the race for knowledge.

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Crisis on Infinite Earths

Marv Wolfman · 396 pages

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