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Nona the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 480 pages

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole ci

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City of Illusions

Ursula K. Le Guin · 199 pages

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and no memory to tell who — or what — he was. His eyes were not the eyes of a human. The forest people took him in and raised him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him in forest lore, giving him all the knowledge they had. But they could not solve the riddle of his past, and at last he

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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

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The Chimes

Anna Smaill · 304 pages

A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain. No memories, beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment. No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden. No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them. The world around Simon s

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Mind's Eye

Douglas E. Richards · 360 pages

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The Golden Age

John C. Wright · 304 pages

"The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale - the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia - Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion." "Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousan

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Hollow World

Michael J. Sullivan · 371 pages

"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and

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The Dark Beyond the Stars

Frank M. Robinson · 412 pages

For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space. The ship's captain--immortal, obessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying. Only Sparrow, a young cre

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Revan

Drew Karpyshyn · 298 pages

Revan, a former Jedi whose memories have been erased, believes that he somehow stumbled on a secret that threatens the existence of the Republic and must try to stop it, even though he no longer knows what it is.

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Crystal Rain

Tobias S. Buckell · 351 pages

Twenty-seven years after washing up on the shores with no memory of his past, John deBrun discovers that he retains an understanding about a mythical artifact and becomes Nanagada's only chance for survival against the fearsome Azteca.

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Faller

Will McIntosh · 352 pages

Day one: No one can remember anything--who they are, family and friends, or even how to read. Reality has fragmented and Earth consists of an islands of rock floating in an endless sky. Food, water, electricity--gone, except for what people can find, and they can't find much. Faller's pockets contain tantalizing clues: a photo of himself and a woman he can't remember, a toy solider with a parachut

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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir · 496 pages

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of mile

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Hull Zero Three

Greg Bear · 320 pages

A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms-he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are questions--

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2312

Kim Stanley Robinson · 568 pages

"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on

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Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer · 432 pages

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: t

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Shadow of the Scorpion

Neal Asher · 272 pages

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Ishmael

Barbara Hambly · 256 pages

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The Lost Planet

Rachel Searles · 379 pages

Waking up on a distant planet, Chase Garrety is horrified to learn that he has no memory of his life and finds himself under the protection of a mysterious benefactor who requires him to complete an important mission before time runs out.

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A Thousand Words for Stranger

Julie E. Czerneda · 367 pages

The tenth anniversary edition of Julie Czerneda's debut science fiction novel, the story of a woman on the run, from the law, her own people, and an unknown pursuer. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, Sira must stay free long enough to regain her identity and the full use of her telepathic powers-for failure may cost not only her own future but that of her entire race.

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Black Mountain

Greig Beck · 312 pages

Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend. Only one elder remains to guard its long-forgotten, deadly secret and there is a fear that

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Idlewild

Nick Sagan · 304 pages

Upon waking up with no memory, a young man is plagued with finding out his past, figuring out whom from his past he can trust, and solving the question of who is trying to kill him.

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The World of Null-A

A.E. van Vogt · 190 pages

Who was Gosseyn? Gosseyn himself didn't know his own identity -- only that he could be killed, yet live again... But someone knew who Gosseyn was -- and was using him as a pawn in a deadly game that spanned the Galaxy!

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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Samuel R. Delany · 371 pages

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time. The novel's topic is info

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