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Backwards

Rob Grant · 352 pages

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Rick and Morty: Volume 3

Tom Fowler, Marc Ellerby, Ryan Hill, Pamela Ribon

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Doughnut

Tom Holt · 378 pages

Finding himself without a job, a wife, or money, Theo Bernstein's luck changes when a recently deceased friend leaves him the contents of his safety deposit box and sends Theo on a journey that will rewrite the laws of physics.

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Rick and Morty, Vol. 1

Zac Gorman · 114 pages

"Join the excitement as depraved genius Rick Sanchez embarks on insane adventures with his awkward grandson Morty across the universe and across time. Caught in the crossfire are his teenage granddaughter Summer, his veterinary surgeon daughter Beth, and his hapless son-in-law Jerry. This collection features the first five issues of the comic book series, including "The Wubba Lubba Dub Dub of Wall

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Redshirts

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)

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Homestuck

Andrew Hussie · 417 pages

A silly girl naps by her flowers. It is quite likely that she is about to or already has, or will forget and then remember to engage in a variety of silly antics involving pumpkins, rifles, narcolepsy, precognitive prognostication, dream selves, haunting bass solos, and an ageless, near-omnipotent pet dog.

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Where the Hell is Tesla?

Rob Dircks · 346 pages

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All Our Wrong Todays

Elan Mastai · 400 pages

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams · 225 pages

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum. The book title refers to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the s

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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Mindswap

Robert Sheckley · 216 pages

"In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which a persons consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar crimi

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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

Nagaru Tanigawa

As the SOS Brigade, a club for a Japanese high school's strangest and most extraordinary students, prepares to celebrate Christmas, Kyon awakens in a weird alternate dimension and must discover how to set things right.

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Phaze Doubt

Piers Anthony · 303 pages

In this seventh and last book in the series, the author brings the history of the two planets Phaze and Proton to a conclusion. The author also wrote "The Magic of Xanth", "The Bio of a Space Tyrant", "The Incarnations of Immortality" and "The Apprentice Adept".

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Bill: The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Robot Slaves

Harry Harrison · 230 pages

This is another "Bill, the Galactic Hero" book. It's chock full of puns, satire and utter nonsense that breaches the bounds of sanity - who has to throw it all back to survive. It's a fun read, though you may need counseling after you finish reading it.

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Space Team

Barry J. Hutchison · 286 pages

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The Rapture of the Nerds

Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross · 349 pages

A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.

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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson · 458 pages

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be t

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The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway · 528 pages

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A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World

Rachel Cantor · 249 pages

In the not-too-distant future, the world is ruled not by governments but by fast-food delivery companies. Only one disgruntled employee stands between them and the end of civilization-- and a woman who's a librarian--and an anarchist book group--and a little kid who can travel through time--and maybe one or two other people.

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The Dark Side of the Sun

Terry Pratchett · 158 pages

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Venus on the Half-Shell

Philip Jose Farmer · 204 pages

The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, Jo

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Terra!

Stefano Benni · 360 pages

In the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden.

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An Alien Heat

Michael Moorcock · 158 pages

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