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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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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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Shift

Hugh Howey · 574 pages

In a future less than 50 years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The history of the silo is abo

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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · 432 pages

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As I Wake

Elizabeth Scott · 269 pages

Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.

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The Chronicles of Amber: Volume I

Roger Zelazny · 188 pages

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The Man Called Noon

Louis L'Amour · 188 pages

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead--and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions--or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' wort

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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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Glasshouse

Charles Stross · 352 pages

When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the pict

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Mind's Eye

Douglas E. Richards · 360 pages

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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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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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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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Survival Colony Nine

Joshua David Bellin · 325 pages

Querry Gen, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.

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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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Ishmael

Barbara Hambly · 256 pages

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 202 pages

From the book:Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a cha

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Severed

Simon Kernick · 352 pages

Straight off I knew it was going to be a bad day. The room was stifling hot; and when I did finally manage to drag open my eyes, all I could see was blood. I thought I'd stepped into the middle of a nightmare. But I was wrong. The nightmare was only just beginning.

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Prototype

M.D. Waters · 375 pages

The stunning debut that began with 'Archetype' and has readers buzzing concludes in Prototype, when a woman's dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future. Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past--both of them. After more than a year on the run, with clues to her parents' whereabouts within her grasp, she may finally find a place to settle down.

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The Bad Place

Dean Koontz · 390 pages

Detectives Bobby and Julie agree to watch over Frank after he wakes up in a motel to find his hands covered with blood and strange objects in his pockets. Frank knows he's not a killer.

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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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