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"As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I...
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The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' most visionary novels. It recounts the harrowing ordeal of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rescued by a man named Montgomery, Prendick finds himself on an island belonging to Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London who was expelled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments.
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
4) Herland
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Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century.
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This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is stunned to wake in the year 2100 to a world he does not know. But the world knows him. When word spreads that the "Sleeper" has awakened, it rocks the foundations of what the planet has become: a dystopian existence...
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What if you had a chance to fix the worst mistake of your life...but only made things worse? The Rage Room dives into dystopia with an extraordinary tale about choices and second chances. Set in 2055, our plastic world is run by robots, fueled by consumerism, twisted religion, and virtual data. Satellites control the weather, food is grown in laboratories. Arts and culture are distant memories. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban...
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A masterpiece of stories by H. G. Wells, masterfully tied together by time and place. First, a shop owner named Mr. Cave, enraptured by a crystal egg, struggles to find a way to keep his magical possession... Then we are, taken to a time when cave people struggled to find their place on the planet and keep their lives. The forward to the far future where, in the place the cave people once camped, a young couple's back are, bowed beneath the tyranny...
8) The Others
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A new Tessa adventure
Tessa's innate ability has developed beyond expectation, and her telepathic skills make her an asset for the Extra-Sensory Agents Unit. Fresh from an adventure that sharpened up her power, she embarks on a delicate operation to find a teenager telepath, who may be stealing top-secret information.
Tessa believes that her task only involves attending high school for a while and investigating an information leak there, but in...
9) Tessa
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I was only 14 when the government took me away from my family. My gift is rare and precious, I know. I can read your mind, and I can do other things to you too. Do you want to try?
They said that they would help me to improve, and they did. Now, I no longer need them. I got out of hand, so they fear me. And they should.
Tessa is a regular girl, except that she sees things that are far away. She agrees to go on a critical mission that puts to the...
10) Freenet
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A nuanced story about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges readers into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs to whoever has the most bandwidth. When Simara Ying crash-lands on the desert...
11) Thoughtless
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Del is moving up.
One of the problems with life in the asteroid belt, though, is that "up" depends a lot on your point of view.
She's built a good life for herself out here, balancing her job as an Enforcer of what passes for the Belt's laws, with her extra activities that the rest of the Enforcers can never find out about.
But when the voices that plagued her childhood come back, she fails to prevent a terrorist attack, and her best...
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The first two books in the Singularity's Children series.
Book one - Denial
Tense, intelligent science fiction packed with ideas.
Debt, wars, and inequality are pushing society toward collapse. It's a world desiccated by soulless algorithms, pacified beneath the battle suit's boot, and numbed by the bewitching voices of computational propaganda.
Singularity's Children is vivid world-building. The desperate lives of its characters draw the listener...
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A sleek, absorbing tale of motherhood, feminism, and the potential dangers of technology. - Kirkus Reviews
Vera Elpis is a quiet young woman with a desk job, two friends, and a cozy apartment. On the surface, her life is easy. Children adore her, her inheritance sustains her, and she is safe. The only blight is her unexplained infertility, a condition that shames and enrages her.
In her lonely quest for motherhood, Vera fails to appreciate her own...
14) Return To Mars
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Jamie Waterman is returning to the Red Planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one can study Martian life not only for the sake of the pursuit but more, that it can be profitable. Waterman also hopes to revisit a part of the canyon where he thought he spied a primitive cliff dwelling during the first Martian mission. But this second voyage to Mars brings trouble right away as Waterman clashes with Dex Trumball,...
15) Moonwar
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Moonwar, the sequel to Moonrise, is a fast-paced high-tech adventure that tells the story of the fledgling lunar colony--Moonbase--and how it is now in jeopardy as political forces seek to control or destroy it. This book is the continuation of the story of Douglas Stavenger, the Kennedy-esque scion of Moonbase's founding dynasty. While Moonbase has been flourishing under Stavenger's management, it's existence, and even Stavenger's life, both depend...
16) Moonrise
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In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to birth a future where space has become privatized and the moon transforms into a fertile commercial ground. As former astronaut Paul Stavenger works to turn a handful of abandoned government moon shelters into a full-fledged moonbase, powerful corporate lobbies align against him. Against the neo-Luddites is Masterson Aerospace, a company funding and creating...
17) Body Suit
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A riches to rags adventure of a clever woman in a high-tech suit versus a hostile AI Exiled to the mines of Mars...Silvariah Frandelle, a clever business woman, falls from wealth and success into exile and poverty, indentured-barely one step above slavery-as an off-world laborer to escape prison. Her last calculated risk as a free woman, paid for with years of service, becomes the key to surviving hostile environments.
Space, gravity, and Mars wastelands...
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The Morthans consider the human race to be little better than animals-even though they came from humans themselves. Now they are determined to conquer the worlds still controlled by their physical and mental inferiors. Docked for repairs after a harrowing battle with a Morthan ship, Jonathan Korie and his crew discover they have a Morthan imp aboard: a weapon so quick they have no chance of catching it, so clever they have no hope of outsmarting it-and...
19) Dragon Song
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In the Pacific, a sleeping dragon awakes. Dr. Eva Paz wants only a peaceful life on Roatán for herself and her dolphins, continuing their research in dolphin communication and educating children on the importance of caring for the reef. But when Eva discovers that the Caribbean's wild dolphin pod has been captured, she must go back into action to find them. Her pursuit returns her to the Pacific, where she finds her newest nemesis has engineered...
20) Code Word Access
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The future is in code.
Shawn Muller is a prodigy and he knows it. He's a 28 year old kid and military generals don't wield the kind of power he has. It's 2055 and the ubiquitous AI system that he's designed simply dominates all aspects of American society, from military to business, social life to technology. He's even programmed ‘ethics' into the system.
But when Shawn's algorithm suddenly determines that he has become a profound threat to...
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