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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov Staff Pick In 1965, Asimov's Foundation trilogy beat out several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series."... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein Publisher Comments Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series #01) by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Neuromancer by William Gibson Publisher Comments One of the most important and influential novels of our time. Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars &mdash... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Robots of Dawn (The Robot Series #03) by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? &... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Robot Dreams (Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s — exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Minority Report: And Other Classic Stories by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Many thousands of readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Synopsis In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, nameless numbers, survivors of a devastating war, live out lives devoid of passion and creativity. Until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold: the Final Science Fiction Collection (95 Edition) by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large. The... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gateway by Frederik Pohl Publisher Comments Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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R.U.R. (Dover Thrift Editions) by Karel Capek Publisher Comments Great play, that introduced the word "robot" into English, looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful and deeply... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Excession by Iain M. Banks Review "Banks is a phenomenon...wildly successful, fearlessly creative." --William... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Paycheck: And 24 Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick Publisher Comments Jennings, one of the world's most skilled electricians, wakes up to find himself getting paid a large sum of money for a two-year contract job he has just completed. His employer, the Rethrick Corporation, has erased his memory of the past two years as... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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