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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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American Gods by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Neuromancer by William Gibson Publisher Comments The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender Wiggins Saga #2) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M Miller Publisher Comments In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K Le Guin Publisher Comments When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Staff Pick The Man in the High Castle is one of the first and best "alternate history" novels ever published. Turtledove and Flint should both have altars to Philip K. Dick in their homes.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Publisher Comments NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Here is Heinlein's masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The City and the City by China Mieville Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author China Mieville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other — real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis Publisher Comments It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons Publisher Comments On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Blackout by Connie Willis Publisher Comments Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.) by Michael Chabon Staff Pick After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon returns for another literary tour de force. In a "what-if" story for adults, Chabon imagines that Alaska was turned into a Jewish state... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge Publisher Comments Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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All Clear by Connie Willis Publisher Comments Winner of the Nebula Award Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blitz.... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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