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1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell  
Publisher Comments George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of Negative Utopia is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful....
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1)
by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind...
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 — originally published in 1953 — remains his most acclaimed work: "One of the most...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as...
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Dune
by Frank Herbert Publisher Comments Set on the desert planet Arakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family — and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient...
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Childhood's End (Racksize) (53 Edition)
by Arthur C. Clarke Publisher Comments Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind...
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes Publisher Comments Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been...
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Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)
by C S Lewis Publisher Comments The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal...
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A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Anthony Burgess
Publisher Comments In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him — but...
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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...
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Handmaid's Tale, despite its scenarios of great despair, is ultimately a hopeful book — Offred, and others, simply cannot be human without the possibility of hope, and therein lies the strength of the resistance. Twenty years after it was first...
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Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Octavia E. Butler Publisher Comments The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies< BR> < BR> Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in...
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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...
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Foundation (Foundation Novels)
by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last...
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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...
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison — a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and...
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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...
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Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem Publisher Comments Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining...
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Space Trilogy #03: That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups
by C S Lewis Publisher Comments The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet...
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute Publisher Comments "The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims...
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