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• Ender's Game

  Card, Orson Scott

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  An outstanding tale of the child-hero Ender Wiggin, who must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

• The Martian

  a Novel

  Weir, Andy,

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  Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

  Chambers, Becky,

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  When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Contact

  Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996,

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  Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.

• The Dispossessed

  a Novel

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank

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  This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leviathan Wakes

  Corey, James S. A.

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  When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha,

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  On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Rising

  Brown, Pierce, 1988-

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  Darrow is part of the Red caste. He works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. He spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Altered Carbon

  Morgan, Richard K., 1965-

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  Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neuromancer

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer 's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Legion

  (we Are Bob)

  Taylor, Dennis E.,

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  Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

• Snow Crash

  Stephenson, Neal

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  A part-time hacker, information-scrounge, and delivery boy for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizzerias, and full-time Metaverse (virtual reality) samurai named Hiro Protagonist, is slowly drawn into a mystery involving a virus program called…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I, Robot

  Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992

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  In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hyperion

  Simmons, Dan, 1948-

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  On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

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  Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of Time

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stars My Destination

  Bester, Alfred

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  Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship. When another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his distress flares and sails by, Foyle becomes a man obsessed with revenge.

• War Dogs

  Bear, Greg, 1951-2022

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  They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch.

• A Fire Upon the Deep

  Vinge, Vernor

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  A rescue mission races against time to save a pair of human children being held captive by medieval lupines and to recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever.