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1) Shift
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"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
2) Metropolis
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Metropolis is set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited class of laborers who live underground, far away from the gleaming surface world.
Freder, the son of one of the city's founders, falls in love with Maria, a girl from the underground. The two worlds are destined to clash and upheaval is inevitable. Can the two lovers survive the coming turmoil.
Metropolis the novel was written alongside...
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I'm just looking at the Moon,' she said listlessly. 'It's green. Green as a beer bottle, green as emeralds, green as leaves with sunshine striking through them and green grass to lie on.' She couldn't help saying those last words. They were her token to the face, even though it couldn't hear.
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2023
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A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's debut novella, Nothing but the Rain.
The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be.
By the time Laverne begins keeping a
5) Bannerless
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2017.
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"A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people,...
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One rule oversees the post-apocalypse: never refuse a Harmonizer. Storytellers claim there are two original stories. When a stranger named Eduardo, a Harmonizer with extraordinary powers, arrives with a warning, Rowan senses life is about to change. Eduardo warns that Haven City is growing and all those living in the expansion zone are in danger. As the living world recovers from ecocide, the Harmonizers control cities to keep the human population...
7) Dawn's light
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Zondervan
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In the final book of the Restoration Series by bestselling author Terri Blackstock, the end of a global electrical blackout signals the beginning of the Branning family's ultimate test. Murder and affairs of the heart form the backdrop for a family sifting through the lessons they have learned--and how well they have truly learned them.
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First of all, Arthur was a machine. He rode out the missile attack that shattered the United States safe at sea aboard a hospital ship. But when he took to land with two friends - human friends - that's when things got dicey. Because an Artificial Intelligence with his skills could do a lot of work, and quite a few people wanted him. Preferably without his human friends in tow... A classic from the Golden Age of science fiction!
9) Japan Sinks
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Dover Publications
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2016
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"A chillingly realistic work of science fiction." ― The New York Times.
After dropping anchor for the night near a small island to the south of Japan, a crew of fishermen awaken to find that the island has vanished without a trace. An investigating scientist theorizes that the tiny island has succumbed to the same force that divided the Japanese archipelago from the mainland ― and that the disastrous shifting of a fault in the...
After dropping anchor for the night near a small island to the south of Japan, a crew of fishermen awaken to find that the island has vanished without a trace. An investigating scientist theorizes that the tiny island has succumbed to the same force that divided the Japanese archipelago from the mainland ― and that the disastrous shifting of a fault in the...
10) Rosewater
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Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless — people...
*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless — people...
11) The Lost World
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Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
13) After London
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"A sudden catastrophe descends upon England, leaving London a pestilent swamp and the rest of the country in a state of wilderness. Meanwhile, the few and scattered survivors revert to a feudal society. Hauntingly beautiful in its descriptions of environmental collapse, this 1906 novel offers an early example of post-apocalyptic fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
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Imagine you wake up one day to find 99% of the world's population has disappeared - and then 99% again the morning after that. Phones and internet down, highways destroyed, a government that isn't exactly forthcoming with answers...how would you go about figuring out what became of friends and family? The protagonists confront these questions and more in Jason McGathey's chilling new novel, set in an all too believable near future.
15) Leash Protocol
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Tobias is a mercenary who knows no loyalty, Alyssia is a Psychic who knows no friend. In a world where peace is maintained by the iron fist of the powerful, and weaponized Psychics are the ultimate tool, these two humans are about to become embroiled in a war that will force them together whether they like it or not.
16) Spiral
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The winner of Cuba's prestigious Premio David in 1980, Spiral is another magisterial space opera from the late great science fiction author Agustín de Rojas. Deeply committed to the Revolution, Rojas presents a stunning critique of the Cuban regime under Fidel Castro by inviting the comparison of Spiral's fictional moral universe, one in which Che Guevara's principles of socialism are followed to the letter, with the brutal realities of everyday...
17) The Drop
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A shattered planet. A superstar DJ. Her biggest fan. And, one monumental secret.
Since a mysterious weather event in 2025 made the outside world off limits, veteran DJ Juanita has become the headline 'Virtuoso' for Love Buzz, a non-stop virtual music festival beamed directly into survivors' headsets. For Juanita, trapped inside her Sydney apartment and addled by isolation and addiction, the show must go on, and on, and on.
Three years after The Storm...
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"Dignity is only above the blade of a psychic light blade, and truth is only within the range of a super-heavy purification beam."
The chaotic situation has allowed Amber, who traveled into the cosmic battle for supremacy game of Stars, to thoroughly comprehend this quote ......
Humanity, who accidentally gained access to leapfrog technology, quickly branched out across the galaxy like a plague.
After centuries of all humanity working hand in hand...
20) Death and Taxes
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The end is coming. Langley, Oklahoma has fallen. The once fortified town was blown to pieces by the mad General Hess and his R. U. S. T army and left abandoned. Not it's free for zombies to roam its deserted streets. Making good their escape during the battle between the dead and Hess's forces, what's left of the Screamin' Mimi's crew and the remainder Langley's residents flee south, hoping to reach the last haven of humanity east of the Rocky Mountains....
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