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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells book cover

The War of the Worlds

Author: H.G. Wells

Year: 1898

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When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people…

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A Princess of Mars

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Year: 1912

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A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most exciting saga, known as The Martian Series. It's the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter, a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil Wa…

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick book cover

The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

Year: 1962

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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is no…

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His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik book cover

His Majesty's Dragon

Author: Naomi Novik

Year: 2006

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Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sw…

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The Road

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Year: 2006

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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the…

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The Stand

Author: Stephen King

Year: 1978

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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of…

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Neuromancer by William Gibson book cover

Neuromancer

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1984

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Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world…

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1984 by George Orwell book cover

1984

Author: George Orwell

Year: 1949

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a tot…

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood book cover

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

Year: 1985

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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her bac…

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Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

Year: 1932

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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel ant…

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