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The High Crusade
Author: Poul Anderson
Year: 1960
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In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little…
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Swastika Night
Author: Katharine Burdekin
Year: 1940
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Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered…
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The Science of Discworld
Author: Terry Pratchett
Year: 1999
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Contains a story by Terry Pratchett, around which Stewart and Cohen write about the Discworld.
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Colonization
Author: Harry Turtledove
Year: 2001
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"ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SERIES OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS EVER WRITTEN."--Science Fiction Age World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth's grea…
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The Gate of Worlds
Author: Robert Silverberg
Year: 1967
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Imagine that the Black Death of 1348 destroyed most of Europe's people instead of only one-fourth. As a result the Turks rule Europe, Africa is the world's cultural center, and America in 1963, is a semi-savage continent governed by Aztecs. North Ame…
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The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1954
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On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with a civilisation based on robots instead of slaves - and some pretty weird taboos and phobias. Into this strange set-up comes Terran…
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Friday
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Year: 1982
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Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expediti…
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