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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson book cover

Snow Crash

Author: Neal Stephenson

Year: 1978

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In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon…

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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood book cover

Oryx and Crake

Author: Margaret Atwood

Year: 2003

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Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss…

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Count Zero by William Gibson book cover

Count Zero

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1986

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A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfecte…

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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan book cover

Altered Carbon

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Year: 2002

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Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-c…

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Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson book cover

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1988

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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering a…

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick book cover

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Author: Philip K. Dick

Year: 1968

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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then...'retire' them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like hum…

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury book cover

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

Year: 1953

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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses i…

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The Giver by Lois Lowry book cover

The Giver

Author: Lois Lowry

Year: 1993

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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he…

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Animal Farm by George Orwell book cover

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

Year: 1945

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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned…

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld book cover

Uglies

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Year: 2005

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Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is t…

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