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Classic Sci-Fi Books

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Apocalyptic Books

The Road by Cormac McCarthy book cover

The Road

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Year: 2006

Rating: 3.97

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 by Stephen King book cover

The Stand

Author: Stephen King

Year: 1978

Rating: 4.34

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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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood book cover

Oryx and Crake

Author: Margaret Atwood

Year: 2003

Rating: 4.01

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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