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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
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Current:
9.8 |
Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In par
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Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
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Current:
9.8 |
The Foundation has managed to preserve humanculture and shorten the period of chaotic barbarism after the Galactic Empire began to decay. But the Foundation still faces great challenges in its struggle to survive. --This text refers to
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
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Current:
9.6 |
From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pi
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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Current:
9.6 |
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest
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Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
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Current:
9.5 |
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of
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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
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Current:
9.5 |
It's America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names. All because some twenty years earlier America lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hug
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Tripods Trilogy
John Christopher
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Current:
9.4 |
Long ago the Tripods, gigantic three-legged machines, descended upon Earth and took control. They used "Caps," administered ceremoniously near each child's 14th birthday, to control humans' brains and keep them docile. Now there is pleasant
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The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
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Current:
9.4 |
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into more]
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
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Current:
9.4 |
A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark car
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The Forge of God
Greg Bear
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Current:
9.3 |
"A gripping panorama of a world in peril" (Chicago Sun-Times) from the author of Anvil of Stars. June 26, 1996: One of Jupiter's moons disappears. September 28, 1996: A mysterious cinder cone is found in Death Valley. October 1, 1996: An en
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Aliens Vs. Predator : Prey
Steve Perry, Stephani Perry
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Current:
9.3 |
Machiko Noguchi accepted the assignment of supervising the ranching colony on Ryushi as a challenge. Little did she know that not onl would she have run the colony, she'd have to defend it with her life!First the carcass of a spiderlike
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Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
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Current:
9.3 |
Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Reserve on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
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Current:
9.2 |
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his
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Rendezvous With Rama
Arthur Charles Clarke
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Current:
9.2 |
An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and more]
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Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey
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Current:
9.0 |
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, opens a new life for her. more]
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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Current:
9.0 |
Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI cre
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Gateway (Heechee Saga Series Book 1)
Frederik Pohl
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Current:
8.8 |
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fort
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Dark Matter (X-Files No 10)
Easton Royce
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Current:
8.7 |
A man has disappeared, leaving nothing behind but his shadow burned into the floor. And he's not alone--two other people in the same town are also missing. Is it spontaneous combustion? That's Special Agent Mulder's theory, and he's almost
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Grotesque : A Novelization (X-Files, No 12)
Ellen Steiber
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Current:
8.7 |
Stone Cold A serial killer is stalking the city, slashing his victims' faces before killing them. But when the murderer is caught, he claims to have been possessed by the spirit of an ancient, malicious gargoyle--one he fears will now po
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Howlers (X-Files No 11)
Everett Owens
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Current:
8.7 |
When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the bizarre, ritualistic murders at Grover Cleveland High School, they stumble upon a strange planetary phenomenon--one that might have a disastrous effect on two cheerleaders. But are Ter
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Bad Sign (X-Files No. 3)
Easton Royce
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Current:
8.7 |
When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the bizarre, ritualistic murders at Grover Cleveland High School, they stumble upon a strange planetary phenomenon--one that might have a disastrous effect on two cheerleaders. But are Ter
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Quarantine (The X-Files , No 13)
Les Martin
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Current:
8.6 |
For the convicts at the Cumberland State Correctional Facility, death row has taken on a whole new meaning as an infectious disease rages through the confines. While Scully desperately searches for the cause of the contagion, Mulder risks h
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Our Town : A Novelization (X-Files No. 4)
Eric Elfman, Cliff Nielsen (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.5 |
The disappearance of employees at the Chaco Chicken processing plant brings Mulder and Scully to Dudly, Arkansas, where their investigation uncovers the grisly, deadly secrets of the town's suspiciously healthy and youthful inhabitants. Ori
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Empathy : A Novelization (X-Files , No 5)
Ellen Steiber
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Current:
8.4 |
Under the cover of night, a little girl is kidnapped from her room. At the exact same time, a waitress 20 miles away faints--her uniform covered in the victim's blood. FBI Special Agent Mulder thinks there may be a psychic link between the
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The Host : A Novelization (X-Files , No 8)
Les Martin, Cliff Nielsen (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.4 |
A man's body is discovered in the New Jersey sewer system, and a "routine" murder investigation ensues. But when several workers are attacked by a vicious sewer-dwelling monster, it becomes clear that something much more sinister is going o
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Regeneration (X-Files (Juvenile), No 14)
Everett Owens
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Current:
8.4 |
How could a body without a head just get up and walk away? That's the question Agents Mulder and Scully are asking after a decapitated body suddenly disappears from the morgue. Mulder's theory is that the man is a highly evolved humanoid li
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Control : A Novelization (X-Files , No 7)
Everett Owens, Chris Carter (Creator)
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Current:
8.4 |
Mulder and Scully are in pursuit of a mysterious and powerful man who calls himself "Pusher." Mulder thinks the man is a bizarre homicidal maniac who's able to convince his victims to kill themselves. But when Pusher learns that the FBI is
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Fresh Bones : A Novelization (X-Files , No 6)
Les Martin
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Current:
8.3 |
When FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully are sent to a Haitian refugee camp to investigate a string of mysterious deaths, they find that someone is turning corpses into killers. In a case where murder is just the beginning, the two agents
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Haunted (The X-Files , No 15)
Ellen Steiber
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Current:
8.2 |
Someone, or something, is shadowing Lauren Kyte--an unseen force that swiftly and brutally murders anyone who dares to cross her path. Could it be an overprotective poltergeist, or is Lauren herself a murderous mastermind? FBI Agents Mulder
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Eve : A Novelization (X-Files No. 2)
Ellen Steiber
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Current:
8.2 |
Mulder and Scully investigate two seemingly identical murders in opposite parts of the country, and their search leads them to a DNA-splicing doctor and the theory that the dead girls may have been created as killing machines. Original."
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The Calusari : A Novelization (X-Files No. 1)
Garth Nix
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Current:
8.0 |
Believing that Charlie caused the horrible deaths of his father and little brother, his grandmother calls in the Calusari to cleanse his soul, while Mulder and Scully search for the true cause of the deaths. Original." more]
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Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
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Current:
8.0 |
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Time and Again
Jack Finney
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Current:
7.9 |
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Dragonsinger
Anne McCaffrey
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm : A Novel
Nancy Farmer
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Giver
Lois Lowry
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Current:
7.8 |
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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
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Current:
7.7 |
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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Current:
7.7 |
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I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
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Current:
7.6 |
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Miracle Man (The X-Files , No 16)
Terry Bisson
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Current:
7.6 |
Someone, or something, is shadowing Lauren Kyte--an unseen force that swiftly and brutally murders anyone who dares to cross her path. Could it be an overprotective poltergeist, or is Lauren herself a murderous mastermind? FBI Agents Mulder
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