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Tag Archives: 1960s

Cryptozoic! – Brian Aldiss

2017-12-26

Pulled from the forests of the Jurassic as an artist, called back to a totalitarian dystopia, trained to kill, and sent back into the past—Eddie Bush has become an unlikely assassin with an unpredictable future.

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Adventures in Art – Doctor Solar

2017-09-03

Doctor Solar was a superhero created by writer Paul S. Newman and artist Matt Murphy for Gold Key Comics in 1962, …

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Dark Universe – Daniel F. Galouye

2017-01-16

A post-apocalyptic society built in the darkness of underground caverns finds its world-view tested when strange monsters emerge, bringing with them a terrible screaming silence.

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Borderline – Lawrence Block

2016-12-11

Four tales from Lawrence Block’s early days, living on the border between sleaze and crime: south-o-the-border short novel Border Lust, two short stories, and the detective novella “Stag Party Girl.”

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Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys

2016-03-13

The investigation of a deadly alien artifact on the Moon leaves its investigators shattered, broken men—until the perfect man is found to plumb its mysteries.

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Ubik – Philip K. Dick

2016-01-23

Glen Runciter is dead. Or is it that his team of anti-psychics led are all dead? Dick’s surreal masterpiece questions the nature of reality, an existential nightmare trapped in half-life.

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The Silent Multitude – D.G. Compton

2016-01-11

A dreamy psychological tale of the four people who stay in Gloucester while the city collapses around them from an interstellar, concrete-eating plague.

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The Ice People – René Barjavel

2015-08-24

A group of Antarctic explorers unearths a golden sphere deep under the ice, housing two humans who had been cryogenically frozen before pre-history.

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Hothouse – Brian Aldiss

2015-06-02

Tens of thousands of years into the far flung future, the Earth has become a veritable hothouse, home to new forms of plant life that threaten humanity with extinction.

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The Dark Light Years – Brian Aldiss

2015-05-05

When humanity finds another spacefaring race wallowing in mud and its own excrement, its unpleasant characteristics cause human scientists to question its intelligence.

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Pavane – Keith Roberts

2015-05-01

This classic alternate history examines the England of 1968, after Queen Elizabeth was assassinated and the Spanish Armada led to the successful Catholic conquest of England.

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