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Tag Archives: Cold War

Winter Tide – Ruthanna Emrys

2017-04-22

With the Soviets trying to steal body-swapping magic, the FBI asks Aphra Marsh to return to her abandoned hometown of Innsmouth to stop them.

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Burning Chrome – William Gibson

2017-01-24

Collecting ten of William Gibson’s early cyberpunk short stories from the late 1970s and early 1980s, dark visions of a globalized, high-tech, and deadly future.

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Radio Free Albemuth – Philip K. Dick

2016-04-04

As the United States is taken over by fervent anti-Communist paranoia, one man receives visions sent by an alien divinity. These hold all the answers for Earth’s salvation.

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The Windchime Legacy – A.W. Mykel

2015-09-30

The greatest secret of America’s intelligence agencies is SENTINEL: a computer intelligence, a thinking intelligence, far advanced and in control of American intelligence …

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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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The Smuggled Atom Bomb – Philip Wylie

2015-02-14

Clumsy physics grad student stumbles onto a small group of conspirators smuggling atomic bomb parts into the US, mining major cities with radioactive death.

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Tomorrow! – Philip Wylie

2015-02-10

The tale of two cities facing atomic war—one has a well-practiced Civil Defense group, the other does not. Soviet attack shows them which city had the right idea.

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The Iron Dream – Norman Spinrad

2015-01-25

The best SF novel Hitler (n)ever wrote! Spinrad’s alt-history satire casts Adolf Hitler as a pulp author living out his fantasies of world domination via trashy post-apocalyptic novels.

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Not This August – Cyril M. Kornbluth

2015-01-05

The United States has capitulated, sealing its defeat against the Communists. But when one dairy farmer discovers a lost state secret, the world may be freed again…

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The High Wire – William Haggard

2014-08-26

When foreign agents blackmail the lead manager of the secretive Project A, it’s up to the British Security Executive to protect the mysterious project at all costs.

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The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

2014-05-27

Collecting a dozen of the earliest stories by Philip K. Dick, including “Beyond Lies The Wub,” “Second Variety,” “The Defenders,” “The Variable Man,” and more.

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