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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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The Female Man – Joanna Russ

2017-02-04

Unknown events bring together four women from four alternate timelines; the results are startling, outrageous, radical, and subversive.

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A Case of Conscience – James Blish

2017-01-21

Father Ruiz-Sanchez, biologist and Jesuit priest, struggles with a moral and ethical dilemma: a planet whose inhabitants are innately peaceful, moral, and without God.

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The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe – D.G. Compton

2017-01-08

In a future where death has become all but extinct, the last days of those with terminal illnesses are televised before a pain-starved public. But one terminal woman, Katherine Mortenhoe, resists.

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The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester

2017-01-04

For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.

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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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Grass – Sheri S. Tepper

2015-09-20

A plague threatens to doom all of humanity, but a cure may lie on the planet Grass—a world of boundless prairie ruled by elitist aristocrats and their demonic mounts.

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The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. Le Guin

2015-06-06

Terran exploitation of an alien planet causes the “docile” near-human natives to rise up in bloody rebellion, in this novel rich in ’70s SFnal themes.

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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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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm

2015-04-19

In the face of a looming eco-apocalypse, a small band of survivalist scientists turn to cloning to preserve the human race. The clones, of course, have other goals in mind.

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