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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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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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Farewell, Earth’s Bliss – D.G. Compton

2015-01-21

The scattered lives of a group of convicts cut loose by Earth and sent to colonize Mars. A strong, character-driven work, descending into the grim Martian society.

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Kindred – Octavia Butler

2014-12-08

A modern black woman is repeatedly transported back to Maryland’s antebellum, slave-owning past in order to save the white progenitor of her family line.

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Rocannon’s World – Ursula K. Le Guin

2014-11-10

Stranded on a primitive alien planet, Rocannon must journey across perilous and uncharted continents in hopes of vengeance against a mysterious enemy force.

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The Iron Heel – Jack London

2014-09-03

Intellectual working-class hero Ernest Everhard takes on fascist conspiracy to rule the world, retold in the form of his wife’s aggrandized diary entries. Warning: didactic.

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Notions: Unlimited – Robert Sheckley

2013-05-13

A collection of a dozen short stories and novelettes by satirical mastermind Robert Sheckley, from his work in the middle 1950s for Galaxy and F&SF.

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The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin

2012-07-22

“Reality is a dream. George Orr is the dreamer. George’s dreams change the world. In the hands of a power-mad psychiatrist George is forced to dream… forever seeking utopia…”

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Solaris – Stanisław Lem

2012-05-20

Scientist Kelvin arrives at his research station to find things amiss: the sentient ocean he’s to study is sending human simulacra dredged from the scientists’ memories.

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Destination: Void – Frank Herbert

2012-05-16

Human clones are sent from Earth as test dummies to colonize a habitable planet in Tau Ceti, overcoming a number of technological and pscyhological hurdles.

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Sailing to Byzantium – Robert Silverberg

2012-05-04

A 1980s-era man is deposited in a future so advanced and decadent that its inhabitants have nothing better to do than reconstruct (with some accuracy) ancient cities to hold their social events.

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