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Neuromancer
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William Gibson
William Gibson's groundbreaking debut became an instant classic, sweeping for the first time all of science fiction's major awards (the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick), coining the term "cyberspace," and effectively launching the cyberpunk subgenre in the mid-'80s. Having grown out of a subculture disillusioned with technology's ...
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson
Weaving between two separate time lines, this novel depicts the adventures of a codebreaker, a Japanese lieutenant, and a U.S. Marine in World War II with the modern-day tale of their grandchildren, who are jointly investigating a mysterious computer program in Southeast Asia.
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson staked out a piece of William Gibson's cyberterritory in this 90s slacker-hacker novel. In a Balkanized America run entirely by corporations, a computer hacker moonlighting as a pizza delivery guy and a tough young female courier take on a glass-knife-wielding Aleut who possesses a nuclear bomb and a mogul planning to use ancient ...
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Children of the Mind
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Orson Scott Card
In this, the fourth Ender Wiggins novel, Ender and Jane, an artificial intelligence who has grown alongside Ender for thousands of years, try to save the three sentient races of Lusitania from being destroyed by using a method of space travel that abolishes the limitations of light-speed.
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Spook Country
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William Gibson
The latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Pattern Recognition" offers the story of an investigative journalist who is assigned the task of finding a spook--an intelligence agent who refuses to sleep in the same place twice.
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Watchers
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Dean R Koontz
A top-secret government laboratory creates two unnatural entities. One is a terrifying monster; the other, a highly intelligent dog, is the only one who can stop it. Now both are on the loose.
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Count Zero
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William Gibson
In this sequel to "Neuromancer," AI's are on the prowl through cyberspace, inserting themselves into the affairs of others.
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Prey
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Michael Crichton
In the middle of the Nevada desert, scientists work on the development of nanotechnologies to help all of mankind. But when an accident unleashes the microscopic machines into the outside world, humans find themselves facing an enemy that is not only smaller than any previously seen, but smarter....
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The naked god
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Peter F Hamilton
This is the third volume in Hamilton's massive space opera--following THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION and THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST, both of which really MUST be read prior to attempting this one. It examines the alien cultures that may--or may not!--control the "present-time" universe of 2600 in which the descendents of humanity have split into ...
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Diamond age : or, A young lady's illustrated primer
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Neal Stephenson
Neo-Victorian and genius nanotechnologist John Percival Hackworth has created an interactive educational device, the Primer, for the granddaughter of one of the rich and powerful. He also has created an illicit copy of the device for his own daughter, but that copy is stolen from him and given to Nell, a child with no prospects for education or ...
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Foundation
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Isaac Asimov
The first volume of the "Foundation" series is essentially a reworking of the fall of the Roman Empire written as a vast, all-encompassing science fiction opera. It is such a well-conceived and elaborate a social and political autopsy that, even after Asimov's death in 1992, books set inside the Foundation universe continue to be written.
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3001 the Final Odyssey
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Arthur Charles Clarke
In the book "2001" astronaut Frank Poole was cryogenically frozen after Hal the computer killed him. In "3001" he's resurrected in a society far more advanced than the one he departed--one in which humankind is in serious danger.
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Forever War
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Joe Haldeman
Soldiers fight throughout centuries and millennia by making time traveling "collapsar jumps." As a result, they never come to know a society or to build a home. Their alienation was envisioned as analogous to that of the soldiers who fought in Vietnam. Winner of the 1975 Nebula and 1976 Hugo awards.
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Red Mars
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Kim Stanley Robinson
The first book in Robinson's much-lauded Mars series introduces the first 100 settlers on Mars. The debate commences among the scientists: original unique splendor of the red planet or Earth-like clone? Winner of the 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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Forward the Foundation
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Isaac Asimov
Seldon, the inventor of a science known as pyschohistory, predicts the collapse of the Empire.
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The Reality Dysfunction
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Peter F Hamilton
A window to the past is opened when a space scavenger discovers data belonging to an alien race. Light years away, the seeds of chaos are sown on a planet in the process of colonization. And as intergalactic governments argue, a subtle change takes place that will affect the future survival of all living things
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Halting State
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Charles Stross
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. The investigation seems pointless, but she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one--and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both.
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The neutronium alchemist
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Peter F. Hamilton
The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces ...
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On Basilisk Station
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David Weber
The first in a series featuring Commander Honor Harrington.
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Altered Carbon
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Richard Morgan
This debut SF novel by British writer Richard Morgan won the 2004 Philip K. Dick Award and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. In a dark future, humans have the technology to transfer their consciousness into new bodies, provided that they can afford the procedure. When he dies on the job, UN investigator Takeshi Kovacs gets a new body on ...
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Eternity
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Greg Bear
Here is the powerful sequel to Eon, now with a dramatic new cover, coinciding with the Tor mass market release of Bear's latest novel, Moving Mars. At the close of Eon, Patricia Vasquez settled on an alternate Earth, Garry Lanier retired, and the Jarts and Naderites were caught in the Corridor. Now the fate of the universe is up for grabs.
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Door Into Summer
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Robert A Heinlein
An inventor of timesaving household devices is frozen for 30 years after falling prey to an unscrupulous partner and girlfriend, who plan to profit from his latest invention, a specialized robot. When his wakes up in the year 2000, though, he realizes that his foes didn't count on one thing--time travel was perfected in the interim, allowing the ...
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Honor of the Queen
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David Weber
In the second Honor Harrington book, Commander Harrington winds up in the middle of a series of heated political discussions between represents from two religiously fundamentalist planets--both of which have serious problems with women in position of power.
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Flag in Exile
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David Weber
Captain Harrington may be all that stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.
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Inversions
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Iain M Banks
Dr. Vosill, personal physician to the king in Haspidus, has more enemies at court than she suspects. Across the mountains, DeWar, chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, has enemies, but his methods of combat are more direct. The two strangers act as loyal servants to their nations, but their true agendas are as elusive as their ...
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