The Best of R.A. Lafferty
By: R.A. Lafferty
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Edited and collated by Jonathan Strahan, with a volume introduction by Neil Gaiman, THE BEST OF R.A…
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1. A Night in the Lonesome October
By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola
4.18
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more
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2. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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4. Martian Time-Slip
By: Philip K. Dick
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophre… read more
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- american
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5. Stand on Zanzibar
By: John Brunner
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more
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6. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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7. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
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10. All Flesh is Grass
By: Clifford D. Simak
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A mysterious invisible barrier suddenly encloses a small, out-of-the-way American town. It's been p… read more
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11. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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12. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
By: Gene Wolfe
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberusis a… read more
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13. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
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14. All You Need Is Kill
By: Hiroshi Sakurazaka , Alexander O. Smith , None , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
There's one thing worse than dying. It's coming back to do it again and again... When the alien Git… read more
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15. The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to … read more
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16. Понедельник начинается в субботу
By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Аркадий Стругацкий , Борис Стругацкий
4.17
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заг… read more
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"Do we really need ourselves for anything?"-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу
"- А чем вы занимаетесь? - Как и вся наука. Счастьем человеческим."-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу
"Восемьдесят три процента дней в году начинаются одинаково: звенит будильник."-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу
"Like all science," said the hook-nosed one, "our work deals with human happiness."-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу
17. The Fifth Heart
By: Dan Simmons
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Drood, a historical mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Henry James team up to… read more
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18. Permafrost
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.87
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate… read more
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19. Light Chaser
By: Peter F. Hamilton
3.81
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure Light Chaser, a love pow… read more
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20. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
21. The Best of R.A. Lafferty
By: R.A. Lafferty
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Edited and collated by Jonathan Strahan, with a volume introduction by Neil Gaiman, THE BEST OF R.A… read more
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