Vulcan's Hammer
By: Philip K. Dick
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Objective, unbiased and hyper-rational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipo…
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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
By: William Gibson
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more
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"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
2. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
By: Charles Dickens , David Paroissien
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers si… read more
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- novels
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"For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away."-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds."-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to t…"-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carryin…"-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
3. Player Piano
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more
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4. A Choice of Gods
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One day most of humankind disappeared. A few human beings were left on the deserted earth along wit… read more
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5. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
6. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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7. Dying Inside
By: Robert Silverberg
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to pro… read more
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8. Град обреченный
By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Аркадий Стругацкий , Борис Стругацкий
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, … read more
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9. The Inverted World
By: Christopher Priest
4.07
Format: 213 pages,
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more
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10. Vulcan's Hammer
By: Philip K. Dick
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Objective, unbiased and hyper-rational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipo… read more
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11. Untouched By Human Hands
By: Robert Sheckley
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human … read more
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12. Direct Descent
By: Frank Herbert
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless know… read more
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13. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)
By: Jack Clark
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more
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14. A Time of Changes
By: Robert Silverberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more
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15. Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4)
By: Gene Wolfe
2.00
Format: 28 pages,
The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more
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16. The Bad Seed
By: Elaine Showalter , William March
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Now reissued - William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as … read more
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17. Siege of Darkness (Forgotten Realms: Legacy of the Drow, #3; Legend of Drizzt, #9)
By: R.A. Salvatore
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Let the damned drow come!" All about me I saw excitement, in the dwarves, in Cattibrie, even in Reg… read more
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18. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling
4.06
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more
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"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
19. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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20. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Te… read more
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"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo cham…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, …"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of med…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
21. A valóság helyreállítása
By: Attila Veres
4.64
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Ugyanaz a város, mégsem ugyanaz a világ. Egymás mellett létezünk benne, de más és más valóságokban… read more
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