Venus on the Half-Shell
By: Philip José Farmer , Kilgore Trout
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly esca…
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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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- science fiction fantasy
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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 Virginian (Scribner Classics)
By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more
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- fiction
"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
3. Fiasco
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom… read more
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"I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence."-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco
"Творець не хотів таких експедицій, такого "спілкування цивілізацій", і тому розділив їх безоднями. А ми ж не тільки зробили з райського яблука компот, а вже пиляємо Дерево Пізнання..."-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco
"It was not that the ocean depths served the creatures there with darkness, to protect them from attack--a darkness they could light, as they needed, with luminescence--but vice versa: the darkness ga…"-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco
"Purpose informed every scene on Earth, the planet that produced life, because every detail there had its "benefit," its teleology. True, it did not always--but billions of years of organic labor had …"-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco
4. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
5. First Degree (Andy Carpenter, #2)
By: David Rosenfelt
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A defense attorney and his beloved Golden Retriever work solve a murder and clear a his girlfriend'… read more
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- humor
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6. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.96
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless Y… read more
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"Sons of suicides seldom do well."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"God damn it, you've got to be kind."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"May I ask you a highly personal question?" "It's what life does all the time."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
7. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more
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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
8. 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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- science fiction
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9. The Winged Man
By: A.E. van Vogt , E. Mayne Hull
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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10. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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- science fiction
- humor
- fantasy
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11. Welcome to the Monkey House
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House(1968) incorporates almost completely Vonneg… read more
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12. Jailbird
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more
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13. Timequake
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more
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14. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
By: Cory Doctorow
3.82
Format: 340 pages,
On The Skids In The Transhuman Future Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long en… read more
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15. Who Goes There?
By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.
3.80
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more
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16. No One Here Gets Out Alive
By: Danny Sugerman , Jerry Hopkins
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, cha… read more
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17. You Bright and Risen Angels
By: William T. Vollmann
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the st… read more
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18. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more
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19. Venus on the Half-Shell
By: Philip José Farmer , Kilgore Trout
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly esca… read more
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- comedy
20. The Fountains of Paradise
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.95
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morg… read more
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21. The Einstein Intersection
By: Neil Gaiman , Samuel R. Delany
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the m… read more
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22. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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23. Assignment in Eternity
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic… read more
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24. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
25. Dolphin Island
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hovership makes an emergency landing som… read more
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26. Galactic Patrol (Lensman, #3)
By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , John Clute
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The Galactic Patrol has been given the ultimate weapon in its war against the evil pirate Boskone: … read more
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27. The Android's Dream
By: John Scalzi
4.36
Format: 94 pages,
A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior a… read more
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28. The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Sequel to the author's original Tarzan novel. read more
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29. The Sands of Mars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Space writers holiday. When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to… read more
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30. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
31. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
