Science Fiction

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Stalker's Inspiration…

Strange & haunting, this Soviet Sci-Fi classic about the aftermath of an alien visit presents a smart & cynical view of the limits of human understanding.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Modern Classic...

As much about one man’s search for meaning as it is about war, time travel & aliens, Vonnegut’s most popular & acclaimed novel transcends its genre.

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Jane Rogers

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Non-Traditional Dystopia...

Follow a fierce & fearless female protagonist through the virus apocalypse in this fascinating twist on the traditional dystopian tale.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Novel Companion...

Based in part on Clarke’s earlier story, The Sentinel, & co-written by Stanley Kubrick, this novel is the must-read companion to the classic film.

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

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Vivid & Mesmerizing...

A post-apocalyptic nightmare brought to life with vivid prose, Wyndham’s mesmerizing novel races relentlessly toward its terrifying conclusion.

I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

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A Critical Work...

A critical influence on the zombie & viral apocalypse genres, this novel takes a long, terrifying look at loneliness & what it really means to survive.

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11/22/63: A Novel

Stephen King

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Midshipman's Hope

David Feintuch

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Prisoner's Hope

David Feintuch

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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Amazonia

James Rollins

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After The Ending (The Ending Series, #1)

Lindsey Pogue , Lindsey Fairleigh

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Black Swan Collected Tales (Volume 1, Books 1-6)

Victoria Danann

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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Fisherman's Hope

David Feintuch

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Challenger's Hope

David Feintuch

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Under the Dome: A Novel

Stephen King

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Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

Leigh Grossman , Robert A. Heinlein

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Reamde: A Novel

Neal Stephenson

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Delirium: The Special Edition

Lauren Oliver

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Pandemonium

Lauren Oliver

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The Forge of God

Greg Bear

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

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Contact

Susan Grant

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The Andre Norton Megapack: 15 Classic Novels and Short St...

Andre Norton , Grace Allen Hogarth

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Star Corps

Ian Douglas

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

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Shadow of a Dark Queen

Raymond E. Feist

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Anathem

Neal Stephenson

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Voices of Hope

David Feintuch

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Blackcollar

Timothy Zahn

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Battlespace

Ian Douglas

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Captive of Gor

John Norman

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Peter Clines

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Eon

Greg Bear

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Super Machines

18 books hand-picked by Scribd editorial staff

From super computers to nanobots, these machines are frighteningly indistinguishable from your neighbors.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

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The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

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Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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Rendezvous With Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

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Anathem

Neal Stephenson

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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

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The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

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Under the Dome: A Novel

Stephen King

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Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

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Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut

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2010: Odyssey Two

Arthur C. Clarke

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Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut

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3001: The Final Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

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2061: Odyssey Three

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K Le Guin , Ursula K. Le Guin

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Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

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Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank

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The Windup Girl

Bacigalupi , Paolo Bacigalupi

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Rama II

Gentry Lee , Arthur C. Clarke

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Delirium: The Special Edition

Lauren Oliver

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Slapstick

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Dragon Never Sleeps

Glen Cook

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Pump Six and Other Stories

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Soft Apocalypse

Will McIntosh

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Starfishers

Glen Cook

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Last H...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One

Jonathan Strahan

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Star's End

Glen Cook

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Seed

Rob Ziegler

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Shadowline

Glen Cook

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage ...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Windup Girl

Bacigalupi , Paolo Bacigalupi

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The End Of...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Maze o...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Cloud Roads

Martha Wells

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Shadow of the Scorpion

Neal Asher

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Brave New Worlds Second Edition

John Joseph Adams

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Door T...

Clark Ashton Smith

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Steam & Sorcery

Cindy Spencer Pape

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Ice, Iron, and Gold

S. M. Stirling

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All Darkness Met: Book Three of A Cruel Wind

Glen Cook

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Grey

Jon Armstrong

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Spider Stone

Alex Archer

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A Passage at Arms

Glen Cook

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A Shadow of All Night Falling: Book One of A Cruel Wind

Glen Cook

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Brave New Worlds

Adams

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Eclipse 3

Jonathan Strahan

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A Matter of Time

Glen Cook

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God's War

Kameron Hurley

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Infidel

Kameron Hurley

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Unmasked

C.J. Barry , C. J. Barry

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Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before

55 books hand-picked by Scribd editorial staff

Novels spanning the breadth of Gene Roddenberry's fictional universe, from the original series and The Next Generation, to Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and beyond.

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Extraterrestrial Contact

The Jupiter Theft

Donald Moffitt

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The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

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The Last World War

Dayton Ward

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Eater

Gregory Benford

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Roadside Picnic

Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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Judge

Karen Traviss

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Six Moon Dance

Sheri S. Tepper

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Beyond Heaven's River

Greg Bear

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Red Planet

The Man Who Loved Mars

Lin Carter

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Kirlian Quest

Piers Anthony

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Olympos

Dan Simmons

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Mars

Ben Bova

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The Sands of Mars

Arthur C. Clarke

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Floating Worlds

Cecelia Holland

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Year's Best SF 5

David G. Hartwell

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Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia

Alexander Bogdanov

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Climbing Olympus

Kevin J Anderson

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The Orion Protocol

Gary Tigerman

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Terraforming

Child of Venus

Pamela Sargent

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The Songs of Distant Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

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Climbing Olympus

Kevin J Anderson

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Faces of Fire

Michael Jan Friedman

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Mars

Ben Bova

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Moonseed

Stephen Baxter

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Destination Void

Frank Herbert

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Venus of Dreams

Pamela Sargent

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy

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Venus of Shadows

Pamela Sargent

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A Rock and a Hard Place

Peter David , Peter A. David

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Children of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy

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Feminist Sci-Fi

The Waters Rising: A Novel

Sheri S. Tepper

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Venus of Dreams

Pamela Sargent

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The Visitor

Sheri S. Tepper

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Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

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Singer from the Sea

Sheri S. Tepper

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Judge

Karen Traviss

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Six Moon Dance

Sheri S. Tepper

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The Companions

Sheri S. Tepper

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The Northern Girl

Elizabeth Lynn , Elizabeth A. Lynn

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The Fresco

Sheri S. Tepper

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The Shore of Women: The Classic Work of Feminist Science ...

Pamela Sargent

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Tales of Nevèrÿon

Samuel R. Delany

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Outlaw School

Rebecca Ore

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Venus of Shadows

Pamela Sargent

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The Margarets

Sheri S. Tepper

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The Planet Dweller

Jane Palmer

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Clones, Bodysnatchers, and Genetic Engineering

Immortality Inc.

Robert Sheckley

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Who Goes There?

John W. Campbell

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Jack Strong: A Story of Life after Life

Walter Mosley

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Cloned Lives

Pamela Sargent

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The Big Aha

Rudy Rucker

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The Father-Thing

Philip K. Dick

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Ribofunk

Paul Di Filippo

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The Man Who Turned Into Himself

David P. Ambrose

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The Ware Tetralogy

Rudy Rucker

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The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Top Author: Arthur C. Clarke

3001: The Final Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

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2061: Odyssey Three

Arthur C. Clarke

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Tales from the White Hart

Arthur C. Clarke

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A Fall of Moondust

Arthur C. Clarke

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Earthlight

Arthur C. Clarke

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Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

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Cradle

Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

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Rama Revealed

Gentry Lee , Arthur C. Clarke

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The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

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Rama II

Gentry Lee , Arthur C. Clarke

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The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Hammer of God

Arthur C. Clarke

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Imperial Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Sands of Mars

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Garden of Rama

Gentry Lee , Arthur C. Clarke

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Reach for Tomorrow

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with...

Arthur C. Clarke

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Expedition to Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

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Dolphin Island

Arthur C. Clarke

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Glide Path

Arthur C. Clarke

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Against the Fall of Night

Arthur C. Clarke

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Islands in the Sky

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Ghost from the Grand Banks

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Trigger

Michael Kube-McDowell , Arthur C. Clarke

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Beyond the Fall of Night

Arthur C. Clarke , Gregory Benford

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Prelude to Space

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Deep Range

Arthur C. Clarke

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Sentinel, ...

Arthur C. Clarke

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Cyberpunk Sampler

Moxyland

Lauren Beukes

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The Man in the Moon Must Die

Jeff Bredenberg

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Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken

Paul Di Filippo

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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

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The Ware Tetralogy

Rudy Rucker

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Strange Flesh: A Novel

Michael Olson

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Harsh Oases

Paul Di Filippo

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Reamde: A Novel

Neal Stephenson

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Zoo City

Lauren Beukes

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The Daedalus Code

Colin F. Barnes

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Nymphomation

Jeff Noon

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Blood Music

Greg Bear

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The Engineer ReConditioned

Neal Asher

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Cyberpunk Stories

William King

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Rudy Rucker

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Black Glass

John Shirley

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The Big Aha

Rudy Rucker

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Ad Astra

13 books hand-picked by Scribd editorial staff

Fleeing an overpopulated Earth. Colonizing a newly discovered planet. Searching for extraterrestrial life. These stories all address one of humanity’s most durable dreams: to leave the old world behind and make a new home among the stars.

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