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What do readers say about The Dog Stars?
sparse but powerful prose with little punctuation poetic and very descriptive spare and clipped"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these... More details on The Dog Stars
I have a neighbor. One. Just us at a small country airport a few miles from the mountains. A training field where they built a bunch of houses for people who couldn’t sleep without their little planes...
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What do readers say about Ecotopia?
an intriguing epistolary novel comprehensiveness of vision a very influential book stupid and horrifyingA novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley,... More details on Ecotopia
WESTON’S NEXT ASSIGNMENT: ECOTOPIA The Times-Post is at last able to announce that William Weston, our top international affairs reporter, will spend six weeks in Ecotopia, beginning next week. This u...
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What do readers say about Adiamante?
a good story with thought-provoking undertones it's quick to read & interesting. well written taking care of the environment and wastefulnessAfter ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.... More details on Adiamante
If the conversation had been offline and spoken, neither of which was possible within the working systems contained in the adiamante hull of the Gibson, the words would have followed old patterns, pat...
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What do readers say about Oryx and Crake?
engaging and thought-provoking direct and without ostentation engaging and well written futuristic dystopia novelFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to sur... More details on Oryx and Crake
Snowman wakes before dawn. He lies unmoving, listening to the tide coming in, wave after wave sloshing over the various barricades, wish-wash, wish-wash, the rhythm of heartbeat. He would so like to b...
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What do readers say about The Girl With All the Gifts?
dystopian/post apocalyptic tale post apocalyptic thriller crazy, weird book it was unputdownableIn the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity - or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller Joss Whedon calls "heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human."
Melanie is a very special g... More details on The Girl With All the Gifts
Her name is Melanie. It means “the black girl”, from an ancient Greek word, but her skin is actually very fair so she thinks maybe it’s not such a good name for her. She likes the name Pandora a whole...
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What do readers say about Pastwatch?
an idea book card creates enjoyable scifi historical adventure thriller the biblical floodIn one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history fr... More details on Pastwatch
"the replanting" or "the restoring" or even "the resurrection" of the Earth. All these names were accurate. Something had been done, and now it was being undone. Much had died or been broken or killed...
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What do readers say about Greybeard?
classic dystopian science fiction poetic-like prose post-apocalyptic novel post-apocalyptic taleHuman reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this "adult Lord of the Flies" by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle).
After the "Accident," all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by ... More details on Greybeard
A rifle was slung over his left shoulder by a leather strap. He moved silently along a path cut between coppiced sycamores as tall as he was. On the path ahead, a snake lay sunning itself. The day was...
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What do readers say about Always Coming Home?
different people speaking literature of the people portmanteau book nonfictionUrsula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and f... More details on Always Coming Home
HOW THE PATIENT scientist feels when the shapeless tussocks and vague ditches under the thistles and scrub begin to take shape and come clear: this was the outer rampart—this the gateway—that was the ...
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What do readers say about Emergency Skin?
it’s short, but beautiful amazing scifi book dark but hopeful it's a short storyWhat will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy... More details on Emergency Skin
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What do readers say about The Word for World is Forest?
close to basic english a morality play writing and imagination heavy-handed and preachyThe award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin!
The Word for World is Forest
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced i... More details on The Word for World is Forest
Two pieces of yesterday were in Captain Davidson’s mind when he woke, and he lay looking at them in the darkness for a while. One up: the new shipload of women had arrived. Believe it or not. They wer...
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