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What do readers say about The Forever War?
the ending was perfect flat-out, unsentimental, brutal imaginative and natural-feeling development violent and fatalisticThe monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand-despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconqu... More details on The Forever War
“Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.” The guy who said that was a sergeant who didn’t look five years older than me. So if he’d ever killed a man in combat, silently or ot...
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What do readers say about Foundation?
dry and condescending densely and tersely fast-paced and always interesting plain nondescript proseThe first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years t... More details on Foundation
TERMINUS–... Its location (see map) was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on ...
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What do readers say about The Time Machine?
early science-fiction classic tight and thoughtful suspenseful and a classic quick moving and interestingA Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads... More details on The Time Machine
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fir...
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What do readers say about Ringworld?
lucid and concise an artificial world old-fashioned scifi writing classic hard sfWinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel
Four travelers come to the ringworld. . .
Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.
Nessus: a tremb... More details on Ringworld
His foot-length queue was as white and shiny as artificial snow. His skin and depilated scalp were chrome yellow; the irises of his eyes were gold; his robe was royal blue with a golden stereoptic dra...
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What do readers say about Dune?
exciting, fast-moving, intriguing plot science fiction classic slow and tedious amazing science fictionNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, Charlotte Rampling, and J... More details on Dune
When my father, the Padishah Emperor, heard of Duke Leto’s death and the manner of it, he went into such a rage as we had never before seen. He blamed my mother and the compact forced on him to place ...
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What do readers say about Rendezvous with Rama?
lack of smugness old-school proper science fiction pure engineering sf what they findWinner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work.
By the year 2130, the solar system has been colonized, with... More details on Rendezvous with Rama
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On 30 June 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometres—a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. Again, on 12...
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What do readers say about Neuromancer?
futuristic film noir dense and tangled adds to the atmosphere computers, hacking, and cyberspaceWinner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece-a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix-until he cros... More details on Neuromancer
“It’s not like I’m using,” Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. “It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug deficiency.” It was a Sprawl...
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What do readers say about Stranger in a Strange Land?
sometimes interesting and clever pedestrian but not awful scifi cult classic one of those classicsThe complete, uncut version of Robert A. Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.
Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never se... More details on Stranger in a Strange Land
The first human expedition to Mars was selected on the theory that the greatest danger to man was man himself. At that time, eight Terran years after the founding of the first human colony on Luna, an...
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What do readers say about Ender's Game?
military science fiction uplifting and depressing a society in peril science fiction battle novelThe worldwide bestseller, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen at last in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugo's Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience o... More details on Ender's Game
Ender did not see Peter as the beautiful ten-year-old boy that grown-ups saw, with dark, thick, tousled hair and a face that could have belonged to Alexander the Great. Ender looked at Peter only to d...
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What do readers say about The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress?
first person narrative very witty prose politics and revolution dated and blandFor fans of Artemis-the visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" (The Wall Street Journal).
Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of ... More details on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
I SEE IN Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect—and tax—public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure. I see also is to be mass ...
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