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What do readers say about Red Mars?
the colonization of mars frequently poetic descriptions science and technical parts hard science novelWinner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction's most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson's masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.
"A staggering ... More details on Red Mars
All lies, Frank Chalmers thought irritably. He was sitting in a row of dignitaries, watching his old friend John Boone give the usual Boone Inspirational Address. It made Chalmers weary. The truth was...
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What do readers say about The Dispossessed?
non-linear plot development her ostensible masterpiece great thought-provoking book lack of resources"One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." - Stephen King
From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust - and the man who risks eve... More details on The Dispossessed
There are eleven babies in the room, most of them cooped up in large, padded pen-cots in pairs or trios, and settling down, with commotion and elocution, into their naps. The two eldest remain at larg...
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What do readers say about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?
fun and well-written a found family space opera a crew of a spaceship it is totally character drivenNational Bestseller!
The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series!
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far re... More details on The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Living in space was anything but quiet. Grounders never expected that. For anyone who had grown up planetside, it took some time to get used to the clicks and hums of a ship, the ever-present ambiance...
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What do readers say about Parable of the Sower?
lyrical and haunting survival during/after societal collapse near-future work of fiction elegant and vividParable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of despera... More details on Parable of the Sower
I HAD MY RECURRING dream last night. I guess I should have expected it. It comes to me when I struggle—when I twist on my own personal hook and try to pretend that nothing unusual is happening. It com...
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What do readers say about Glass and Gardens?
i've enjoyed every story aesthetics and themes dull and pretentious all the storiesSolarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias-they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the con... More details on Glass and Gardens
It is so different from my home in Hillside, some three hundred miles away. Where Hillside’s shining towers reach for the blue sky, New-Ur seems born from the very rock, all adobe and stucco and low-s...
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What do readers say about Solarpunk?
mix of story-telling styles stilted stories grappling with real world problems scifi thrillerImagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors... More details on Solarpunk
The literary roots of solarpunk stretch back decades (at least), influenced and inspired by thought experiments such as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. One of th...
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What do readers say about New York 2140?
diverse cast of characters comedy of coping extended and estimable tale a wild rompNew York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.
As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment ... More details on New York 2140
“Yes, and lots of businesses do go bankrupt. But the ones that don’t haven’t actually sold their thing for more than it cost to make. They’ve just ignored some of their costs. They’re under huge press...
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What do readers say about Pacific Edge?
a cooperative utopia interesting and thoroughly californian love it or hate it utopian novelThe concluding book in Kim Stanley Robinson's critically-acclaimed Three Californias Trilogy, Pacific Edge.
2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claibor... More details on Pacific Edge
The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes to southern California only after a Santa Ana wind has blown all haze and history out to sea—air like telescopic glass, so that the...
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What do readers say about Binti?
emphasis on cultural differences fast-paced, surprising plot breath of fresh air spaceships and aliens"Prepare to fall in love with Binti." -Neil Gaiman
Winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of h... More details on Binti
I powered up the transporter and said a silent prayer. I had no idea what I was going to do if it didn’t work. My transporter was cheap, so even a droplet of moisture, or more likely, a grain of sand,...
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What do readers say about Island?
non existent plot exhilarating and challenging nothing interesting happens simplistic and predictableThe final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.... More details on Island
Lying there like a corpse in the dead leaves, his hair matted, his face grotesquely smudged and bruised, his clothes in rags and muddy, Will Farnaby awoke with a start. Molly had called him. Time to g...
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