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Hitchhiker series volume 6.
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In a continuation of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" saga, Arthur Dent returns to Earth from his galactic adventures and discovers that the planet is about to be blown up yet again.
2. Cat's cradle
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4.7 stars
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb
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3.7 stars
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A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes
...4. Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1.
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4.3 stars
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Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.
In the far future, the son of Duke Leto Atreides leads a struggle against the Emperor from the desert planet of Arrakis, where his family has lived in exile for many years at the Emperor's command.
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Foundation series volume 4.
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4.4 stars
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The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the...
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the...
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Hitchhiker series volume 1.
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4.2 stars
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Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent, accompanied by never-before-published material from the late author's archives as well as commentary by famous fans.
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After the defeat of the Allies during World War II, the United States is divided up and ruled by the Axis powers
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3.6 stars
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The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
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Hitchhiker series volume 5.
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3.8 stars
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In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out on a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.
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Hitchhiker series volume 2.
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4.3 stars
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In the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent joins his longtime friend Ford Prefect; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed former president of the galaxy; and Trillian, a sexy refugee, on a hilarious search for the current ruler of the universe.
11. A scanner darkly
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4.8 stars
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"A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse. . . A fascinating portrait of 70s Californian counter-culture."--The Guardian. Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred...
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Hitchhiker series volume 4.
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3.7 stars
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Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe."