Genre :: Science Fiction (43 books)

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  #457

  Riddley Walker

  by Russell Hoban

  (2 Reviews)

  35 Points

  "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking..."

  

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  #473

  The Martian Chronicles

  by Ray Bradbury

  (7 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in..."

  

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  #499

  the man in the high castle

  by Philip K. Dick

  (3 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail."

  

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  #511

  Little, Big

  by John Crowley

  (4 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited."

  

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  #517

  Time and Again

  by Jack Finney

  (1 Review)

  21 Points

  "In shirt-sleeves, the I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board."

  

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  #519

  The Left Hand of Darkness

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling:..."

  

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  #523

  Cloud Atlas

  by David Mitchell

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

  

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  #566

  Magician

  by Raymond E. Feist

  (4 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "The storm had broken."

  

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  #582

  Jurassic Park

  by Michael Crichton

  (8 Reviews)

  9 Points

  "The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering."

  

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  #586

  The Colour of Magic

  by Terry Pratchett

  (5 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part..."

  

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