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- Nineteen Eighty-Four
series4 books1949
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future Britain kept under constant surveillance and thought control, following Winston Smith's doomed attempt at a private rebellion against the ruling Party. Sandra Newman's Julia (2023), written with the Orwell estate's authorization, retells the same events from the point of view of Winston's lover Julia, filling in a life and set of motives the original largely left offstage.
- Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
- On the Beach
Nevil Shutestandalone novel1957
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On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he immigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previously. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
- The Chrysalids
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1955
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The Chrysalids is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, first published in 1955 by Michael Joseph. It is the least typical of Wyndham's major novels, but regarded by some as his best. An early manuscript version was entitled Time for a Change.
- Walter Goodwin
series3 books1918
completed
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The Moon Pool (1919) and The Metal Monster (1920) are connected fantasy-adventure novels by A. Merritt, both narrated by the same character, Dr. Walter Goodwin, as he encounters hidden ancient civilizations and forces beyond ordinary science. The Moon Pool began as two related stories serialized in All-Story Weekly before being combined into a novel, and its success led Merritt to send Goodwin into a second, similarly strange discovery in The Metal Monster the following year. The two books follow Goodwin from one uncanny expedition to the next rather than forming a tightly plotted continuing saga.
- The Deep Range
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1957
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The Deep Range is a 1957 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, concerning a future sub-mariner who works in the field of mariculture, herding whales. The story includes the capture of a sea monster similar to a kraken.
- Dolphin Island
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1963
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A teen stows away on a giant freight hovership that makes an emergency landing near his house. When the craft is lost at sea, his life is saved by a school of dolphins that leads him to an island in the Great Barrier Reef. There he meets a research team that is trying to learn to communicate with dolphins.
- Cloud Atlas
David Mitchellstandalone novel2004
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Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories in different writing styles that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. Its title references a piece of music by Toshi Ichiyanagi.
- Ape and Essence
Aldous Huxleystandalone novel1948
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Ape and Essence (1948) is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in August 1948 by Harper & Brothers in the US, and then in 1949 by Chatto & Windus in the UK. It is set in a dystopia, as is Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work. It is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century, and presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction. The book makes extensive use of surreal imagery, depicting humans as apes who, as a whole, will inevitably kill themselves.
- Mother of Storms
John Barnesstandalone novel1994
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From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly warming the Earth's climate. In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane thousands of miles across is forming, larger than any in human history. A storm with winds of supersonic speed. A storm that changes direction at whim. A storm that refuses to die. A storm so vast it spawns dozens more in its wake... Blinded by intrigue, expedience, and greed, the world's politicians and power brokers have ignored the killer storms threat until it is too late. Already the death toll is in the tens of millions, as it savages the Pacific coast, while its devil's brood of smaller storms are wreaking havoc across the face of the planet. While the survivors scramble for advantage, a handful of courageous men and women undertake a daring, desperate plan to save humanity from total destruction - a plan so visionary it may alter forever the future of the human race."
- The Changeover
Margaret Mahystandalone novel1984
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The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance is a low fantasy novel for young adults by Margaret Mahy, published in 1984 by J. M. Dent in the U.K. It is set in Christchurch in the author's native New Zealand.
- Nargun / Wirrun milieu
series4 books1973
completed
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Patricia Wrightson's The Nargun and the Stars follows a boy sent to recover on his relatives' rural Australian property, where he becomes entangled with the Nargun, an ancient stone-being drawn from Aboriginal storytelling traditions, alongside other spirits native to the land. The novel treats the Australian bush as inhabited by beings far older than European settlement, seen through a child's slowly widening awareness. It won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year in 1974.
- Days of Infamy
series2 books2004
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Harry Turtledove's Days of Infamy duology reimagines the Pacific theater of World War II with an alternate outcome at Pearl Harbor: a Japanese invasion and occupation of Hawaii rather than a single carrier strike. Days of Infamy covers the invasion itself, while End of the Beginning follows the ensuing occupation and eventual counter-invasion. As in his other alternate-history work, Turtledove follows the changed war through a wide, rotating cast of civilian and military viewpoints.
- Illywhacker
Peter Careystandalone novel1984
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Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize.
- Playing Beatie Bow
Ruth Parkstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: A lonely Australian girl from a divided family is transported back to the 1880's and an immigrant family from the Orkney Islands.
- Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Christopher Moorestandalone novel1997
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun is a novel by American absurdist writer Christopher Moore, published in 1997. It is based partly on the author's personal experiences in Micronesia.
- Jennifer Government
Max Barrystandalone novel2003
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In the near future, where most of the English-speaking world is part of the United States, whose government has become vestigial, police departments are for hire, and corporations and their customer loyalty alliances possess almost unlimited power; a sundry cast of characters are caught up in various levels of a power struggle.
- Beyond the Labyrinth
Gillian Rubinsteinstandalone novel1988
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Fourteen-year-old Brenton questions the choices in his life when an alien anthropologist arrives to study an ancient Aboriginal tribe that once lived in the area around his home.
- Surrender
Sonya Hartnettstandalone novel2005
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Surrender is a novel written by the award-winning Australian novelist, Sonya Hartnett. It was first published in 2005 in Australia by Walker Books. It is narrated by twenty-year-old Gabriel, who is dying, and twenty-year-old Finnigan, a homeless boy who is Gabriel's only friend.
- The Unknown Terrorist
Richard Flanaganstandalone novel2006
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The Unknown Terrorist is the 2006 fourth novel by the Australian novelist Richard Flanagan.
- The Luminaries
Eleanor Cattonstandalone novel2013
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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery involving a series of unsolved crimes. The novel's complex structure is based on the system of Western astrology, with each of the twelve local men representing one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and with another set of characters representing planets in the Solar System.
- Del-Del
Victor Kelleherstandalone novel1991
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Del-Del is a psychological young adult novel written by Australian author Victor Kelleher and published in 1992. It deals with themes of loss and apparent demonic possession.
