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  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    About psychic powers and identity, set in north america and near future.

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  • Cover of VALIS
    VALISSeries

    series · 4 books · 1981

    completed

    About identity.

    “The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.”

    from the catalogue
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  • Cover of The Vampire Chronicles
    The Vampire ChroniclesSeries

    series · 15 books · 1976

    completed

    Horror and gothic, about vampires and immortality.

    “Based on a short story Rice wrote around 1968, the novel centers on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Interview with the Vampire →

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  • Cover of Dune Universe
    DuneUniverse

    universe · 78 books · 1963

    Space opera, about political intrigue.

    “The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dune →

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  • Cover of Contact
    ContactNovel

    Carl Sagan · standalone novel · 1985

    Hard science fiction, about space exploration.

    “The Message, awaited for so long, its very possibility doubted by so many, arrives.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Calculating God
    Calculating GodNovel

    Robert J. Sawyer · standalone novel · 2000

    Science fiction and first contact, reflective in tone, about faith and religion and aliens, set in contemporary and our world.

    “The bulk of the novel covers the many discussions and arguments on this topic, as well as the nature of belief, religion, and science.”

    from the catalogue

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