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series3 books1978

About music.

“Ansset is a boy with a singing voice so perfect it can reach straight into people's emotions, raised from infancy at the Songhouse to become a 'Songbird' -- a living gift bestowed on the powerful until he comes of age.”
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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Double StarNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1956

About political intrigue, set in mars.

“Lorenzo Smythe, the excellent yet unemployed actor, meets Dak Broadbent in a bar.”
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Flowers for AlgernonNovel

Daniel Keyesstandalone novel1966

About genetic engineering, set in north america and contemporary.

“A man with a low IQ becomes the subject of an experimental medical procedure which raises his IQ well over genius level.”
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Citizen of the GalaxyNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957

Space opera, about coming of age and slavery, set in other star systems.

“On a planet far distant from Earth, a lame beggar buys a young boy slave who has forgotten his origins.”
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Don't Bite the SunSeries

series2 books1976

completed

Dystopia, reflective in tone, about immortality.

“Over the course of the story, the nameless narrator fails to relate to her seven Jang friends but finds herself, feels emotion, and learns love.”
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