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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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    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.”

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    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    Bittersweet in tone, about technological singularity and identity, set in near future.

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    Sheri S. Tepper · standalone novel · 2000

    About political intrigue.

    “The Fresco was on the shortlist for 2001 James Tiptree, Jr. Award”

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    Jack McDevitt · standalone novel · 1986

    Mysterious in tone, about space exploration, set in north america.

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    Gillian Rubinstein · standalone novel · 1988

    About identity, set in oceania.

    “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.”

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