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

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    About faith and religion and psychic powers, set in north america.

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  • Cover of Childhood's End
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    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    Bittersweet and reflective in tone, about technological singularity and identity.

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    Ursula K. Le Guin · standalone novel · 1971

    Eerie and tense in tone, about psychic powers, set in big city.

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    Project Hail MaryNovel

    Andy Weir · standalone novel · 2021

    Hard science fiction, about space exploration and amnesia.

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  • Cover of The Star Beast
    The Star BeastNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1954

    Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in north america.

    “A talking alien pet has grown to the size of a small dinosaur.”

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  • Cover of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
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    universe · 65 books · 1898

    Alien invasion.

    “No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”

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