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- Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1959
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Time Out of Joint is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960.
- The Mind Cage
A. E. van Vogtstandalone novel1957
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The Mind Cage is a 1957 science fiction novel by American writer A. E. van Vogt, adapted from the short story "The Great Judge" (1948).
- The Werewolf Principle
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1967
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From the back cover of the first DAW printing: "Andrew Blake, found in a space capsule on a distant planet, was brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, where antigravity devices had replaced the wheel and houses talk and even fly! Yet nothing was as strange as Blake's own feelings. Tormented by eerie sensations and a loss of memory, he didn't know who he really was nor exactly where he came from. His destiny only began to grow frighteningly clear when he met a weird, tassel-eared creature who darkly hinted at the truth about Blake's origins. Slowly Blake became aware of the long hushed-up "Werewolf Principle," a scientific theory buried in the past, which held the key to Blake's own fate - and the future of the human race..."
- Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel1999
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Flashforward is a science fiction novel by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer first published in 1999. The novel is set in 2009. At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson. The experiment has a unique side effect; the entire human race loses their consciousness for about two minutes. During that time, nearly everyone sees themselves roughly twenty-one years and six months in the future. Each individual experiences the future through the senses of their future self. This "flashforward" results in countless deaths and accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control at the time of the experiment. The novel was adapted into the 2009 television series FlashForward.
- Southern Reach Trilogy
series4 books2014
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The Southern Reach Series is a series of novels by the American author Jeff VanderMeer first published in 2014—Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution. The series takes its name from the secret agency that is central to the plot. In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director. The film was released in 2018. The most recent book in the series, Absolution, was released on 22 October 2024.
- Time Travelers Never Die
series2 books1996
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Time Travelers Never Die started life as a Jack McDevitt novella in the mid-1990s (Hugo- and Nebula-nominated) before he expanded it into a full novel over a decade later; the novella and novel are two forms of the same story rather than a sequel. It follows a small circle of people who gain access to working time travel and use it to step into the past, in McDevitt's characteristic register of curious, history-minded science fiction.
- Twilight Zone Collections
series8 books1960
part of Twilight Zone
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- Eva
Peter Dickinsonstandalone novel1988
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From the back cover: "Thirteen-year-old Eva wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma... But there is something, Eva senses, she is not being told, some other price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical technology, to save her?"
- Legion / Stephen Leeds
series5 books2012
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Legion, or the Stephen Leeds series, is a series of science fiction novellas created by American author Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson authored the first three stories : Legion, first published on August 31, 2012, Legion: Skin Deep in November 2014, and Legion: Lies of the Beholder in September 2018. Death and Faxes, co-authored by Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, was released in June 2022. The books have received favorable reviews.
- Generation A
Douglas Couplandstandalone novel2009
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In the near future bees are extinct — until one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. This shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined.
- Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by the American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.
- Dr. Futurity
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1960
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Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is an expansion of his earlier short story "Time Pawn", which first saw publication in the summer 1954 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. Dr. Futurity was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-421, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's Slavers of Space.
- Twilight Zone
universe40 books1960
Start hereStories from the Twilight Zone · Start here
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Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone. Somewhere between the streetlight and the front door, the rules quietly change. This is the Twilight Zone — not a place on any map but a middle ground between light and shadow, science and superstition, the pit of our fears and the summit of our knowledge. There is no continuing saga here, no cast to follow across the years. There is only the door, and the parable waiting on the far side of it. What the shelf holds is Rod Serling's anthology given the permanence of print. Serling turned his own teleplays into prose, the collections that open with Stories from the Twilight Zone, and the scripts survive alongside them — his and Richard Matheson's, the two hands that set the show's pulse. Around that core gather the story-collections of Walter B. Gibson, the volumes of new tales assembled by Carol Serling, standalone novels, and paired reissues: dozens of self-contained pieces, many writers under one banner. Read one or read forty. Each closes its own circle. The machinery is always the same and never predictable — a reasonable premise, a moral squeeze, a final turn that lands like a tap on the shoulder, sometimes cruel, sometimes merciful, always earned. Beneath the twist runs Serling's true subject: ordinary conscience under strain — prejudice, vanity, loneliness, the wish to go back. Begin where he began, with his own Stories from the Twilight Zone, then follow Matheson. There is no order to keep. You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
- Free Live Free
Gene Wolfestandalone novel1984
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Free Live Free is a novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first published in 1984.
- Bridge of Ashes
Roger Zelaznystandalone novel1976
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Bridge of Ashes is an experimental science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. The paperback edition was published in 1976 and the hardcover in 1979. Zelazny describes the book as one of five books from which he learned things "that have borne me through thirty or so others". He states that he "felt that if I could pull it off I could achieve some powerful effects. What I learned from this book is something of the limits of puzzlement in that no man’s land between suspense and the weakening of communication".
- The Adjacent
Christopher Prieststandalone novel2013
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In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day: a theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.
- Beyond the Barrier
Damon Knightstandalone novel1964
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From the front flap of the Doubleday first edition: "Gordon Naismith was a physics professor at a large California university. The year was 1980, and by means of the university's duplicator he could personally teach in nine different classrooms simultaneously. Naismith was an average man in all but two respects: the reflexes were extraordinarily quick, and four years before in a plane crash he had lost all memory of his earlier life. Neither difference seemed important until one day a very unusual student in one of his classes asked a disturbing, extracurricular question: "Professor, what is a zug?" The question triggered a series of violent incidents, and soon Naismith himself, as well as the police, were beginning to wonder if the duplicator had reproduced him a tenth time. The answer lay ten thousand years in the future."
- Gnomon
Nick Harkawaystandalone novel2017
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Gnomon is a 2017 science fiction novel by British author Nick Harkaway. The book deals with a state that exerts ubiquitous surveillance on its population. A detective investigates a murder through unconventional methods that leads to questions about her society's very nature.
- 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.
- The Productions of Time
John Brunnerstandalone novel1967
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The Productions of Time is a science fiction novel by English writer John Brunner, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1966. It appeared in book form the following year, published by Signet Books.
- 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.
- Escape from Memory
Margaret Peterson Haddixstandalone novel2003
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Escape from Memory is a young adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It was published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster.
