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The Demolished ManNovel
Alfred Besterstandalone novel1953
Tense in tone, set in our world.
“In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen.”
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The Legacy of LehrNovel
Katherine Kurtzstandalone novel1986
Tense in tone, set in spaceship.
“When four large blue cat aliens with psychic powers come aboard an insterstellar luxury liner, a rash of murders breaks out!”
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The Game-Players of TitanNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1963
Post-apocalyptic, about amnesia, set in north america and near future.
“Pete Garden's bipolar disorder threatens his standing among the game's players even as his new wife becomes pregnant, a near-miraculous event in this exhausted world, and his attraction to a telepath complicates things further.”
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Doorways in the SandNovel
Roger Zelaznystandalone novel1976
Funny in tone, set in other star systems.
“Zelazny wrote the whole story in one draft, with no rewrites, and it subsequently became one of his five favorites among his own work.”
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Century RainNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2004
Alternate history, about identity, set in mid 20th century.
Red Planet BluesNovel
Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel2013
Tense in tone, about mind uploading, set in mars.
“Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet.”
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