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- Kai Lung
series62 books1900
completed
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Kai Lung is a fictional character in a series of books by Ernest Bramah, consisting of The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900), Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922), Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928), The Moon of Much Gladness, Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree (1940), Kai Lung: Six (1974) and Kai Lung Raises His Voice (2010).
- Lost Horizon
James Hiltonstandalone novel1933
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Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by the English writer James Hilton. The book was adapted into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra; and a musical film remake in 1973 by producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach. It is the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
- The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2002
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What if the Black Death had killed nearly everyone in Europe instead of a third of it? Kim Stanley Robinson opens on that premise with a Mongol scout named Bold, who finds a Hungarian city emptied by plague and only narrowly escapes execution meant to contain the contagion; sold into slavery, he ends up serving aboard a Chinese treasure fleet alongside a young African companion. From there the novel follows a recurring cast of souls, reincarnated across centuries and identifiable book to book by the first letter of their names, through an alternate history in which Islamic and Chinese civilizations, not a devastated Europe, shape the world's future.
- Empire of the Sun
series2 books1984
completed
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J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun draws on his own childhood to follow Jim, a British boy separated from his parents in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II and interned in a civilian camp for the rest of the war. Ballard revisited the same period and a version of the same character years later in The Kindness of Women, a more explicitly fictionalized continuation into Jim's adult life. Empire of the Sun is the more directly autobiographical and better-known of the two.
- Bridge Trilogy
series4 books1990
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The Bridge trilogy is a series of novels by William Gibson, his second after the successful Sprawl trilogy. The trilogy comprises the novels Virtual Light (1993), Idoru (1996) and All Tomorrow's Parties (1999). A short story, "Skinner's Room", was originally composed for Visionary San Francisco, a 1990 museum exhibition exploring the future of San Francisco.
- Cloud Atlas
David Mitchellstandalone novel2004
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Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories in different writing styles that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. Its title references a piece of music by Toshi Ichiyanagi.
- The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2020
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The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. While the ministry pursues various ambitious projects, the effects of climate change are determined to be the most consequential. The plot primarily follows Mary Murphy, the head of the titular Ministry for the Future, and Frank May, an American aid worker traumatized by experiencing a deadly heat wave in India. Many chapters are devoted to other characters' accounts of future events, as well as their ideas about ecology, economics, and other subjects.
- Under Heaven
series2 books2010
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Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven follows Shen Tai, a general's son who provokes a political crisis simply by accepting an extraordinary gift of 250 rare horses in gratitude for burying the dead of an old battlefield, while his sister Li-Mei's forced marriage into a northern people opens a second thread on the empire's edges. Set in Kitai, a fantasy analogue of Tang-dynasty China centered on the capital Xinan, it is a story of court intrigue and personal survival rather than epic-fantasy world-war. Its companion novel, River of Stars, returns to the same world some four centuries later with an independent story rather than a direct sequel.
- Termination Shock
Neal Stephensonstandalone novel2021
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Termination Shock is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2021. The book is set in a near-future when climate change has significantly altered human society and follows the attempts of a solar geoengineering scheme. The novel focuses on the geopolitical and social consequences of the rogue fix for climate change, themes common in the growing climate fiction genre.
- Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2018
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Red Moon is a 2018 science fiction novel by American novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The novel is set in China and on the Moon. It was reviewed in several US media outlets with mixed reception.
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchellstandalone novel2010
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical fiction novel by English author David Mitchell published by Sceptre in 2010. It is set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th century, during the period of Japanese history known as Sakoku.
- Black Star Rising
Frederik Pohlstandalone novel1985
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Black Star Rising, published in 1986, is a dystopian science fiction novel by American author Frederik Pohl. It is about a post-nuclear war future in which a conquered United States becomes a Chinese farming colony. The main character is an American who the Chinese send to meet a race of warlike aliens who come to Earth.
- The Great Zoo of China
Matthew Reillystandalone novel2014
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The Great Zoo of China is a 2014 novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly. It was published in November 2014.
- The Man Who Japed
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1956
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The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The "jape[s]" or practical jokes of the novel begin with a statue's unconventional decapitation.
- The Radiant Emperor
series2 books2021
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The Radiant Emperor reimagines the rise of the founder of a Chinese dynasty as a peasant girl who takes on her dead brother's identity and destiny to survive famine and war, rising through ambition and deception toward the throne. Shelley Parker-Chan's duology, beginning with She Who Became the Sun, follows her against a rival commander on the opposing side of a civil war, concluding in He Who Drowned the World.
- Richter 10
Arthur C. Clarke & Mike McQuaystandalone novel1996
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Richter 10 is a 1996 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Mike McQuay. The protagonist, Lewis Crane, develops a hatred of earthquakes after his parents are killed and his home destroyed by one when he is seven years old. He devises a way of predicting earthquakes months or years in advance, and eventually banishing them forever by stopping all tectonic activity. The book's title is a reference to the Richter scale, on which 10 was considered to be the most power an earthquake was likely to ever have.
- The Jonah Kit
Ian Watsonstandalone novel1975
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The Jonah Kit is a 1975 science fiction novel by English writer Ian Watson. In 1977, The Jonah Kit won the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
- Ghostwritten
David Mitchellstandalone novel1999
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Various individuals around the globe cross paths, while the complexities of modern societies lead to human civilization's inevitable end.
