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  • Cover of Messiah
    MessiahNovel

    Gore Vidal · standalone novel · 1954

    Satire, set in our world and north america.

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  • Cover of Dune Universe
    DuneUniverse

    universe · 78 books · 1963

    Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

    “The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dune →

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  • Cover of After Such Knowledge
    After Such KnowledgeSeries

    series · 7 books · 1953

    completed

    “After Such Knowledge is James Blish's loosely linked trilogy on the costs of forbidden or dangerous knowledge.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Doctor Mirabilis →

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  • Cover of VALIS
    VALISSeries

    series · 4 books · 1981

    completed

    Science fiction, about identity.

    “The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with VALIS →

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  • Cover of Island
    IslandNovel

    Aldous Huxley · standalone novel · 1962

    About ecological collapse, set in mid 20th century and islands.

    “Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Cosmic Trigger
    Cosmic TriggerSeries

    series · 3 books · 1977

    completed

    Set in our world.

    “Cosmic Trigger revisits many of the themes from that earlier work in a more autobiographical fashion.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati →

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