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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
First contact, about aliens and faith and religion, set in near future.
DhalgrenNovel
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1975
Literary & general, about madness and loneliness, set in big city.
Bridge of AshesNovel
Roger Zelaznystandalone novel1976
Mysterious in tone.
Eye in the SkyNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1957
Eerie in tone, about madness, set in mid 20th century.
“Eight visitors touring a particle-accelerator facility are caught in a catastrophic malfunction, a collapsing platform, a burst of radiation, that leaves them all unconscious.”
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Flowers for AlgernonNovel
Daniel Keyesstandalone novel1966
Emotional in tone, about genetic engineering and coming of age.
“A man with a low IQ becomes the subject of an experimental medical procedure which raises his IQ well over genius level.”
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Dark MatterNovel
Blake Crouchstandalone novel2016
Thriller & suspense, tense in tone, set in parallel universe.
“Jason Dessen, college physics professor, husband and father, is kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe where his counterpart had dedicated his life to inventing a method of traveling between an infinity of parallel universes.”
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