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  • Cover of The Black Cloud
    The Black CloudNovel

    Fred Hoyle · standalone novel · 1957

    Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about aliens and survival.

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  • Cover of The Kraken Wakes
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    John Wyndham · standalone novel · 1953

    Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens and survival.

    “Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible.”

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  • Cover of The Man Who Fell to Earth
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    Walter Tevis · standalone novel · 1963

    Reflective in tone, about aliens and loneliness, set in north america.

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  • Cover of Eye in the Sky
    Eye in the SkyNovel

    Philip K. Dick · standalone novel · 1957

    Eerie in tone, about identity and madness, set in north america.

    “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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  • Cover of The Death of Grass
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    John Christopher · standalone novel · 1956

    Post-apocalyptic, about plague and pandemic and survival.

    “The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat.”

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  • Cover of Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord
    Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and DiscordNovel

    Olaf Stapledon · standalone novel · 1944

    Reflective in tone, about uplift and identity.

    “A sense of existential questioning suffuses the book, as the author delves into aspects of Sirius's psyche.”

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