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An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well. The effects on society are enormous.
- October the First Is Too Late
Fred Hoylestandalone novel1966
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- How High We Go in the Dark
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(Robin MacArthur, in Scientific American): "[A] dystopian narrative set in the near future about an ancient virus that is uncovered by a scientist ... while she is researching melting permafrost in the Arctic."
- Mother of Storms
John Barnesstandalone novel1994
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From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly warming the Earth's climate. In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane thousands of miles across is forming, larger than any in human history. A storm with winds of supersonic speed. A storm that changes direction at whim. A storm that refuses to die. A storm so vast it spawns dozens more in its wake... Blinded by intrigue, expedience, and greed, the world's politicians and power brokers have ignored the killer storms threat until it is too late. Already the death toll is in the tens of millions, as it savages the Pacific coast, while its devil's brood of smaller storms are wreaking havoc across the face of the planet. While the survivors scramble for advantage, a handful of courageous men and women undertake a daring, desperate plan to save humanity from total destruction - a plan so visionary it may alter forever the future of the human race."
- Enchantment
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Enchantment is an English language fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. First published in 1999, the novel is based on the Ukrainian version of Sleeping Beauty and other folk tales. Various forms of magic, potions, and immortal deities also play an important role in the story.
- The Devil's Arithmetic
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Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
- Дозоры / Watch
series6 books1998
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Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch novels are set among the Others, humans with supernatural gifts who split into the Night Watch, policing dark forces, and the Day Watch, policing the light ones, under a truce that keeps their ancient war frozen in an uneasy bureaucratic peace. Each book follows the Night Watch magician Anton Gorodetsky through a case that keeps threatening to unbalance that truce for good. Starting in Moscow, the series expands across six novels into other cities and a wider view of how the truce actually works.
- Rusalka
series6 books1989
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C. J. Cherryh's Rusalka opens a trilogy set in medieval forests near the Dnieper, drawing on Slavic folklore about the rusalka, a drowned girl transformed into a water spirit. A young wizard's uncertain magic becomes entangled with her fate as the story unfolds. Chernevog and Yvgenie continue the tale.
- The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevisstandalone novel1983
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The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit.
- Winternight
series3 books2017
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The Winternight trilogy is a series of adult historical fantasy novels written by American author Katherine Arden. The trilogy consists of The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), The Girl in the Tower (2017), and The Winter of the Witch (2019). At the beginning, the story takes place in a medieval Russian village. Vasilisa "Vasya" Petrovna has received a spiritual gift, using it to see the fantastical creatures that inhabit her village. This leads her to a conflict with the Orthodox Church who becomes convinced that she is a witch.
- The Jonah Kit
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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.
- We the Living
Ayn Randstandalone novel1936
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Semi-autobiographical story of an independent-minded girl living in poverty, hunger and oppression of early 1920s Communist Russia.
- Deathless
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Deathless is an alternate history novel by American writer Catherynne M. Valente, combining the Russian fairy tale The Death of Koschei the Deathless with the events and aftermath of the Russian Revolution. The novel follows the life of Marya Morevna as she transforms from a young child witnessing the revolution to her newfound position as bride after her marriage with Koschei, Tsar of Life. The book is divided into six parts and is told primarily in the third person from the perspective of Marya Morevnan. However, it does feature other characters, such as Ivan Tsarevich.
- Between the Wars
series4 books1981
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The Pyat Quartet, also known as Between the Wars, is a tetralogy of historical fiction novels by English author Michael Moorcock comprising Byzantium Endures, The Laughter of Carthage, Jerusalem Commands and The Vengeance of Rome published from 1981 to 2006.
- Silver Tower
Dale Brownstandalone novel1988
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The first permanent U.S. space station plays a pivotal role in deciding the outcome of a crisis in the Middle East.
- The Chosen Child
Graham Mastertonstandalone novel1997
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"Sarah Leonard is an American businesswoman in charge of a major hotel chain's expansion in Poland. She's personally supervising the construction in Warsaw, because if the job doesn't come in on time and under budget, Sarah would be quickly unemployed."--Jacket.
- The Incandescent Ones
Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoylestandalone novel1977
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The Incandescent Ones is a science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and his son Geoffrey Hoyle. It was first published in 1977. The novel describes the eventful epic journey of the narrator, which seems to begin as a story of Cold War espionage but, involving life forces beyond Earth, finally leads to Jupiter.
- Ascent
Jed Mercuriostandalone novel2007
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Ascent is a 2007 secret history novel by British writer Jed Mercurio. It follows the career of Yevgeni Yeremin, an orphan of Stalingrad, from his days as a MiG-15 pilot in the Korean War to his later years as a cosmonaut.
