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  • Cover of The Host
    The HostNovel

    Stephenie Meyer · standalone novel · 2008

    Romance, about aliens and body swap.

    “The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.”

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  • Cover of Blade Runner Universe
    Blade Runner UniverseSeries

    series · 6 books · 1968

    Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about robots, set in big city.

    “Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”

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    Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots, set in far future.

    “There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”

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    Start with Foundation →

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    includes The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Trantorian Empire, The Positronic Robot Stories, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation, Foundation (Original Stories)

  • Cover of The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other DaysNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · standalone novel · 2000

    Time travel, challenging in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity.

    “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.”

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  • Cover of The Martian
    The MartianSeries

    series · 2 books · 2012

    Hard science fiction, about survival, set in mars.

    “Using scientific improvisation and dark humor, Watney works to keep himself alive long enough for a rescue to reach him.”

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    Start with The Martian →

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  • Cover of Darwin
    DarwinSeries

    series · 2 books · 1999

    completed

    Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic, set in north america.

    “Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Darwin's Radio →

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