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Hopeland by Ian McDonald

They met while London burned. A encounter during a riot brought Amon Brightbourne together with Raissa Hopeland on a mad …

Animal Farm by George Orwell

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals …

war: how conflict shaped us by Margaret Olwen Macmillan

The Stranger by Albert Camus

L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as …

Russia's War by Jade McGlynn

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis …

The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson (unspecified)

From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert …

Idoru by William Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate)

Fail-safe by Eugene Burdick

The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall …

Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who …

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Preventable by Devi Sridhar

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, Alvin Toffler

Future Shock is a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler, written together with his spouse Adelaide Farrell, in which …