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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks (Culture, part 2)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …

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 …

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and …

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of …

Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (Borne #2)

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race …

Agency by William Gibson, BA, William F. Gibson

Children of Men by P. D. James

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …

The memoirs of a survivor by Doris Lessing (Picador)

The continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by David G. Compton

Hard To Be A God (S.F. Masterworks) by Boris Strugatsky, Борис Натанович Стругацкий

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut