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Author

Gene Wolfe

Title

The Shadow of the Torturer

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Volume One of The Book of the New Sun

The Earth is old and the sun is dying.  In the great Citadel of the City Imperishable, Severian, apprentice to the torturers' guild, betrays his oath.  Exiled, Severian begins his phantasmagoric odyssey through the dark and perilous world of the deep, distant future.

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Author

Dan Simmons

Title

Hyperion

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It is the twenty-ninth century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat.  Invasion by the warlike rebel Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos even closer.


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Author

Vernor Vinge

Title

A Deepness in the Sky

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Thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire upon the Deep, Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity among the Qeng Ho interstellar trading fleet.  In high orbit above the planet Arachna, they wait for the awakening of its dormant population, the Spiders.


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Author

Isaac Asimov

Title

The End of Eternity

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My name is Andrew Harlam.  I am eternal: a member of a highly exclusive organisation.  I am a Technician, and my job is to range through past and present centuries, monitoring and altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships ... 

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Author

Ken Macleod

Title

Learning the World

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The great sunliner But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey.  A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home.  

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Author

Barrington J Bayley

Title

Collision with Chronos

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The ancient ruins that dotted Earth's landscape seemed to be disobeying the laws of time, becoming less and less decrepit as the years went by.

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Author

HG Wells

Title

The Sleeper Awakes

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A troubled insomniac in 1890's England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years.  

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Author

William Gibson

Title

Pattern Recognition

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'We have no future because our present is too volatile ... We have only risk management.  The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.  Pattern recognition ....'  

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Author

Charles Stross

Title

Accelerando

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The year is some time between 2010 and 2015.  The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly.   

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Author

Joe Haldeman

Title

Camouflage

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Unknown to anyone, two creatures have wandered the Earth for generations.  The aliens have no knowledge of each other, but share a residual memory of a mysterious, sunken relic - and an affinity for deep water.  

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International Space Station

A View From Above
Backdropped by a colorful Earth, this full view of the International Space Station was photographed from the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission, following the undocking of the two spacecraft.

NASA Image of the day archive
Credit: NASA

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