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10
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Some
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Gene
Wolfe
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Title |
The
Shadow of the
Torturer |
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Synopsis
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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
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Title |
Hyperion |
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Synopsis
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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
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Title |
A
Deepness in the
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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 |
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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
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Title |
Learning
the World |
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Synopsis
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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 |
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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 |
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Title |
The
Sleeper Awakes |
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Synopsis
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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The
International Space
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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
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Fiction
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