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Best Proto-Science Fiction (cover not available)

Best Proto-Science Fiction

'Proto-Science Fiction' being science fiction books written before HG Wells (pre 1890. Also referred to as the 'really old stuff before science fiction was even a genre. If you value...

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The Adoration Of Jenna Fox

The Adoration Of Jenna Fox

The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a novel that raises a lot of questions. When Jenna wakes up after a year long coma, she has no idea who she is...

Mary E. Pearson Buy on Amazon
The Amazing Spider-man

The Amazing Spider-man

Peter Parker got bit by a radioactive spider. We're all pretty familiar with that part of it, right? The Spider-man titles have ranged from great, serious comic fare, to light-hearted,...

Stan Lee Buy on Amazon
Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He...

Andy Weir Buy on Amazon
The Sparrow

The Sparrow

Few debut novels since Neuromancer have had the impact that Mary Doria Russell achieved with The Sparrow. After this novel and its sequel, Children of God, she turned to writing...

Mary Doria Russell Buy on Amazon
Children Of God

Children Of God

The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of...

Mary Doria Russell Buy on Amazon
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

It is the summer of 1816. Mary Wollstonecraft is 18, and is travelling through Europe with her lover of two years, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The couple arrive in...

Mary Shelley Buy on Amazon
The Spare Man (cover not available)

The Spare Man

Tesla Crane, an inventor and heir, and her husband Shan are on a honeymoon aboard a luxury space liner when a death turns into a murder inquiry. Tesla's service dog...

Mary Robinette Kowal Buy on Amazon
The Relentless Moon

The Relentless Moon

It's 1963, and riots and sabotage plague the space program. The climate change caused by the Meteor is becoming more and more clear, but tensions are rising, and the IAC's...

Mary Robinette Kowal Buy on Amazon
The Calculating Stars

The Calculating Stars

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate...

Mary Robinette Kowal Buy on Amazon
After London Or Wild England

After London Or Wild England

One of Mary Shelley's late novels, The Last Man, envisaged a world ravaged by plague in which humanity is wiped out. Although not well received at the time, the romantic...

Richard Jefferies Buy on Amazon
The Purple Cloud (cover not available)

The Purple Cloud

M.P. Shiel was a prolific author of excitable stories for the popular magazines of the day: he was, among other things, the person who gave us The Yellow Peril. But...

M. P. Shiel Buy on Amazon
I Am Legend

I Am Legend

There have been a host of novels about the last man on Earth, but usually they are isolated, exploring a world denuded of people. But what if the last man...

Richard Matheson Buy on Amazon
Queen Of Angels

Queen Of Angels

Crime, guilt, punishment. Does this sound like science-fiction to you or current world America? I'm starting to get scared by how realistic dystopian sci-fi that deals with futuristic concepts like...

Greg Bear Buy on Amazon

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