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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …

The Luck in the Head by M. John Harrison, Ian Miller

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to …

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, …

Bellwether by Connie Willis

Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning …

History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes

Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling (A Bantam spectra book)

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

"From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks - the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of …

Globalhead by Bruce Sterling

Being digital by Nicholas Negroponte

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you …

Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (Oxford English Texts) by John Bunyan

Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward …

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it …

Latro in the mist by Gene Wolfe