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The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a …

Valentine by Lucius Shepard

Market forces by Richard K. Morgan

From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels--a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are …

This Craft of Verse (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Jorge Luis Borges

From Library Journal: For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as …

Idoru by William F. Gibson

From first page Berkley paperback September 1997:

21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the …

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #1)

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final …

Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg

On the planet of Majipoor, Valentine struggles to reclaim his birthright when he realizes that he is the true Coronal, …

Annotated American Gods by Neil Gaiman

American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, …

Java and XML by Brett McLaughlin, Justin Edelson

Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William F. Gibson

Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the second …

Extremities by Kathe Koja

"Kathe Koja parses and dissects everything apprehended by the senses and mezzotints each exquisite sensation in the acid of her …

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

En el año 2002, el estudio central de la Cadena SER se transformó en la nave del misterio. Con la …

Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman

From the pages of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN comes the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every …