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Best Sci-Fi Books

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Waldo & Magic, Inc.

by Robert A. Heinlein

2014

Waldo North Power¾Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate, and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled genius who lives in a zero¾g home in orbit around Earth. But …

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Dead Center

by Shiya Ribowsky, Tom Shachtman

2009

This insider's account of the NYC medical examiner's office takes readers from an average day in the autopsy room to the tragic aftermath of 9/11. For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York Ci…

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James Cooke

by Daniel J. Clay

2018

Runcorn in the 1950s. An industrial town in the North of England. A man from this town, James Cooke, claims to have travelled with aliens to a distant planet. In doing so he cements his place in the Ufological lore as 'Britain's fir…

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Beyond This Horizon

by Robert A. Heinlein

2014

Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all ha…

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Podkayne of Mars

by Robert A Heinlein

2024

A beloved book from one of the greatest writers of science fiction ever, restored with its original ending that was changed by the original publisher. The Podkayne of Mars follows a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and he…

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Literature for Today's Young Adults

by Kenneth L. Donelson, Alleen Pace Nilsen

1997

With 140 fewer pages than the fourth edition, the fifth obviously has been tightened; it's partly in the format, with narrower margins and less white space. Otherwise, some text has been rephrased or rearranged and topics (for example, …

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