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Science Fiction 101

Are you ready for a change? Haven’t tried Science Fiction books yet? These selected titles will ease the curious reader into the alternate dimensions, futuristic worlds and dystopian societies that make up this genre.

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Nineteen eighty-four

George Orwell

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Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it.

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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Douglas Adams

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One Thursday lunchtime, Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun.

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Ready player one

Ernest Cline

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The real world in 2045 is a horror story. The only time Wade Watts feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS. When the creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past.

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Anthem

Ayn Rand

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Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since ‘The Great Rebirth’ it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different.

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The Martian

Andy Weir

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Astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive.

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Revelation space

Alastair Reynolds

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Something wiped out the Amarantin long ago. Scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if it costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer than even Sylveste imagines.

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The forever war

Joe W. Haldeman

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Private Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable alien enemy, but his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. For relativity means that, for every few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth.

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Consider Phlebas

Iain Banks

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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, lay a fugitive Mind. It was the fate of Horza, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, to find it.

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The windup girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

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What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in an era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.

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Ancillary justice

Ann Leckie

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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Having lost everything, all she has left is a burning desire for vengeance.

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Ninefox gambit

Yoon Ha Lee

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Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.

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All systems red

Martha Wells

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In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. When a neighbouring mission goes dark, it's up to a team of scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

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