18 books like A Dream of Armageddon
Player Piano
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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The Sirens of Titan
"His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into…
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At the Earth's Core
Dr. Abner Perry has invented a high-calibration digging machine affectionately called 'The Iron Mole'. While testing his invention with his financial backer and former student David Innes, the machine malfunctions and the pair end up burrowing deep into the earth to emerge in Pellucidar, a lush underground cavern filled with giant prehistoric creatures. While fleeing one such creature, Dr. Perry…
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The Midwich Cuckoos
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds…
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The Day of the Triffids
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their…
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The Angel and the Author
The adventures of an author as she confronts her guardian angel.Jerome does a wonderful job of sharing the thoughts and feelings of a young writer in London during the late 19th century.
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Stand by for Mars!
STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space…
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Up the Line
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly…
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The War of the Worlds
The ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. The style is revolutionary for its era, employing a sophisticated first and third person account of the events which is both…
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The Invisible Man
This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
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The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She's been sent by the Assassin's Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes - and she will risk everything to right the wrong she's been sent to bring about.
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The Assassin and the Desert
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member…
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Brave New World Revisited
In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy…
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Mara's Awakening
As the leader of the Star Corps, the galaxy’s elite peacekeeping force, Mara Keres was respected throughout the stars. But now, betrayed by her oldest friend, Kottura, she finds herself rotting in a prison cell, surrounded by the criminals she put away.
When all seems lost, her new cellmates offer her a chance at escape. She’ll take anything she can get her hands on, but is it a trap? Before she…
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Mara's Choice
As she struggles to recover from her narrow prison escape and Kottura´s revelation, Mara must navigate the dangers of being a fugitive on the run.
With the Council in disarray, bounty hunters hot on her heels and Kottura determined to capture her, she must find a way to survive and stay out of trouble.
But with Ishali harping on about saving the galaxy and demanding she take action, a former…
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Exalta
The city doesn’t kill you. It processes you.
In the fog-choked Sprawl beneath the corporate tower called Exalta, the Runner survives by staying uncounted. He carries packages he doesn’t open, follows routes he doesn’t question, and renews his identity in shrinking access windows. His existence is a suffix on a form. When the suffix expires, so does he.
Liam Kestrel is a Security & Containment…
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Murtagh
The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society.
Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air - and Murtagh…
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La mémoire des sylphes tome 1
Dans un monde où une paix fragile règne entre la Finkadie et l’Archipel, Mathilde nourrit le rêve de devenir musicienne. Mais son destin bascule lorsque le Probatio la juge apte à recevoir un sylphe, un être mystique conférant à son porteur des pouvoirs exceptionnels. Dès lors, la jeune fille est contrainte d’embrasser une carrière militaire et devient Filleule de l’Empire. Envoyée à Impera, au…
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