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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

August 11, 2011

More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The

winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and

contemporary titles. Over on NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, you can find one fan's thoughts on

how the list shaped up, get our experts' take, and have the chance to share your own.

A quick word about what's here, and what's not: Our panel of experts reviewed hundreds of the most

popular nominations and tossed out those that didn't fit the survey's criteria (after — we assure you —

much passionate, thoughtful, gleefully nerdy discussion). You'll notice there are no young adult or

horror books on this list, but sit tight, dear reader, we're saving those genres for summers yet to come.

So, at last, here are your favorite science-fiction and fantasy novels. (And a printable version, to take

with you to the bookstore.)

1

The Lord Of The Rings

Tolkien's seminal three-volume epic chronicles the War of the

Ring, in which Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to

destroy the evil Ring of Power and restore peace to Middle-earth.

The beloved trilogy still casts a long shadow, having established

Chris Silas Neal

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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some of the most familiar and enduring tropes in fantasy

literature. Literary Award Winner

2

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

In the first, hilarious volume of Adams' Hitchhiker's series,

reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent gets swept up in some

literally Earth-shattering events involving aliens, sperm whales, a

depressed robot, mice who are more than they seem, and some

really, really bad poetry.

3

Ender's Game

Young Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, bred to be a genius, is drafted

to Battle School where he trains to lead the century-long fight against the alien

Buggers.

4

The Dune Chronicles

Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed

duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce,

nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.

by Douglas Adams

by Orson Scott Card

by Frank Herbert

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5

A Song Of Ice And Fire Series

As the Seven Kingdoms face a generation-long winter, the

royal Stark family confronts the poisonous plots of the rival

Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, the

arrival of barbarian hordes, and other threats.

6

1984

A Novel

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government

watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

7

Fahrenheit 451

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but

one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling

novel of a frightening near-future world.

by George R.R. Martin

by George Orwell

by Ray Bradbury

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8

The Foundation Trilogy

A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian

Hari Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the

declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of

humankind.

9

Brave New World

Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors

of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.

10

by Isaac Asimov

by Aldous Huxley

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American Gods

On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best

friend, Shadow, an ex-con, encounters an enigmatic stranger who seems to

know a lot about him. When Shadow accepts the stranger's job offer, he finds

himself plunged into a perilous game with the highest of stakes: the soul of

America itself.

11

The Princess Bride

S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale Of True Love And High Adventure

This tale of a handsome farm boy who, aided by a drunken

swordsman and a gentle giant, rescues a beautiful princess

named Buttercup comes with a slyly humorous, metafictional

edge: Goldman claims to have merely abridged an earlier text

by one "S. Morgenstern" (actually a pseudonym) and peppers

his text with clever commentary.

12

The Wheel Of Time Series

At 13 volumes and counting, this sweeping — some would say

sprawling – richly imagined epic chronicles the struggle between servants of the

Dark One and those of the champion of light known as the Dragon Reborn.

13

Animal Farm

by Neil Gaiman

by William Goldman

by Robert Jordan

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Farm animals overthrow their human owners and set up their own

deeply (and familiarly) flawed government. Orwell's mordant satire

of totalitarianism is still a mainstay of ninth-grade reading lists.

14

Neuromancer

Gibson's groundbreaking debut novel follows Case, a burned-out

computer whiz, who is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most

heavily guarded databank in the solar system. A seminal work in the genre that

would come to be known as cyberpunk.

15

Watchmen

As former members of a disbanded group of

superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning

up dead, the remaining members of the group try to

discover the identity of the murderer before they,

too, are killed. A graphic novel.

16

I, Robot

by George Orwell

by William Gibson

by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

by Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the

laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of

the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the

present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future — a future in which

humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

17

Stranger In A Strange Land

Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars, arrives on

Earth stunning Western culture with his superhuman abilities.

18

The Kingkiller Chronicles

This suspenseful coming-of-age story folllows Kvothe as he

recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most

notorious wizard, musician, thief and assassin in his world.

19

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Robert A. Heinlein

by Patrick Rothfuss

by Kurt Vonnegut

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Billy Pilgrim returns home from World War II only to be kidnapped by aliens from

the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.

20

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's chilling portrait of a scientist obsessed

with creating life (whose eventual success comes at

too great a cost) was among the first works of science

fiction ever produced. Its potent allegorical power,

compelling ethical and philosophical themes, and its

sheer creepiness have ensured it remains one of the

most enduring and influential as well.

21

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Dick's trippy novel tells of sophisticated off-world androids who turn

against their creators, slip back to a post-apocalyptic Earth, and

must be hunted down by bounty hunter Rick Deckard. The book

inspired — albeit very loosely — the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade

Runner.

22

The Handmaid's Tale

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Philip K. Dick

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A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a

Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an

oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read

and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.

23

The Dark Tower Series

Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic Man in

Black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other

worldly on his quest.

24

2001: A Space Odyssey

Two astronauts find their journey into space and their very lives

jeopardized by the jealousy of an extraordinary computer named

HAL.

25

The Stand

by Margaret Atwood

by Stephen King

by Arthur C. Clarke

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A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors

who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil,

move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder,

Colo.

26

Snow Crash

Weaving contemporary imagery with Sumerian myths,

Stephenson's third novel revolves around a mysterious "pseudo

-narcotic" Snow Crash that is capable of affecting people both

within — and without — the alternate-reality Internet called the

"Metaverse."

27

The Martian Chronicles

The tranquillity of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have

come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a

doomed Earth.

28

Cat's Cradle

by Stephen King

by Neal Stephenson

by Ray Bradbury

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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist

primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.

29

The Sandman Series

Gaiman originally told his tale of Morpheus, the Dream King, whose

interactions with mortals rarely end well, and whose fractious extended family

includes the personifications of Death, Despair, Desire and Destiny, in a 75-

issue comic book series over several years; the hugely influential series is now

collected in ten trade volumes.

30

A Clockwork Orange

Burgess created his own youth slang for this acid satire of

contemporary culture which follows young Alex as he makes

his merry way through a dystopia of drugs, sex and ruthless

violence, only to be chosen for a psychological experiment

meant to mend his ways.

31

Starship Troopers

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Neil Gaiman

by Anthony Burgess

by Robert A. Heinlein

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In one of Robert A. Heinlein's most controversial novels, a recruit of the future

goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the

Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy.

32

Watership Down

An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who

leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society

chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to

establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

33

Dragonflight

At a time when the number of Dragonriders has fallen too low for

safety and only one Weyr trains the creatures and their riders, the Red Star

approaches Pern, threatening the planet with disaster.

34

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

by Richard Adams

by Anne McCaffrey

by Robert A. Heinlein

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A one-armed computer technician, a radical blond bombshell, an aging

academic and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a

revolution against Earth's colonial rule.

35

A Canticle For Leibowitz

Miller's 1959 novel follows the Monks of the Order of St.

Leibowitz as they attempt to preserve the remnants of

civilization after a nuclear war.

36

The Time Machine

Wells' classic 1895 story of an unassuming British inventor who

creates a device that sends him hurtling into the far future – A.D.

802,701, to be precise – where subterranean Morlocks prey upon the

childlike Eloi.

37

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

by H.G. Wells

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Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a

fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo,

come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights

hidden from the world above.

38

Flowers For Algernon

When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted

Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him.

39

The War Of The Worlds

With advanced machines of destruction, aliens from another planet

swoop down on planet Earth and begin their conquest, in the classic

sci-fi work by the author of The Time Machine.

40

The Amber Chronicles

by Jules Verne

by Daniel Keyes

by H.G. Wells

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Zelazny's tales of Corwin, prince of the "true world" of Amber (of

which our Earth is merely a shadow) and his son Merlin, a magic-user/computer

hacker, have spanned several decades. Amid the eternal struggle between

Order and Chaos, Zelazny delights in tossing in allusions to Shakespeare, the

Tarot and quantum mechanics.

41

The Belgariad

Edding's five-volume epic fantasy follows young farmboy Garion

as he is drawn into a quest for a stolen mystical orb, and the rich world of

prophecy and power that surrounds it.

42

The Mists Of Avalon

Retells the legend of King Arthur as perceived by the

women central to the tale, from the zealous Morgaine,

sworn to uphold her goddess at any cost, to the devout

Gwenhwyfar, pledged to the king but drawn to another.

43

Mistborn Trilogy

by Roger Zelazny

by David Eddings

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

by Brandon Sanderson

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In a world where special magic users called Allomancers can employ metals to

enhance their physical and mental abilities, a young thief discovers her destiny

and sets out to overthrow the Lord Ruler.

44

Ringworld

Niven's hugely influential 1970 novel of an outer space expedition to

a mysterious object – a vast artificial world in the shape of a ring –

that goes horribly wrong.

45

The Left Hand Of Darkness

While on a mission to the planet Gethen — a world whose

inhabitants can change their gender — earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of

the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp. The exiled prime minister of the

nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.

46

The Silmarillion

by Larry Niven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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These creation myths of Tolkien's Middle-earth, for those who found The Lord of

the Rings too breezy and slight: In the author's characteristic Beowulfian prose,

he recounts the legends of the world's beginnings, the downfall of its gods and

men, and the events that changed the face of Middle-earth forever.

47

The Once And Future King

Describes King Arthur's life from his childhood to the coronation,

creation of the Round Table, and search for the Holy Grail.

48

Neverwhere

Gaiman's wry, darkly whimsical tale of an average young

businessman who stops to help a girl bleeding on a London

sidewalk and finds himself pulled into a bizarre subterranean world.

49

Childhood's End

by T.H. White

by Neil Gaiman

by Arthur C. Clarke

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The author questions the survival of mankind in this science-fiction tale about

Overlords from outer space who dominate the world.

50

Contact

In 1999, a multinational team of astronauts ventures deep into outer

space, where they come face to face with an advanced alien

civilization.

51

The Hyperion Cantos

Seven pilgrims undertake a voyage to the world of Hyperion —

dominated by a fearsome and mysterious creature called the Shrike — where

they hope to learn the secret that will save humanity.

52

by Carl Sagan

by Dan Simmons

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Stardust

In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a

remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen

star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester.

53

Cryptonomicon

More than 50 years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and

Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a

secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren — Randy and

Amy — join forces to create a "data haven" in the South Pacific,

only to uncover a massive conspiracy with roots in Detachment

2702.

54

World War Z

An Oral History Of The Zombie War

An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and

hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of

dozens of survivors — soldiers, politicians, civilians and others —

who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.

55

The Last Unicorn

by Neil Gaiman

by Neal Stephenson

by Max Brooks

by Peter S. Beagle

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Recounts the quest of the last unicorn, who leaves the protection of the

enchanted forest to search for her own kind, and who is joined by Schmedrick

the Magician and Molly Grue in her search.

56

The Forever War

Drafted into the ranks of Earth's interstellar warriors, private

William Mandella finds his fight against the Taurans secondary to the sideeffects

of faster-than-light space travel, which affects the rate at which he ages.

57

Small Gods

A Novel Of Discworld

Brutha, a simple man leading a quiet life tending his garden, finds

his life irrevocably changed when his god, speaking to him

through a tortoise, sends him on a mission of peace.

58

The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever

by Joe Haldeman

by Terry Pratchett

by Stephen R. Donaldson

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In this first trilogy, reclusive, guilt-ridden writer Thomas Covenant finds himself

transported to a magical realm where he is hailed as a hero who wields powerful

magic — and where he finds his leprosy miraculously cured. Ultimately, he must

defeat the malevolent Lord Foul to save the Land — and his own sanity.

59

The Vorkosigan Saga

In a human colony on one of a series of planets connected

by wormholes, a young man who suffers from a series of physical disabilities (the

result of an assassination attempt on his royal parents) grows up to become a

powerful military leader.

60

Going Postal

A Novel Of Discworld

Sentenced to death for forgery and swindling, Moist von Lipwig

accepts an offer of a pardon in exchange for revamping an

ancient post office, but his efforts are thwarted by tons of

undelivered mail, an 18,000-year-old ghost postman, his shoewielding

new girlfriend, and murderous characters who want the

post office shut down.

61

The Mote In God's Eye

by Lois McMaster Bujold

by Terry Pratchett

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The accidental killing of a group of emissaries to

Earth threatens man's survival.

62

The Sword Of Truth Series

Young Richard Cypher gradually embraces his destiny as the

Seeker of Truth, and sets out to stop the evil that others would unleash.

63

The Road

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world,

a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated

American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of

their own humanity.

64

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

by Terry Goodkind

by Cormac McCarthy

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In nineteenth century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive

Mr Norrell, who has regained some of the power of England's

magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan

Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.

65

I Am Legend

A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires,

Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must

barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the

starving undead by day.

66

The Riftwar Saga

Evil entities have opened a rift in the fabric of space-time,

plunging the world of Medkemia into peril. As the battle between Order and

Chaos threatens to engulf everything, reluctant wizard Pug is the only hope of a

thousand worlds.

67

The Sword Of Shannara Trilogy

by Susanna Clarke

by Richard Matheson

by Raymond E. Feist

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Over the course of three novels, several generations of the

Ohmsford family find themselves retrieving magical artifacts in the desperate

hope to fight evil.

68

The Conan The Barbarian Series

Howard's original set of interlinked stories

featuring his muscle-bound warrior represents a classic kind of sword-andsorcery

fantasy adventure in all its pulpy, richly imaginative glory.

69

The Farseer Trilogy

An wily assassin plies his trade while his uncle the Prince confronts

attackers who are turning people into emotionless, zombie-like "Forged ones."

70

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Terry Brooks

by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz

by Robin Hobb

by Audrey Niffenegger

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Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their

marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a

condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

71

The Way Of Kings

Introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a

war-weary royal compelled by visions, a high-born youth

condemned to military slavery, and a woman who is

desperate to save her impoverished house.

72

Journey To The Center Of The Earth

Follows Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their guide

Hans as they venture deep into a volcanic crater in Iceland on a

journey that leads them to the center of the earth and to incredible

and horrifying discoveries.

73

The Legend Of Drizzt Series

by Brandon Sanderson

by Jules Verne

by R. A. Salvatore

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Drizzt Do'Urden, a Dark Elf, finds adventure, peril and awesome magical power

as he confronts the underground civilization of the evil and treacherous

matriarchal race of Drow elves.

74

Old Man's War

Enlisting in the Army on his 75th birthday, John Perry joins an

interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake

claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the

conflict involves much more than he understands.

75

The Diamond Age

The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl

capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a

young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device. Literary

Award Winner

76

by John Scalzi

by Neal Stephenson

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Rendezvous With Rama

During the 22nd century, a space probe's investigation of a

mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an

extra-galactic civilization.

77

The Kushiel's Legacy Series

Sold into indentured servitude at the exotic Night Court as a

child, Phedre faces a difficult choice between honor and duty as she deals with a

world of glittering luxury, conspiracy, sacrifice, and betrayal. Two subsequent

trilogies chronicle the adventures of her adopted son and her distant

descendant.

78

The Dispossessed

An Ambiguous Utopia

Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated

from the rest of the civilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant

physicist, risks his life by traveling to the utopian mother planet

of Urras.

79

by Arthur C. Clarke

by Jacqueline Carey

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

When the carnival comes to town, two boys unearth the terrifying

and horrible secrets that lurk within Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow

Show and learn the consequences of wishes, as a sinister and evil force is at

work in Green Town, Ill.

80

Wicked

The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West

Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts,

the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the

Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal-rights

activist striving to avenge her dear sister's death.

81

The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series

Erickson's densely plotted series jumps around in time to

chronicle the vicissitudes of the sprawling Malazan Empire, a place of shifting

alliances, mysterious mage guilds, assassin gods and military uprisings.

82

The Eyre Affair

by Ray Bradbury

by Gregory Maguire

by Steven Erikson

by Jasper Fforde

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In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a

notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the

world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane

Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop

literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.

83

The Culture Series

A science-fiction series by the author of the Wasp Factory features a

symbiotic human and machine society that is engaged in a galaxy-wide battle to

the death between the Idrians, who fight for their faith, and the Culture, which

defends its right to exist.

84

The Crystal Cave

Stewart's first chapter in her five-volume take on the Arthurian

legend is told from the point of view of young Merlin, who

reluctantly engineers the birth of Arthur.

85

Anathem

by Iain Banks

by Mary Stewart

by Neal Stephenson

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Raz, who has lived in a monastery since childhood, away from the violent

upheavals of the outside world, becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered

scholars who are appointed by a higher power to avert an impending disaster.

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The Codex Alera Series

In the land of Alera, where people bond with the furies —

elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal — young Tavi struggles to cope

with his lack of magical talent, until his homeland erupts into conflict between

rebels and loyalists and Tavi discovers that he holds the key to his realm's

survival.

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The Book Of The New Sun

In the distant future, after the sun has cooled and dimmed, the

disgraced torturer Sevarian recounts his hard-fought rise to absolute power.

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The Thrawn Trilogy

by Jim Butcher

by Gene Wolfe

by Timothy Zahn

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Five years after the fall of the Empire, a dying part of the Empire all the more

dangerous near death has just discovered something that could bring it back, the

last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn.

89

The Outlander Series

Hurtled back through time more than 200 hundred years to

Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of a world torn apart

by violence, pestilence and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young

soldier.

90

The Elric Saga

Elric of Melnibone, an albino prince, travels in the Ship Which

Sails Over Land and Sea to the city of Dhoz-Kam, through the Shade Gate to the

Pulsing Cavern where the magic swords Stormbringer and Mournblade await

him.

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by Diana Gabaldon

by Michael Moorcock

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The Illustrated Man

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness and death

on Mars, Venus and in space.

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Sunshine

All hope for stopping the vampiric elite from controlling Earth

depends on human SOFs (Special Other Forces) and the

success of their attempt to recruit Sunshine, the daughter of

legendary sorcerer Onyx Blaise.

93

A Fire Upon The Deep

Set in a far-future where space has been portioned into "regions of

thought," a human expedition to an ancient data archive unleashes

the Blight, a superintelligent entity capable of destroying thousands

of worlds.

94

The Caves Of Steel

by Ray Bradbury

by Robin McKinley

by Vernor Vinge

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Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers,

Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot, investigate the

murder of a Spacetown scientist

95

The Mars Trilogy

On a mission to provide Mars with an Earth-like

atmosphere, John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Frank Chalmers and Arkady

Bogdanov meet stiff resistance from those who will fight to the death to prevent

Mars from being changed.

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Lucifer's Hammer

As the great Hamner-Brown comet, dubbed

Lucifer's Hammer by the press, approaches Earth,

various business executives, politicians, criminals,

journalists and scientists await the impending

cataclysm and its general and personal effects with

decidedly differing feelings

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by Isaac Asimov

by Kim Stanley Robinson

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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Doomsday Book

Stranded in the 14th century — a time of superstition and fear —

time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during

history's darkest hour and awaits rescue by her comrades. Literary

Award Winner

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Perdido Street Station

In the squalid, Gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious halfhuman,

half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric

scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive

experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying

dark force on the entire city.

99

The Xanth Series

In Anthony's pun-besotted magical realm (which is shaped a lot

like Florida), every human is born with a unique magical ability, which they use

navigate a landscape full of dragons, goblins, harpies, centaurs and all manner

of eldritch creatures.

by Connie Willis

by China Mieville

by Piers Anthony

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The Space Trilogy

Philologist Edwin Ransom travels to Mars and Venus, and makes a

series of dramatic discoveries about Earth's place in the solar system – and the

nature of a threat it unwittingly faces.

Edited by Glen Weldon

by C.S. Lewis

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