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Mickey7

★★★★☆
Mickey Barnes tries to survive in a "beachhead" colony on an alien world

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

★★★★★
An engaging exploration of science and the natural world, making complex topics accessible to the casual reader

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Contact

★★★★★
Humanity's search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is fruitful

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Crooked House

★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?

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Tracers in the Dark

★★★☆☆
Relooking at cyber-security and privacy in the insidious world of the dark web

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Masala Lab

★★★★☆
A scientific approach to cooking Indian food

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The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger

★★★★☆
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came...

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The Exorcist

★★★★★
A young girl is possessed by a demon, and a pair of Jesuit priests perform the exorcism

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A Scanner Darkly

★★★☆☆
In a dystopian future, drug culture and use have been normalized and taken over the mainstream

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The Return of the King

★★★★★
The magnificent and thrilling conclusion of the quest to destroy the one ring

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Hallowe'en party

★★★☆☆
A young girl is killed during a hallowe'en party, and Poirot is summoned to investigate

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

★★★☆☆
A carnival unexpectedly comes to town, and its far more sinister than rides and attractions

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The Demolished Man

★★★★☆
From the golden age of sci-fi, the very first ever Hugo award winner is a police story in a telepathic world

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The Gray Man

★★★☆☆
A former CIA assassin is now the subject of a manhunt, a manhunt by his counterparts from a dozen different countries

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Nine Perfect Strangers

★★★☆☆
Nine people from different walks of life attend a 10-day retreat at a luxury wellness centre

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Aarushi

★★★★☆
Details the botched investigation and the media frenzy around a brutal murder of a teen girl

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