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The Inheritors

★★★★☆
In a pre-historic world, a simple, close-knit Neandertal family has to contend with the "new people", a group of early modern humans with a very different culture, abilities and weaponry

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The Fat Years

★☆☆☆☆
A political commentary on the CCP disguised as science fiction

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Best SF Six

★★★★★
A collection of Sci-fi short stories from the golden age.

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Flowers for Algernon

★★★★★
A diary of an intellectually challenged young man detailing his experience being part of an experimental procedure to increase his intelligence

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

★★★★☆
An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it

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The Left Hand of Darkness

★★★★★
In a world far away, and a culture even further away, one human works to bridge the chasm of differences

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The Three Body Problem

★☆☆☆☆
Set in the backdrop of the Chinese cultural revolution, an alien civilization on the brink of extinction plans to invade earth, and works to stagnate scientific progress on earth till they reach.

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Fahrenheit 451

★★★★★
Guy Montag burns books, and all other such illegal commodities. But when he is exposed to a world where people didn’t live in fear, Montag re-examines his life

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The Stepford Wives

★★★★★
Joanna moves to beautiful Stepford with her family, it seems almost too good to be true. It is.

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The Andromeda Strain

★★★★☆
A group of scientists race against time in a special facility to contain an alien organism.

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The Enemy Revealed

★☆☆☆☆
The nature of the enemy facing Commander Jack Romanov and his crew is finally... revealed

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Solaris

★★★★★
Kris Kelvin lands on the remote research outpost around the ocean planet Solaris. There is definitely intelligent life on this planet, but the nature of the intelligence is beyond human comprehension...

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Alpha Strike

★☆☆☆☆
Commodore Jack Romanov must get nuclear warheads for the Last Hunter, but they are all stored in New Copenhagen, now controlled by the locusts. Only way to get them is to launch an Alpha strike...

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Bonds of Blood

★☆☆☆☆
Captain Jack Romanov has rescued a group of more than 200 ships, mostly civilian, from certain death at the hands of the locusts. Now he is stranded and faced with a challenge to his authority by a group of pirates and colluding naval officers...

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Rendezvous With Rama

★★★★★
A gigantic cylinder-shaped structure whizzes through the solar system on a celestial journey. Humanity calls the structure "Rama", and sends a team on a ship to investigate it.

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The Last Hunter

★★☆☆☆
Captain Jack Romanov of the space force is being drummed out of the navy. But some political game sees him shunted to another division, promoted, and in charge of a old relic of a battleship. The only battleship capable of repelling the aliens who are just attacking....

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