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A brave new world
It describes a society in which the birth and upbringing of human beings has been modernized.
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Science fiction
In these imagined and dreamed futures everything is possible.
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Vault of the Beast
He came to Earth to find a mathematical genius.. the only human being in the solar system capable of understanding the last prime number. Time is running out. The temporary blockade of the ancient Martian Beast cage is about to open, and humanity will never be able to face the threat!
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1984
In the dystopian future, Winston Smith lives in a society governed by the Party, which controls every aspect of people's lives. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, whose function is to rewrite history to fit the Party narrative. But Winston is beginning to question the Party's control and manipulation, which leads it to a dangerous path. 1984 is a classic novel by George Orwell that has influenced popular culture and our understanding of government surveillance and the loss of individual freedom.
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I robot
I, Robot, is a collection of stories that establish and raise the problems of the three laws of robotics that are a fixed and essential compendium of morality applicable to so-called intelligent robots. The stories raise different situations that different robotics specialists will have to face, and in which paradoxes and ingenious intellectual exercises are raised that tell about the situation of the present man in the technological universe. The protagonist of v
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The Caves of Steel
In the Space Enclave, just outside New York City, a scientist from the Foreign Worlds has appeared killed. Detective Elijah Baley has to deal with this case in the disquieting and hateful company of a humanoid robot, R. Daneel Olivaw.
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Eye in the Sky
While touring the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven other people, is in a laboratory accident. When it regains consciousness, it is found in an Old Testament fantasy world, a place of instant plagues, immediate condemnation and death for all unbelievers.
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The mixed men
In the future that Van Vogt describes there are three races: man, the human robot and the cross between both, the mixed man, who is just the most perfect being, the savior. In fact, the novel is originally called The Mixed Men.
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Amazing journey
A wise eminent, who has been the victim of an attempted murder, lies, in a comatose state, because of a blood clot in the brain. In his mind he carries a secret of extraordinary importance for the survival of the free world. An operation would mean his death. So, a group of sages decides to miniaturize a team of doctors and technicians, with all their devices, and to inject it into the patient's circulatory system, in order to destroy the clot from the inside..
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Three million years after a group of hominids discovered a monolith of alien origin, Dr. Heywood Floyd takes a course to the moon to investigate a similar object. Later, a manned spacecraft, Discovery One, is sent to Jupiter on a secret mission to investigate a second monolith. On board, the HAL 9000 supercomputer begins to show strange behavior and to endanger the mission.
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Dune Messiah
The story of Paul Atreides, better known and feared as the man baptized Muad'Dib, continues. As Emperor of the known universe, he has more power than one man ever intended to exercise. Adored as a religious icon by the Fremen fans, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne and a conspiracy carried out within his own sphere of influence.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim queda desprendido del tiempo después de sobrevivir al bombardeo de Dresde. Vonnegut mezcla guerra, ciencia ficción, humor negro y trauma para desmontar cualquier épica del combate.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Genly Ai llega al planeta invernal Gueden como enviado de una alianza interestelar y debe comprender una sociedad sin género fijo. Su travesía con Estraven explora confianza, identidad, política y amistad en condiciones extremas.
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The tragedy of the moon
Asimov speaks in this work of the moon and other small worlds that populate our solar system; he deals with carbon, the discovery of DNA, the function of the thyroid gland, microorganisms and the speed of light; he reflects on social issues as important as racism and the future of the media.
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
What would you do if, overnight, you became a perfect stranger without real existence in the world around you? What would I do if I lived in a police society, where students are confined to the ruins of the old university campus, where there are forced labour camps and where an individual is worth just what his identity cards point to?
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Imperial Earth
This novel by Arthur C. Clarke places the action in 2276, between the Earth and the world of Titan, one of the outer moons of Saturn.
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Children of Dune
The Sons of Dune are the twin brothers Leto and Ghamma Atreides, whose father, Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the dead lands of the Arrakis desert nine years ago. Like their father, twins have supernatural skills, which makes them valuable for their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of the Atreides House.
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Buy Jupiter
In this book, Asimov offers us 24 stories of excellent science-fiction, in which there are some suggestive situations that deal from the evolution of the human species to the hypothetical future relationships between beings of different galaxies. This author has an amazing symbiosis between the scientist and the writer.
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The Fountains of Paradise
It is a science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1979, and received the 1979 Nebula Prize and the 1980.1 Hugo Prize - 2 In this novel it is speculated with the construction of a space lift of 36,000 km (up to the geosynchronous orbit), based on an original idea of Russian engineer Yuri Artsoutanov. This idea was also used in the novel "The Web among the Worlds," written by English scientist Charles Sheffield.
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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
What would you do if the Earth was about to be destroyed by an alien ship? So this fun story begins.
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God Emperor of Dune
There have been millennia in Arrakis, and the planet once desert is green alive. Leto Atreides, the son of the savior of the world, Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human being. To preserve the future of humanity, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sand worm, giving him almost immortality as the Emperor God of Dune for the last three thousand five hundred years.
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2010: Odyssey Two
In "2010: Odyssey 2," Arthur C. Clarke continues the history of the mission to Jupiter that began in "2001: A Space Odyssey." On this occasion, a Russian expedition joins the Discovery ship to discover the secrets of the monolith and the disappearance of the previous crew. But when they reach Jupiter, they meet a completely different and dangerous world that challenges everything they thought they knew about the universe.
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Heretics of Dune
Leto Atreides, the Emperor God of Dune, is dead. In the thousand five hundred years since his death, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Dispersion saw millions abandon the ruined civilization and extend beyond the confines of known space. Planet Arrakis, now called Rakis, has returned to its desert climate and its great sand worms are dying.
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Radio Free Albemuth
Nicholas Brady was a normal man who lived a boring and peaceful life and who worked selling records. But at the same time as President Ferris F. Fremont came to power and gradually turned the United States into a police state where paranoia reigned its broad, Nicholas came into contact with a presence of beyond the stars that promised him that it was in his hand to change things.
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Chapterhouse: Dune
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remains of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only a faction remains a viable threat to its total conquest: the Bene Gesserit, heirs of Dune's power.
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2061: Odyssey Three
In "2061: Odyssey Three" by Arthur C. Clarke, humanity is preparing for a mission to Europe, one of Jupiter's moons, where it is believed that there is alien life. As the expedition progresses, they discover surprising secrets about the true nature of life in the universe and the ancient artifacts that lie at the bottom of the ocean of Europe. But when a technical failure endangers the crew, they must work together to save themselves and complete the mission.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently is a very peculiar detective. Sherlock Holmes stated that when the impossible is eliminated, what remains - whatever it is - is the truth. Dirk Gently, however, never removes anything, and less than anything, the impossible.
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The Folk of the Fringe
Only six missiles were used in the Third World War. It was enough to kill millions of people and put an end to all vestige of civilization. For a handful of men, the daily struggle is to survive against the threat of hunger and, above all, of the human beings themselves, who have returned to barbarism.
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Rama II
Seventy years after the events in Cita with Rama, the second Ramana ship finally reaches the solar system. This time their arrival is expected and an expedition is sent to discover more about the mysteries surrounding Rama, but the crew is not prepared for what they will discover and for the conflicts that are unleashed between them. Rama II incorporates new characters and a new line of argument, which has little in common with the previous novel and in fact serves as a starting point for its own sequel. It concludes with three of the twelve astronauts trapped inside Rama, while the ship travels towards the confines of the solar system. The astronauts who travel in Rama are Nicole des Jardins Wakefield, Richard Wakefield and Michael O'Toole.
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Beyond the Fall of Night
Diaspar is the last inhabited city on Earth. Trembling and inexperienced, the only existing human beings live stalled in the terror of their own history, whose greatness is only preserved in the beauty of the old city and in the memories of the unspeakable machines that guard it. These survivors have lost any motivation to claim their world; their dreams do not go beyond the high wall around the city. Just like your builders planned.
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Lost Boys
The computer game programmer Step Fletcher, along with his family, moves to Steuben, a small town in North Carolina (USA). The family, of Mormon religion, must overcome the problems of daily life, aggravated by the need to integrate into the new work, the new school and the new community
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The Hammer of God
The plot recounts the approach of an asteroid called Kali (discovered by Dr. Angus Miller, an amateur astronomer of Mars), which is on a collision with the Earth. Captain Robert Singh of the Goliath spacecraft is sent on this one to divert him.
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Rama Revealed
It is the last of the three sequels of the novel Cita with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests, it reveals the mysteries of the enigmatic spaceship Rama.
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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
It's one of the most famous novels ever written. Not only did he win the Hugo and Nebula, but he also won the HOME Prize and the SF Chronicle Poll and was nominated for the Locus and Sturgeon Award. He was also nominated for several international awards, winning the Ignotus and Polytechnica University Awards in Spain, the Prix Ozone Prize in France and the Futura Prize in Croatia.
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Earthborn
The planet Harmony, colonized by humans almost 40 million years ago, has always been under the care of artificial intelligence: the Supreme Soul, the computer that knows and protects everything. But the Supreme Soul has aged and is weak. Humans must return to distant Earth to seek the help of the Guardian.
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3001: The Final Odyssey
It's a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It's the fourth and last book in the space Odyssey series.
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Starship: Mutiny
It is the year 1966 of the Galactic Age, about three thousand years in the future, and the Republic is at war with the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races resented by the military and economic growth of humans. Although the main battle scenarios are in the Spiral Arm and the Galactic Core, in the far-off Periphery, the Theodore Rosselvelt is one of the three ships in charge of protecting the Phoenix Cluster, a group of seventy-three inhabited planets.
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Starship: Pirate
Captain Wilson Cole is a victim of a media lynching. Politicians want to use it as a scapegoat and must face a war council, from which they escape when the loyal crew of the Theodore Roosevelt rescue it. Forced to find a new way of life, Wilson Cole and his crew transform the Theodore Roosevelt into a pirate ship and head for the Interior Border, a region without law. The captain will try to educate himself in the techniques of piracy and look for people who are cured in the trade. So you will know the beautiful but deadly Valkyria, and an alien enigmatic that responds to the name of David Copperfield. However, the threat of a fearsome alien pirate, Shark Martillo, hoveres the Theodore Roosevelt.
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Starship: Mercenary
Captain Wilson Cole was the victim of a media lynching and became the scapegoat of politicians. He was subjected to a war council and rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Teddy R. who had to leave the Republic. Now, with the Teddy R. transformed into a mercenary ship that sells its services to the best bidder, the crew work evac hospitals, freeing customers from an alien prison, or making a criminal cartel stop extorting a terrified planet.