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Space opera2018

Consuming Fire

John Scalzi

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1966

Hard to be a God

Аркадий Стругацкий; Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel2018

Paper Girls, Vol. 4

Brian K. Vaughan

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2021

Sunreach

Brandon Sanderson; Janci Patterson

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1998

Swamp Thing Vol. 1

Saga of the Swamp Thing

Alan Moore

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

The deep

Nick Cutter

4.2(9)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2012

A.I. Apocalypse

William Hertling

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1995

Axiomatic

Greg Egan

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1965

Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Robots & androids2016

Descender, Vol. 2

Machine moon

Jeff Lemire

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1975

Illuminatus!

The Eye in the Pyramid

Robert Anton Wilson; Robert Shea

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1983

Prometheus Rising

Robert Anton Wilson; Israel Regardie; Richard Rasa

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1976

Slapstick

Kurt Vonnegut

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2002

The Birthday of the World

And Other Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.3(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Artificial intelligence2009

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

4.0(50)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1993

Ammonite

Nicola Griffith

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2021

Elder Race

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Robots & androids2001

Envy

Sandra Brown

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1980

Flim-flam!

psychics, ESP, unicorns, and other delusions

James Randi; Dominique Le Brun

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Artificial intelligence2006

Ghosts of Onyx (Halo)

Eric S. Nylund

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Artificial intelligence2018

Obsidio

Amie Kaufman; Jay Kristoff

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1998

Preacher

Ancient History

Garth Ennis

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1998

Star Wars: I, Jedi

Michael A. Stackpole

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1998

Vision of the Future (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, Book Two)

Timothy Zahn

4.3(7)Open Library rating out of 5