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Book1980

Riddley Walker (Picador Books)

Russell Hoban

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2020

Star Wars: Chaos Rising

Thrawn Ascendancy

Timothy Zahn; Albert Agut Iglesias

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

The Alien

Katherine Applegate

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1974

The House of Stairs

William Sleator

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2014

The rule of three

Eric Walters

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1948

The World of Ā

A. E. van Vogt

4.8(5)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1988

Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne

4.7(6)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel2005

Return from the Stars

Stanisław Lem

4.7(6)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2007

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2

Neil Gaiman

4.7(6)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1957

Wasp

Eric Frank Russell

4.7(6)Open Library rating out of 5

Robots & androids1952

City

Clifford D. Simak

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1995

Freedom's landing

Anne McCaffrey

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Jedi Academy

Return of the Padawan

Jeffrey Brown

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1995

Letters from Father Christmas

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1989

The Asimov Chronicles

Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

Eleanor Cameron

4.6(7)Open Library rating out of 5

Apocalypse & aftermath2020

Attack Surface

Cory Doctorow

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1986

Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Update Edition, The (6th Edition)

Frederic S. Mishkin

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1997

Molecules Of Emotion

The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Candace B. Pert

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2007

Star Wars(r) Darth Bane Rule of Two (Star Wars)

Drew Karpyshyn

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Virtual worlds2013

The Eye Of Minds

James Dashner

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1963

The warlord of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1962

Thuvia, maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs; Craig Trahan; Eric King; J. Allen St. John

4.5(8)Open Library rating out of 5