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SF masterworks volume 72
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For fans of Artemis--The visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic--and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony--aided by a self-aware supercomputer--provides...
2) Ringworld
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Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with...
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"The enigmatic object christened Rama was detected while still outside the orbit of Jupiter. A first radar contact at such a distance was unprecedented, indicating that Rama was of exceptional size. As it raced through the Solar System, it became apparent that Rama was a cylinder so geometrically perfect that it might have been turned on a gigantic lathe. Mankind was about to receive its first visitor from the stars"--Back cover.
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Gollancz
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2013
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xiii, 364 p. ; 20 cm.
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"2041: In a dangerously overpopulated world, Francis Conway is Swill--one of the ninety percent who subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Government corruption, official blindness and unchecked global climate change have conspired to turn his home--and those of billions like him--into a watery tomb. Now, Francis seeks desperately to rise above his circumstances and escape the approaching tide of disaster. But here, at the end of everything,...
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