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A writer researching what the inventors of the atomic bomb did on the day it fell tracks down the children of one of them, and follows them to a Caribbean island where ice-nine, a substance that freezes all water it touches, is waiting.
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Galápagos
A million years from now, the last humans have devolved on the Galápagos Islands, and a ghost narrates how the big brains that caused all our problems finally went away.
The Sirens of Titan
Malachi Constant, the richest and luckiest man in America, is drawn by Winston Niles Rumfoord, a man scattered through time and space, into a journey from Mars to Mercury to Titan that reveals the strange purpose of human history.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and a bewildered Englishman hitchhikes across the galaxy with a depressed robot and a two-headed president.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
The Sundial
The inhabitants of a decaying mansion become convinced the world will end and they will be the chosen survivors.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
A dead man narrates his own life from the grave, skewering nineteenth-century Brazilian society with a wit that anticipates magical realism by a century.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
A bomb at the office of a radical New York magazine sends Detective Saul Goodman after its missing editor, and into a maze of secret societies, Discordians, an anarchist's golden submarine and the possibility that every conspiracy theory is true.
Beautiful You
Penny Harrigan, a junior lawyer, is swept up by the billionaire C. Linus Maxwell, who launches a line of sex toys that leaves women around the world unable to leave their homes, in a satire of consumer culture and desire.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Saunders' debut collection of stories set in failing theme parks and corporate wastelands, including a Civil War park with real ghosts, established his mix of satire and heartbreak.
The Revolt of the Angels
Arcade, the guardian angel of a dull young Parisian, reads his way through the family's great theological library, loses his faith in God and resolves to start a new rebellion in heaven.