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Friends, enemies and admirers piece together an oral biography of Buster 'Rant' Casey, a small-town boy who spread rabies on purpose and joined a nighttime car-wrecking game called Party Crashing.
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Adjustment Day
A secret movement of disaffected young men carries out a coordinated day of killings against a list of elites and splits America into separate ethnic and sexual homelands.
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.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
Naked Lunch
A drug addict's hallucinatory narrative dissolves plot, character, and language itself into a stream of images that broke every rule of what a novel could be.
Stand on Zanzibar
In an overpopulated 2010 of surveillance, violence and information overload, an executive and a spy are drawn into a scheme to develop an African nation and a breakthrough in genetic engineering in Southeast Asia, in Brunner's 1968 collage novel.
The Power
Women around the world develop the ability to generate electrical jolts, and within a generation, the entire global power structure inverts.
A Clockwork Orange
A teenage thug in a future England narrates his ultraviolent nights in a private Russian-English slang, then gets reconditioned by the state until even his taste for Beethoven hurts.
The Peripheral
A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.
Liberation Day
Nine stories set in an America where inequality and surveillance have hardened into something almost feudal, and small acts of conscience become radical.
Sabbath's Theater
A sixty-four-year-old puppeteer of unspeakable depravity refuses to apologise for a life devoted to art, sex, and the refusal of every social norm.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, bouncing between his life as a POW in Dresden, suburban America, and an alien zoo.
Super Sad True Love Story
In a near-future New York where everyone rates each other and books are dying, an ageing schlub falls for a young Korean-American woman.