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A human raised by Martians returns to Earth as a messianic figure whose alien perspective reshapes religion, politics, and love.
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Starship Troopers
Young soldiers in powered armour fight an interstellar war against alien bugs, in the novel that defined military science fiction.
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.
The Circle
Mae Holland lands a job at the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, on a dazzling California campus, and is swept up in its drive to make everything, her own life included, transparent.
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.
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.
Survivor
The last surviving member of a death cult hijacks a jet and narrates his life into its black box as the plane runs out of fuel over the Australian outback.
Another Roadside Attraction
A countercultural couple runs a hot dog stand and a flea circus, until the mummified body of Christ shows up in their basement.
Player Piano
In a near-future where machines do all the work, a factory manager discovers that full employment was the only thing keeping civilisation from eating itself.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
Brave New World
In a World State where people are bred in hatcheries, conditioned for their place and kept content with the drug soma, a few misfits and a young man raised on a reservation begin to question what happiness costs.
Atlas Shrugged
America's industrialists go on strike against a creeping socialist state, and a railroad heiress and a copper magnate chase the man pulling them off the grid in an enormous novel that is also a philosophical manifesto.
Cat's Cradle
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.