Fiction, science fiction, general
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Startide Rising
The Diamond Age
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Vor Game
Stand on Zanzibar
Blue Mars
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Neuromancer
This Immortal
Synners
Gravity's Rainbow
Starship Troopers
Lord of Light
The Snow Queen
Darwin's radio
Rosewater
Spin
Babel-17
Parable of the Talents
Cyteen
The Bone Clocks
Way station
Independence day
三体
The Big Time
Red Mars
Flowers for Algernon
The Dispossessed
The Demolished Man
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