Science fiction genre books (188)


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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons. Reissue.

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Kallocain by Karin Boye EN

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Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alien... continue

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Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire that Never was by Angélica Gorodischer EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Go... continue

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Kamp - Biobrikken Bok 3 by Ben Ormstad NO

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Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Tiden er ute. I morgen tvangsinnføres biobrikken - både i Norge og resten av verden. Biobrikken, en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv skal forsvinne. For alltid. Motstandsbevegelsen har nå forårsaket enorme skader og blottlagt horrible sannheter bak utviklingen av biobrikken. Men er det nok til å hindre makteliten i å gjennomføre tvangsinnføringen? ------------------------------ Sosiologiprofessoren og biobrikke-motstande... continue

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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler EN

Rating: 5 (7 votes)
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realiz... continue

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Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain EN

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Country: Asia / Bangladesh flag Bangladesh
Description:
Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong—along with all its remaining residents—to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous jou... continue

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La mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernández ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
This overwhelming novel, which enshrines Rita Indiana as narrator, contains many layers and fascinating twists. The story begins in the apartment of saint and advisor to the Dominican President, Esther Escudero, better known as Omicunlé. His young maid, Alcide Figueroa, whom Esther helped leave a life of prostitution, is about to become plagued by the past, present and future. Including deities that inhabit the Caribbean Sea, political interests, Goya's prints, gender reassignment and numerous plot twists, few other works of fiction speak of contemporary art as precisely as La mucama de omicun... continue

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Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift EN

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November 2022. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM. The end of the world, if you will. This is the journal of a Londoner, in her mid-thirties. She owns her own flat, has married her long-term boyfriend James and has a sensible job and the kind of life that she knows is expected of her. Like so many women she has learnt to make small compromises to herself in order to fit in. Things are fine. But in November 2022 that changes. A deadly virus has led to a global pandemic. It's pretty much the end of the world. And somehow our narrator finds herself immune to the disease that ... continue

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Legend by Marie Lu EN

Rating: 4.1 (8 votes)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
"Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it." From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no ... continue

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Lexicon by Max Barry EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets," adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.