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| Cryptonomicon | |
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By Jaret, Section Fiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Fri May 30th, 2003 at 06:12:15 AM EST |
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Cryptonomicon is Neal Stephenson's bestselling 910 page opus dealing with a conspiracy spanning generations and continents, with the power to change the world.
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| The Squares of the City | |
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By Jaret, Section Fiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Wed May 28th, 2003 at 12:00:50 AM EST |
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Do you like chess and ingeniously crafted plots? Then you'll love The Squares of the City, a political thriller that embodies chess, playing out an actual championship game. [minor spoiler included]
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| Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series | |
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By Jaret, Section Fiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Tue Jan 21st, 2003 at 09:46:37 AM EST |
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Perhaps the most well-respected and largest series in science fiction, Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series encompasses dozens of books and tens of thousands of years of future history.
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| Stranger in a Strange Land | |
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By Jaret, Section Fiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Sat Jan 4th, 2003 at 01:18:04 AM EST |
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From the beginning, science fiction has been a means for satire and conveying philosophical ideas. Nowhere is this more true than in what is probably the most famous science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
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| The Futurological Congress | |
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By Jaret, Section Fiction (not archived on 4Literature) Posted on Sat Aug 10th, 2002 at 08:39:03 AM EST |
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The Futurological Congress is the satirical story of a future world in which everything is simulated by drugs - emotions, objects, fantasies, and beliefs. It's the only book I've ever read that made me laugh out loud one minute, and feel slack-jawed revulsion and horror the next.
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