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mahnamahna rated A Canticle for Leibowitz: 5 stars
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
mahnamahna rated Don't Panic: 4 stars
Don't Panic by David K. Dickson, M. J. Simpson, Guy Adams, and 1 other
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of …
mahnamahna rated Hyperion: 4 stars
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …
mahnamahna rated Have Space Suit—Will Travel: 4 stars
mahnamahna rated A Scanner Darkly: 5 stars
mahnamahna rated Snow Crash: 5 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
mahnamahna rated The Diamond Age: 5 stars
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
mahnamahna rated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Boxed Set: 3 stars
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …
mahnamahna rated Neuromancer: 5 stars
Neuromancer by William Gibson (unspecified), William Gibson (1783–1857) (Sprawl trilogy, #1)
The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
German version, translated by Reinhard Heinz.
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mahnamahna rated Earth Abides: 4 stars
mahnamahna rated Breakfast of Champions: 5 stars
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
mahnamahna rated The Stand: 3 stars
The Stand by Stephen King
Imagine America devastated by a vast killer plague that moves from coast to coast. Imagine the countryside destroyed and great …