Omar El Akkad
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American War
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2017
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What Strange Paradise
3 editions
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2021
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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
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8 editions
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2019
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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
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2020
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The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights
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The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
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3 editions
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2022
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Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
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5 editions
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2022
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Lake Effect
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2003
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Riverbed
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Een Amerikaanse oorlog
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“It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester-perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence-a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?”
― American War
― American War
“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.”
― American War
― American War
Polls
August 2017 - Sci-Fi
Dune by Frank Herbert, 604p
Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks, 388p
Orbital Decay by Allen Steele, 349p
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma, 613p
American War by Omar El Akkad, 352p
11/22/63 by Stephen King, 849p
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