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This is a list dedicated to books read by the in-person Powell's Beaverton Science Fiction Book Group. It is represented on goodreads as https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/66256-powell-s-science-fiction-book-group
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Please do not add any book to this list that have not already been read and discussed by that group, they will be removed.
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Books Nominated But Not Picked By Powells Beaverton SF Group
powells sf book group in exile
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,762,864 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,593,117 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,711,169 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 373,735 ratings
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the dispossessed
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2003
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Karen Haber (Editor)
3.55 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 185,
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,799,834 ratings
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Lord of Light
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,040,884 ratings
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Year's Best Fantasy 5
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David G. Hartwell (Editor)
3.66 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,257,838 ratings
score: 165,
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Contact
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4.15 avg rating — 151,027 ratings
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The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 3,347 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 344,544 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 501,860 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,692 ratings
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Childhood’s End
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4.12 avg rating — 171,450 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 503,217 ratings
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The Gods Themselves
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4.09 avg rating — 67,921 ratings
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I Am the Messenger
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 168,571 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 941,244 ratings
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
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Catherine Asaro (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 115,
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 116,158 ratings
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Gulliver’s Travels
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3.59 avg rating — 295,889 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 221,161 ratings
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A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 60,038 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,694 ratings
score: 100,
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 116,867 ratings
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The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 42,173 ratings
score: 99,
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 310,173 ratings
score: 99,
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The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes, #1)
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 6,258 ratings
score: 98,
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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Scott Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 332,952 ratings
score: 98,
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The Fifth Season
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 324,355 ratings
score: 97,
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Wolfwalker (Wolfwalker, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Channeling Cleopatra
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Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 149 ratings
score: 95,
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 43,980 ratings
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The High Crusade
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3.88 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
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The Man Who Never Missed (Matador, #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 26,355 ratings
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Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,768 ratings
score: 90,
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Dragonhaven
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3.43 avg rating — 6,378 ratings
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Daemon (Daemon, #1)
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 48,163 ratings
score: 90,
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Lord Darcy (Lord Darcy, #1-3)
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4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
score: 89,
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,240 ratings
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Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 10,616 ratings
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,000,622 ratings
score: 88,
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Double Contact (Sector General, #12)
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4.18 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 259,514 ratings
score: 87,
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Mutineer (Kris Longknife, #1)
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Mike Shepherd (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 5,884 ratings
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 474,213 ratings
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Covenants (Borderlands, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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A Darkling Sea
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James L. Cambias (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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The Practice Effect
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 3,802 ratings
score: 84,
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,279,454 ratings
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The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
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Katherine Addison (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 53,283 ratings
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #2: Trill and Bajor
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3.86 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 927,773 ratings
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The Autumn Castle (Europa, #1)
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Kim Wilkins (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 894 ratings
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 120,800 ratings
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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
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Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 15,426 ratings
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Triplanetary (Lensman, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 7,465 ratings
score: 80,
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 48,138 ratings
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The Wood Wife
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4.20 avg rating — 3,545 ratings
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The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
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Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 35,065 ratings
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 434,652 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,063,196 ratings
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Podkayne of Mars
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3.67 avg rating — 9,467 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 816,007 ratings
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Now and Forever
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3.67 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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The Sirens of Titan
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4.15 avg rating — 155,391 ratings
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The Demolished Man
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3.96 avg rating — 33,605 ratings
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Among Others
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 25,648 ratings
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Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville, #1)
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Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 33,744 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,694 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 291,201 ratings
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A Stir of Bones (Red Heart of Memories, #0.5)
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3.88 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)
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Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 13,782 ratings
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Conquistador
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3.90 avg rating — 3,257 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 178,453 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,704 ratings
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Masters of Fantasy
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Bill Fawcett (Editor)
3.54 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Replay
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4.15 avg rating — 43,858 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness
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3.79 avg rating — 62,304 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 295,289 ratings
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Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 4,340 ratings
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The Speed of Dark
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3.99 avg rating — 11,591 ratings
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Guardian of the Dead
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Karen Healey (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,288 ratings
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Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 16,517 ratings
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The Door to Lost Pages
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Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 323 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,367 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 558,125 ratings
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The Riddle of the Wren
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
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C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 10,843 ratings
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More Than Human
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3.94 avg rating — 19,291 ratings
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Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
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If I Were An Evil Overlord
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Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
3.58 avg rating — 276 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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