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A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography.
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The first half of the Hyperion Cantos, this epic tells the tale of seven pilgrims who travel to the planet Hyperion to visit the Time Tombs, home of the Shrike, a possibly mythic creature which some fear and others worship. Along the way, each traveler tells of how they came to be on the pilgrimage. Winner of the 1990 Hugo Award. Followed by THE FALL OF HYPERION.
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One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods.Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.
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After a 14-year-hiatus, SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl returns to his multiple- award-winning Heechee series. Using the technology left behind by the alien Heechee, humans have settled all over the galaxy. The Heechee themselves have moved to the galactic core in an attempt to avoid the Kugel, a race bent on genocide. Many humans have joined the Heechee at the core, and some have used the Heechee method of electronically copying their personalities, making them in effect immortal. But this idyllic--and complex--lifestyle is threatened both by the Kugel and a madman, Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, whose xenophobia could result in the destruction of all life.
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