Genre :: Science Fiction (43 books)

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  #181

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #197

  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (6 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

  

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  #202

  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (7 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "Call me Jonah."

  

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  #212

  Crash

  by J. G. Ballard

  (4 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

  

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  #213

  The Glass Bead Game

  by Hermann Hesse

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives..."

  

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  #216

  The Soft Machine

  by William S. Burroughs

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running..."

  

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  #241

  Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  (7 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith."

  

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  #257

  The Time Traveler's Wife

  by Audrey Niffenegger

  (13 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "PROLOGUE - Clare: It's hard being left behind.FIRST DATE, ONE Saturday, October 26, 1991 (Henry is 28, Clare is 20) Clare: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see..."

  

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  #259

  A Wrinkle in Time

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  (12 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Meg Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind."

  

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  #273

  The Wasp Factory

  by Iain Banks

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

  

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