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We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick (1972)

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick (1972)

Author: Philip K. Dick
First Published: July 1, 1972
Score: 6/10

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In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick tells a story of toxic love and compassionate robots. When Louis Rosen’s electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit. Meanwhile, Rosen seeks Lincoln’s advice as he woos a woman incapable of understanding human emotions–someone who may be even more robotic than Lincoln’s replica.

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (1970)

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (1970)

Author: Poul Anderson
First Published: January 1, 1970
Score: 7/10

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Aboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty light-years away. Since their ship is not capable of traveling faster than light, the crew will be subject to the effects of time dilation and relativity. They will age five years on board the ship before reaching their destination, but thirty-three years will pass on Earth. Experienced scientists and researchers, they have come to terms with the time conditions of their space travel. Until . . . the Leonora Christine passes through an uncharted nebula, which damages the engine, making it impossible to decelerate the ship on the second half of their trip. To survive, the crewmembers have no choice but to bypass their destination and continue to accelerate toward the speed of light. But how will they keep hope alive and maintain order as they hurtle deeper into space with time passing more and more rapidly, and their ultimate fate unknown?

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by George Lucas (1976)

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by George Lucas (1976)

Author: George Lucas
First Published: December 5, 1976
Series: Star Wars Universe
Score: 8/10

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Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle’s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine…and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies. But he got much more than he bargained for….

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (1972)

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (1972)

Author: Ray Bradbury
First Published: January 1, 1972
Score: 7/10

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A fast-moving, eerie…tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween.

Baal by Robert R. McCammon (1978)

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:00:00 +0100

Baal by Robert R. McCammon (1978)

Author: Robert R. McCammon
First Published: August 1, 1978
Score: 7/10

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A woman gives birth to a child whose evilness threatens all mankind

Mary Kate is an ordinary woman: a waitress in a diner, stuck in a loveless marriage to an English-major-turned-cabbie. But whoever assaults her in a New York City alley is far from ordinary. As the man’s icy grip burns her skin, she couldn’t grasp the dark fate that awaits her.

Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1977)

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0100

Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1977)

Author: Carl Sagan
First Published: April 12, 1977
Score: 7/10

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Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid & startling insights into the brains of humans & beasts, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends & their amazing links to recent discoveries.

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (1972)

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (1972)

Author: Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
First Published: January 1, 1972
Score: 8/10

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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he’ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems. First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel’s publication in Russia.

Children of Dune (Dune #3) by Frank Herbert (1976)

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Children of Dune (Dune #3) by Frank Herbert (1976)

Author: Frank Herbert
First Published: April 21st 1976
Series: Dune Book 3
Score: 8/10

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The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman (1979)

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman (1979)

Author: Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
First Published: July 1979
Series: Stephen King Novels
Score: 5/10

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On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as “The Long Walk.” If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.

Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0100

Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)

Author: Stephen King
First Published: February 1978
Series: Stephen King Novels
Score: 7/10

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Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories “Children of the Corn,” “The Lawnmower Man,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” and “Sometimes They Come Back”-which were all made into hit horror films.

From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.

The Forever War (The Forever War #1) by Joe Haldeman (1974)

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:30:00 +0100

The Forever War (The Forever War #1) by Joe Haldeman (1974)

Author: Joe Haldeman
First Published: December 1974
Series: The Forever War Book 1
Score: 10/10

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The Earth’s leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But “home” may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries.

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton (1976)

Thu, 06 May 2021 21:00:00 +0100

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton (1976)

Author: Michael Crichton
First Published: March 12th 1976
Score: 5/10

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The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs – the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness , their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them – a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (1975)

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:00:00 +0100

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (1975)

Author: Michael Crichton
First Published: May 12th 1975
Score: 5/10

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Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London – and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city’s most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England’s industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive.

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton (1972)

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton (1972)

Author: Michael Crichton
First Published: March 1st 1972
Score: 6/10

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Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.

Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient’s brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons.

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1) by Anne Rice (1976)

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:16:00 +0100

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1) by Anne Rice (1976)

Author: Anne Rice
First Published: April 12th 1976
Series: The Vampire Chronicles Book 1
Score: 9/10

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In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice’s compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a ’thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination . . . sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams (1979)

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 22:27:00 +0000

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams (1979)

Author: Douglas Adams
First Published: October 12th 1979
Series: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book 1
Score: 8/10

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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:06:00 +0000

Deliverance by James Dickey (1970)

Author: James Dickey
First Published: 1970
Score: 5/10

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The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state’s most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

Alien by Alan Dean Foster (1979)

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:12:00 +0100

Alien by Alan Dean Foster (1979)

Author: Alan Dean Foster
First Published: 1979
Series: Alien Series
Score: 7/10

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Based on the screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin.

The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979)

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:31:00 +0000

The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979)

Author: Stephen King
First Published: August 30th 1979
Series: Stephen King Novels
Score: 8/10

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Never before on audio! A number-one national best seller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people’s futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone - a “compulsive page-turner”.

Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma, and people clamor for him to solve their problems.

The Stand by Stephen King (1978)

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:23:00 +0100

The Stand by Stephen King (1978)

Author: Stephen King
First Published: October 3rd 1978
Series: Stephen King Novels
Score: 9/10

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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides – or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail – and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

The Shining (The Shining #1) by Stephen King (1977)

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:31:00 +0000

The Shining (The Shining #1) by Stephen King (1977)

Author: Stephen King
First Published: January 28th 1977
Series: The Shining Book 1, Stephen King Novels
Score: 8/10

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Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

With Morning Comes Mistfall by George R.R. Martin (1973)

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:32:00 +0100

With Morning Comes Mistfall by George R.R. Martin (1973)

Author: George R.R. Martin
First Published: May 1973
Score: 3/10

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A science fiction short story, first published by Analog magazine in May 1973. It was the first story by George R. R. Martin to be nominated for Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

Carrie by Stephen King (1974)

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:09:00 +0100

Carrie by Stephen King (1974)

Author: Stephen King
First Published: April 5th 1974
Series: Stephen King Novels
Score: 8/10

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A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction – Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.

Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is…Carrie.