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  1. Uglies: Book 1

    Uglies

    by Scott Westerfeld

    In a futuristic society all teenagers are expected to have cosmetic surgery on their sixteenth birthday so their facial features and body structure will conform to the accepted form of beauty in their society. This book has 425 pages and was published in 2005. There are five books in this... (learn more about this book)

  2. Maximum Ride: Book 1

    The Angel Experiment

    by James Patterson

    In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world.

    She and the other 5 members of the "Flock" -- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel -- are just like ordinary kids -- only they have wings and can... (learn more about this book)

  3. Sprawl Trilogy: Book 1

    Neuromancer

    by William Gibson

    Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people...

    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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  4. Snow Crash

    by Neal Stephenson

    In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission... (learn more about this book)

  5. Foundation: Book 1

    Foundation

    by Isaac Asimov

    For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire had ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that would last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge... (learn more about this book)

  6. Cryptonomicon

    by Neal Stephenson

    In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse... (learn more about this book)

  7. Space Odyssey: Book 1

    2001

    by Arthur C. Clarke

    You are invited aboard the spacecraft Discovery on a voyage to the outer edge of the solar system. A crystal monolith left on the moon by an alien intelligence is the only clue to guide this probe of an ultimate mystery of the universe. Outside the craft is the black abyss of the unknown.... (learn more about this book)

  8. The Ender Quartet: Book 4

    Children of the Mind

    by Orson Scott Card

    The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

    Jane, the evolved computer... (learn more about this book)

  9. Feed

    by M. T. Anderson

    Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with... (learn more about this book)

  10. The Diamond Age

    by Neal Stephenson

    Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....

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