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  Messiah (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

  by Gore Vidal

  When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.
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  Slan

  by A. E. Van Vogt

  In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as Isaac Asimov in New York, Robert A. Heinlein in California, and A.E. van Vogt in Canada, whose novel Slan was one of the basic works of the era. Throughout the forties and into the fifties Slan was considered the single most important SF novel,... (more)
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  Snow queen: Book 1

  The Snow Queen

  by Joan D. Vinge

  The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide.
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  Snow queen: Book 3

  The Summer Queen

  by Joan D. Vinge

  eturning to the memorable setting and characters of the bestselling, Hugo Award-winning The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge was nominated for another Hugo Award for this blockbuster epic that transports readers back to Tiamat and the other planets of the human-populated Hegemony. Interstellar politics, star-spanning criminal cabals, a millennia-long secret conspiracy, and a civilization whose hidden machineries might... (more)
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  THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER

  by A. E. Van Vogt

• The Secret Galactics (Also released as: Earth Factor X.)A. E. van Vogt

  

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  The Secret Galactics (Also released as: Earth Factor X.)

  by A. E. van Vogt

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  Destination Universe

  by A. E Van Vogt

• The Undercover AliensA. E. Van Vogt

  

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  The Undercover Aliens

  by A. E. Van Vogt

• Grimm's World

  

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  Grimm's World

  Mistress of Grimm's World - the enigmatic, ruthless Tatja. She had won a kingdom by fraud, then set out to conquer the entire planet, all for one burning purpose: to reach out toward the vast interstellar civilization she knew must exist.