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It also makes a great gift for fathers and husbands. Read Our 5 Star Reviews! For years the answer to all of these problems has been suspenders. Suspenders that you have to color coordinate with your clothes. Suspenders that cut into your shoulders after a long day. Suspenders that your wife or your loved ones all think look silly.

Crunchy leaves and new-fallen snow. A fire going in the fireplace even if it is gas. I love it all. I live in the South.

We don't get much cold here, but thankfully we get some. Today it is in the 40s, and it is on its way towards cold. I like it. Cherie Braun's recommended list of outstanding science fiction and one fantasy. This list is not comprehensive, but consists of the SF I've read that has had the most impact on my reading experience. I haven't included a lot of dystopian literature because I know a lot of people find that depressing, but I have included The Gate to Women's Country because it's one of my favorites.

There are definitely books missing, and I'd be interested to hear what ones you would recommend to someone who wanted a list! Dune is one of the most famous sf novels ever written. Deservedly so. Five sequels follow, but you don't need to read beyond book 3. Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth.

Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends—and then the age of Mankind begins Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality.

The shocking evidence: a "virus-hunter" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life.

The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.

Clarke Award Nominee , John W. Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country.

The rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas. Clarke Award Nominee Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

About a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth. Widely admired for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon, it is generally considered one of Heinlein's major novels as well as one of the most important science fiction novels ever written. Hugo Award Best novel Nebula Award Best novel nomination The eponymous Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means.

The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it.

There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed.

We can start again. At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Since it had made it all the way to work, I brought it in and taped it to my cabinet door.

And maybe along the way you will have a wild ride! View original post. No Plumber's Crack Not just another Wordpress blog. Skip to content. Home About. Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment.

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