American Science fiction
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Hyperion
Gateway
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Wanderer
They’d rather be right
Man Plus
Downbelow station
The Man in the High Castle
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
A Case of Conscience
Ringworld
Startide Rising
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
The Left Hand of Darkness
This Immortal
Starship Troopers
Lord of Light
The Snow Queen
Babel-17
Way station
The Big Time
Red Mars
Ender's Game
Flowers for Algernon
The Dispossessed
The Demolished Man
He, She and It
Tunnel in the sky
Fahrenheit 451
A Fire upon the Deep
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