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The Enemy Revealed

★☆☆☆☆
The nature of the enemy facing Commander Jack Romanov and his crew is finally... revealed

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Solaris

★★★★★
Kris Kelvin lands on the remote research outpost around the ocean planet Solaris. There is definitely intelligent life on this planet, but the nature of the intelligence is beyond human comprehension...

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Alpha Strike

★☆☆☆☆
Commodore Jack Romanov must get nuclear warheads for the Last Hunter, but they are all stored in New Copenhagen, now controlled by the locusts. Only way to get them is to launch an Alpha strike...

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Bonds of Blood

★☆☆☆☆
Captain Jack Romanov has rescued a group of more than 200 ships, mostly civilian, from certain death at the hands of the locusts. Now he is stranded and faced with a challenge to his authority by a group of pirates and colluding naval officers...

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Rendezvous With Rama

★★★★★
A gigantic cylinder-shaped structure whizzes through the solar system on a celestial journey. Humanity calls the structure "Rama", and sends a team on a ship to investigate it.

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The Last Hunter

★★☆☆☆
Captain Jack Romanov of the space force is being drummed out of the navy. But some political game sees him shunted to another division, promoted, and in charge of a old relic of a battleship. The only battleship capable of repelling the aliens who are just attacking....

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Never Let Me Go

★★★★☆
Kathy H, a carer for donors, reminisces about her time at Hailsham, a private institution where she spent her formative years, and her friends.

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Under the Skin

★★★★☆
Isserley drives around in her car, and picks up big muscular hitch-hikers on the highways around Scotland. She talks to them, understanding their lives, where they are headed and whether they have families and relatives who will miss them when she is done with them.

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The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)

★★★★★
In a far future universe where people travel by thought, a barely articulate menial survivor from an inter-planetary vessel escapes jail to wreak havoc, and change the world...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.

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Cloud Atlas

★★★★★
A thought-provoking tale spanning generations and eons, from the distant past to a post-apocalyptic far future, and examines how souls drift across time, and how the souls are interconnected

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I Am Legend

★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.

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Binti: Home

★☆☆☆☆
Binti comes back home from Oomza for a break, with her Meduse friend in tow. But not everyone is thrilled, as she sets out to discover more about her father's side of the family, the nomadic desert people...

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Red Rising

★☆☆☆☆
A group of teens fight each other brutally in a gladiatorial contest on Mars

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Super Sad True Love Story

★★☆☆☆
A hopeless romantic navigates a one-sided love affair while America crumbles around him. The story evolves from his diary and her social media account.

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