5 Best Sci-Fi Books From Recent Years - The Medical Futurist

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  • Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

    • ASIN: 1554533635
    • ISBN: 1554533635
    • Manufacturer: Kids Can Press

    Egypt's first female pharaoh disappears around 1457 BCE --- was she murdered? Find out how DNA closes the case. The ancient Arabian Peninsula city of Ubar vanishes, seemingly without trace. Find out how old maps and modern space shuttles help solve the mystery. Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage is never heard from ag... [Read More]

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection

    • ASIN: B006U1C0L0
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

    • ASIN: B003J5654S
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

    • ASIN: B0071NMJ1M
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544449770
    • ISBN: 0544449770
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year.... [Read More]

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 Edition

    • ASIN: B07573DJYC

    This ninth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Steven Barnes, Seth Dickinson, Kameron Hurley, Rich Larson, Ian R. MacLeod, Paul McAuley, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the ... [Read More]

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ISBN: 0812988523
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

  • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve

    • ASIN: B07948P7BB
    • Manufacturer: Solaris

    Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thri... [Read More]

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    • ASIN: B00ICN066A
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    • ASIN: B07GNV7PNH
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Num... [Read More]

  • TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Science Fiction (2001 A Space Odyssey / Soylent Green / Forbidden Planet / The Time Machine 1960)

    • UPC: 883929048847
    • ASIN: B002945DU2
    • Brand: Warner Manufacturing
    • Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers

    2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Stanley Kubrick's dazzling adventure of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. From our prehistoric ape-ancestry past to uncharted realms of space, it remains a landmark, pioneering movie unlike any other. SOYLENT GREEN Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson headline this thought-provoking futuristic shocker set... [Read More]

  • The 48 Laws of Power

    • UPC: 725638107234
    • ASIN: 0140280197
    • ISBN: 0140280197
    • Brand: Penguin Putnam
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Gr... [Read More]

  • My Ishmael (Ishmael Series Book 3)

    • ASIN: B002PXFYHY
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

  • 1984 (Signet Classics)

    • ASIN: 0451524934
    • ISBN: 9780451524935
    • Manufacturer: Signet Classic

    Written 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •“The Party told you to reject... [Read More]

  • CIRCE

    • ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    • ASIN: 038549081X
    • ISBN: 038549081X
    • Brand: AMERICAN WEST BOOKS
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    #1 New York Times bestseller • Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood.   An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.   Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, comi... [Read More]

  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame Book 1)

    • ASIN: B078H73XY9
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

  • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    • ASIN: B0052RDIZA
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth.North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or as... [Read More]

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]

  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

    • ASIN: B01FPGY5T0
    • Brand: Random House Canada
    • Manufacturer: Random House Canada

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informativ... [Read More]

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