Popular North American Science Fiction Books
Find science fiction books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (108)
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Dark Matter : A Novel by Blake Crouch EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+ • A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this w... continue
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Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose and agency in a crumbling world"--
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
By 2021, companies have built incredibly realistic androids. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government bans them from Earth, but when androids don't want to be identified, they just blend in. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job is to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But cornered, they tend to fight back, with deadly results.
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Dune by Frank Herbert EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person's life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis. Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe. When the Em... continue
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Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
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Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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Before Ender Wiggin was born, before the Battle School was built, the aliens brought war to Earth.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valent... continue
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by ... continue
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury RO
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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O poveste tulburătoare şi poetică, Fahrenheit 451 este o parabolă a unei societăţi în care valorile pe care le cunoaştem au fost răsturnate, în care statul interzice cititul şi legiferează arderea cărţilor. Cetăţenii acestei lumi distopice trăiesc într-o indiferenţă indusă de droguri şi de mass-media.
Unul dintre ei este Guy Montag. El are o sarcină simplă: trebuie să dea foc tuturor cărţilor şi caselor în care acestea sunt ascunse. Ii place meseria pe care-o practică de zece ani, simte că-şi face pe deplin datoria şi nu are niciodată îndoieli... până &icir... continue