Murasaki

Author	Walter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN	0060892994

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still provocative...

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0060012382

"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."

"Why?" said Tiffany.

"There's no one to stop them."

There was silence for a moment.

Then Tiffany said, "There's me."

Armed only with a frying pan and her common...

Author	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	0099448475

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Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours...

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441013341

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden's gift isolates him from people--and...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0345324382

The Earth of the future does not look nice. It is overcrowded with severe food shortages. By the way we might still have this problem, 67 years after the book was published but it is amusing that Heinlein was so wrong about the reason for this...


Anyway a father and his son, George and Bill Lermer...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0586026312

No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0330016601

HARD TIMES That's what leads Manson Everard to answer an ad offering "high pay and foreign travel for men and women with military experience." But compared to where - and when - he's going, "hard times" in the 20th-century U.S.A. are easy!

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