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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.35 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
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3.87 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Fantasy: The 100 Best Books
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3.92 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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4.21 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Locating Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 44)
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3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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3.88 avg rating — 5,677 ratings
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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3.95 avg rating — 6,131 ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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4.28 avg rating — 2,187 ratings
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Anatomy of Wonder 4: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction
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4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Science Fiction After 1900
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3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Style is the Rocket: and Other Essays on Writing
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Science Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, 91)
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Law of Superheroes
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3.85 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Science Fiction Before 1900
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3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
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4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Death Carries a Camcorder: Essays on fantasy writing
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Postcolonialism and Science Fiction
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4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
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4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Science Fiction Film
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3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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They're Here... Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Films of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Metamorphoses of science fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre
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3.95 avg rating — 131 ratings
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On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
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4.28 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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Feminist Utopias
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3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cult TV: The Essential Critical Guide
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3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series)
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4.44 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
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3.96 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
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4.32 avg rating — 4,760 ratings
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Bride of Frankenstein
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3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Fantastic Television: A Pictoral History of Sci-Fi, the Unusual, and the Fantastic
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4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Science Fiction Culture
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3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Back to the Future
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3.66 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Star Wars
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3.95 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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3.69 avg rating — 4,286 ratings
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Chris Marker: La Jetee
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4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Ray Bradbury (Twayne's United States Authors, #504)
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Shining
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3.82 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
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4.28 avg rating — 25,351 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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4.39 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
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3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Illustrated History of Science Fiction (Ungar Writers Recognitions Series)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Appendix N
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3.61 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Robert A. Heinlein (Twayne's United States Authors, #522)
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The Last Straw: A Critical Autopsy of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Who's who in science fiction
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3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
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4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction
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3.90 avg rating — 58 ratings
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From Elfland to Poughkeepsie
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4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987
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4.05 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Fantasy Literature
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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3.80 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Strategies of Fantasy
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4.14 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld
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3.49 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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4.31 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
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4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
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3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
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4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits? (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 63)
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3.89 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Atlas of the Land: A Complete Guide to the Strange and Magical Land of Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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4.21 avg rating — 173 ratings
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They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema
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3.77 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Frankenstein: A Cultural History
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3.95 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema
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The Meaning of Star Trek
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3.11 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Adapting philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and *The Matrix Trilogy*
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
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3.41 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 19) (Volume 19)
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
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3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
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4.16 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Science Fiction Handbook
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3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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3.83 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Review (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 16) (Volume 16)
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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4.03 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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4.34 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
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3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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3.87 avg rating — 3,066 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.36 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Philip K. Dick, electric shepherd (Best of SF commentary ; no. 1)
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Philip K. Dick
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3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Novels of Philip K. Dick
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Brave new world, 1984, and We: An essay on Anti-Utopia : (Zamyatin and English literature) (Ardis essay series ; no. 4)
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3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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3.92 avg rating — 285 ratings
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