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The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 245,848 ratings — published 1962
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 249,448 ratings — published 2013
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 714,599 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 551,862 ratings — published 2022
Everfair (Everfair, #1)
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avg rating 3.19 — 3,027 ratings — published 2016
Fatherland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 60,408 ratings — published 1992
Cahokia Jazz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,523 ratings — published 2023
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 39,481 ratings — published 2018
The Shamshine Blind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,758 ratings — published 2023
Manifest (Muse, #2)
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avg rating 3.57 — 176 ratings — published 2023
The Years of Rice and Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 16,198 ratings — published 2002
Rodham (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 51,093 ratings — published 2020
Civilizations (ebook)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,957 ratings — published 2019
Muse (Muse, #1)
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avg rating 3.28 — 1,138 ratings — published 2021
Machines like Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 36,633 ratings — published 2019
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.48 — 94,199 ratings — published 2019
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 263,861 ratings — published 2004
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 72,030 ratings — published 2004
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 26,312 ratings — published 2016
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 82,076 ratings — published 2007
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 87,543 ratings — published 2016
My Real Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,508 ratings — published 2014
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 57,917 ratings — published 2006
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,033 ratings — published 2006
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 116,040 ratings — published 2006
The Guns of the South (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,908 ratings — published 1992
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar, #2)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,219 ratings — published 1995
The Stress of Her Regard (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,419 ratings — published 1989
Declare (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,950 ratings — published 2000
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 443 ratings — published 2025
The End of Everything (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.87 — 2,795 ratings — published 2026
Space Virgins of the Third Reich (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2014
Havana Bay (Arkady Renko, #4)
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avg rating 3.86 — 8,728 ratings — published 1999
Mythology of the British Isles (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 642 ratings — published 1990
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 175 ratings — published 1993
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The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, Howard Phillips Lovecraft [Paperback(1997/7/7)]
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,914 ratings — published 1932
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 16,671 ratings — published 1969
The Werewolf of Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,539 ratings — published 1933
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 291,464 ratings — published 1910
House of X/Powers of X (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 10,778 ratings — published 2019
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 363,637 ratings — published 1898
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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avg rating 4.25 — 13,941 ratings — published 2020
The Dracula Tape (Dracula Series, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,101 ratings — published 1975
The Omen (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 70,955 ratings — published 1976
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.70 — 446 ratings — published 2025
1638: The Sovereign States (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.37 — 308 ratings — published
Shadows Over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 14,395 ratings — published 1994
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,139 ratings — published 2018
The Vampire: A New History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 437 ratings — published 2018
“To apply quantum theory to the entire universe... is tricky... particles of matter fired at a screen with two slits in it... exhibit interference patterns just as water waves do.
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible