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The Great Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Inhuman Condition by Clive Barker The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert A. Heinlein The Complete Phantom of the Opera by George C. Perry Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov Earthclan by David Brin Cities in Flight by James Blish
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On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children, #2) by Alastair Reynolds
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