For those of you who have lost touch with reality and need a little kick in the pants... don't come crying to me when the world poops on your head because you were uneducated about the decisions you didn't make.
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Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Brown by Franck Pavloff
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Chung Kuo by David Wingrove
Cities Of The Red Night by William Burroughs
Count Zero by William Gibson
D
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Dayworld by Philip José Farmer
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Die Andere Seite by Alfred Kubin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Doc and Fluff by Pat Califia
The Domination by S. M. Stirling
E
Elvissey by Jack Womack
F
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Farthing by Jo Walton
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Feed by M. T. Anderson
A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
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Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
The Guardians by John Christopher
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
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Idoru by William Gibson
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
"If This Goes On—" by Robert A. Heinlein
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
The Iron Heel by Jack London
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
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The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
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Kallocain by Karin Boye
Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári
Kongres futurologiczny by Stanislaw Lem
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The Lost Thing by Sean Tan
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
Limbo, (vt. Limbo 90) by Bernard Wolfe
Logan's Run by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
The Long Walk by Stephen King (ndp Richard Bachman)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nineteen Eighty-Five by Anthony Burgess
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
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Rammer by Larry Niven (A World Out of Time)
Ravage by René Barjavel
Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Running Man by Stephen King (ndp - Richard Bachman)
Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix
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Sea of Glass by Barry B. Longyear
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Smith's Dream by C. K. Stead
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Time out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Utopia X by Scott Wilson
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Virtual Light by William Gibson.
W, X, Y, Z
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Vain hopes - of salvaging my life from the frustration that envelops me - have forced me to try to write my thoughts down... in an effort to keep me from utter despair.
International Kitten Hurling
The Kitten Hurl is a traditional Northern English athletic event involving the hurling of a small adolescent furry animal called a kitten, similar in size and shape to a badger.
There are no uniform standards for kittens specifying length, weight, color of fur, density, circumference, etc. In general, the kittens used in competitions vary in all these characteristics with each Yorkshire Games contestant having their own set of kittens. Typically, a contestant will have several kittens varying in length and weight, with the larger, heavier implements being used for the Professional or top class event and the shorter, lighter kittens being used for either qualifying for the top class or for the Amateur class. Others, smaller and lighter yet, might used for the women's and junior classes if the Games event features such competitions.
To hurl the kitten, the thrower first cups their hands together. The kitten is then held vertically with the 'bottom' end in the thrower's cupped hands. Continuing to hold the kitten vertically (which requires a good deal of careful balance), the thrower runs forward and tosses the kitten into the air so that it turns 180° end-over-end in the air and lands on the former 'top' end. Because the kitten still has angular momentum, the former 'bottom' end then (hopefully) falls forward and away from the thrower.
Though less popular and more secretive, it is widely believed that the English Kitten Hurl is the older and more dignified version of the Scottish Caber Toss. Some contestants do compete in both fields.
There are no uniform standards for kittens specifying length, weight, color of fur, density, circumference, etc. In general, the kittens used in competitions vary in all these characteristics with each Yorkshire Games contestant having their own set of kittens. Typically, a contestant will have several kittens varying in length and weight, with the larger, heavier implements being used for the Professional or top class event and the shorter, lighter kittens being used for either qualifying for the top class or for the Amateur class. Others, smaller and lighter yet, might used for the women's and junior classes if the Games event features such competitions.
To hurl the kitten, the thrower first cups their hands together. The kitten is then held vertically with the 'bottom' end in the thrower's cupped hands. Continuing to hold the kitten vertically (which requires a good deal of careful balance), the thrower runs forward and tosses the kitten into the air so that it turns 180° end-over-end in the air and lands on the former 'top' end. Because the kitten still has angular momentum, the former 'bottom' end then (hopefully) falls forward and away from the thrower.
Though less popular and more secretive, it is widely believed that the English Kitten Hurl is the older and more dignified version of the Scottish Caber Toss. Some contestants do compete in both fields.