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MadHatter rated Dead Pig Collector: 5 stars
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Crux by Ramez Naam
Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place.
In the …
MadHatter rated Transmetropolitan: 5 stars
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Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed …
MadHatter rated Transmetropolitan: 5 stars
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Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed …
MadHatter rated Autonomous: 5 stars
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Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent …
MadHatter rated Rocket ship Galileo: 3 stars
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Rocket ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for …
MadHatter rated Stranger in a Strange Land: 2 stars
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first …
MadHatter rated Saga, Volume 3: 5 stars
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Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close …
MadHatter rated Penguin Readers Level 5: “2001”: 5 stars
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Penguin Readers Level 5: “2001” by Arthur C. Clarke
THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSION, NOT THE ORIGINAL TEXT. Pearson English Graded Readers are an excellent tool to improve vocabulary, …
MadHatter rated Jurassic Park: 3 stars
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. …
MadHatter rated Old Man's War: 4 stars
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Old Man's War by John Scalzi
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004) is the second book on theoretical physics, …