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by John Scalzi

Science FictionMilitary SF 🌶️ 1/5

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8 Books Matched to The Last Colony

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Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

❄️ 0/5 · 324p · Science Fiction, Military SF

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94%

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

🌶️ 1/5 · 400p · Science Fiction, Literary Fiction

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Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

❄️ 0/5 · 224p · Science Fiction, Classic Science Fiction

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89%

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

by Becky Chambers

🌶️ 1/5 · 518p · Science Fiction, Space Opera

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86%

Record of a Spaceborn Few

by Becky Chambers

❄️ 0/5 · 368p · Science Fiction, Cozy SF

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84%

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

by Becky Chambers

❄️ 0/5 · 325p · Science Fiction, Cozy SF

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1984

by George Orwell

🌶️ 1/5 · 328p · Dystopian, Science Fiction

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79%

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

🌶️🌶️ 2/5 · 192p · Dystopian, Science Fiction

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — ❄️ 0/5 spice, 324 pages

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