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5) Dune
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Originally published in 1965, this best-selling classic won the first Nebula Award and shaped modern science fiction; it will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A...
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"A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing...
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In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
12) Chappie
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In a future world, where crime is patrolled by robot police officers, one police droid is given new programming which gives him the ability to think for himself.
13) Dr. Second
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The TARDIS delivers the Doctor, Victoria, and Jamie to a museum, and it takes the three of them a while to discover why, until what looks like yeti in the exhibit start to attack.
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"It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks..." --Jacket.
16) Silent running
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Bruce Dern, rather than destroying the only botanical specimens left from Earth as ordered, hijacks the freighter containing the specimens and plunges the craft into the gaseous rings of Saturn.
17) The twisted ones
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One year after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie is still haunted by nightmares of the gruesome puppets, and when bodies turn up bearing wounds that are disturbingly similar, she is drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations.
18) Dr. Ninth
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"With a little help from Rose and Jack, Dr. Ninth sets out to prevent an otherworldly invasion"--
20) RoboCop
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When police officer Alex Murphy is injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp takes the opportunity to create their first part-man, part-robot police officer.
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