Mobile infantry against the Bugs and a lecture on citizenship; Verhoeven turned it inside out.
Moomintroll and his mother search for father in the first Moomin book; Tove Jansson's valley begins.
The Axis won and America is divided; Dick's alternate history.
A dead man narrates his pointless life with digressions; Machado's 1881 modernism.
The strongest girl in the world lives alone with a horse and a monkey; Lindgren's anarchist.
A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.
Four sisters in Osaka before the war and the search for a husband for the third; Tanizaki's masterpiece.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.
Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.
Everyone in town knows the twins will kill Santiago Nasar and nobody stops it.
Did Capitu betray Bentinho? Machado de Assis leaves the reader to decide; Brazil's classic.
Earth colonises Mars in linked stories; Bradbury's melancholy frontier.
The three laws of robotics in nine stories; Susan Calvin and the machines.
Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.
Bjartur of Summerhouses and his sheep against everything; Laxness's Icelandic epic.
The shining prince and the women of the Heian court; the first novel, written by a woman around 1010.
An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
A girl against the grey men who steal people's time; Ende's fable about hurry.
Case, Molly and the matrix; Gibson invented cyberspace in 1984.
A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and starts a church; grok.
Charlie Gordon's IQ goes from 68 to 185 and back, in his own progress reports.
Deckard, the replicants and the mood organ; the book behind Blade Runner.
Soldiers return from each battle to an Earth centuries older; Haldeman's Vietnam in space.
A point that contains every other point, in a Buenos Aires cellar; Borges' second collection.
A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.
A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.
Street children in 1930s Salvador; Jorge Amado's most loved.
Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.
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