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Books that keep your shoulders up by your ears, whether something's coming or the walls are closing in. You'll read faster than you mean to.

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Books and stacks that feel Tense

8 books
Cover of Los límites de la fundación Cover of A Journey to the Center of the Earth Cover of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Cover of Sphere Cover of Chromosome 6

Books that influenced the author of «Mutagénesis Convergente»

The author of Mutagénesis Convergente is an avid science fiction reader, and many of those books influenced him enormously.

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Wondrous Cerebral
3 days ago 1 7
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3 books
Cover of Guerras Lunares Cover of Mutagénesis Convergente Cover of Ovni: redención

Current Spanish science fiction

By emerging authors, but quality work

Hopeful Cerebral
1 wk ago 1 8
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Cover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Cover of Fight Club Cover of Jaws Cover of Psycho Cover of Forrest Gump

Famous films whose novels tell another story

Films you know by heart that started as novels telling a different story. Worth reading even if you've seen the movie fifty times.

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Whimsical Bittersweet
2 wks ago 4
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8 books
Cover of Project Hail Mary Cover of Martian Cover of Contact Cover of Jurassic Park Cover of Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6

Sci-fi novels whose movies are just as good

Science fiction books where the film kept the faith. Read it, watch it, and for once nobody gets to say the book was better.

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Wondrous Hopeful
2 wks ago 4
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7 books
Cover of Shining Cover of At the Mountains of Madness Cover of Terror Cover of Dark matter Cover of Thin Air

Winter horror novels where the cold is half the threat

Winter horror books where snow and ice are half the danger. Whatever's out there, the cold is on its side.

Chilling Atmospheric
3 wks ago 6
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10 books
Cover of The Talented Mr Ripley Cover of The Blade Itself Cover of The secret history Cover of Wolf Hall Cover of The Godfather

Morally grey main characters you root for anyway

Morally grey characters doing awful things, with you on their side the whole time. Books that make you complicit and let you enjoy it.

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Morally grey Cerebral
3 wks ago 9
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Cover of Never Let Me Go Cover of Six wakes Cover of Mickey7 Cover of Echo Wife Sneak Peek Cover of Fifth Head of Cerberus

Clone novels about who you are when you're the copy

Science fiction about clones and backups, and the question none of them can shake: is it still me if someone else was me first?

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Morally grey Bittersweet
4 wks ago 17
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Cover of House of Leaves Cover of Dracula Cover of Devolution Cover of Episode Thirteen Cover of The last days of Jack Sparks

Horror told through the files someone left behind

Journals, transcripts, a manuscript nobody was supposed to finish. Found footage horror, on paper, where the reader is the one who found it.

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Chilling Unflinching
1 month ago 3
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