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1) Fight Club
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The story of a young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars.
5) Glimmering
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“If Stephen King set out to rewrite The Waste Land as a novel, the result might resemble Glimmering.” —The Washington Post
Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalists—the end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever.
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Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalists—the end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever.
When...
6) [Slant]
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English
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In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance. However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho's investigation finds...
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Polish
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"-Pierwsza zasada klubu walki to nie rozmawiac o klubie walki - wykrzykuje Tyler. - Druga zasada klubu walki - krzyczy Tyler - to nie rozmawiac o klubie walki. (...) Tyler stoi pod jedyna lampa w popólnocnych ciemnosciach w pelnej mezczyzn piwnicy i wylicza pozostale reguly: dwóch mezczyzn, jedna walka, jedna walka na raz, boso i bez koszul, walka trwa do skutku. - I siódma zasada - krzyczy Tyler - jezeli to jest twoja pierwsza noc w klubie, to...
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Ukrainian
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"Yaksho mozhna postiyno prokydatysya v riznykh mistsyakh i v rizni chasy, chomu b odnoho razu ne prokynutysya inshoyu lyudynoyu? Same takoyi istyny pevnoho dnya dokholyt' bezimennyy heroy tsiyeyi istoriyi. Dosyapy bazhanoho, vnesty novyy zmist u perepovnenu bezsonnyam real'nist' yomu dopomahaye buntivnyk na imʼya Tayler D'orlen. Toy pryvodyt' heroya u mistse, shcho zvet'sya biytsivs'kym klubom. I pershe pravylo klubu -- nikoly nikomu ne hovoryty...