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The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

The Last Conversation

by Paul Tremblay

3.1
10/30/2020

An Amazon Original Story from horror writer Paul Tremblay. A woman dying of cancer undergoes an experimental procedure to upload her consciousness, but the process raises disturbing questions about identity, death, and what it means to be human.

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1 hour
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

by Amor Towles

3.1
10/29/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. A couple considering designer babies must choose their unborn child's traits from possible futures, raising profound questions about parenting, determinism, and the nature of choice.

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1.5 hours
Randomize by Andy Weir

Randomize

by Andy Weir

3.1
10/28/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of The Martian. A casino security expert must figure out how a gambler is beating the house with seemingly impossible consistency, leading to a clever exploration of randomness, probability, and technology.

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1 hour
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

5.0
10/27/2020

A profound memoir by neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, written as he faced terminal lung cancer at age 36. An extraordinary meditation on life, death, meaning, and what makes life worth living when facing mortality. A modern classic of the genre.

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4 hours
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Emergency Skin

by N.K. Jemisin

3.1
10/26/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the award-winning author of The Broken Earth trilogy. A pilot is sent from a human colony in space back to a supposedly dead Earth to retrieve genetic material, but what he finds challenges everything he's been taught about humanity's past and future.

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1 hour
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Summer Frost

by Blake Crouch

3.2
10/25/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of Dark Matter and Recursion. A video game designer discovers that her game's AI character may have achieved true consciousness, raising profound questions about artificial intelligence, personhood, and what we owe sentient beings we create.

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