<div dir="ltr">My 3 suggestions<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>The World Inside</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  Robert Silverberg</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(15,17,17);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Welcome to Urban Monad 116.
Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this
building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and
harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls,
the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of
procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god's plan. Conflict is
abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment―even being sent
"down the chute" to be recycled as fertilizer.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Jason Quevedo, a historian, searches records of the twentieth century hoping to
find the root of his discontent with the perfection of Urbmon life.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Siegmund Kluver, a young and ambitious administrator, strives to reach the top
levels of the Urbmon's government and discovers the civilization's dark truths.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Michael Statler, a computer engineer, harbors a forbidden desire. He dreams of
leaving the building―of walking in the open air and visiting the far-off sea.
This is a dream he must keep secret. If anyone were to find out, he'd face the
worst punishment imaginable.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<span class="gmail-a-text-italic"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">The World Inside</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> is a 1971 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(15,17,17);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Waiting for the Galactic Bus</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(15,17,17);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Parke Godwin   1988</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The tale begins with two
college-age brothers, Barion and Coyul, members of an advanced </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_extraterrestrials" title="Fictional extraterrestrials" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">alien</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> world. Their race is endowed with the power to
manipulate physical matter with their minds, a power which is exploited
incessantly by the young adults. An accident strands the brothers on Earth,
which at the time has no human race. The brothers hope for rescue, but
eventually grow despondent. In their free time, they cause a series of
evolutionary changes in the indigenous primates of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" title="Earth" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Earth</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, which eventually lead to the blossoming of human
civilization.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Andromeda Strain</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(95,99,104);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-style:normal">Michael
Crichton 1969</span></b></em></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A team from an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Air Force</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> base is deployed to recover a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_satellite" title="Military satellite" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">military satellite</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> that has returned to Earth, but contact is
lost abruptly. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona,
the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_officer" title="Duty officer" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">duty officer</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> of the base tasked with retrieving the
satellite suspects it returned with an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">extraterrestrial</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminant" title="Contaminant" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">contaminant</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> and recommends activating
"Wildfire", a protocol for a government-sponsored team of scientists
intended to contain threats of this nature.<b></b></span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 5:20 PM Liz P <<a href="mailto:lpatton88@gmail.com">lpatton88@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-6835753183450443147gmail-docs-internal-guid-36bb7c86-7fff-1acc-634a-dacc795964be"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tea with the black dragon.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">RA MacAvoy</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused and a little bit worried. Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter. Mayland and Martha become close in a short period of time and he promises to help her find Elizabeth, making small inroads in the mystery before Martha herself disappears. Now Mayland is struck by the realization, too late, that he is in love with Martha, and now he fears for her life. Determined to find her, he sets his prodigious philosopher's mind to work on the problem, embarking on a potentially dangerous adventure.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">=============</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Millenium</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">John Varley</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">An appalling mid-air collision between a DC10 & a 747 started it all. Hundreds of smashed & shattered bodies were scattered among the debris. Bill Smith & his team began the gruesome job of investigation. At first it was just little things that didn't add up--like all the watches in the crash having stopped one hour before it happened. And the odd sensation of being followed & watched by people who were not there. But then Bill started to discover things that really had no right being where they were & found himself right in the middle of the most extraordinary conspiracy, a conspiracy that seemed to have its origins somewhere in the far distant future.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">============================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Falling Free</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> by Lois McMaster Bujold </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Leo Graf adopted a thousand quaddies---now all he had to do was teach them to be free.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">================================</span></p></span><br></div>
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