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JOM Materials Fiction Countdown Nominations As of September 24, 2014 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Jules Verne Airframe: Michael Crichton Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand Cat’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut Caves of Steel: Isaac Asimov Copernick's Rebellion: Leo Frankowski The Cross-Time Engineer: Leo Frankowski Crystal Singer (trilogy): Anne McCaffrey The Dark Knight Returns: Frank Miller Daughter of Fortune: Isabella Allende Days of Future Past: Chris Claremont and John Byrne The Diamond Age: Neal Stephenson Dragonriders of Pern (series): Anne McCaffrey Dragon's Egg/Starquake: Robert L. Forward Dune: Frank Herbert Fail-safe: Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler “Farewell to the Master”: Harry Bates The First Patient: Michael Palmer Flatland: Edwin A. Abbott The Forever War: Joe Haldeman Foundation (trilogy): Isaac Asimov Fountains of Paradise: Arthur C. Clarke Garret P.I. (series): Glen Cook “The Gold Bug”: Edgar Allen Poe His Dark Materials (trilogy): Philip Pullman The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien The Iliad: Homer The Iron Giant: Ted Hughes Killer Instinct: Joseph Finder King Solomon's Mines: Sir H. Rider Haggard Lord of the Rings (triology): J.R.R. Tolkien The Magic Engineer: L. E. Modesitt Jr McTeague: Frank Norris Mercury: Ben Bova Mistborn (trilogy): Brandon Sanderson Mysterious Island: Jules Verne No Highway: Nevil Shute Old Man's War: John Scalzi Poseidon’s Arrow: Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Prey: Michael Crichton Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson Ringworld (series): Larry Niven River God: Wilbur Smith The Rock Rats: Ben Bova “Semplica Girl Diary”: George Saunders Sinclair Wonder Bear: Malorie Blackman Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series): George R.R. Martin Spinward Fringe: Randolph Lalonde Star of the South (L’Étoile du Sud): Jules Verne Sublimation: W.M. Goldberger Survivors (Dinosaur Planet Series): Anne McCaffrey The Watchmen: Alan Moore .

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