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Dorsai!

Gordon R Dickson

Donal Graeme set out to re-shape the galaxy, but first he must tear it apart. Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - and something even greater. He was the focus of centuries of evolution, the culmination of planned development, and through him a new force made itself felt. Dorsai were renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, trained from birth to fight and win, no matter what the odds. With Donal at their head they embarked upon the final, impossible venture: they set out to unify the splintered worlds of Mankind.

Fiction

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2011-11-14

0575112212

Mazeway

Jack Williamson

From the depths of space the Seeker had come, to make the Solar system her nest. The invader was defeated, but not before the Earth was ravaged, its technology destroyed and its inhabitants reduced to barbarism. Mankind's only chance for salvation lay with the alien Eldren - but the Eldren considered humanity primitive and savage, and so they withheld their help. Young Benn Dain hoped to prove humanity's worth on Mazeway, a planetary doublet whose twin worlds, Blade and Stone, were a testing ground for Eldren young. For Roxane Kwan and Diego Bolivar, Mazeway was a path to control of the dying Earth, and Dain's quest was not part of their plans. But the Game of Blade and Stone was not designed for humans, and to survive, they would have to work together to fathom the depths of alien minds and the subtle traps of Eldren way...

Fiction

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2013-06-24

0575112034

Trapped in Space

Jack Williamson

Astronaut Ben is lost - a million miles from Earth! His last message: "Strange life forms here...we're under attack...!" Jeff sets off to rescue him, but soon his own crippled starship is caught in the same eerie web of a monstrous creature from outer space!

Fiction

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2013-08-29

0575111933

Century of the Manikin

E.C. Tubb

Peaceful, happy, non-violent . . . the perfect society? Or was it? As chief of Propaganda and Emotional Control, Joseph P. Lincoln had experience in coping with every potential threat to the system. But even he was ill-prepared to deal with the amazing woman from the past, whose arrival soon threw Lincoln's carefully ordered world into total chaos. CENTURY OF THE MANIKIN is wise, witty and a unique treatment of the problems of cryogenesis.

Fiction

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2011-09-29

0575107618

Invasion

Fouad Sabry

What is Invasion An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity. Generally, invasions have objectives of conquering, liberating or reestablishing control or authority over a territory; forcing the partition of a country; altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government; or a combination thereof. An invasion can be the cause of a war, be a part of a larger strategy to end a war, or it can constitute an entire war in itself. Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution. Not every military offense with the goal to capture territory or remove a government is an invasion. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Invasion Chapter 2: Iran-Iraq War Chapter 3: Siege Chapter 4: 1948 Arab-Israeli War Chapter 5: Military Strategy Chapter 6: Military History of the United States Chapter 7: Scorched Earth Chapter 8: Gulf War Chapter 9: 2003 Invasion of Iraq Chapter 10: Military History of the United Kingdom during World War II (II) Answering the public top questions about invasion. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Invasion.

Political Science

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2024-05-26

41153205942118

The Termination Node

Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg

A computer thriller in which millions of dollars are stolen from a bank via the internet. Security specialist Judy Carmody of California is hired to stop the cyber thieves before more banks are hit.

Fiction

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1999

36785352275142

The Odyssey

Homer

Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.

History

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2005-09-27

0801882672

Finity's End

C.J. Cherryh

Finity's End is the oldest Merchanter ship in the universe. In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alliances, the Company Wears are now over, the hunt for the fleet is winding down, and the ship is coming home to reclaim her trade routes. Having lost an entire generation, the youngest crew members, bred and trained for war, must face their most critical battle of all--survival in a time of lasting peace.

Fiction

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1998-08-01

0446605603

The Light of Other Days

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent and unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKvF2vY4LwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-07-08

000737951X

Muddle Earth

Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

Age 9-11. When magic strikes and Joe Jefferson is transformed from an ordinary schoolboy into a powerful warrior, his simple life is greatly altered as dangerous tasks to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and confront villains are bestowed upon him by the residents of Muddle Earth who are in desperate need of a hero such as he.

Juvenile Fiction

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2007

73309047792476

Lady of Mazes

Karl Schroeder

Author and professional futurist Karl Schroeder, whose novels Ventus and Permanence have established him as a groundbreaking visionary in hard science fiction, extends his imagination into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas, to tell the story of Teven Coronal, a ringworld with a huge multiplicity of human civilizations. Brilliant but troubled Livia Kodaly is Teven's only hope against invaders both human and superhuman who would destroy its fragile ecologies and human diversity. Filled with action, ideas, and intellectual energy, Lady of Mazes is the hard SF novel of the year. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fiction

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2006-06-27

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Belgarath the Sorcerer

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings

Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings and Gods. When the world was young and Gods still walked among their mortal children, a headstrong orphan boy set out to explore the world. Thus began the extraordinary adventures that would mold that youthful vagabond into a man, and the man into the finely honed instrument of Prophecy known to all the world as Belgarath the Sorcerer. Then came the dark day when the Dark God Torak split the world asunder, and the God Aldur and his disciples began their monumental labor to set Destiny aright. Foremost among their number was Belgarath. His ceaseless devotion was foredoomed to cost him that which he held most dear—even as his loyal service would extend through echoing centuries of loss, of struggle, and of ultimate triumph.

Fiction

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1996-06-01

0345403959

Sinister Barrier

Eric Frank Russell

Charles Fort said, “I think we’re property.” And that is the plot of ‘Sinister Barrier.‘ We are cattle, a source of psychic energy for beings that exist as pure energy. They feed off of our emotions and our strongest emotions are lust, hate, and fear. And so they manipulate us to display our strongest emotions for their psychic vampirism. Ghastly crimes are the everyday meal for these beings; wars are banquets for their delectations. One scientist discovers these invisible beings of energy and is able to warn others before he dies. And then, many die. One dogged investigator is pursued cross-country and back as he puts together a meeting of minds to free humanity from these invisible tyrants. Sinister Barrier was published in 1939 in the initial issue of Unknown. It was the cover story.

Fiction

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2024-02-08

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Agents of Artifice

Ari Marmell

A new age dawns in the Multiverse—and the balance of power shifts—in this Magic: The Gathering novel that brings readers to the heart of a Planeswalker struggle Jace Beleren is a planeswalker who has taken the path of least resistance. He is gifted and powerful, but chooses not to push himself. Part of an inter-planar consortium that deals in magical artifacts, Jace has some power and influence. He also has a certain amount of security. That’s all about to change when Liliana—a dark temptress with demons of her own—comes into his life, bringing with her more possibilities and more problems. Under attack from external interests, a friend dies because of decisions Jace made. Upset with himself and fearing for his life, Jace sets out to find who is behind this new threat. What he uncovers along the way, an inter-planar chase filled with peril, will alter everything he knows.

Fiction

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2010-01-26

0786955767

Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9K6oJ3mezL4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2003-06-17

0553897926

The Gathering Storm

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Now a major TV series on Prime Video The twelfth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. Rand al'Thor struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle, as his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself. Egwene al'Vere is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. She works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai, as the days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower - and possibly the world itself. 'Epic in every sense' Sunday Times 'With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal' New York Times '[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre' George R. R. Martin 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time series: Book 1: The Eye of the World Book 2: The Great Hunt Book 3: The Dragon Reborn Book 4: The Shadow Rising Book 5: The Fires of Heaven Book 6: Lord of Chaos Book 7: A Crown of Swords Book 8: The Path of Daggers Book 9: Winter's Heart Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight Book 11: Knife of Dreams Book 12: The Gathering Storm Book 13: Towers of Midnight Book 14: A Memory of Light Prequel: New Spring Look out for the companion book: The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

Fiction

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2010-10-07

0748115455

When Gravity Fails

George Alec Effinger

In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this “wry and black and savage” Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin). Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities, and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, an unmodified and fairly honest street hustler, lives in a decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, and holds on tight to his cherished independence. Then, against his best instincts, he becomes involved in a series of inexplicable murders. Some seem like routine assassinations, carried out with an old-fashioned handgun by a man wearing a plug-in James Bond persona; others, involving whores, feature prolonged torture and horrible mutilations. Soon the problem comes to the attention of Budayeen godfather Friedlander Bey—who makes Audran an offer he can’t refuse. Nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, the highest honors in the genre, When Gravity Fails, which introduced the cyberpunk Budayeen Cycle, is a pioneering work the Denver Post called “superior science fiction” and Harlan Ellison described as “crazy as a spider on ice skates . . . plain old terrific.”

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nxEeAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-04-01

1497605407

Grendel

John Gardner

This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

Fiction

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1989-05-14

0679723110

Signal to Noise

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love... Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? Is there any magic left?

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MGZ3EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-09-13

1786186454

The Magicians' Guild

Trudi Canavan

Sonea discovers that she possesses the same powers as the hated guild magicians. To avoid capture, she must seek protection from the city's feared underworld, The Theives. In return she must use her powers for them, but her magic never seems to do what she intends it to.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XlJIM5gCm4QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2001

0732270952

The Flight of the Horse

Larry Niven

Mind bending stories of Svetz, the Time Retrieval expert.

Fantasy fiction, American

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R8pKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1973

77204733717157

The Dark is Rising

Susan Cooper

It's Christmas-time in the Stanton family house presents, carol singing, good cheer. But for eleven-year-old Will Stanton, something sinister has begun. On Midwinter Day, Will wakes up to a different world: silent, covered in snow and ancient forest, a world of another time. A world where evil lurks. Because Will is not the ordinary boy he always thought he was. He is the last of the Old Ones and the power to vanquish the evil magic of the Dark lies within him. Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can read an interview with the author and discover the ancient beliefs that inspired the story.

Juvenile Fiction

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2013-08-01

1448162998

The Quantum Connection

Travis S. Taylor

The Breathtaking Sequel to Warp Speed¾Science Fiction Written by a Real Scientist Who is Also a Gifted Writer. Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular on Steven's home town in California. In an instant, his family and all his friends were gone. Suffering fits of deep depression, he dropped out of college and ended up working as a repairman in a video games store, where he did a brilliant job of repairing a 30-year-old video game. That caught the attention of the game's owner, who happened to be in a position to get Steven a government job, cracking computer codes, and reverse engineering unusual hardware. When he was given a tiny piece of hardware to examine as a "test," he worked out its functions so well that he and his boss were called to Washington for a Top Secret meeting. They asked him countless questions, yet declined to answer his; but he would soon learn all the answers. The "meteor" onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still secret war between the U.S and its enemies (as told in Warp Speed) using a new warp drive technology that was more secret than top secret. Another secret was that U.S. had been sending faster-than-light ships to other star systems. Most secret of all was that unfriendly aliens were observing the Earth, and while U.S. spaceships were not quite in a war with the unknown aliens, they were shooting at the intruders. Whether any of these answers would do Steven any good was an open question because he learned them only after he was abducted by those very same aliens and was held prisoner on one of their ships orbiting Saturn. At first, he was one of three human prisoners, but he had just seen the aliens completely dissect one of the three, and it looked like either Steven, or the Russian girl who was his fellow prisoner, were scheduled to be the next alien lab experiment. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for Warp Speed, the prequel: "Reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum; beautiful, vivacious female astronauts, sterling-hearted redneck scientists and evil mercenaries bent upon galaxy-wide conquest. You won't want to put it down. FLUBELLS AWAY!" ¾John Ringo "You thought they didn't write 'em like this anymore Doc Travis does!" ¾Jim Baen

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f7R0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2005-04-01

1618244787

Brothers

Manju Kapur

The story of Tapti Gaina is intimately linked with the lives of two men, her husband and his brother. Exploring caste, student politics, the freedom struggle and the Emergency, Brothers traces the history of the Gaina family, beginning with their village origins across the emerging metropolis of Ajmer and ending at the height of political power in Jaipur. It is a masterful portrayal of ambition, desire, betrayal and anguish, enacted against the shifting terrain of family dynamics.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kHEgDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-10-24

938599008X

U.S.S.A.

David Madsen

1988. After a brief, devastating war, America has occupied the Soviet Union. When Dean Joplin, ex-CIA agent and Moscow based private investigator takes on a grisly murder case, he is drawn into a tangled mystery which leads him through a surreal, chaotic country, where commercialism collides with the remains of communism, and the Russian soul cries out for vengeance

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aL2kEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-12-31

39622334653307

Deathworld

Harry Harrison

Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor, is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.

Life on other planets

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q_yhDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2009

138768888X

Icarus

Dan Mishkin

When Icarus's father is imprisoned, he invents a way for him and Icarus to escape. Find out how in this brilliantly illustrated Greek myth. Pink level for your fluent reader.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=91-x0eB1vmcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2008-01-01

1616413042

Souls in the Great Machine

Sean McMullen

Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean McMullen's brilliant future history of the world of Greatwinter. The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved components could save the world from a new ice age. And all the while a faint mirrorsun hangs in the night sky, warning of the cold to come. In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two millennia from now, there is no more electricity, wind engines are leading-edge technology, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, steam power is banned by every major religion, and a mysterious siren "Call" lures people to their death. Nevertheless, the brilliant and ruthless Zarvora intends to start a war in space against inconceivably ancient nuclear battle stations. Unbeknownst to Zarvora, however, the greatest threat to humanity is neither a machine nor a force but her demented and implacable enemy Lemorel, who has resurrected an obscene and evil concept from the distant past: Total War. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YUTA1eVUBuoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2002-12-15

1466821582

Alosha

Christopher Pike

A teen discovers she’s a fairy princess who must save the world in this young adult fantasy trilogy debut by a New York Times–bestselling author. Everyone, at some point in life, dreams that they are secretly a king or queen or wizard of a far-off land. Someday their true identity will be revealed, and they will begin a new life of magic and power and love. Teenager Ali Warner has reason to cling to such a fantasy. While hiking in the woods behind her house, Ali stumbles across a plot by the elementals—mysterious creatures who live in a neighboring dimension—to invade and destroy Earth. Not only that, she also discovers that she has been choose to stop the attack. Why was Ali chosen? It is very possible that she is more than human. To reclaim her magical abilities and her true identity, Alie sets out on a great adventure. This journey will take her far from home, through a series of dangerous tests that require courage, strength, and insight into life itself. Accompanied by a devious leprechaun, a loyal troll, and three close friends, Ali strives to reach the top of a forbidden mountain and lay claim to the Yanti, an ancient talisman of great power that even the elementals cannot control. Ali Warner is Alosha. Join her in her quest to save humanity. Praise for Alosha “A fun read for any grown-up fantasy fan, this book is also an excellent gateway to introduce our favorite genre to younger readers who may not have discovered the joys of SF and fantasy.” —SF Site Reviews “The writing is smooth and flows easily, and the author captures well the friends’ dialogue and thought. Readers are sure to be captivated by the descriptive details and entertaining plot complete with dwarves, elves, fairies, and trolls.” —School Library Journal

Young Adult Fiction

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2007-04-01

1429914408

Raising The Stones

Sheri S. Tepper

A moving, compulsive science fiction novel from one of the best writers in the field When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent species, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and their religion. It seemed the natural thing for the settlers to maintain the last Owlbrit temple, with the strange statue that was its God. When that God died - disintegrating overnight - it seemed equally natural to start preparing its replacement. Maire Manone came to Hobbs Land to escape the harsh patriarchal religion of Voorstod, but Voorstod hasn't forgotten her - or forgiven her. But the men who arrive on Hobbs Land to find and return Maire to her homeland haven't taken Hobbs Land's God into account ...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iiDVMStn4hcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575116293

Sims

F. Paul Wilson

F. Paul Wilson, a practicing physician as well as the bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series, turns his attention to the day after tomorrow and shows us how genetic engineering might change the world. Just a few hundred genes separate humans from chimpanzees. Imagine someone altering the chimp genome, splicing in human genes to increase the size of the cranium, reduce the amount of body hair, enable speech. What sort of creature would result? Sims takes place in the very near future, when the science of genetics is fulfilling its vaunted potential. It's a world where genetically transmitted diseases are being eliminated. A world where dangerous or boring manual labor is gradually being transferred to "sims," genetically altered chimps who occupy a gray zone between simian and human. The chief innovator in this world is SimGen, which owns the patent on the sim genome and has begun leasing the creatures worldwide. But SimGen is not quite what it seems. It has secrets . . . secrets beyond patents and proprietary processes . . . secrets it will go to any lengths to protect. Sims explores this brave new world as it is turned upside down and torn apart when lawyer Patrick Sullivan decides to try to unionize the sims. Right now, as you read these words, some company somewhere in the world is toying with the chimp genome. That is not fiction, it is fact. Sims is a science thriller that will come true. One way or another. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wMS9YFoJJcsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2010-04-27

1429915315

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Contents: Of Man Of Sense Of Imagination Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination Of Speech Of Reason and Science Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects Of the Several Subject of Knowledge Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness Of the Difference of Manners Of Religion Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts Of Other Laws of Nature Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated Of Commonwealth Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical Of the Liberty of Subjects Of Systems Subject Political and Private Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power Of Counsel Of Civil Laws Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations Of Punishments and Rewards Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative Of the Kingdom of God by Nature Of a Christian Commonwealth Of the Principles of Christian Politics Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour Of Power Ecclesiastical Of What Is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven Of the Kingdom of Darkness Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture Of Demonology and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth

Political Science

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2023-12-23

31400924158090

Worldmaker

Albert C Ellis

In a world pocked with gutted buildings, looted stores and packs of computer-implanted wild dogs, one man senses more than mere devastation in his surroundings. He begins to grasp that the biochip in his own skull enables him to change reality at will--a tantalizing prospect until he realizes he isn't the only one with that ability. "An intriguing adventure story that has more than a little to say about our ideas of reality. Like his hero, Ellis takes on the whole world in this book."-Connie Willis, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards

Fiction

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2007-05

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Perdido Street Station

China Miéville

Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror – and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.

Fiction

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2008-08-28

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Magic Casement

Dave Duncan

A princess and a stableboy? It sounds like the worst sort of hackneyed formula romance. Think again, for A MAN OF HIS WORD may well be the most original fantasy you ever read. The magic is unique and applied in unexpected ways, some of which the late Lester del Rey admitted he had not met in fifty years as writer and editor. The world itself is unique - there are no humans in Pandemia, only imps, elves, gnomes, jotnar, and many more, all of whom you will recognize as "human". In MAGIC CASEMENT the tale begins gently, even slowly, with Inosolan enjoying an idyllic childhood in a tiny backwater kingdom, too carefree and innocent even to understand that the feelings she shares with her friend Rap are more than friendship. Mystery, menace, and the gods appear in short order, and from then on the story grows in scope and power to straddle the world, and adversity thrusts rapid maturity on Rap and Inos. Populated by unforgettable characters - Aunt Kade, Little Chicken, Doctor Sagorn, and many more - Pandemia is an incredible world of credible people and infinite surprises.

Fiction

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2012-06-11

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The Revenge of the Shadow King

Derek Benz

When Max Sumner and three friends play a magical card game called Round Table, they realize that it is up to them to prevent the wicked creatures of the cards from destroying their town, indeed, their world.

Card games

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2005

0545081831

When the Changewinds Blow

Jack L. Chalker

With 4 million Chalker books in print, the launching of a fantastic new series by the author of the Soul Rider series is destined for bestselling sales. A Changewind has the power to alter anything it touches--and soon all creatures must look to the skies and beware.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xe16OEX62c0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1987

0441880819

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Michael Swanwick

A New York Times Notable Book: “Combining cyberpunk’s grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling” (Library Journal). Jane is trapped as a changeling in an industrialized Faerie ruled by aristocratic high elves and populated by ogres, dwarves, night-gaunts, and hags. She is the only human in a factory where underage forced labor builds cybernetic, magical dragons that are weaponized and sent off to war. When the damaged dragon Melanchthon tempts Jane with promises of freedom, the stage is set for a daring escape that will shake the foundations of existence. Combining alchemy and technology, a coming-of-age story like no other, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles that force Jane to make costly decisions at every turn. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide. It engages the reader in a nihilistic world in which nothing is as it seems and everything comes at a steep and often horrific price.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eKf0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2016-05-31

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Artifact

Arlene Heyman

'A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit' Observer 'The author delves deep into Lottie's psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of a woman on the edge of change' Daily Mail Lottie Kristin is independent from the start. Born in the middle of the century to a middle-class family in the very middle of America, Lottie is set apart by her smarts and sensuality. A girl who'd rather carry out dissections on a snowy back porch than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange and exotic artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay. But by her early twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in a marriage gone stale, with a daughter she adores but whose existence jeopardizes her place in the lab and her dream of becoming a scientist. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her will, and her longing to live? Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others' imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CPnCDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2020-07-09

1526619431

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

"Del Rey book." Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l4lxLsH2n3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1975

0312536631

Conversations With My Cat

Chuck McKenzie, MacReady McKenzie

A collection of discussions between one man and his cat, wherein are tackled many of the greatest issues of our time. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll change your life. Or not. Frankly, we'll say anything to get you to buy this book.

Humor

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lecl0AEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2023-08-31

0645894508

Anvil of Stars

Greg Bear

A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They are frightened. And they are making war against entities whose technologies are so advanced, so vast, as to dwarf them. Against something whose psychology is ultimately, unknowably alien.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GRv0jHiCUkUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-07-02

0575123354

Mythago Wood

Robert Holdstock

Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable ... and stronger than time itself. Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the mysteries of Ryhope Wood. On his return from the Second World War, he finds his brother, Christopher, is also in thrall to the mysterious wood, wherein lies a realm where mythic archetypes grow flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams, and in promises of freedom lies the sanctuary of insanity ... Readers love Mythago Wood: '6.0 stars. This book is a MASTERPIECE and will likely be on my list of "All Time Favourite" novels before too long' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Blimey, what a book! Genuine classic of mythological fiction.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'An imaginative masterpiece has broken the boundaries of fantasy genre. In Mythagowood Myths manifest from characters's unfathomable desires. The mysterious forest which the protagonists are obsessed with is an original concept of legends, it rooted in subconscious mind arouses overwhelming power of human minds'. Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'To attempt to write a straightforward synopsis of Mythago Wood itself is almost to lose the very essence of the novel, to break away from the ethereal feeling which transcends the book.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I've seldomly read a book that is so rich and enthralling in its descriptions and really draws me into the mythical woods, where time flows differently, where your subconscious can conjure up archetypes and these can infringe upon your very real life outside of the forest.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Fiction

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2012-10-29

0575088451

But n Ben A-Go-Go

Matthew Fitt

Written entirely in Scots, this is a science fiction novel set in a future where the Scottish Highlands are the only unsubmerged area of Britain. With strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger. The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The introduction includes a section on how to read the Scots in this book, Matthew has made the spelling as straightforward as possible for a population used to English spelling conventions.

Fiction

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2020-04-22

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Greenmantle

John Buchan

"Greenmantle" by John Buchan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Fiction

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2020-09-28

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Homeworld

Harry Harrison

"Jan Kulozik is one of Earth's privileged elite. A brilliant engineer, he enjoys all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization which survived global collapse and conquered the stars. Then he meets Sara, the beautiful, desirable agent of a rebel underground dedicated to smashing the iron rule of Earth's masters. She shows him a sordid world he never dreamed existed! And suddenly Jan has to choose--between slaves and masters. His choice plunges him into a web of intrigue, assassination and betrayal that will lead him to death... or to the stars."--Pg. [4] of cover.

Fiction

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1981

0553226479

The Ethos Effect

L. E. Modesitt Jr.

Van C. Albert is a commander in the Republic Space Force of Taran. His bravery led to the defeat of a larger enemy ship but caused the inadvertent destruction of a civilian liner. Although his name was cleared, he now seems doomed to a life of backwater postings. He can only watch as a simmering cold war erupts into a fierce interstellar war, fuelled by the pull of religious fanaticism, economic and political rivalry. Van is seriously wounded on assignment, and wakes from a coma to find that he has been decorated and summarily retired from military service. Desperate to escape boredom, he jumps at the chance to fly a starship for the Integrated Information Systems foundation. Seemingly harmless, the IIS's influence is far reaching and Van soon finds himself at the centre of the action, a key player in a war which will shake all human worlds.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZO_MBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-11-06

0356505669

Brainboy and the DeathMaster

Tor Seidler

A fast-paced, high-tech, mystery-adventure from the author of the National Book Award finalist Mean Margaret.

Juvenile Fiction

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2010-09-14

0062028294

The Clone Codes

Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack, John Patrick McKissack

Acclaimed authors Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack have collaborated with their son, John, to deliver a novel that is as suspenseful as it is searing. "The Clone Codes" is the first installment of a sci-fi trilogy that blends a futuristic society with events in world history.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oSeAfjGljTAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010

0439929830

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson). Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TiFSMQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2018-02-13

0374537151

LoveStar

Andri Snaer Magnason

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence "Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason’s oversized imagination is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly, starred review LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind. Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi’s sanity) when they are “calculated apart” and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world. Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snær Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cy2WJq-mjxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-11-20

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Psychohistorical Crisis

Donald Kingsbury

Science fiction-roman.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n5eRx1X_lgAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2002-10-13

0765341956

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Dennis E. Taylor

Bobiverse fans: a signed limited edition of all three books in a boxed set, signed by the author, is now available on Amazon. Look for The Bobiverse [Signed Limited Edition] on Amazon Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S0t2tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2017-04-14

1680680587

Undone

Carrie Schuchts Daunt

Do you desire deeper freedom? Do you feel restricted by the knots of sin and shame that conceal the true beauty of your feminine heart? Through this collection of raw and redemptive testimonies from real Catholic women, punctuated with guided reflection and contemplative prayer, Carrie Schuchts Daunt of the John Paul II Healing Center offers you an encounter with truth and healing tailored to your specific identities as daughter, sister, bride and mother. Undone ushers you through a vulnerable search for truth through essential spiritual exercises, prayer guides, and reflection material. Sharing personal testimonies of illness, loss of faith, rejection, promiscuity, abortion, broken marriage, infertility, miscarriage, addiction, betrayal, bulimia, and depression, the fifteen women in Undone identify shame and fear as major barriers to their relationships. In their stories, they share how their shame was untangled and their identity restored. This chorus of bold women—including Lisa Brenninkmeyer, founder of Walking with Purpose; Jen Settle, managing director of the Theology of the Body Institute; Debra Herbeck, founder of Be Love Revolution; Judy Bailey, executive director of John Paul II Healing Center; and Jeannie Hannemann, founder and executive director of Elizabeth Ministry International—will encourage you to explore and undo the knots in your own life as well. Daunt shares the same prayer exercises and spiritual reflection material used at the John Paul II Healing Center’s Undone women’s conferences, including inner healing prayers spiritual exercises for identifying core wounds spiritual exercises for renouncing false belief systems reflection questions In Undone, readers find an essential guide to distinctly feminine healing that will leave them willingly and eagerly stripping away the bondage of sin and shame allowing them to become the women God calls them to be.

Religion

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eWTGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2020-01-24

1594719705

The Furies

Bernard Evslin

In Greek mythology the Furies were 3 witches. This retelling also includes the story of Circe, the famous sorceress.

Erinyes (Greek Mythology).

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1989

1555462499

A Plague of Demons

Keith Laumer

THE DEMONS HAD TO STOP JOHN BRAVAIS His secret assignment was simply - to save mankind from the savage dog-like 'things' that used their hands like men. Yet an unknown number of apparently 'human' beings were against him too. First transformed by surgery into a superman, John Bravais probes ever more deeply into the secret nightmare world of the 'things'. At last, when only his mind remains - trapped in a vast robot war machine on the moon - only by an immense act of will-power can he give humanity a future.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XC6JCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-02-29

1473215714

The Forever Drug

Steve Perry

Perry stunned the SF world with his acclaimed Matador series. Now he returns to the shocking future world of high-tech lies, betrayals, and murder in this electrifying novel of interplanetary espionage, featuring Venture Silk, government spindoc. "Action-packed, compelling science fiction".--Voya.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sD9Nd8rPjJMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1995

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Justice and Her Brothers

Virginia Hamilton

A girl and her twin brothers discover their special powers in the first of a fantasy series by the Newbery Medal–winning author of M.C. Higgins, the Great. For Justice and her identical twin brothers Levi and Thomas, the summer begins like any other. But as the slow days pass, Justice begins to notice a strange energy between her brothers, beyond their normal twin connection. Thomas becomes increasingly bossy and irritable, while Levi seems weak and absentminded. And there are changes happening within Justice, as well. Soon she discovers that she possesses a mysterious, extraordinary ability. Will Justice and her brothers uncover the secret behind their newfound powers? Justice and Her Brothers is the first book in Virginia Hamilton’s compelling dystopian fantasy series, the Justice Trilogy, comprised of Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Virginia Hamilton including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Young Adult Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q7jsZ2Gqk30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-12-27

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Lords of the Sky

Angus Wells

From the author of The Godwars and The Books of the Kingdom trilogies comes astand-alone epic tale of Daviot, a traveling storyman who is willing to breakrules and consort with mages to prepare his people for the coming invasion ofthe marauding Ahn warriors and then bring peace to his troubled world.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cS9q0_Ogd7AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1995

0553572660

The Hound of Rowan

Henry H. Neff

MAX MCDANIELS LIVES a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him. But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he'll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9fr3IXhBa0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2007-09-25

0375890777

Imperial Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

A futuristic tale of intergalactic love and politics from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker). In the year 2276, Duncan Makenzie travels from Saturn’s moon, Titan, to Earth as a diplomatic guest at the United States’ Quincentennial. As a member of Titan’s ‘First Family’ descended from the moon’s original settlers five hundred years before, Duncan finds himself welcomed back to Mother Earth and into Washington’s glittering political and social scene. But Duncan isn’t just on Earth for ambassadorial reasons. Haunted by the memory of a woman from Earth he once loved, Duncan is also on a mission to continue his family line . . . despite a devastating genetic defect. A tour-de-force of vivid characterization, futuristic vision, and suspense, Imperial Earth is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s most ambitious and thought-provoking novels. “Clarke at the height of his powers.” —The New York Times

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QdIpAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-11-30

0795325576

Starfinder

Carole Stott, Giles Sparrow

Find everything you need to observe, understand and enjoy the night sky in this complete practical kit for star watchers. Pick up the handy visual guide and find out what you’ll need to get started and when to look for stars, plus explore a complete introduction to the Solar System. Use the interactive planisphere to navigate the entire sky any time of night, throughout the year. Plus, 44 double-sided cards and a mini torch reveal how to identify each constellation, with hints and tips on special features to look for in each formation. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an accomplished astronomer, this is your up-to-date guide to exploring the cosmos.

Nature

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2008-05-01

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Way of the Pilgrim

Gordon R Dickson

Imagine an Earth totally dominated by an alien race. Imagine that humans and their technology are completely powerless against these invaders. Imagine a world in which people are nothing more than cattle to their new masters. Now imagine that one man discovers a key that might free mankind, but he must learn how to care and how to love before he can believe in that key.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PJ-NAELu2_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575112662

The Roar

Emma Clayton

Twelve-year old twins, Mika and Ellie, live in a future behind a wall \- safe from the plague animals beyond. Or so they've been told. But when one of them disappears, and the other takes part in a sinister virtual reality game, they begin to discover their concrete world is built on lies. As they go in search of the truth, and a strange sound in their heads grows to a roar, they find out that children and the planet have never mattered more.

Brothers and sisters

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IVsAoQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2014-08-01

1910002038

Stung

Bethany Wiggins

In a world in crisis, children are the future. Part of the cure. Not now. Children are deadly. Marked one to ten. Fiona is a TEN. She just doesn't know it yet . . . She doesn't know her true strength. Fiona doesn't remember going to sleep. But she has woken to find her entire world has changed - her house is abandoned and broken, and her neighbourhood is barren and dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right wrist that she doesn't remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. And she's right. When the honeybee population collapsed, a worldwide pandemic occurred and the government tried to bio-engineer a cure. But instead the vaccination turned people into ferocious, deadly beasts. They have been branded as a warning to unvaccinated survivors. Key people needed to rebuild society are protected inside a fortress-like wall. Fiona has awakened branded, alone and on the wrong side of the wall . . .

Juvenile Fiction

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2013-07-04

1408840677

Viral

Matt Ridley, Alina Chan

"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York Times Book Review) Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search for the source of the virus. A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened. In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travellers to the city, no smouldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host—human beings. To try to solve this pressing mystery, Viral delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus’s own genetic code. The result is a gripping detective story that takes the reader deeper and deeper into a metaphorical cave of mystery. One by one the authors explore promising tunnels only to show that they are blind alleys, until, miles beneath the surface, they find themselves tantalisingly close to a shaft that leads to the light.

Medical

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2022-06-28

0063273608

Pirates of Venus

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky; ferocious beasts stalk the wilderness below; rare flashes of sunlight precipitate devastating storms; and the inhabitants believe their world is saucer-shaped with a fiery center and an icy rim. Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess carries a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=75yaEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-11-07

2322436852

The Forever Formula

Frank Bonham

A 17-year-old lying in a hospital bed wonders if he has a brain tumor or is suffering from hallucinations. The truth is startling and incredible, and most of all, dangerous.

Cryonics

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t86vMrPJ_0QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1979

0590323059

Native Tongue

Suzette Haden Elgin

Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth's wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies' languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children's language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men's domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women's language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_xqKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2019-08-22

1473227577

Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the Epics... nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience. He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.

Fiction

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2013-09-26

057510418X

Origin

Dan Brown

Robert Langdon diundang menghadiri acara pengungkapan penemuan Edmond Kirsch, seorang miliarder sekaligus ilmuwan komputer, di Museum Guggenheim, Spanyol. Kirsch yang ateis, sesumbar temuannya akan mengubah wajah dunia selamanya. Temuan yang diklaim akan menjawab dua pertanyaan fundamental eksistensi manusia itu digelar secara langsung melalui Internet dan disiarkan ke seluruh dunia. Namun, terjadi kekacauan. Kirsch terbunuh, sementara Langdon malah dituduh terlibat dalam pembunuhan dan menculik tunangan calon raja Spanyol. Langdon harus berkejaran dengan waktu untuk membuktikan bahwa dia tak bersalah, sekaligus mengungkap apa sebenarnya temuan Kirsch yang membuat pria itu harus kehilangan nyawa. Menyusuri koridor-koridor gelap rahasia sejarah dan agama, Langdon harus berpikir cepat untuk mengungkapkan rahasia sekaligus menghindari musuh yang sepertinya tahu segala dan mendapat dukungan dari Istana Kerajaan Spanyol. Berhasilkah Langdon memecahkan teka-teki temuan Kirsch yang sepertinya menyalakan api konspirasi jahat di seluruh dunia? Tokoh-tokoh agama terbunuh, kaum fanatik menebarkan ancaman, sementara musuh tersembunyi terus bisa menebak langkah mereka. Pada saat sepertinya tak ada jalan keluar, satu sosok misterius membantu Langdon di sepanjang jalan. Siapakah sosok dingin tanpa emosi ini? Akankah dia benar membantu Langdon mengungkapkan temuan Kirsch atau malah menjebak Langdon dalam kelindan konspirasi yang akan menghancurkan kemanusiaan? [Mizan, Mizan Publishing, Fiction, Thrillers, Misteri, Teka-Teki, Rahasia,Terjemahan, Dewasa, Indonesia]

Fiction

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2019-05-31

6022914426

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

Eleanor Cameron

A mystery man inspires two boys to build a space ship which takes them to the planet of Basidium to help the Mushroom people.

Children's literature

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=laIcu2XzyoMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1954

0440841089

The Land of Laughs

Jonathan Carroll

For some, the magic of certain books lasts a lifetime. For Thomas Abbey, the works of reclusive children’s fantasy author Marshall France have been an essential part of his life ever since he was a boy. Son of a famous movie star, Abbey is now approaching middle age having spent too many years trying to get out from under the shadow of just ‘being the son of...’ and finding something meaningful in his life. When he meets the puppeteer Saxony Gardner, who shares his passion for the France books, together they decide to collaborate on a biography of their favorite author. To do so, they must travel to the small town of Galen where France spent much of his life. Once there, they must gain the permission to write the book from France’s daughter Anna who is very protective of her father’s legacy. What happens to them after they arrive in Galen and receive Anna’s blessing to write the story of her father’s life is beyond their wildest dreams. A story that Marshall France himself might have written...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F20QEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2024-07-16

1625676794

Fortress Draconis

Michael A. Stackpole

In an age of treachery and peril, a young thief may be the prophesied savior . . . or the betrayer of the world. Once one of the grandest of human cities, Yslin now has a dark heart known as the Dimandowns. And when Will, an orphaned young thief from the Dim, plots to prove himself to his master by stealing a prize from the exiled Elves who share the fetid slums, his theft of the strange artifact snares him in a web of prophecy. It also brings him together with Kedyn’s Crow, a shadowy human warrior, and Resolute, a Vorquelf determined to redeem his long-lost island home. To them, Will could be the fulfillment of a long-held dream and the last chance the world has to save itself from Chytrine, the northern tyrant who would be empress of the world. But their belief in Will finds few allies in a world torn by war and magick. Preoccupied with their own internecine struggles, the world’s leaders see Will as a pawn. Only Chytrine seems able to recognize Will’s destiny, and she sends her Dark Lancers to destroy him. For who better to destroy a hero than the ill-fated heroes of the previous generation, survivors of a failed war to exterminate Chytrine, now corrupted to her service? Yet even as Will is tested, a new generation takes up arms where their predecessors failed. Alexia, princess of a dead nation, leads an army to oppose Chytrine. And the sorcerers of Vilwan have fashioned their own hero, Kerrigan Reese, bestowing upon him powers and abilities no human has held for centuries. Together these heroes travel to the mysterious Fortress Draconis to stop Chytrine from stealing more fragments of the DragonCrown—a powerful artifact that, once in her control, will guarantee her dominion forever.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z_Ir2sVJEwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2002-10-29

0553578499

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5GvWmQKLchQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2004-06-24

0141904461

Mission Of Gravity

Hal Clement

Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where gravity can be a crushing 700 times greater than Earth's, a world too hostile for human explorers. But the planet holds secrets of inestimable value, and an unmanned probe that has crashed close to one of its poles must be recovered. Only the Mesklinites, the small creatures so bizarrely adapted to their harsh environment, can help. And so Barlennan, the resourceful and courageous captain of the Mesklinite ship Bree, sets out on an heroic and appalling journey into the terrible unknown. For him and his people, the prize to be gained is as great as that for mankind... Hal Clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY is universally regarded as one of the most important and best loved novels in the genre. The remarkable and sympathetic depiction of an alien species and the plausible and scientifically based realisation of the strange world they inhabit make it a major landmark in the history of hard SF.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z3_CBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-12-11

0575110198

Healer

Pranay Gupte

At the age of fifty, when most people start planning for retirement, Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy decided that he was going to revolutionize healthcare in India. In 1983, the renowned cardiologist launched the country’s first professionally run private sector hospital system. Thirty years later, Apollo Hospitals has become one of the world’s largest providers of high-technology healthcare. In the areas of heart, liver and bone marrow transplants, as also in knee and hip replacement surgery and robotic surgery, Apollo is an industry pioneer and a world leader. More than 32 million men and women have been treated at Apollo’s fifty hospitals, which are staffed by over 70,000 professionals. How did Prathap Chandra Reddy, who grew up in the small village of Aragonda in Andhra Pradesh, actualize his dream? How did he overcome the seemingly insurmountable odds and transform the sustainable development space? How did he become one of India’s enduring icons? Full of delightful anecdotes and dramatic twists and turns, The Healer tells Dr Reddy’s inspirational story like it has never been told before.

Medical

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MxFMAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-12-15

9351185664

Dykstra's War

Jeffery D. Kooistra

After aliens came at the end of the 21st century James Dykstra, the Einstein of his time is called upon to save humanity.

Life on other planets

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4fWXPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2000

0671319582

A World of Difference

Harry Turtledove

When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva is destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth are stunned. And so a joint investigation - by the USA and Russia - is launched, the first long-distance manned space mission and a symbol of the new peace between old rivals. Humankind's first close encounter with extraterrestrials will be history in the making, and the two teams are schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepares them for alien war - especially when the Americans and the Russinas find themselves on opposite sides. The bestselling author of the Worldwar and Colonisation sequences has once again set up an epic story of conflict in an alternate world of 'what if?' and 'what could be'. 'The wizard of If.' Chicago Sun-Times 'The standard-bearer for alternate history.' USA Today

Fiction

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2013-05-23

1444780867

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

A Voyage to Arcturus combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. Described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the "greatest novel of the twentieth century", it was a central influence on C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, and through him on J. R. R. Tolkien, who said he read the book "with avidity". An interstellar voyage is the framework for a narrative of a journey through fantastic landscapes. The story is set at Tormance, an imaginary planet orbiting Arcturus, which, in the novel (but not in reality) is a double star system, consisting of stars Branchspell and Alppain. The lands through which the characters travel represent philosophical systems or states of mind, through which the main character, Maskull, passes on his search for the meaning of life. David Lindsay was an author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus. The secret of Lindsay's originality as a novelist lies in his metaphysical assumptions.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lkaVEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-11-13

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Off Armageddon Reef

David Weber

Here is the saga of humanity reduced, by an implacable alien enemy, to inhabiting a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. To avoid drawing the attention of the enemy through the busy signals of an industrial civilization, the human rulers of Safehold have taken an extraordinary measure. With mind control and hidden high technology, they have built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, one designed to keep Safehold society medieval and unnoticed forever. After disagreement about the wisdom and justice of this course, the dissenters were ruthlessly eliminated. Centuries have passed and now, in a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android initiates a rebirth set in motion centuries before. A rebirth that will provide the only remaining humans with their last chance to learn the truth and to rejoin the universe. It is destined to be a tremendous undertaking, unfolding a story of deception and ignorance, freedom and tyranny, and the liberating power of the truth. 'Nobody does space opera better than Weber' Publishers Weekly

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WglnBaqz0g4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-05-06

0330516140

Raven's Gate

Anthony Horowitz

Matt has always know he has unusual powers. Raised in foster care, he is sent to Yorkshire on a rehabilitation programme, only to find himself in the midst of sinister goings-on centring on a battle between eight guardians and a group of devil worshippers seeking to release evil ones who must be stopped.

Fantasy fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jk2MMgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2013

1406338885

The Magic Thief

Sarah Prineas

Discover the fantasy and wonder of The Magic Thief, the first book in Sarah Prineas’s acclaimed middle grade fantasy series! Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl's Moving Castle, said: "I couldn't put it down. Wonderful, exciting stuff." In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not. Nevery finds that interesting, and he takes Conn as his apprentice on the provision that the boy find a locus stone of his own. But Conn has little time to search for his stone between wizard lessons and helping Nevery discover who—or what—is stealing the city of Wellmet's magic.

Juvenile Fiction

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2009-04-21

0061852309

Tech Jacket #4

Joe Keatinge

Just what is the Colossal doing to Zack Thompson? The evolution of the Tech Jacket starts here!

Comics & Graphic Novels

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2014-10-01

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The Tower On The Rift

Ian Irvine

War rages across Santhenar as the quest for the Mirror of Aachan continues. In desperation, Tensor, leader of the Aachims, flees with the Mirror into the wilderness, taking the chronicler Llian with him. Only Karan can locate them, but it will be a perilous journey. Tensor wants her dead, other powers are hunting her down, and Rulke the Charon broods over them all from his Nightland prison ... 'The complex cultures, detailed geography, and the palpable weight of history provide a solid background to an intense story ... this stands out as a worldbuilding labour of love with some truly original touches' LOCUS Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Fiction

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2012-01-05

1405513845

The Owl Service

Alan Garner

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker The much-loved classic, finally in ebook. Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-qyfenvqSMcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-08-15

0007539053

Spaceling

Doris Piserchia

The ability to see other-dimensional rings that float in Earth's atmosphere was a late mutation of a few space-age humans. Daryl was under the care of the institution for muters, and she had discovered that if you jumped through the right ring at the right time it would land you in another dimensional world and another shape. Spaceling is the story of Daryl's desperate efforts to unravel the mystery of why she was being held captive and of what was really going on in a certain alien dimension. Because she was sure it was all bad and that someday everyone would thank her for the revelation. But instead everyone was engaged in a wild effort to hold her down, to keep her on this Earth, and to keep the world simply intact!

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=INFWVx5VwpIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-12-21

0575133600

Monstrous Regiment

Terry Pratchett

'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!' In the small yet aggressive country of Borogravia, there are strict rules citizens must follow. For a start, women belong in the kitchen - not in jobs, pubs, or indeed trousers. And certainly not on the front line. Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Going to war however, is not. Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of a losing battle. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. It's time to make a stand. 'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' The Times The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Monstrous Regiment is a standalone.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0XDFdQwoHegC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2008-09-04

1407035363

Changing Fate

Elisabeth Waters

From a long-time contributor to the Darkover anthologies comes a magical debut novel. Lady Acila remains in the secluded safety of her home, for she harbors a dark secret. Acila is a shapechanger--a being feared and despised by the people of her world. But tragedy forces her to flee with her twin brother, thus beginning a fateful journey of enlightenment.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=36rnKcuAjrcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1994

0886776082

Deucalion

Brian Caswell

Across light years of space, millions of settlers have come to the planet Deucalion to escape their past and build a future. Deucalion is a source of great wealth, and offers a chance of a new beginning. But what does this mean for the Elokoi, who lived there first, or for the children of Icarus, who made the journey for another reason? And why are people mysteriously dying? Author Brian Caswell merges fact and fantasy in this excursion into future-history. Deucalion is the first novel in the Deucalion Sequence trilogy.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HBwoFO0mgZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-06-01

0702248576

The Stranger

Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7qylv1KYf0kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2012-08-08

0307827666

The Disappearance

J. F. Freedman

A young girl's disappearance leads defense attorney Luke Garrison to suspect something far more disturbing than an open-and-shut case of abduction and murder--a crime so shocking it will tear one family apart . . . and divide one town against itself.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zdC0F0DbeT0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1999

0451197429

Blind Justice

Donald Rilla

Blind Justice follows the efforts of several White Cane individuals who band together to identify an individual who targets blind people because he believes they cannot identify him due to their blindness. Resourceful blind individuals bring him to justice, with an unexpected result. Other books published by Donald Rilla are as follows: In the Mind of a Serial Killer The Three Italian Foster Kids Forensic Social Work: Short Stories Renee: The Runaway Foster Child Cold Case Abduction Redemption Presidential Conspiracy The Letters This Side of the Grass

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XUWlCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-01-13

1514438550

Freedom's Choice

Anne McCaffrey

Abducted by the alien Catteni, Kristin Bjornsen was one of many humans brought to the planet Botany as part of an experiment to see if it could support life. Enslaved and forced to colonize a world not their own, the settlers have accepted Botany as their home—a home worth fighting for… Kristin’s people have learned that the aliens responsible for their imprisonment are merely mercenaries, subjugated by the parasitic Eosi Race, and that Botany is being farmed remotely by some unknown species—a species that may be sympathetic to the colonists’ struggle for freedom. The “Farmers” refuse to join the humans in their rebellion against the Catteni, but they agree to use their technological skills to shield Botany and hide it from its enemies—buying Kristin and the settlers time to build up their forces and liberate their world…

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sFfcjz0I38IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-06-25

0698143825

Dragon's Egg

Robert L. Forward

“In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers. Praise for Dragon’s Egg “Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov “Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven “This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert “Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson “Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kvEZmHX8cfwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-02-16

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Devils Tower

Tamara L. Britton

Explores the history of Devils Tower, America's first National Monument.

Juvenile Nonfiction

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2010-09-01

1617850322

A World Without Heroes

Brandon Mull

Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sR0cu55wGV8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-02-14

1416997938

Girl in Landscape

Jonathan Lethem

Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita. Lethem's heroine is 14-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and passive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a4kQBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-10-09

0571317871

Elantris

Brandon Sanderson

Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.

Blessing and cursing

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UCJMRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2011

0575097442

Phylum Monsters

Hayford Peirce

The world and Mars are states of mind. The Martian Overmind will help readers devolve, as they discover that they are all Phylum Monsters, after all.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qw_0jzrhipUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2001-08-01

1587155559