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Library of America volume 193
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Library of America
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English
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The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion," when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.
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English
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Carter returns to Barsoom after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
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Library of America volume 173
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam Inc
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English
Description
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary...
5) Ender's game
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English
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Six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin and his siblings at Battle School are being tested and trained to determine whether they possess the abilities to remake the world-- if the world survives an all-out war with an alien enemy.
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Castle Humble Publications
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English
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On the outer colony world of Adarra, fourteen-year-old Anders discovers he's a budding mechanical genius. Unfortunately, he's dying of Bevalins Syndrome, a horrible affliction of the lungs. Eisa, one of his classmates, recruits him to help her uncle Haskel--a man desperate to repair his starship, the Coriolis Rose. Time is a luxury none of them can afford because the hated Confederates have a super-weapon operating near Adarra. Problem is, Haskel...
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English
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IT'S A TIME FOR BOLD ACTION ; As the daughter of the President of the Free City/State of Jerusalem, Charity is in the perfect position to hear about the woes of the world. Unfortunately, that same position keeps her hands tied. At least it does for her public persona. Unable to stand by, she travels to the great and terrible megacity of Barrington. Just before she makes her move to expose a vile arms trader, her father retires - and in doing so, he...
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Barque cats volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The barque cats, mistaken for a public health hazard, flee Earth for the feline-dominated planet, Mau, with the help of Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with his own spaceship. Oddly, no one--including the humans--is bothered that he plans to take over the universe on behalf of felinekind.
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Del Rey
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Celebrate the legacy of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed authors. On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of The Empire Strikes Back. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers recreate an iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back through the eyes of its supporting characters, from heroes and villains to droids...
13) Fuzzy nation
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English
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Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
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Tor
Edition
1st Edition
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English
Description
With technology that allows him to travel across alternate worlds, John builds a transdimensional commercial empire with his closest friends and their doppelgngers from several different parallel universes. But not every version of every person is the same.
15) I, Robot
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English
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
16) Caliban's war
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Expanse volume 2
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English
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We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
19) Cress
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Lunar chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.
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