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The Third Book of Swords | Fred Saberhagen | The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy. More stories of the twelve Swords continue with The Lost Swords series. The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the death to acquire and retain the Swords. With the Swords, new ideas and new dreams have entered the world. A change is taking place that threats the gods' very existence. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dgHQDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-02-13 | 0979625742 |
Truth and Steel | Thomas M. Reid | Khaniel Devlin, weapons master and mercenary, encounters a troupe of Paladins seeking the hidden refuge of a long-lost member of their order. Led by a devout and charismatic woman named Zethamy Demarro, the group is attacked by a horde of giant cyclopes and Khaniel accidentally cuts Zethamy down during the ferocious battle. Khaniel and his dwarven friend Bruigan are hauled back home to Freeport in irons where they are ultimately sold into slavery in the ogre city of Oggok.In captivity Khaniel discovers that Zethamy did not perish that fateful day in the mountains, but lost her sight and is now also a slave among the ogres. Khaniel, Bruigan and their new shaman friend, Bhaobuk mount a rescue mission and soon are running for their lives in the wilds, with the blind but determined Zethamy in tow. Still intent upon finding the elusive hermit who is in possession of invaluable religious treasures, she persuades Khaniel to help her track down the recluse's lair. But danger awaits the small band as they soon discover that powerful foes are on the same quest... | Computer games | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gpz7mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2006 | 159315223X |
Fighter Combat | Robert L. Shaw | This book provides a detailed discussion of one-on-one dog-fights and multi-fighter team work tactics. Full discussions of fighter aircraft and weapons systems performance are provided along with an explanation of radar intercept tactics and an analysis of the elements involved in the performance of fighter missions. | Air warfare | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hKHlwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1985 | 0870210599 |
The Fridgularity | Mark A. Rayner | Chill out. It's only the technological singularity. Blake Given's web-enabled fridge has pulled the plug on the Internet, turning its owner's life - and the whole world - upside down. Blake has modest ambitions for his life. He wants to have his job reclassified, so he can join the Creative Department of the advertising firm where he works. And he wants to go out with Daphne, one of the account execs at the same company. His fridge has other plans. All Blake knows is he's at the center of the Internet's disappearance, worldwide economic and religious chaos, and the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse - none of which is helping him with his career plans or love life. The Fridgularity is the story of a reluctant prophet, Internet addicts in withdrawal and a kitchen appliance with delusions of grandeur. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1TC_NAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2012-11-01 | 1927590000 |
The Atlantic Abomination | John Brunner | AWAKEN, TERROR! When the first expedition descended to the bottom of the Atlantic in a perfected high-pressure diving bell, their speculation ran wild as to the wonders they would encounter in that unknown sea-bottom world. But their wildest dreams did not prepare them for uncovering first, the stones of an ancient civilization, and second, the monstrous body of an inhuman creature that had been sealed beneath the waters for countless eons. Then, at the height of their excitement, elation turned to horror. For they had brought back an abomination so old that the memory of it had been lost to man's remotest ancestors. Shops were disappearing, men and women were becoming enslaved by invisible whips of mental mastery, and it began to look as if it might be beyond the powers even of modern science to stop something that had so successfully defied time and space. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iASKLK7ORBEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-08-06 | 0575101172 |
Forever Free | Joe Haldeman | “A well-written and worthy sequel to one of SF’s enduring classics”—the Nebula Award winner The Forever War—now with a bonus story, “A Separate War” (Publishers Weekly). On virtually every list of the greatest military science fiction adventures ever written, Joe Haldeman’s Hugo and Nebula Award–winning classic, The Forever War, is ranked at the very top. In Forever Free, the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and author of the acclaimed Worlds series returns to that same volatile universe where human space marines once engaged the alien Taurans in never-ending battle. While loyal soldier William Mandella was fighting for the survival of the human race in a distant galaxy, thousands of years were passing on his home planet, Earth. Then, with the end of the hostilities came the shocking realization that humanity had evolved into something he did not recognize. Offered the choice of retaining his individuality or becoming part of the genetically modified shared Human hive-mind, Mandella chose exile, joining other veterans of the Forever War seeking a new life on a wasteland world they called Middle Finger. Making a home for themselves in this half-frozen hell, Mandella and his life partner, Marygay, have survived into middle age, raising a son and a daughter in the process. Now, the dark truth about the colonists’ ultimate role in the continuation of the Human group mind will force Mandella and Marygay to take desperate action as they hijack an interstellar vessel and set off on a frantic escape across space and time. But what awaits them upon their return is a mystery far beyond all human—or Human—comprehension . . . In Forever Free, Joe Haldeman’s stunning vision of humankind’s far future reaches its enthralling conclusion in a masterwork of speculation from the mind and heart of one of the undisputed champions of hard science fiction. And in the bonus story included in this volume, “A Separate War,” Marygay, reassigned and separated from her lover, Mandella, continues fighting in military engagements across the stars—all the while planning how she and Mandella can reunite despite the time and space between them. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0RS4DAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2016-09-27 | 1504039572 |
Beyond This Horizon | Robert A. Heinlein | Hamilton Felix is the ultimate man, the end product of highly refined applied genetics in a world that has long since banished disease, hunger, and war. But no one counts on what happens when this superman is recruited by a cabal of dissident revolutionaries for their Glorious Revolution. They find out it is definitely "not" a good idea. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yl2vAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2002-09 | 99070157380161 |
Fearless | Mandy Gonzalez | While rehearsing what may be the last show in the Ethel Merman Theater, twelve-year-old Monica Garcia and other cast members are locked in and must try to appease a ghost and reverse a curse. | JUVENILE FICTION | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rEoiEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2021-04-06 | 1534468951 |
Eye of the Storm | Darren G. Burton | Michael and Wade are amateur storm chasers. When Hurricane Roman, a Category 5 storm, bears down on a city on the east coast, they find a great vantage point from which to film the severe tropical storm in an abandoned apartment building right on the beach. As the storm escalates and batters the city, their fear is matched only by their growing excitement at experiencing the brutal forces of nature first-hand. | Nature | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZZy8EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2023-05-02 | 26245822870594 |
The Magicians | Lev Grossman | Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD will be on sale July 2024 The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this.” —George R.R. Martin “Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” —Joe Hill “A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.” —John Green “The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.” —Cory Doctorow “This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” —The New Yorker “The best urban fantasy in years.” —A.V. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . . The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8-0KDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2010-05-25 | 0452296293 |
Wolfling | Gordon R Dickson | A hundred years in our future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centauri only to discover a vast human empire, long-established and sternly ruled by the aristocratic High-born. In a stroke Earth becomes merely another primitive outpost, its people dubbed "wolflings" by the rulers of the Throne World. Painstakingly chosen and meticulously trained, Jim Keil was sent merely to observe conditions on the Throne World. The High-born would consider him no more than a diversion until Keil cast away his orders from Earth and proved a Wolfling indeed. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=En6J-h9gTWQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575112409 |
Qualityland | Marc-Uwe Kling | In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you? Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself. Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g_SXDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-01-07 | 1538732971 |
Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3YU4AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2009-04-13 | 0316073857 |
The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth | It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ak8gAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1969 | 15667489138570 |
Beneath the Vaulted Hills | Sean Russell | The last of the world's great mages, Lord Eldrich has dedicated his life to eradicating all remaining vestiges of magic in the world. But the fanatical Tellerites, followers of a long-dead mage-apprentice, oppose Eldrich, desiring the hidden knowledge of the magical arts and with it the coveted key to immortality. Drawn into this conflict against his will is Erasmus Flattery, who as a boy dwelt with Eldrich. Now Erasmus must lead an expedition into the very bowels of the earth to search for a secret that has remained hidden since the time of the first mages! | Fantasy fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-7MKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1998 | 0886777941 |
Small Town Witch | Kristen S. Walker | From author Kristen S. Walker comes a young adult urban fantasy about family and coming of age. She wanted her freedom. Her mother wanted to keep her safe. But if her mother is the more powerful witch, how can Rosa ever break free? Teen witch Rosa thought she had a happy family. But after her mother convinces her that sixteen is too young to start dating, she’s not so sure. Why does Mom win every argument when Rosa fights for her independence? Why do her father and sister listen to Mom’s opinions on everything? Maybe they give up too easily, or there’s something more sinister at work. As she investigates her own house, Rosa finds hidden spells everywhere, each one with creepy powers. Her mother sees nothing wrong with invading their privacy, from tracking their movements to reading private diaries. That’s dangerous when Rosa has a secret she’s afraid to tell—she’s bisexual. But when Rosa tries to confront her mother, her own mind betrays her. To break the spells, Rosa will need help from her friends, both magical and human, along with her strange Fae mentor. But if she learns the truth, will her mother’s dark secrets tear her family apart? Small Town Witch is the first book in an urban fantasy series for teens. If you like teen witches, sarcastic Fae, and family drama, then you’ll enjoy Kristen S. Walker’s stories of fantasy that takes flight. Rated PG for mild violence. Contains no sex or swearing. LGBTQ characters. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ht2PBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-05-01 | 89625957388996 |
Heads | Jesse Jarnow | Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging graffiti writers of Central Park, the Dead-loving AI scientists of Stanford, utopian Whole Earth homesteaders, black market chemists, government-wanted Anonymous hackers, rogue explorers, East Village bluegrass pickers, spiritual seekers, Internet pioneers, entrepreneurs, pranksters, pioneering DJs, and a nation of Deadheads. WFMU DJ and veteran music writer Jesse Jarnow draws on extensive new firsthand accounts from many never-before-interviewed subjects and a wealth of deep archival research to create a comic-book-colored and panoramic American landscape, taking readers for a guided tour of the hippie highway filled with lit-up explorers, peak trips, big busts, and scenic vistas, from Vermont to the Pacific Northwest, from the old world head capitals of San Francisco and New York to the geodesic dome-dotted valleys of Colorado and New Mexico. And with the psychedelic research moving into the mainstream for the first time in decades, Heads also recounts the story of the quiet entheogenic revolution that for years has been brewing resiliently in the Dead's Technicolor shadow. Featuring over four dozen images, many never before seen-including pop artist Keith Haring's first publicly sold work-Heads weaves one of the 20th and 21st centuries' most misunderstood subcultures into the fabric of the nation's history. Written for anyone who wondered what happened to the heads after the Acid Tests, through the '70s, during the Drug War, and on to the psychedelic present, Heads collects the essential history of how LSD, Deadheads, tie-dye, and the occasional bad trip have become familiar features of the American experience. | History | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0tMVBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2016-03-29 | 0306822563 |
The Man In The Maze | Robert Silverberg | During his heroic first encounter with an alien race, Dick Muller was permanently altered, hideously transformed in a way that left him repulsive to the entire human race. Alone and embittered, he exiled himself to Lemnos, an abandoned planet famed for its labyrinthine horrors, both real and imagined. But now, Earth trembles on the brink of extinction, threatened by another alien species, and only Muller can rescue the planet. Men must enter the murderous maze of Lemnos, find Muller, and convince him to return with them. But will the homeless alien, alone in the universe, risk his life to save his race, the race that has utterly rejected him? (First published 1968) | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WswLrl1nAegC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575106115 |
Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | The legendary space opera that kicked off the ground-breaking, universe-spanning series. Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylveste, it's more than merelty intellectual curiosity - and he will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than even Syveste imagines ... REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges across the known and unknown universe ... towards the most terrifying of destinations. Readers are hooked on Revelation Space: 'An amazing blend of space opera, hard SF, and gothic horror that reads like a cross between Frank Herbert's "Dune" and Ridley Scott's film "Alien"' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Marvellous hard space opera. Slowly built, with three story lines which at some point merge together, it depicts a very dark universe, full of technological wonders, both human and alien' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Revelation Space series is one of the favouritest favourites . . . Reynolds held me in thrall with his vision' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'The setting is a gritty, desolate, and unforgiving universe in which humanity finds itself in imminent danger of extinction . . . I highly recommend it to all adult fans of space opera, cyberpunk, and horror genres' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A darn good, solid, well executed work of hard sci-fi . . . I really appreciate that Revelation Space ends in a satisfying and self-contained way' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Awesome characters, awesome setting, awesome ideas, awesome awesome awesome . . .' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sQFhTYF6pDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-12-10 | 0575087749 |
The Scar | China Miéville | Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . . A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . . A hidden miracle about be revealed . . . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_UUOQ1OpP4UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2008-08-28 | 0330466992 |
Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=08b2Nzn-mRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2004-05-11 | 0060567236 |
The Cosmic Puppets | Philip K. Dick | A man’s hometown is drastically changed—and no one knows what he’s talking about—in this science fiction novel from the author of The Zap Gun. Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for a vacation, but when he gets there, he is shocked to discover that the town has utterly changed. The stores and houses are all different and he doesn’t recognize anybody. The mystery deepens when he checks the town’s historical records…and reads that he died nearly twenty years earlier. As he attempts to uncover the secrets of the town, Barton is drawn deeper into the puzzle, and into a supernatural battle that could decide the fate of the universe. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLDqDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-07-17 | 0547724888 |
A Knight in Shining Armor | Jude Deveraux | From a "New York Times"-bestselling author and today's most admired storyteller, here is an unforgettable tale of a most miraculous love affair: a meeting of passion, wit, and true romance between a thoroughly modern woman--and a man who lived 400 years before. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6r3Juef1M8UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-03-27 | 1451665636 |
The Eclipse of the Century | Jan Mark | Keith has a near death experience and finds himself at the end of a long tunnel. He thinks at first he must be in heaven, but he is greeted by strangers who tell him he is in Qantoum and they will meet him there again "under a black sun at the end of a thousand years". While recuperating, he discovers that Qantoum is a town that nobody has ever heard of, right in the emptiest heart of Asia. As anybody might who finds he has dreamed of a real place, he travels there. Join Keith as he journeys along the railway track to that intriguing town, Qantoum. The rest, as they say, is the future... | Near-death experiences | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LAFXAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2000 | 0439014824 |
The Walls of the Universe | Paul Melko | John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home—the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it. Meanwhile, his doppelgänger tries to exploit the commercial technology he's stolen from other Earths: the Rubik's Cube! John's attempts to lie low in his new universe backfire when he inadvertently introduces pinball. It becomes a huge success. Both actions draw the notice of other, more dangerous travelers, who are exploiting worlds for ominous purposes. Fast-paced and exciting, this is SF adventure at its best from a rising star. 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=ILJWMP1EQB8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-02-03 | 1429968265 |
The Codex | Douglas Preston | Greetings from the dead,' declares Maxwell Broadbent in the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems and artefacts before vanishing - along with his entire collection - from his mansion in New Mexico. As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father's carefully concealed tomb. The race is on, but among the treasures is an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a secret far more important than the wealth of riches around it, and the brothers aren't the only ones in pursuit. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BiM-B8CKsZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-02-23 | 0330467034 |
The Wind Singer | William Nicholson | The first book in William Nicholson's award-winning fantasy adventure series, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Mortal Engines and Star Wars.In the walled city state of Aramanth, rules are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. Desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer, and she and her twin brother, Bowman, set out on a terrifying journey to the true source of evil that grips Aramanth... | Children's stories | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mhcRvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2017-04-06 | 1405285311 |
Dark Angel | Sally Beauman | Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sXjQAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-12-05 | 0751555541 |
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard | The start of a fantastic new series. Johannes Cabal has never pretended to be a hero of any kind. There is, after all, little heroic about robbing graves, stealing occult volumes, and being on nodding terms with demons. His purpose, however, is noble. His researches are all directed to raising the dead. Not as monstrosities but as people, just as they were when they lived: physically, mentally, and spiritually. For such a prize, some sacrifices are necessary. One such sacrifice was his own soul, but he now sees that was a mistake – it’s not just that he needs it for his research to have validity, but now he realises he needs it to be himself. Unfortunately, his soul now rests within the festering bureaucracy of Hell. Satan may be cruel and capricious but, most dangerously, he is bored. It is Cabal’s unhappy lot to provide him with amusement. In short, a wager: in return for his own soul, Cabal must gather one hundred others. Placed in control of a diabolical carnival – created to tempt to contentiousness, to blasphemy, argumentation and murder, but one may also win coconuts – and armed only with his intelligence, a very large handgun, and a total absence of whimsy, Cabal has one year. One year to beat the Devil at his own game. And isn’t that perhaps just a little heroic? | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L4sj_GK_Ll0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-02-04 | 0755376587 |
The Gray Prince | Jack Vance | When Schaine Madduc returned to Koryphon after five years in space, her home planet was not as she left it. The several intelligent species that had lived so long in a sort of symbiotic harmony were at each other's throats. The humanoid Uldra were united in rebellion against the human land-holding community of which Schaine was part. The Uldra revolutionary leader and catalyst--the Gray Prince Jorjol--was actually an Uldra fostered in Schaine's own home, and upon whom Schaine had exerted a profound influence. An influence far more profound than Schaine would have thought possible. An influence possibly powerful enough to smash her home, her family, and her entire way of life! | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EK8LkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2003-12-01 | 1596872403 |
The Magician King | Lev Grossman | Deep in the forest of the magical land of Fillory a disturbing secret is discovered, one that could change the course of history and ruin many lives. As acting king, Quentin Coldwater embarks upon an epic mission, visiting the terrifying depths of the underworld, to uncover the key to saving his world. | College graduates | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=guBDHeAsIt4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2012-06 | 0099576724 |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel. Borrowing from The Tempest , Huxley imagines a genetically-engineered future where life is pain-free but meaningless. The book heavily influenced George Orwell’s 1984 and science-fiction in general. The novel examines a futuristic society, called the World State, that revolves around science and efficiency. In this society, emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children at a young age, and there are no lasting relationships because “every one belongs to every one else” (a common World State dictum). Huxley begins the novel by thoroughly explaining the scientific and compartmentalized nature of this society, beginning at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, where children are created outside the womb and cloned in order to increase the population. The reader is then introduced to the class system of this world, where citizens are sorted as embryos to be of a certain class. The embryos, which exist within tubes and incubators, are provided with differing amounts of chemicals and hormones in order to condition them into predetermined classes. Embryos destined for the higher classes get chemicals to perfect them both physically and mentally, whereas those of the lower classes are altered to be imperfect in those respects. These classes, in order from highest to lowest, are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. The Alphas are bred to be leaders, and the Epsilons are bred to be menial labourers. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZiLvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-07-03 | 15907999813319 |
Schild’s Ladder | Greg Egan | For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the Sarumpaet Rules: the laws governing the dynamics of the quantum graphs that underlie all the constituents of matter and the geometric structure of spacetime. Now Cass has stumbled on a set of quantum graphs that might comprise the fundamental particles of an entirely different kind of physics, and she has travelled three hundred and seventy light years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, in the hope of bringing this tantalising alternative to life. The “novo-vacuum” is predicted to begin decaying the instant it’s created, but even a short-lived, microscopic speck could shed light on the origins of the universe, and test the Sarumpaet Rules more rigorously than ever before. Cass’s experiment turns out to be more successful than anticipated: the novo-vacuum is more stable than the ordinary vacuum around it, and a region in which the new physics holds sway proceeds to expand out from Mimosa at half the speed of light. Six hundred years later, more than two thousand inhabited systems have been lost to the novo-vacuum. On the Rindler, a ship that has matched velocities with the encroaching border, people have come from throughout inhabited space to study the phenomenon. Most are Preservationists, hunting for a way to turn back the tide, but a few belong to another faction: Yielders, who believe that the challenge of adapting to survive on the far side of the border would reinvigorate a civilisation that has grown stale and insular. Tchicaya has come to the Rindler to join the Yielders, but when Mariama — a childhood friend whose example inspired him to abandon his own home world and traditions for a life of travel — arrives soon after, he is shocked to discover that she plans to help the Preservationists find a way to destroy the novo-vacuum. As a theoretical breakthrough leads to a sequence of experiments that begins to reveal the true richness of the world behind the border, tensions between the opposing factions grow. When a splinter group responds to these revelations with violent, unilateral action, Tchicaya and Mariama are forced into an uneasy alliance, and travel together through the border, balancing old and new loyalties against the fate of two incomparably different universes. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W8tFEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2002-02-21 | 1922240060 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Walter Tevis | The “beautiful” novel that inspired the Showtime series, from a Nebula Award finalist (The New York Times). The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet, Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts patenting Anthean technology—amassing the fortune he needs to build a spaceship that will bring the last three hundred Anthean survivors to Earth. But instead of the help he seeks, he finds only self-destruction, sinking into alcoholism and abandoning his spaceship, in this poignant story about the human condition—which has inspired both a film starring David Bowie and the new series starring Chiwetel Ejiofor—by the acclaimed author of Mockingbird. “Beautiful science fiction . . . The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one.” —The New York Times “An utterly realistic novel about an alien human on Earth . . . Realistic enough to become a metaphor for something inside us all, some existential loneliness.” —Norman Spinrad, author of The Iron Dream “Those who know The Man Who Fell to Earth only from the film version are missing something. This is one of the finest science fiction novels of its period.” —J. R. Dunn, author of This Side of Judgment | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m2hsDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-09-29 | 0795343027 |
Radix | A.A. Attanasio | In a vastly changed world, thirteen centuries from now, Sumner Kagan searches the earth to find the godmind, a malicious being with reality-shaping powers. In this strange and beautiful world - eerily alien, yet hauntingly familiar - Kagan will change from an adolescent outcast to a warrior with god-like abilities and, in the process, take us on an epic and transcendent journey. Author's Note: The volumes of this series can each be read independently of the others. The feature that unifies them is their individual observations of science fiction's sub-genre: "space opera," which the editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes." | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KvnYAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-02-27 | 1473207983 |
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | LessWrong aka Eliezer Yudkowsky | Petunia Evans married a biochemist, and Harry Potter grew up in a house filled to the brim with books, reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, introducing strange new opportunities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Draco Malfoy, and Professor Quirrell. HP:MoR is now complete at 122 chapters and 2000 pages. Authors notes, fan art, alternative formats, and other information may be found at http://www.hpmor.com/ . This mirror contains both the the flowing text directly from https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108, and the book style PDF from the tex code at https://github.com/rjl20/hpmor If you have suggestions, or wish to report a problem regarding this version of HP:MoR, contact me at [email protected] and I will try to fix it. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vrPQAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-02-28 | 94654626200918 |
From the Legend of Biel | Mary-John Staton | Originally published in 1976, "From the Legend of Biel, "a haunting story of suspended animation space travel and an encounter with an alien worlds procreation technology, has become a cult classic. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EnLsGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2007-09 | 1604020911 |
The Man who was Magic | Paul Gallico | A stranger comes to the city of Mageia and challenges its inhabitants with a new kind of magic - a magic that restores innocence and faith. | American fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XpdBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1966 | 94744174030273 |
The Vandal | Anne Schraff | Michelle is faced with the potentially dangerous attentions of an unbalanced loner. Available in Spanish as El vandalo. | Mental illness | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kDc2PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2008-01-01 | 0789175487 |
Gregor the Overlander | Suzanne Collins | When eleven-year-old Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats and giant cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. Gregor has a vital role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pJRIBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-03-06 | 1407130625 |
The Ashes of Eden | William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens | Just as Kirk faces the prospect of retirement, he goes on an adventure which offers the chance of recapturing his youth. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qy11kxQWSJIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1996 | 0671520369 |
The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pene du Bois | A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qgQwEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1986-05-06 | 0140320970 |
The Voice in the Night | William Hope Hodgson | The Voice in the Night, a short story by William Hope Hodgson, has been adapted by the cinema a number of times, most prominently in the 1963 Japanese film “Matango”. It also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's paperback anthology “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV”. William Hope Hodgson (1877 – 1918) was an English author that produced essays and novels, that mixes horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to his short stories, many of which are set on the ocean. Hodgson’s single most famous story is probably The Voice in the Night”, where a fisherman’s aboard a ship in the North Pacific, on night watch in a fog-bank, hears a voice call out from the sea. The voice asks for food, but it insists it can come no closer, that it fears the light, and that God is merciful. In payment for the food it tells a frightening tale… The Voice in the Night integrates the collection “Classics of World Literature”, developed by Atlântico Press, a publisher company present in the global editorial market, since 1992. | Literary Collections | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GPCZBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-02-10 | 9898721065 |
The Fall of Chronopolis | Barrington J. Bayley | The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him. To be allowed to die. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0EhJAgtFzJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575102063 |
Dark Matter | Debasish Majumdar | Dark Matter: An Introduction tackles the rather recent but fast-growing subject of astroparticle physics, encompassing three main areas of fundamental physics: cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics. Accordingly, the book discusses symmetries, conservation laws, relativity, and cosmological parameters and measurements, as well as the astrophysical behaviors of galaxies and galaxy clusters that indicate the presence of dark matter and the possible nature of dark matter distribution. This succinct yet comprehensive volume: Addresses all aspects essential to the study of dark matter Explores particle candidates for cold dark matter beyond the theory of the standard model, providing examples of basic extensions and introducing theories such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions Explains—in simple text and mathematical formulations—calculation of the freeze-out temperature of a dark matter species and its relic density Provides theoretical background for dark matter scattering off a target, event rate calculation, and dark matter annihilation essential to study direct and indirect detection of dark matter Complete with a detailed review of the latest dark matter experiments and techniques, Dark Matter: An Introduction is an ideal text for beginning researchers in the field as well as for general readers with an inquisitive mind, as the important topic of astroparticle physics is treated both pedagogically and with deeper insight. | Science | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fZdBBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-08-27 | 1466572116 |
Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling | A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine. The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. But even their visionary leader can’t predict the danger on the horizon when a volatile new member joins their ranks and faces a trial by fire: a massive tornado unlike any the world has seen before. “A remarkable and individual sharpness of vision . . . Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is.” —Locus “Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner.” —Kirkus Reviews “So believable are the speculations that . . . one becomes convinced that the world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted.” —Science Fiction Age “A very exciting coming-of-age story in a wild future America . . . What’s it got? Cyberpunk attitude, genuine humor, nanotechnology, minimal sex but some cool medications and very big weather systems.” —SFReviews.net “Brilliant . . . Fascinating . . . Exciting . . . A full complement of thrills.” —The New York Review of Science Fiction | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M4XoDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-08-11 | 1504063074 |
Starworld | Audrey Coulthurst, Paula Garner | In a novel in two voices, a popular teen and an artistic loner forge an unlikely bond — and create an entire universe — via texts. But how long before the real world invades Starworld? Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility. When an unexpected encounter results in the girls’ exchanging phone numbers, they forge a connection through text messages that expands into a private universe they call Starworld. In Starworld, they find hilarious adventures, kindness and understanding, and the magic of being seen for who they really are. But when Sam’s feelings for Zoe turn into something more, will the universe they’ve built survive the inevitable explosion? | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uDl5DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2019-04-16 | 1536206555 |
The Changeling Plague | Syne Mitchell | Science fiction roman. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wJ4rAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2003 | 97471638122456 |
City of Diamond | Jane Emerson | The newly appointed Protector of an intergalactic city-ship, Adrian Mercati is urged by his predecessor to strengthen his position by locating the Sawyer Crown, an alien artifact that will give him superiority over his enemies. Original. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MBsLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1996 | 0886777046 |
The Runaway Robot | Rachel Ruiz | Harry's latest invention--a Superhero Robot programmed to do chores--malfunctions, and the robot goes out of control, creating chaos at school. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=myMnDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2017-08-01 | 1479598550 |
Stranger Suns | George Zebrowski | The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on Earth. When Obrion discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, he ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi, and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad of portals to parallel lands, but the maze they fall into makes them wonder if their journey will ever come to an end. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MiArAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-01 | 1497611598 |
Quarantine | Brian Henry | Poetry. QUARANTINE is a book-length poem narrated by a man dying of the bubonic plague. Set outside London during the summer of 1665, the poem explores issues of sexuality and subjectivity while narrating a life within death. The narrative accumulates via accretion and contradiction, complicating the narrator's attempts to truthfully describe his life, and therefore complicating the narrative itself. QUARANTINE is the fourth book by Henry and won the 2003 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. His previous titles include AMERICAN INCIDENT and GRAFT. Henry teaches at the University of Richmond. | Poetry | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LvZlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2006 | 63514089048253 |
Lemprière's Dictionary | Lawrence Norfolk | The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie). In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. But when he discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years, he embarks on a personal mission that will pit him against enemies he never new he had, allies he never thought he would ever want, and a destiny he never imagined . . . Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this “superbly entertaining” tale encompasses multinational conspiracies and a motley cast of scholars, eccentrics, prostitutes, assassins, drunken aristocrats, and octogenarian pirates—all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology (The Washington Post). | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AfBlbLQm4-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2007-12-01 | 0802199437 |
The Supernaturalist | Eoin Colfer | Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them. Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return...the dreaded Clarissa Frayne. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qMrFKpkXgDgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2005-01-27 | 0141910089 |
The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin | A wizard enters the underground domain of Ahra, high priestess of the Powers of the Earth, in an attempt to steal her palace's greatest treasure. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v_s-HvZinqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-09-11 | 1442459905 |
This Immortal | Roger Zelazny | “Vivid and elliptical... If you've ever asked yourself what would have happened if Philip Marlowe had been Odysseus... here is a clue to the answer.” —NEW WORLDS THE HUGO AWARD-WINNING FIRST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER! Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes-especially when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself! "Roger Zelazny [was] the compleat New Wave author, so daring he could pen nothing without perturbing some creaky icon... so strong a writer, so moving in the sweep of his plots and imagery."—David Brin | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p9OCDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-06-02 | 1596870745 |
Night Walk | Sara O'Leary | A child explores her neighborhood on a late-night walk with her dad, finding delight and comfort in moments of quiet and the warm windows into other people’s lives. When a little girl can’t sleep one night, her dad asks if she’d like to go for a walk. They tiptoe through the silent house and step out into the dark. It’s strange and exciting to be out so late. Walking down the street, the girl can see inside the lit-up windows of apartment buildings and houses where people’s lives are unfolding. Kids are having a pillow fight in one house, while a family has gathered for a festive meal in another. She and her dad reach the still-busy shopping area, walking past restaurants and enticing store windows, then stop for a tranquil moment in the park before returning home. Sara O’Leary has captured a child’s nighttime wonder as she explores her neighborhood and comes to the comforting realization that she belongs. Ellie Arscott’s illustrations, luminous and rich in color, perfectly complement the story. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BXnqDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2020-09-29 | 1554987970 |
The Universe Between | Alan E Nourse | Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return - sane! For years he has tried to transport - and receive - matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel Threshold. At first his efforts met only with failure and madness. But now The Thresholders have risen in fury. Somehow Bob Benedict must make one more trip into that land of peril and pacify them before they succeed in hurling his planet - piece by piece - into the oblivion of infinity. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OirsDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-04-12 | 1440566968 |
The Trilogy of Two | Juman Malouf | A highly original and acclaimed fantasy novel with eccentric characters, striking illustrations and a propulsive plot "[A] spellbinder"The Daily Beast "A sweeping tale. . . gorgeous illustrations"PopSugar Identical twins Sonja and Charlotte, twelve-year-old musical prodigies, learned to play before they learned to talk. They were born on All-Hallows-Eve and found one night by Tatty, the Tattooed Lady, in a pail on her doorstep with only a short note and a heart-shaped locket. They have been with her ever since, roaming the Outskirts with the circus company in a convoy of caravans, moving from place to place. Lately, mysterious things have begun to happen when the girls pick up their instruments. Movements, vibrations, changes in the weather. They begin to discover that they possess extraordinary powers. During one of their performances, they unintentionally levitate the entire audience—and word gets out. Soon, a troop of Enforcers from the city comes after them, and Charlotte and Sonja must embark on a perilous journey through enchanted lands in hopes of unlocking the secrets of their mysterious past. Juman Malouf, born in Lebanon, grew up in London. She has an MFA in set and costume design and has worked on a number of films including Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The Trilogy of Two is her first novel. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zMZaDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2018-06-07 | 1782692053 |
The Reluctant Swordsman | Dave Duncan | A young man is transformed into a barbarian fighter in this adventure from “one of the leading masters of epic fantasy” (Publishers Weekly). Wallie Smith can feel the pain. He goes to the hospital and remembers the doctors and the commotion, but when he wakes up it all seems like a dream. However, if that was a dream, how do you explain waking up in another body and in another world? Little Wallie finds himself in the physique of a barbarian swordsman, accompanied by both an eccentric priest babbling about the Goddess and a voluptuous slave girl. Is this a rude awakening or a dream come true? What in the world will Wallie do now that he has found himself stranded in a strange realm? Well, it just so happens that the Goddess is in need of a swordsman. It will not be easy, but if he succeeds he will have everything he wants. If he does not, things could get ugly. Wallie is reluctant but sees his chance. If only he had the faintest clue as to the adventure he is about to unleash! If only he could imagine the forces that will be out to vanquish him! | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BBtoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-29 | 1497627052 |
Sten | Chris Bunch, Allan Cole | Vulcan was a factory planet, centuries old, Company run, ugly as sin, and unfeeling as death. Vulcan bred just two types of native - complacent or tough ... and Sten was tough. When his family died in a mysterious accident, Sten rebelled, harassing the Company from the metal world's endless mazelike warrens. Sten would have ended up just another burnt-out Delinquent if he hadn't rescued a mysterious stranger who turned out to be his ticket of Vulcan - and an express ride back! Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8Im88rEBiLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-05-06 | 074812134X |
Prison Planet | Wilson Tucker | To remain on Mars meant death from agonizing space-sickness, but Earth-surgery lay days of flight away. And there was only a surface rocket in which to escape—with a traitorous Ganymedean for its pilot. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ElvvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-07-03 | 1479451347 |
Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea | Diana Marcellas | "Mother Ocean Daughter Sea Strength Unchanging Strengthen Me" The Shari'a are an ancient race. They are un-warlike and they are ruled by their shamanic witches. The Allemanii are more recently arrived in their locale and are both awed and made fearful by the magical powers of the witches. After generations of peaceful coexistence, a cataclysm occurred out of nowhere and the Allemanii turned on their neighbors and hosts, slaughtered most of them and scattered the survivors. Suddenly, to be a Shari'a is proscribed and to be caught practicing their magic is to be hunted to the death. In MOTHER OCEAN, DAUGHTER SEA, Brierly, thinking herself to be the last of her long-lost kind, practices the forbidden ancient healing art at constant risk of her life. Execution is the penalty if she is caught but her need to help those who are themselves in need is stronger than any fear for her own safety. "If I am the last, I will be a flame to the end." But her attempt to save the wife of a nobleman sworn to wipe out her kind plunges her into a conspiracy of deceit and a hidden power struggle more deadly than anything she has ever known. Her fight for survival may lead her to a love for the ages and, perhaps, to discover the surviving remnants of her people--if she lives. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z3MkAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-01 | 1497631335 |
The Magicians of Night | Barbara Hambly | From a New York Times–Bestselling author: An apprentice wizard must fight to escape a world he doesn’t understand: 1940 Germany. When the wizard Jaldis heard the cry from beyond the Void, telling of a world where magic was dead and begging for his aid, he and his apprentice, Rhion, went to help. Crossing the Void takes all of their strength, and when Rhion awakes on the other side, he learns that the task is beyond them. Jaldis is dead, and the portal home gone with him. Now he is trapped in a place called Earth, in a nation beset from all sides by its enemies. The men who called him here need a wizard to save them, and though Rhion is but a novice, he will have to do. He may even find a way home, but only if he can find a way to serve this mysterious empire that they call the Third Reich. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0WaqZq7YJUQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-03-29 | 145321674X |
Warrior Planet | Don Wismer | The Guild of Thieves recognizes the October Guild for what they really are: an alien race from the Sculptor galaxy out to control all of human space. Nin Tova, leader of the Guild of Thieves, has sworn to stop them, but she’s helpless against their psi powers. She has a plan, though: she’ll kidnap Asher Tye, an apprentice of the October Guild, to learn his psi powers—and the October Guild’s plans. At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZxJ1EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1987-05-15 | 1625798873 |
The Whisper | Pamela Zagarenski | The two-time Caldecott Honor artist shares “a sumptuously illustrated fable about the magic of storytelling and the power of imagination” (School Library Journal, starred review). When a little girl receives a curious book filled only with pictures, a whisper urges her to supply the words she cannot see. As the pages turn, her imagination takes flight and she discovers that the greatest storyteller of all might come from within. Pamela Zagarenski’s debut as an author reminds us that we each bring something different to the same book. "Surreal, staggering mixed-media paintings make traveling across such beautifully varied and bizarre storyscapes exhilarating."—Kirkus, starred review | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dm0pCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-10-06 | 0544761286 |
Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys | Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession. The moon had finally been reached, and on it was found the most terrifying structure, that killed men over and over again, in torturous, unfathomable ways. Clearly, only a mad man or a suicidal maniac could explore its horrible secrets. All his life, Al Barker has toyed with death. So when the US lunar programme needs a volunteer to penetrate a murderous labyrinth, alien to all human comprehension, Barker's the man to do it. But what is required of Barker is that he withstand the trauma of dying, not just once, but time and time and time again ... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=04oUSQmCPKMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-03-19 | 0575108010 |
City of the Beasts | Isabel Allende | A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team—including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor—is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia's spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kE7lDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2021-01-05 | 0063062917 |
The Return | Rachel Harrison | Her best friend disappeared. A stranger came back. SEX AND THE CITY MEETS STEPHEN KING'S THE SHINING IN THIS CHILLING DEBUT Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return-except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone. She feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong-she's emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who-or what-is she? An eerie storm of a debut that fuses thriller and horror into a brilliant depiction of women's friendships - the rivalries, jealousies, anxieties and love. Praise for THE RETURN 'The Return expertly treads the fine line between thriller and horror. It's as deliciously creepy as opening up a box of candy-coated spiders-and eating them all in one sitting' Christina Dalcher, bestselling author of Vox 'Combining suspense and horror with razor-sharp insights into the nature of female friendships, Rachel Harrison's The Return is a creepy, nerve-wracking, page-turning addition to the emerging field of horror thrillers' Alma Katsu, award-winning author of The Hunger 'The Return is moving and terrifying in equal measure. A brilliant rumination on friendship, pain, and the myriad of unsuccessful ways we all try to run from our past and fill the holes in our hearts. Harrison's keen prose won't let you go. Be warned, you'll double check the locks on your doors before you try to sleep' Mallory O'Meara, author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon 'By turns scary and funny, horrifying and real, The Return is impossible to put down. It takes an honest, scathing look at female friendship while at the same time pulling the reader into a perfect nightmare of a story' Simone St. James, bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel 'The Return is supernatural horror at its very best! Sharp dialogue, complex relationships and mind-bending action will have readers locking their doors and checking under their beds. Rachel Harrison has reinvented this genre and will surely be hailed as a pioneer among her peers' Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night Before 'Hair-raising horror and pure entertainment in Harrison's compulsively readable debut . . . The tension and nuance of Harrison's complicated female friendships add depth to an already delicious, chilling debut' Publishers Weekly 'Fusing horror and thriller together, it's an unsettling tale of rivalry, envy, fear, friendship and love' Culturefly's Books of 2020 | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g3qaDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-03-24 | 1529351979 |
Vintage Season | Noble Nolcox | Jamies exploits occur over a summer with his grandparents in fictional Casper County, Illinois, the site of the novel, Lost Chords. More than a dozen episodes take Jamie through a variety of experiences including aspects of folklore, fantasy, fear, frustration, infatuation, sheer excitement, and loss of a beloved one. His life on the farm is complicated by the arrival of two girl cousins, Toodie and Jo, whom he remembers as snobbish pests. Their congeniality surprises and puzzles Jamie, who was prepared for a summer-long battle. Through his observations of community resiliency following storms and floods, Jamie learns much about the power of the human spirit and the nature of group survival. As his time winds down in late summer, Jamie ponders these recent happenings. He somehow feels older and maybe even wiser. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3JS1PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2006-10-01 | 1424157064 |
Earth First! | Martha F. Lee | In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. “The earth should come first” was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth’s full complement of species) and biocentric equality (the belief that all species are equal). Martha Lee was successful in gaining extraordinary access to information about the movement, as well as interviews with its members. While following Earth First’s development and methods, she illustrates the inherent instability and the dangers associated with all millenarian movements. This book will be of interest to environmentalists and those interested in political science and sociology. | Political Science | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hJLLqUnwSNMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1995-11-01 | 0815603657 |
Fade | Kyle Mills | New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp novels Kyle Mills rewrites the rules for thrillers with Fade -- a novel ripped from today's headlines Welcome to the new war on terror. A secret wing of Homeland Security is recruiting agents to work undercover in the Middle East, and the director wants his second-in-command, Matt Egan, to bring aboard an old friend, Salam Al Fayed—better known as Fade. He's perfect: An ex-Navy Seal and the son of immigrants, he speaks flawless Arabic. Trouble is, he's "retired"; he was wounded in the line of duty, and the government refused to pay for the risky surgery that could have helped him. Now he's walking around with a bullet lodged near his spine, and he's not too fond of anyone in the government -- least of all, his ex-best friend Matt Egan, whom he blames for his present condition. Against Egan's wishes, the director tries to "persuade" Fade to join the team. But Fade is prepared to fight back at any cost. The chase is on -- will Matt be able to find his friend-turned-fugitive before Fade can take the ultimate revenge? Fade is a remarkable, take-no-prisoners program from an unparalleled writer at the height of his talents. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tqrZta81x9gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2010-04-01 | 1429907207 |
Brain Plague | Joan Slonczewski | Brain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout the civilized universe. And each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, carriers, they are brain enhancers, and in others a fatal brain plague, a living addiction. This is the story of one woman's psychological and moral struggle to adjust to having an ambitious colony of microbes living permanently in her own head. This novel is one of the most powerful and involving SF novels of the year. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tge8HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2001-03-15 | 0812579143 |
The Infinity Concerto | Greg Bear | Music, myth, and magic mix in this tale of a melody not meant for human ears, from the New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author of Darwin’s Radio. Michael Perrin is an aspiring poet, struggling to express the chaotic cadences of his thoughts on paper. He finds a kindred spirit in Arno Waltiri, the film score composer behind several of Michael’s favorite classic movies. The maestro’s greatest piece, however, was performed in front of a live audience only once. The concerto Opus 45, Infinity left its listeners entranced, altered to the very core of their souls. Waltiri’s composition is a song of power. Never meant to be heard by human ears, its melody is as captivating as a siren’s call, its notes ring out like a death knell, and its rhythms shake the very foundations of reality. The music’s otherworldly tones have led Michael through the gate between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic—and where Michael must find his muse if he’s ever to return home. The Infinity Concerto is a fantasy masterpiece by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Forerunner Saga, Eon, and other imaginative classics. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kTQjAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-01 | 1497607744 |
A Call to Arms | Alan Dean Foster | For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the races called the Weave, the Purpose seemed poised for a great leap forward. But the Weave's surprising unity also gave it the ability to fight the Amplitur and their cause. And fight it did, for thousands of years. Will Dulac was a New Orleans composer who thought the tiny reef off Belize would be the perfect spot to drop anchor and finish his latest symphony in solitude. What he found instead was a group of alien visitors - a scouting party for the Weave - looking for allies among what they believed to be a uniquely warlike race: Humans. Will tried to convince the aliens that Man was fundamentally peaceful, for he understood that Human involvement would destroy the race. But all too soon, it didn't matter. The Amplitur had discovered Earth... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-zCJAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-05-29 | 0575131721 |
There Will Be Time | Poul Anderson | Jack Havig seemed like an ordinary man. But since he was a small child he had kept a frightening and exhilarating secret. He was a born time-traveller - a man who could cross the centuries just by willing himself to. Over the years, he had investigated the past - from Christ's Jerusalem to the America of the Indian tribes, from Athens to mediaeval Constantinople. And, seeing the future, he found meaning in life and a reason for his gift. He sensed that there were others like him. Men and women who must fight for man's future. Because that future threatened the extinction of the whole of human civilisation... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zVKLW6BluzcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575109211 |
The Demon Awakens | R. A. Salvatore | #1 New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore brings an astonishing world to life and the intrepid hero, Elbryan Wynden, leads the way as he confronts the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace. A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis, their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elryan is raised to become a formidable ranger—a fateful role that will lead him into harrowing confrontations. Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black-sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power—the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray they don’t fall into the wrong clawed hands. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cHvFEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2024-01-16 | 1668018136 |
Hominids | Robert J. Sawyer | In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on Earth. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gZ3y-kTiyR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2003-02-17 | 0765345005 |
The Dark Glory War | Michael A. Stackpole | New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole is a recognized star of military fantasy. The Dark Glory War is a thrilling new tale set in a world threatened by an unstoppable foe. . . . In the sacred season of the Moon Month, four young men don the masks that herald their coming-of-age celebration, a time of testing, ritual, festival, and romance. But for Tarrant Hawkins and his friends Leigh, Rounce, and Nay, their first test becomes a desperate struggle for survival. For they will encounter the vanguard of an invasion force poised to overrun their homeland of Oriosa, and all four will find their lives changed forever when they encounter a legendary weapon that brings its wielder invincibility. Yet the magic sword may prove more curse than blessing, signaling the arrival of a cataclysmic battle with ancient foes. And in the face of dire sorceries and terrible battles, these youths will come to manhood . . . or to death. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=smWTEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2000-02-29 | 0553578073 |
Swynmoor | Joelle Mellon | Lord Tomlin is a bachelor, but he won't be for long if his overbearing aunt has anything to say about it. She's picked out a potential mate with an "acceptable" bloodline, but Tomlin has his eye on a pretty young acolyte who recently arrived at the castle. An mercenary army is encamped outside the gates, threatening to attack at any moment. And of course there's a barrel of magic pickles... Joelle Mellon combines the deadpan hilarity of P.G. Wodehouse with the magic of Terry Pratchett in Swynmoor. | Abbeys | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uTMSogEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2014-10-14 | 0692284036 |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Coi9AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014 | 054434068X |
Eve's Rib | Bryn Chandler | A thousand of the finest humans are chosen to flee war-torn Earth where the death knell rings for mankind, but only Eve survives the journey. When the ship's computers create new children, Eve vows to teach them only peace and dignity--until challenged by the very embodiment of evil. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9YeQ1-C03i0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1989 | 0517006456 |
One Jump Ahead | Mark L. Van Name | TWO WOLVES IN A GALAXY OF LARGER PREDATORS Jon Moore: nanotech-enhanced solider-of-fortune. Battlewagon Lobo: A.I.-equipped intelligence and weapons platform (think: a fortress on wheels) of enormous destructive potential. Two very dangerous wolves in a galaxy of deadly corporate and paramilitary predators. But Moore has grown weary of the killing and just once he'd like to finish a job without leaving a trail of blood behind him. Not going to happen. Not on a pristine planet called Macken, where two gigantic corporations vie for control of the local jump gate and access to the riches of an undeveloped world. Dealing with a kidnapping and extortion scheme is only the beginning for Moore and Lobo. Next they must survive an enormous bounty placed on Moore's head long enough to rescue yet again the young woman they accidentally delivered into the wrong hands. But with the help of an old lover and under-the-table support from the mercenary outfit that made him, Moore just might beat the odds, save the girl, and get out of this one a little richer and one step closer to making it back to the strange world of his origin. One Jump Ahead: the first novel in the Jon & Lobo series At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Just when I was thinking science fiction might be over, Mark Van Name proves that there are still smart, exciting, emotional sci-fi stories to be told. " ¾Orson Scott Card "Holy Squidlets, Batman! One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white lightning: it goes down smooth then delivers a kick that knocks you on the floor. I want to kidnap Mark Van Name and steal his brain. I also want an illegal, souped-up racing ray. Mark's going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom." ¾John Ringo "Hard real science smoothly blended into action that blazes like a pinball from one exotic setting to another. This one is very, very good." ¾David Drake "One Jump Ahead is the sort of¾dare I say it ¾old-fashioned SF adventure tale that I dote on. Mark Van Name's headlong pace of story-telling reminds me a lot of Keith Laumer, in fact. He's one of the very few modern authors I've seen who can manage that." ¾Eric Flint "One Jump Ahead is alive with fast-paced action, wild ideas, and characters to root for. A joy to read." ¾Jack McDevitt | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wHN0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2007-06-01 | 1618245856 |
Gateway | Frederik Pohl | Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers. | Human-alien encounters | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DMtBPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2010 | 0575094230 |
Proteus | Morris West | John Spada runs an enormous multi-national corporation; privately he heads Proteus, a clandestine resistance movement. His aim is to free prisoners of conscience wherever they may be. As the story unfolds, Spada himself becomes an outlaw, and holds the world hostage. Big John Spada is a self-made millionaire. From his headquarters in New York, he directs enterprises around the world with military precision. Privately, Spada also funds Proteus, a clandestine movement that works to free political prisoners and combat tyrants wherever they may be. Then news arrives from Argentina that the Buenos Aires secret police have arrested Spada's daughter Teresa, a doctor, after she performed emergency surgery on a man with gunshot wounds. They then take her husband Rodolfo whose outspoken editorials have angered the country's fascist government. A scheme is hatched by Proteus to rescue them, but soon the enemies of Proteus begin to target Spada himself. 'Mammoth brew of good and evil.' The Observer 'Extraordinarily well-told . . . narrative is very exciting.' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard 'Bestseller written all over it.' Daily Express | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rM8lDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2017-08-23 | 1760638374 |
The Dark Hills Divide | Patrick Carman | When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall. | Forest animals | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=97z3VZiOOCgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2007-03-30 | 043986545X |
Gather, Darkness! | Fritz Leiber | From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: In a post-apocalyptic future, a priest must fight the forces of evil in order to bring freedom to humanity. Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity, Techno-priests of the Great God now rule. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows that the gospel is nothing but trickery propagated by non-believers. One day, he defies his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rebel—but Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to bring down the priesthood—witchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Little does Jarles know his rebellion is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I6YoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-01 | 1497616603 |
Walkaway | Cory Doctorow | In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do. But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food, clothing, shelter – from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and... walkaway. It's a dangerous world out there, the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators – animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it's war – a war that will turn the world upside down. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j7OfEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2017-04-25 | 1786693046 |
The Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FQw7vG9y88AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-08-10 | 0307477657 |
Fleet of Worlds | Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner | A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zsyMKOemAwgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2008-08-26 | 0765357836 |
The Survivors | Alex Schulman | In the vein of The Dinner and Atonement, an instant international sensation sold in over 30 countries, in which three brothers confront the shattering childhood event that changed the course of their lives. In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve centre, perpetually on the look-out for triggers and trap doors in a volatile home where the children were left to fend for themselves, competing for their father's favour and their mother's elusive love. But as the years have unfolded, Benjamin has grown increasingly untethered from reality, frozen in place while life carries on around him. And between the brothers, a dangerous current now vibrates. What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces? In a thrillingly fast-paced narrative, The Survivors mixes the emotional acuity of Edward St. Aubyn, the literary verve of Ian McEwan and the heart of Shuggie Bain. By brilliantly dissecting a mind unravelling in the wake of tragedy, Alex Schulman reveals the ways in which our deepest loyalties leave us open to the greatest betrayals. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=alutEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2023-05-30 | 0385697368 |
The Kundalini Equation | Steven Barnes | Adam Ludlum, part of a special athletic research program, develops unexpected powers over matter and energy, but undergoes a strange personality transformation | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lqYvGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1986 | 0812531507 |
Quag Keep | Andre Norton | Quag Keep was the first novel based on the world of Dungeons & Dragons by the legendary grand mistress of SF/Fantasy, Andre Norton. Once, they were role-playing gamers in our world. They came from different places and different backgrounds. Now they're summoned together by some magical force...to a land that mirrors the games they used to play. Quag Keep Can they band together to unlock the secret of their summoning--and rescue from the legendary Quag Keep the person who may be able to return them home? 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=2oz4spLDc8AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2007-04-01 | 1429914270 |
Among Madmen | Jim Starlin, Daina Graziunas | As random citizens begin exhibiting unexplained murderous berserker violence, Tom Laker, a Vietnam vet-turned-Catskills constable, is trapped as he strivesto keep martial law in a world where there is no order. "Exciting, compulsivereading!"--Stephen King. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LTIdSIHtdDUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1990 | 0451450035 |
Butcher Bird | Richard Kadrey | Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn't fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=udylEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2023-01-05 | 2322469076 |
Alien Terror | Chris Archer | In the first book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen gains alien superpowers that make him popular at school, but put him in mortal danger. Dweeb . . . Dork . . . These are names Ethan Rogers is used to being called in the halls of Metier Junior High. It’s safe to say that he’s an outcast. Outside of a brainy clique of nerds, Ethan doesn’t have many friends. Still, there are advantages to being from his small Wisconsin town, like Metier’s weird history of UFO sightings. For a comic book geek like Ethan, the possibility of seeing an alien is pretty awesome. Until he looks in the mirror on his thirteenth birthday and discovers he is an alien. At first, it’s not as bad as it seems. Ethan suddenly has powers greater than some of his favorite superheroes. Beating the school bully in a fight is pretty rad. And when Ethan foils a robbery attempt, he becomes a local hero. But being in the spotlight isn’t easy for Ethan, especially when he learns his kind has been targeted for termination . . . | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KJncEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2023-10-31 | 1504089006 |
First Through Time | Rex Gordon, Stanley Bennett Hough | A man volunteers to journey into future time to prevent a catastrophe which would end the world. | Science fiction, English | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=caUwAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1962 | 64117869209215 |
First Contact | Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson | The encounter in the 1930s between Australian gold prospectors led by Michael Leahy and the highlanders of New Guinea, based on the photographs Leahy took and interviews with surviving natives and visitors. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8NGAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1987 | 72105606961018 |
Castle for Rent | John DeChancie | When the king of a magical castle ventures into the realm of the dead, creatures of all kinds vie for the throne in the sequel to Castle Perilous. Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mysterious spell cast by a mischief-maker, all of Castle Perilous's 144,000 creatures of curiosity clamor for the crown. Outside of the castle's coveting fray, Gene flies off with an adventurous Amazon in supernatural manifestation and Lord Inky explores the dark mysteries that lurk in the realm of the dead! | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H9wqAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-04-01 | 1497623162 |
Space Marine | M. C. Duncan | May Gennings has all the bad luck. Orphaned at age five, Widowed at twenty three after only six weeks of marrage. Join Now. Be all you can be. See new worlds, the sign said. Out of desperation she joined and becam a fighter pilot on the first faster than light ship leaving earth to look for new homes for the millions waiting in the freeze ships in orbit. Want to know more? Buy it here. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fo4wLAo_1LEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2003-09-12 | 1411635434 |
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