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1) Time's eye
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Time odyssey volume 1
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English
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“Wonderfully entertaining . . . a story that engrosses you with its dramatized ideas about the nature of existence . . . You won’t set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it.”—Chicago Tribune
In an instant, Earth is carved up in time and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own...
In an instant, Earth is carved up in time and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own...
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Space Odyssey series volume 3
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English
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This New York Times–bestselling chapter in the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series is “intriguing and satisfying . . . the all-round best Odyssey so far” (Kirkus Reviews).
The third book in Clarke’s beloved Space Odyssey continues the story of Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths and the alien intelligences behind them....
The third book in Clarke’s beloved Space Odyssey continues the story of Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths and the alien intelligences behind them....
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Space Odyssey series volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times).
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
4) Sunstorm
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Time odyssey volume 2
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English
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“Clarke and Baxter have mastered the art of saving the world in blockbuster style.”—Entertainment Weekly
Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the mysterious and powerful Firstborn, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir?...
Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the mysterious and powerful Firstborn, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir?...
5) Firstborn
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Time odyssey volume 3
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English
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Failing to eliminate life on Earth after their first attack, the Firstborn send a Q-bomb weapon to finish the job. Two cryogenically frozen females and a group of scientists studying the Eye, an artifact of the Firstborn, may be the only hope of finding a way to counter the onslaught.
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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city'intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords...
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Now, more than one hundred works of the sci-fi master's short fiction are available in the "single-author collection of the decade" (Booklist, starred review). This definitive edition includes early work such as "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," classics like "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Sentinel" (which was the kernel of the later novel and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), and later works including "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The...
8) Rama II
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Series
Rama series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to rendezvous with the massive alien spacecraft Rama II in the twenty-third century, and even though they are schooled in everything known about Raman technology and culture, they are still not prepared for the reality.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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Years after the appearance in the solar system of the immense, deserted spaceship named by its discoverers Rama, a second craft arrived, destined to become home for a group of human colonists. But now the colony has become a brutal dictatorship, committing genocide against its peaceful alien neighbours and terrorizing its own inhabitants. Nicole Wakefield, condemned to death for treason, has escaped and crossed the Cylindrical Sea to the island of...
10) The last theorem
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English
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When Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for mathematics, writes a three-page proof of Pierre de Fermat's last theorem, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem, or Peace Through Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit--together with his...
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Rama series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle...
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1968
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe, and the universe's reaction to humanity."
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