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Author
Series
RCN series volume 10
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Cinnabar's chief spymaster is a mother also, and her son is determined to search for treasure in the midst of a civil war. Who better to watch over him then Captain Daniel Leary, Cinnabar's troubleshooter, and his friend cyberspy Adele Mundy? The only thing certain in the struggle of the mining planet Corcyra is that the rival parties are more dangerous to their own allies than to their opponents. Daniel and Adele face kidnappers, hijackers, pirates...
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
"From the author of the New York...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective - Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint - a bewildering, alienating and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his classic dystopias like The Drowned World and High Rise, Ballard's legacy shaped the future of literature. This...
Author
Language
English
Description
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
''For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional...
Author
Series
RCN series volume 9
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Captain Daniel Leary with his friend-and spy-Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights. With anarchy and rebellion in the air, a rogue intelligence officer plots the war that...
6) Finna
Author
Series
LitenVerse volume 1
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store -- but not that one -- slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover's memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their...
Series
Publisher
Titan Magazines, a division of Titan Publishing Group Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A compendium of tales from the High Republic era, told from aboard the incredible satellite station, the Starlight Beacon, collected for the first time from the pages of Star Wars Insider. All stories are written by The New York Times' best-selling authors Cavan Scott, Charles Soule, and Justina Ireland. Also includes in-depth interviews with the story architects behind the best-selling publishing and multimedia initiative"--
Author
Series
Book of the new Sun volume 1-2
Publisher
Tor Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1955
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new speculative fiction short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi"--
""A jaw-dropping collection....Beautiful, vibrant, and electrifying, this has the makings of a modern classic." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Spring 2024 Roundup pick "For fans of Margaret Atwood's dystopian works and P. Dj. Clark's speculative fiction, Convergence Problems provides an Afrocentric...
11) Клара и Солнце
Author
Publisher
Эксмо
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Клара совсем новая. С заразительным любопытством из-за широкого окна витрины она впитывает в себя окружающий мир – случайных прохожих, проезжающие машины и, конечно, живительное Солнце. Клара хочет узнать и запомнить как можно больше – так она сможет...
Author
Series
Book of the new Sun volume 3-4
Publisher
Tor Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brings together the final two books of "The Book of the New Sun" tetralogy--"The Sword of the Lictor," which chronicles the odyssey of a wandering pilgrim called Severian, and "The Citadel of the Autarch," in which Severian fulfills an ancient prophecy that forever alters the realm of Urth.
"Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse—from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. "A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic—and sometimes both at once."—Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones [Those Beyond the Wall] reads like Mad Max: Fury Road...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
''In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January's job choices, housing, and even transportation are dictated by this second-class status, and...
15) Mal goes to war
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t...
17) Колгосп тварин
Author
Publisher
Фоліо
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Джордж Орвелл (1903–1950) – британський письменник і журналіст. Його творча спадщина налічує 20 томів і перекладена на 60 мов. Однак всесвітньо відомим він став наприкінці свого життєвого шляху, коли 1945 року з неабиякими труднощами надрукував казкову...
18) Війна світів
Author
Publisher
Фоліо
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Видатний британський письменник Герберт Веллс (1866–1946) – автор близько 40 романів, один з першопрохідців у жанрі наукової фантастики. Ще на початку XX ст. він передбачив великі відкриття, які змінять долю людства, намалював картини майбутнього. Його...
19) Дюна
Author
Publisher
Издательство АСТ
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Russian
Description
Роман «Дюна», первая книга прославленной саги, знакомит читателя с Арракисом – миром суровых пустынь, исполинских песчаных червей, отважных фрименов и таинственной специи. Безграничная фантазия автора создала яркую, почти осязаемую вселенную, в...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Masterminds trilogy from middle grade star author Gordon Korman. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson!
After a serious betrayal from one of their former friends, the clones of Project Osiris are on the run again. Now separated into pairs, Eli and Tori and Amber and Malik are fighting to survive in the real world.
Amber and Malik track down the
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