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Архипелаг ГУЛАГ | The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the... | Political prisoners, Concentration camps, Prisons, Political prisoners, soviet union, Prisons, soviet union | How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago? | Александр Исаевич Солженицын | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awa... |
The Dead Zone | The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch. When some information is blocked from hi... | brain tumors, rifles, human shields, assassination, procrastination | The two things Sarah remembered about that night later were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune and the mask. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
A Game of Thrones | ***A Game of Thrones*** is the inaugural novel in ***A Song of Ice and Fire***, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author **George R. R. Martin**. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the richly detailed world of Westeros and Essos, where political intrigue, power struggle... | Adult, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic | "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. | George R. R. Martin | George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.
Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. Hi... |
Roughing It | Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work a... | 19th century, American Authors, Biography, Business, Christian Science | null | Mark Twain | Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artis... |
L'Île mystérieuse | This sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" doesn't advertise itself as such. Most of the book concerns the efforts of a group of hot-air balloon castaways in the south Pacific ocean attempting to use modern knowledge in order to survive in near-desert-island conditions. "Robinson Crusoe" (Defoe, 1719) started a tr... | Popular Print Disabled Books, French Adventure stories, French language materials, Translations from French, Open Library Staff Picks | null | Jules Verne | Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre.
He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Ve... |
The Man in the High Castle | The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over t... | award:hugo_award=1963, Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Science Fiction, award:hugo_award=novel | For a week Mr R.Childan had been anxiously watching the mail. | Philip K. Dick, Michelle Charrier | Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered... |
The Stand | One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps, a rapidly mutating flu that - in the ensuing weeks - wipes out most of the world's population. In the aftermath, survivors choose between following an elderly black woman to Boulder or the da... | suspense & thriller, gothic & horror, biological warfare, research, horror fiction | Hapscomb's Texaco sat on US 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
A Wizard of Earthsea | The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman)
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for p... | Fiction, Magic, Magic in fiction, Fantasy, Wizards | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
Foundation and Empire | Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When a... | Fiction, Psychohistory, Life on other planets, American Science fiction, Science Fiction | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Second Foundation | After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule had failed to find i... | Fiction, Psychohistory, Life on other planets, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Sapiens | From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different speci... | Technology and civilization, Human beings, Historical Chronology, Historia universal, Historia | null | Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Casanave, David Vandermeulen, Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, Joandomènec Ros i Aragonès, Andoni Sagarna, Xabier Kintana, David Casanave | null |
The Amber Spyglass | In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amb... | Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Missing persons | In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below. | Philip Pullman | Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, *His Dark Materials*, and his fictional biography of Jesus, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ*. The first of *His Dark Materials* has been turned into the fi... |
Flowers for Algernon | Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon... | institutionalization, dementia, phenylketonuria, award:nebula_award=novel, Brain | Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. | Daniel Keyes | null |
Ficciones | A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor.
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[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) | Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms | null | Jorge Luis Borges | Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 24 de agosto de 1899 - Ginebra, 14 de junio de 1986), más conocido como Jorge Luis Borges, fue un destacado escritor de cuentos, poemas y ensayos argentino, extensamente considerado una figura clave tanto para la literatura en habla hispana como para la literatura univ... |
Rights of Man | Written in a fit of pique brought about by Edmund Burke's blistering attack of the French Revolution, Paine's The Rights of Man has come to be regarded as one of the most important works in the realm of Western political philosophy. In it, Paine contends that some rights that are granted through natural law, rather tha... | History, Politics and government, Political science, Causes, Causes and character | AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution is an extraordinary instance. | Thomas Paine, T. Paine, Thomas Thomas Paine | English and American political activist |
The World Set Free | https://archive.org/details/ElMundoSeLibertaH.G.Wells | Nuclear warfare, Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, action & adventure | https://archive.org/details/ElMundoSeLibertaH.G.Wells | H. G. Wells, Ellen Marriage | Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. |
The Lost World | The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel [Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46881W). It is his tenth novel under his own name and his twentieth overall, and it was published by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 19... | prions, scrapie, Ornitholestes, Mussaurus, Procompsognathus | The Santa Fe Institute was housed in a series of buildings on Canyon Road which had formerly been a convent, and the Institute's seminars were held in a room which had served as a chapel. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
The Drawing of the Three | [The Dark Tower][1] II
Part II of an epic saga. Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into a different person living in New York. Through these doorways, Roland draws the companions who will assist him on his quest to save the Dark Tower.
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... | sociopaths, dissociative identity disorder, civil rights, heroin, cocaine | The gunslinger came awake from a confused dram which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Oresteia | The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of ... | Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Drama, Electra (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Greek drama (Tragedy) | null | Aeschylus | Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. |
Firestarter | Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award.
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Als... | Genetic Engineering, suspense, Fiction, Psychokinesis, Fire | null | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
So long, and thanks for all the fish | Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hypersp... | Trilogy of Four, fantasy fiction, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Science Fiction | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashinable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. |
The Illustrated Man | The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. | American Science fiction, Science fiction, English Short stories, Tattooing, Magic | null | null | null |
The Lightning Thief | Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction—Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies... | Fiction, Greek Mythology, Juvenile fiction, Camps, Friendship | null | Rick Riordan | null |
Airframe | Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace ma... | air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction, Pilot-induced oscillation | Emily Jansen sighed in relief. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
Childhood’s End | Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world government, and turns the planet into a near-utopia. Many questions are asked about the origins and missi... | Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Human evolution | null | Arthur C. Clarke | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all t... |
The Dispossessed | Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Sh... | Anarchism, Anarquismo, Ciencia-ficción, Communal living, Ficción | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
Dune Messiah | **Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time**
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worship... | American Science fiction, Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction, Imaginary places, Science Fiction | null | Frank Herbert | Real name: Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. |
The Martian | The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and ... | Science-Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Suspense & Thriller, Science fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch | LOG ENTRY: SOL 6
I’m pretty much fucked. | Andy Weir | Andy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, THE MARTIAN, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He al... |
The Waste Lands | Part III of an epic saga. Roland and his companions, Eddie and Susannah Dean, find the Path of the Beam that will lead them to the Dark Tower. Along the way, Roland adds two new members to his ka-tet (a group united for a specific purpose). In the decaying city of Lud, they encounter new dangers, including a sentient t... | thrillers, supernatural, dark fantasy, riddles, monorails | The Waste Lands is the third volume of a longer tale inspired by and to some degree dependent upon Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Cat's Cradle | Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.... | End of the world, Fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Classic Literature, Humor (Fiction) | Call me Jonah. | Kurt Vonnegut, Nickolay Popov | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as [*Slaughterhouse-Five* (1969)][1], [*Cat's Cradle* (1963)][2], and [*Breakfast of Champions* (1973)][3]. He was known for his humanist beliefs as well as being honorary president of the American Human... |
The Adventures of Captain Underpants | When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen. | Humorous stories, School principals, Cartoons and comics, Heroes, Fiction | null | Dav Pilkey | null |
Ubik | Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. “From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve wok... | Fiction, Death, Businessmen, Explosions, Science Fiction | At three-thirty A.M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of Runciter Associates in New York City. | Philip K. Dick | Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered... |
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time Book 1) | The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fa... | series:The Wheel of Time, Fantasy fiction, Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Reader recommended, 2001-02 | null | Robert Jordan | James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author known for his epic fantasy series *The Wheel of Time*. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Jordan developed a passion for storytelling and served two tours in Vietnam before pursuing a writing ca... |
On Writing | On Writing is both a textbook for writers and a memoir of Stephen's life and will, thus, appeal even to those who are not aspiring writers. If you've always wondered what led Steve to become a writer and how he came to be the success he is today, this will answer those questions.
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Solaris | The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris i... | Translations into English, English fiction, Polish Science fiction, Polish fiction, Translations from Polish | At 19.00 hours, ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay. | Stanisław Lem | Stanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish author known for his contributions to science fiction, philosophy, and literary criticism. Born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), Lem initially pursued medical studies, which, though unfinished due to fears of military conscription and discomfort ... |
Sphere | Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.
The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocea... | space ships, space vehicles, squid, psychology, giant squid | For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky. | Michael Crichton, Jacques Polanis | An American writer and filmmaker. |
A Canticle for Leibowitz | Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As t... | Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1961, award:hugo_award=novel, American Science fiction, apocalypse | null | Walter M. Miller Jr. | null |
Dragonflight | HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright. But ... | Pern (Imaginary place), Science Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction in English | null | Anne McCaffrey | null |
The Eyes of the Dragon | The Eyes of the Dragon is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, first published as a limited edition slipcased hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984, illustrated by Kenneth R. Linkhauser. The novel would later be published for the mass market by Viking in 1987, with illustrations by David Palladini. This trade... | suspense, horror, epic fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction | Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Prey | Prey is a novel by Michael Crichton, his thirteenth under his own name and twenty-third overall, first published in November 2002, making his first novel of the twenty-first century. The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, an... | programmers, nanorobotics, reproduction, evolution, predation | Things never turn out the way you think they will. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
Timeline | Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of com... | Fiction, Hundertja hriger Krieg, Wissenschaftler, Historians, Quantum theory | He should never have taken that shortcut. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
Neuromancer | The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, *Neuromancer* is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, *Neuromancer* was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselv... | Information superhighway, Computer hackers, Conspiracies, Open Library Staff Picks, Ciencia-ficción | The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. | William Gibson | William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, *Neuromancer* (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson cre... |
The Phantom Tollbooth | The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer. It was published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, drive... | letters, numbers, orchestras, children's literature, adventure | null | Norton Juster | Norton Juster is an architect and planner, professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College, and the author of a number of highly acclaimed children's books, including The Dot and the Line, which was made into an Academy Award-winning animated film. He has collaborated with Sheldon Harnick on the libretto for an opera... |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction "trilogy" by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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- [Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy... | sofas, xenophobia, bird language, paradoxes, Infinite Improbability Drive | The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. |
Black Boy | Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a ... | Social life and customs, African American authors, Biographies, African Americans, Écrivains américains | One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside. | Richard Wright | null |
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code | After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it. | New York Times bestseller, nyt:series_books=2008-06-22, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7 | null | Eoin Colfer | Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen") is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series.
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De la démocratie en Amérique | A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000... | Early America, American government, Democracy, American culture, American society | null | Alexis de Tocqueville, Eduardo Nolla, J. P. Mayer | Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), colloquially known as Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his works *Democracy in America* (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and *The Old Regime and the Revolutio... |
The End of Eternity | The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process. One man rebels in order to save the existence of someone he loves, and in the end the time bureaucracy is destroyed for the sake of individuality and human achie... | Time travel, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons a... | Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, post-apocalyptic fiction, extinction event | When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. | Tom Stechschulte | null |
The Day of the Triffids | When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous,... | Blind, English Fantasy fiction, Translations into Russian, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror | null | John Wyndham, Marcel Battin, Cover by Andy Bridge | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works written using the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic lands... |
Poems | A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full. | Children's poetry, English, English Manuscripts, English poetry, Facsimiles, German poetry | null | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and cr... |
La planète des singes | null | French language edition, Fiction, Monkeys, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Science fiction | null | Pierre Boulle | Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, *The Bridge Over the River Kwai* (1952) and *Planet of the Apes* (1963).
David Lean made The Bridge over the River Kwai into a motion picture that won several 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle hims... |
The Chronicles of Narnia | Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battle between good and evil - what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, written in 1919 by C.S. Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed and together they became k... | Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile audience | This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. | C.S. Lewis | Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. |
A Clash of Kings | In this thrilling sequel to *A Game of Thrones*, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. *A Clash of Kings* transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced.
***A Clash of Kings***
A comet the color of blood and... | Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, New York Times bestseller, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2011-12-31 | The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. | George R. R. Martin, George RR Martin | George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.
Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. Hi... |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.
The ca... | Boys, Fiction, Male friendship, Fathers and sons, Carnival | null | Ray Bradbury | Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
Once read, his words are never forgotten. H... |
Thinner | Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman in a road accident and escapes legal punishment because of his connections. However, the woman's father places a curse ... | gluttony, magic, Romani, Allegories, Horror | null | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Cell | Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. | computer worms, hive minds, zombies, horror fiction, cell phones | The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 P.M., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Starship Troopers | Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard ... | Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Science fiction, Space warfare, award:hugo_award=1960 | null | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary qua... |
The Farthest Shore | A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. Darkness Threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn you... | Magic, Magia, Fantasy fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
Νόμοι | null | Utopias, Political science, Political science & theory, Natural law, Early works to 1800 | null | Πλάτων | Classical Greek philosopher |
Eragon | One boy...
One dragon...
A world of adventure.
When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly a... | Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Dragons, Magic, Fiction | null | null | null |
Red Dragon | Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". The novel introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist an... | Novel, psychiatrists, cannibalism, serial killers, offender profiling | I want to tell you the circumstances in which I first encountered Hannibal Lecter, M.D. | Thomas Harris | null |
The Caves of Steel | "A Del Rey book."
It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a totally baffling mystery - the murder of a prominent Spacer. It was worse when he found that the smug, self-satisfied Spacers were behind the pressure to provide an impossibly quick solution.
But then Lije disc... | Robots, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Interplanetary voyages | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Foundation's Edge | After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation. A search is begun to determine if the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, the Second Foundation ... | Fiction, Psychohistory, Science fiction, Life on other planets, Hugo Award Winner | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Dandelion Wine | The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-... | Fiction, Boys, City and town life, Translations into Russian, Science fiction, American | null | Ray Bradbury | Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
Once read, his words are never forgotten. H... |
The Foundation Trilogy | - Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
- Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are some of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women work... | American Science fiction, Fiction, Psychohistory, Science fiction, Life on other planets | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
La Nuit | Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original ... | Holocaust literature, death marches, Talmud, Siege of Jerusalem, Cabala | They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life. | Elie Wiesel | Eliezer Wiesel is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps.
Wiesel was... |
Biology | null | Biology, Textbooks, Biology textbooks, Biologie, Science textbooks | null | Neil Alexander Campbell | null |
I am Legend | See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64225W | Fiction, horror, Fiction, science fiction, general, Vampires, fiction, Vampires, Fiction | null | Richard Matheson | Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, the son of Norwegian immigrant parents. He was raised in Brooklyn and started writing at age eight. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He served as an infantry soldier in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the ... |
From a Buick 8 | Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca reaparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona, y lo gua... | Pennsylvania State Police, ghost story, drunk driving, angel dust, horror fiction | Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
The Shipping News | At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's strugg... | Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, American literature, Families | Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns. | Annie Proulx | Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her sec... |
The Princess and Curdie | With the help of a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him, a miner's son takes on the dangerous task of helping the king and princess confound their enemies and save the kingdom. | Fairy tales, Princesses, Fiction, Fiction, general, Princesses, fiction | null | George MacDonald | null |
Ἀνάβασις | null | History, Cyrus, the younger, approximately 423 b.c.-approximately 401 b.c., Iran, history, to 640, Greece, history, to 146 b.c., Historical geography | null | null | null |
Rendezvous with Rama | Written in 1973, a massive 50 kilometre long alien cylinder begins to pass through the solar system provoking a hurried effort to intercept it. The closest available ship rushes to rendezvous so as to have a quick study before it gets too close to the sun. Able to enter via an airlock on one end of the ship, the crew e... | Fiction, Future in literature, Hugo Award Winner, Nebula award winner, Rama (Imaginary space vehicle) | null | Arthur C. Clarke | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all t... |
The October Country | null | Fantasy fiction, American, Horror tales, American, American Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Horror tales | null | Ray Bradbury | Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
Once read, his words are never forgotten. H... |
The Naked Sun | On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with a civilisation based on robots instead of slaves - and some pretty weird taboos and phobias.
Into this strange set-up comes Terran detective Elijah Baley, assigned to find the murderer and act as an i... | Fiction, Science fiction, Robots, Robots in fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
The warlord of Mars #3 | The Warlord of mars is the last book in the trilogy that Mr. Burroughs did not intend to write. The first book being: “The Princess of Mars” and the second being: “The God of Mars”. The book takes up 6 months after “The Princess of Mars” Where our hero Carter is relentless in trying to find his princess and the vill... | Classic Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Dejah Thoris (Fictitious character) | null | Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jim Killavey, Paula Paula | Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduate... |
Dreamcatcher | Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. | male friendship, life on other planets, telepathy, Down Syndrome, psychological fiction | FIRST, THE NEWS | null | null |
Mostly Harmless | In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet. | Ford Prefect (Fictitious character), Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, English literature | The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway. | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. |
The moon is a harsh mistress | It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect of life is overseen by the Federated Nations "Lunar Authority"; until one day when a self-aware Super-Computer, a Jack of all Trades Technician, an Anarchist Professor, and a beautiful Blonde Revolutionary decide to c... | Fiction, science fiction, general, Stone, hazel (fictitious character), fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, Hugo Award Winner | null | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary qua... |
Atlas Shrugged | Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he i... | Fiction, Capitalism in fiction, Egoism, Egoism in fiction, Capitalism | null | Ayn Rand | Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia... |
The Emerald City of Oz | From the book:Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host ... | Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Oz (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Princess Ozma (Fictitious character) | null | L. Frank Baum | Lyman Frank Baum was a US author, poet, playwright, actor, and independent filmmaker best known today as the creator - along with illustrator WW Denslow - of one of the most popular books in US children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. - [Wikipedia][1]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum |
Contact | In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own. | Exploration, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Life on other planets, Radio astronomy | By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world. | Carl Sagan | Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications.
<q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
</cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as... |
Dragonquest | Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.
But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his b... | Pern, Dragons, Fiction, Fiction in English, Life on other planets | null | Anne McCaffrey | null |
Children of Dune | The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Chil... | Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fiction in English, Science Fiction, Dune (imaginary place), fiction | null | Frank Herbert | Real name: Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. |
Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident | Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet, der sich in der Gewalt einer skrupellosen Erpresserbande befinden soll. Doch Artemis hat ungewöhnliche Verbündete auf seiner Seite und natürlich auch schon einen Plan im Kopf. Einen gefährlichen Plan. | science fiction, Secuestro, Mothers and sons, Kidnapping, Magic | null | Eoin Colfer | Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen") is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series.
([source][1])
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_Colfer |
Eaters of the Dead | Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall. The story is about a 10th-centu... | adaptations, fiction, vikings, historical fiction, fantasy fiction | The Ibn Fadlan manuscript represents the earliest known eyewitness account of Viking life and society. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
Oryx and Crake | Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom th... | Literary Fiction, friendship, fantasy, genetic engineering, fiction | null | Margaret Atwood | Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing.
ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and c... |
Ringworld | The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subseque... | Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1971, award:hugo_award=novel, Fiction, science fiction, general, Ringworld (imaginary place), fiction | null | Larry Niven | Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primari... |
The Door into Summer | Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspe... | American Science fiction, Cold Sleep, Hired Girl Inc., Science fiction, Time Travel | null | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary qua... |
Congo | Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world n... | kakundakari, type IIb, diamonds, thrillers, science fiction | Dawn came to the Congo rainforest. | Michael Crichton | An American writer and filmmaker. |
Wyrd Sisters | Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Maigrat have fairy godmother-dom thrust upon them. | Fiction, fantasy, general, Discworld (imaginary place), fiction, Granny weatherwax (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place) | null | Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 19... |
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets | Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000. | School stories, Humorous stories, Juvenile fiction, School principals, Fiction | null | null | null |
Wolves of the Calla | [The Dark Tower][1] V
After escaping the perilous wreckage of Blaine the insane Mono and eluding the evil clutches of the vindictive sorcerer Randall Flagg, Roland and his ka-tet find themselves back on the southeasterly path of the Beam. Here, in the borderlands that lie between Mid-World and End-World, Roland and ... | lightsabers, snitches, androids, Action and adventure fiction, Adventure fiction | Tian was blessed (though few farmers would have used such a word) with three patches: River Field, where his family had grown rice since time out of mind; Roadside Field, where ka-Jaffords had grown sharproot, pumpkin, and corn for those same long years and generations; and Son of a Bitch, a thankless tract which mostl... | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
The Gods Themselves | The year is 2100 A.D.…
And Man no longer stands alone in the universe.
Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy. New breeds of humans who have created their own environment and freed themselves from every social and sexual taboo.
Yes, it is the fu... | Fiction in English, Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1973, award:hugo_award=novel, Science fiction | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Bleach | Ichigo realizes a Hollow is involved when Chad checks into a hospital with a mysterious scar on his back and disappears along with a talking parakeet imbued with the soul of a boy named Yuichi. Ichigo soon discovers that not all souls are bound for the Soul Society, especially those tainted with innocent blood. | Graphic novels, Translations into English, High school students, Soul, Fiction | null | Tite Kubo | In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kubo".
Tite Kubo
Born Noriaki Kubo
June 26, 1977 (age 37)
Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Manga artist
Known for Bleach, Zombiepowder.
Spouse(s) Wife, name not publicized[1][2]
Noriaki Kubo[citation needed] (久保 宣章 Kubo Noriaki?, born June 2... |
Il barone rampante | Il romanzo racconta le vicende di Cosimo di Rondò, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo in piccolo paese della Liguria. Cosimo, per sfuggire ad un punizione, decide di salire su un albero e non scenderne mai più: si costruisce un mondo aereo dove diversi personaggi della cultura e della politica (Napoleone compr... | History, Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Historical fiction, Italian language | null | null | null |
Redwall (Redwall #1) | When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy. | Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Mice, Juvenile fiction, Animals | null | Brian Jacques | null |
Γοργίας | There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following under the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are among the world's greatest literature. In the Gorgias, as in nea... | Classic Literature, Fiction, Early works to 1800, Ethics, Political science | null | Πλάτων | Classical Greek philosopher |
That hideous strength | 2. That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups Add to My List
by Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
... That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups / C.S. Lewis. ...
Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner Classics, 1996.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051... | English Fantasy fiction, Linguists, Elwin Ransom (Fictitious character), Philologists, College teachers | "MATRIMONY was ordained, thirdly," said Jane Studdock to herself, "for the mutual society, help, and comfort that the one ought to have of the other." | C.S. Lewis | Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. |
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