Twelve stories, and a dream

Doce historias y un sueñoDoce historias y un sueño forma parte de la bibliografía de H.G. Wells, en concreto las 12 historias que aquí se presentan son:1. FILMADOR2. LA TIENDA MÁGICA3. EL VALLE DE LAS ARAÑAS4. LA VERDAD SOBRE PYECRAFT5. MR. SKELMERSDALE EN FAIRYLAND6. LA HISTORIA DEL FANTASMA INEXPERIMENTADO7. JIMMY GOGGLES EL DIOS8. EL NUEVO ACELERADOR9. LAS VACACIONES DE MR. LEDBETTER10. EL CUERPO ROBADO11. MR. TESORO DE BRISHER12. EL CORAZÓN DE LA SEÑORITA WINCHELSEA13. UN SUEÑO DE ARMAGEDDON

English Science fiction; Social life and customs; Vida social y costumbres; Fiction; Science fiction; English fiction; Ficción; Novela Inglesa; Fiction, short stories (single author); British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author); English Short stories; Fantasy fiction

Twelve stories, and a dream

English Science fiction

Social life and customs

Vida social y costumbres

Fiction

Science fiction

English fiction

Ficción

Novela Inglesa

Fiction, short stories (single author)

English Short stories

Fantasy fiction

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2061

Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. "From the Paperback edition.

Science fiction; Extraterrestrial beings; Fiction; General Science fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Space vehicles; Human-computer interaction; Fiction, science fiction, general; English literature; Twenty-first century

2061

Science fiction
Extraterrestrial beings
Fiction
General Science fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Space vehicles
Human-computer interaction
Fiction, science fiction, general
English literature
Twenty-first century

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Chapterhouse Dune

Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy—the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes—a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib....

Dune (Imaginary place); Fiction; Science fiction; Dune (imaginary place), fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Literature; Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure

Chapterhouse Dune

Dune (Imaginary place)

Fiction

Science fiction

Dune (imaginary place), fiction

Fiction, science fiction, general

Literature

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Island

En una isla imaginaria de Pali se produce el choque entre dos modos de entender la vida y las relaciones humanas. Cuando el periodista Will Farnaby desembarca en la isla entra en contacto con unas costumbres, unos ritos, una religión y una actitud ante la vida. De este contraste se deriva fácilmente una reflexión sobre los valores que encarna Farnaby, los propios del mundo occidental, y que los cuestione.

Fiction; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks; Journalists; Utopias; Islands; Survival; British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author); Science fiction; horror fiction; philosophical fiction; psychedelic literature; science fiction; utopian fiction

Island

Fiction

Journalists

Utopias

Islands

Survival

Science fiction

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SLAN

A. E. van Vogt; Oliver Wyman; Kevin J. Anderson

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SLAN

Fiction
Science Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
award:retro_hugo
American Science fiction

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Transformers

Simon Furman; Chris Ryall; Don Figueroa; E.J. Su

This career-spanning hardcover looks at legendary Transformers writer Simon Furman’s amazing output throughout the two decades he’s worked on the Robots in Disguise, from his earliest beginnings through his current work. This collection compiles his U.K. work from 1985 through his G2 and War Within comics to his present IDW comics work and beyond! The premiere presentation of Simon’s immense body of work.

Science fiction comic books, strips, etc

Character toys; Comic books, strips; Toys; Transformers (Fictitious characters); Fiction; Graphic Novels; Comics & Graphic Novels; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Humor; Comics & Graphic Novels - General; Graphic Novels - Media Tie-In; Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In; General; Comics & Graphic Novels / General; Transformers (Motion picture : 2007); Transformers (fictitious characters), fiction; Comics & graphic novels, science fiction; Children's fiction; Science fiction; Transformers (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc; Readers; Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, general; xkcd

Transformers

Character toys

Comic books, strips

Toys

Transformers (Fictitious characters)

Fiction

Graphic Novels

Comics & Graphic Novels

Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction

Humor

Comics & Graphic Novels - General

Graphic Novels - Media Tie-In

General

Comics & Graphic Novels / General

Transformers (Motion picture : 2007)

Children's fiction

Science fiction

Readers

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Have Spacesuit--Will Travel

A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.

Interplanetary voyages; Fiction; Science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; American Science fiction; Children's fiction; Outer space, fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization

Have Spacesuit--Will Travel

Interplanetary voyages
Fiction
Science fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
American Science fiction
Children's fiction
Outer space, fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization


Cinder

A menudo es ahi, en las paginas amarillentas de un libro olvidado, donde estan las palabras que pueden cambiar nuestra vida. La recien divorciada Jasmine Mistry esta intentando rehacer su vida cuando recibe una llamada inesperada que la devolvera al lugar en el que se crio, la isla de Shelter, donde regentara temporalmente la estrafalaria libreria de su tia Ruma, un espacio fascinante del que siempre se ha dicho que estaba encantado. Sola y deseando comenzar de nuevo, la joven desembarca en el polvoriento y desordenado local y no tarda en descubrir que tiene compania. Los autores, vivos y muertos, revolotean por las estanterias, dejando oir su voz, instandola a curar su corazon herido y a acercarse a ese joven y enigmatico desconocido con quien, tal vez, pueda llegar a compartir todos los libros de su vida. Deliciosa. Narrada con gracia y calidez. The Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Cinder

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Social classes
New York Times bestseller
Overpopulation
Kings and rulers
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Honorariums
Stepfamilies
Fort Worth Library
Fiction
General
Cyborgs
Cybernetics
Fairy Tales & Folklore
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Sunshine State Reader 2013-2014
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The Renegades of Pern

As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. And there were some, like Jayge's trader clan, who simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina's family, had lost their holds through injustice and cruelty. For all the holdless, life was a constant struggle for survival. Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades, led by the Lady Thella. No one was safe from Thella's depredations, and now her quarry was Aramina, reputed to have a telepathic link with dragons. But when Thella mistakenly vented her rage on Jayge's family, she made a dangerous mistake. For Jayge was bent on revenge . . . and he would never let her have the girl who heard dragons! "From the Hardcover edition.

Fiction; Pern (Imaginary place); Dragons; Life on other planets; Space colonies; Science fiction; Pern (imaginary place), fiction; Fiction, fantasy, epic; American Fantasy fiction; American fiction; science fiction; Dragonriders of Pern

The Renegades of Pern

Fiction
Pern (Imaginary place)
Dragons
Life on other planets
Space colonies
Science fiction
Pern (imaginary place), fiction
Fiction, fantasy, epic
American Fantasy fiction
American fiction


The Demolished Man

American Science fiction; Hugo Award Winner; award:hugo_award=1953; award:hugo_award=novel; Fiction, science fiction, general; Science fiction; science fiction

The Demolished Man

American Science fiction
Hugo Award Winner
award:hugo_award=1953
award:hugo_award=novel
Fiction, science fiction, general
Science fiction

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Dragonsdawn

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed. Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider... And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed - Dragons!

Fiction; Pern (Imaginary place); Dragons; Life on other planets; Space colonies; Science Fiction; Pern (imaginary place), fiction; Fiction, fantasy, epic; Fantasy fiction; fantasy; science fiction; Dragonriders of Pern

Dragonsdawn

Fiction
Pern (Imaginary place)
Dragons
Life on other planets
Space colonies
Science Fiction
Pern (imaginary place), fiction
Fiction, fantasy, epic
Fantasy fiction

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Starman Jones

The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle's prized astrogation manuals¾books on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max's mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his Uncle Chet's manuals, and Max's near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task. Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a command track position. But then disaster strikes, and it's going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle's manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Science fiction; Children's stories; American Science fiction; Interplanetary voyages; Time travel; Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Fiction, science fiction, space opera

Starman Jones

Science fiction
Children's stories
American Science fiction
Interplanetary voyages
Time travel
Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Fiction, science fiction, space opera


Earth abides

Best known for his 1949 post-apocalyptic thriller Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1895-1980) spent a lifetime wandering the American landscape and writing books about its geography and history. An English professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the exceptional scholar-author penned some of the most remarkable literary works of the 20th century, inventing several types of books along the way--including the road-geography book, micro-history, place-name history, ecological history, and the ecological novel. By weaving human and natural sciences and history into his books Stewart created works with a multi-disciplinary perspective on events and places that influenced numerous other writers, artists, and scientists, including Stephen King, Greg Bear, and Page Stegner. This volume considers George R. Stewart's rich oeuvre while chronicling a life-long quest to uncover the deepest truths about the man and his work.

Disasters; Fiction; Plague; Fiction, general; Fiction in English; Science Fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; sociology; ecological novel; Fiction, science fiction, general; American literature; Survival skills; Survival

Earth abides

Disasters
Fiction
Plague
Fiction, general
Fiction in English
Science Fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
sociology
ecological novel
Fiction, science fiction, general
American literature
Survival skills
Survival

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Ice

This dystopian science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape “A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time” – The New Yorker “A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of dislocation” – Jeff VanderMeer Anticipating climate fiction and the New Weird literary genre, while garnering fans from Doris Lessing and J.G. Ballard to China Miéville and Patti Smith since it was first published in 1967, this fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe reads as though author Anna Kavan had seen the future. Ice is slowly covering the entire globe; as the glacial tide creeps forward, the fabric of society begins to break down. Through this chaotic landscape, a nameless narrator hunts for the white-haired girl he once loved - or perhaps wishes to annihilate. Battling a powerful enemy known only as the Warden, he travels through nightmarish and ever-shifting scenes, where the object of his obsession remains constantly just out of reach. She is guarded by the Warden and by a cruel older woman who wishes her ill – but each time the narrator seems poised to rescue her the encroaching ice wreaks violence on her fragile body, or his own base nature sends him hurtling onward in his kaleidoscopic pursuit. Again and again the girl appears, but inevitably she eludes him. This dystopian classic, the last book Anna Kavan published in her lifetime, renders her apocalyptic vision of environmental devastation and possessive violence in unforgettable, propulsive, oneiric prose.

Psychological fiction; Abusive Men; Science Fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Fiction, general; Fiction, science fiction, general; Fiction, dystopian; Christian fiction; alternate history; science fiction; Ice Trilogy; xkcd

Ice

Psychological fiction
Abusive Men
Science Fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Fiction, general
Fiction, science fiction, general
Fiction, dystopian


The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

"Es la mañana de la cosecha que dará inicio a la décima competencia anual Los juegos del hambre. En el Capitolio, Coriolanus Snow de dieciocho años, se prepara para su única oportunidad de alcanzar la gloria como mentor en los Juegos. La antiguamente poderosa casa de Snow ha atravesado tiempos difíciles y su destino depende de la remota posibilidad que Coriolanus pueda superar en gracia, astucia y maniobras a sus compañeros de estudios para ser el mentor del tributo ganador. Las probabilidades están en su contra. Se le ha asignado la humillante tarea de ser mentor del tributo femenino del Distrito 12, el más bajo de lo bajo. Sus destinos están ahora completamente entrelazados: cada decisión que tome Coriolano podría conducirles al éxito o al fracaso, al triunfo o a la ruina. Dentro de la arena, será una lucha a muerte. Fuera de la arena, Coriolanus siente pena por su tributo condenado al fracaso... y debe balancear su necesidad de seguir las reglas con su deseo de sobrevivir sin importar lo que cueste." --

Snow; Panem; Hunger Games; Young adult fiction, science fiction, general; Young adult fiction, action & adventure, survival stories; Young adult fiction, dystopian; The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes; New York Times reviewed; Science fiction; Serie:The_Hunger_Games; Juegos del hambre; adventure fiction; science fiction

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Snow

Panem

Hunger Games

Young adult fiction, dystopian

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes

New York Times reviewed

Science fiction

Serie:The_Hunger_Games

Juegos del hambre


Johnny and the Bomb

Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth! An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable-- and drastic-- effects on the future. But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing? Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.

Juvenile fiction; Time travel; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; Science fiction; England, fiction; World war, 1939-1945, fiction; Children's fiction; Time travel, fiction; Fantasy fiction; Johnny Maxwell (Fictitious character); Children's stories; Adventure and adventurers, fiction; Children's stories, English; Translations into Turkish; English Young adult fiction; English Science fiction; Translations into Russian

Johnny and the Bomb

Juvenile fiction
Time travel
World War, 1939-1945
Fiction
Science fiction
England, fiction
World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Children's fiction
Time travel, fiction
Fantasy fiction
Johnny Maxwell (Fictitious character)
Children's stories
Adventure and adventurers, fiction
Children's stories, English
Translations into Turkish
English Young adult fiction
English Science fiction
Translations into Russian

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Assignment in Eternity

American Science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Science fiction; science fiction

Assignment in Eternity

American Science fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Science fiction

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Artemis

Artemisa es la esperada nueva novela del autor de El marciano, el libro que ha abierto la ciencia ficción al gran público, convirtiéndose en un fenómeno editorial en 40 países con más de 3.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos, y una película de gran presupuesto: Marte de Ridey Scott, con Matt Damon como protagonista. Jazz Bashara es una criminal... O al menos lo parece. La vida en Artemisa, la primera y única ciudad de la Luna, es difícil si no eres un turista adinerado o un multimillonario excéntrico. Así que hacer un poco de contrabando de lo más inofensivo no cuenta, ¿verdad? Sobre todo cuando hay que pagar deudas y tu trabajo como transportista apenas paga el alquiler. De pronto, Jazz ve la oportunidad de cambiar su destino cometiendo un delito a cambio de una lucrativa recompensa. Y ahí empiezan todos sus problemas, pues al hacerlo se enreda en una auténtica conspiración por el control de Artemisa que le obliga a poner en peligro su propia vida... Críticas: «Weir muestra una habilidad de virtuoso al escribir situaciones altamente técnicas y hacerlas comprensibles a los lectores.» Kirkus Reviews «Weir ha creado la combinación perfecta entre acción y aventura clásica en el espacio.» Library Journal Críticas sobre El marciano : «La mejor novela de ciencia ficción en años.» Wall Street Journal «Un impresionante debut.» Entertainment Weekly «Una lectura que devorarán los fans de los viajes espaciales.» USA Today «Un thriller de supervivencia que no da tregua, entretenido y creativo.» Ernest Cline

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Artemis

Smuggling

Conspiracies

Fiction

sci-fi

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense

Conspiraciones

Contrabando

Luna

Ficción

Spanish language materials

New York Times bestseller

Science fiction

Suspense fiction

Moon


The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle; L.J. Ganser

Science fiction-roman.

American Science fiction; Science fiction; Fiction in English; Life on other planets; Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; American literature; adventure fiction; science fiction; CoDominium

The Mote in God's Eye

American Science fiction
Science fiction
Fiction in English
Life on other planets
Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
American literature

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Mother Night

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. “A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal

Black humor (Literature); Fiction; Science fiction; Spy stories; War criminals; Trials; Prisoners; National socialism; World War, 1939-1945; War crime trials; American fiction (fictional works by one author); black comedy; metafiction

Mother Night

Black humor (Literature)

Fiction

Science fiction

Spy stories

War criminals

Trials

Prisoners

National socialism

World War, 1939-1945

War crime trials


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One

Robert Silverberg; Robert A. Heinlein; Arthur C. Clarke; Isaac Asimov; Ray Bradbury

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new generations of writers and fans. Robert Heinlein in "The Roads Must Roll" describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. "Country of the Kind," by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. "Nightfall," by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, is the story of a planet where the sun sets only once every millennium and is a chilling study in mass psychology. Originally published in 1970 to honor those writers and their stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame, Volume One, was the book that introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction. Too long unavailable, this new edition will treasured by all science fiction fans everywhere. The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame, Volume One, includes the following stories: Introduction by Robert Silverberg "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum "Twilight" by John W. Campbell "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey "The Roads Must Roll" by Robert A. Heinlein "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov "The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett "Huddling Place" by Clifford D. Simak "Arena" by Frederic Brown "First Contact" by Murray Leinster "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith "Mars is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury "The Little Black Bag" by C. M. Kornbluth "Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson "Coming Attraction" by Fritz Leiber "The Quest for Saint Aquin" by Anthony Boucher "Surface Tension" by James Blish "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester "The Country of the Kind," Damon Knight "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" by Roger Zelazny At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Science fiction; American Science fiction; English Science fiction; Science fiction, american; Science fiction, english; Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies; Long Now Manual for Civilization

Science fiction

American Science fiction

English Science fiction

Science fiction, american

Science fiction, english

Long Now Manual for Civilization

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Babel-17

In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood. Joint winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1966

Artificial Languages; Fiction; Language; Life on other planets; Specimens; Upside-down books; Women linguists; Women poets; Science fiction; Optical illusions; Fiction, science fiction, general; Linguists; Language and languages; award:nebula_award=novel; American Science fiction; Amerikaans Wetenskapfiksie; American fiction; Amerikaanse fiksie; science fiction

Babel-17

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Language
Life on other planets
Specimens
Upside-down books
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Women poets
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Optical illusions
Fiction, science fiction, general
Linguists
Language and languages
award:nebula_award=novel
American Science fiction
Amerikaans Wetenskapfiksie
American fiction
Amerikaanse fiksie

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This Immortal

This is the first guide to the works of this well-known SF writer. When Roger Zelazny exploded on the science fiction in 1962, it was not with a whimper, but a bang. The fallout was a shower of simile, symbol, and allusion. Images fresh and new burst in fields of variegated color. Rich tapestries full of mythic characters and beasts unfolded in poetic excapes from reality-and always with great style. Yoke, a close friend of Zelazny's since they shared a desk in the first grade, here delineates the author's work, from his very first explorations of fantasy through such classics as Lord of Light, Home is the Hangman, and the magestic Amber series.

American Science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Hugo Award Winner; award:hugo_award=1966; award:hugo_award=novel; Human-alien encounters; Fiction; Rencontres avec les extraterrestres; Romans, nouvelles; Science Fiction; science fiction

This Immortal

American Science fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Hugo Award Winner
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award:hugo_award=novel
Human-alien encounters
Fiction
Rencontres avec les extraterrestres
Romans, nouvelles
Science Fiction


Kentukis

Una novela visionaria sobre nuestro presente interconectado. Se han infiltrado en hogares de Hong Kong, en tiendas de Vancouver, en las calles de Sierra Leona, en plazas de Oaxaca, en dormitorios alemanes. Están por todas partes. No son mascotas, ni fantasmas, ni robots. Son personas reales, pero ¿cómo puede alguien desde Lima caminar libremente por el salón de una casa en Erfuhrt? ¿Cómo puede un desconocido en Bangkok desayunar con tus hijos en Buenos Aires sin que tú lo sepas? Kentukis juega con el hechizo de la conexión entre almas distantes para hablar también de los riesgos a los que estamos expuestos en este mundo cada vez más conectado. Porque confiar en extraños puede llevarnos a todo tipo de aventuras, incluso al amor, pero abrir nuestras casas a personas completamente anónimas podría empujarnos hacia un terror inimaginable. Samanta Schweblin ha escrito una historia que nos resulta turbadora porque narra nuestro presente como una profecía de la que no podemos escapar.

Fiction, dystopian; Romance literature; New York Times reviewed; Technological innovations; Fiction; Technology; Interpersonal relations; Electronic surveillance; Voyeurism; Trust; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Horror; Science Fiction; Dystopia; Contemporary; Speculative Fiction; Adult; Novels

Kentukis

Fiction, dystopian
Romance literature
New York Times reviewed
Technological innovations
Fiction
Technology
Interpersonal relations
Electronic surveillance
Voyeurism
Trust
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Social aspects
Horror
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Contemporary
Speculative Fiction
Adult
Novels


The Year of the Flood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.

Fiction; Regression (Civilization); Environmental disasters; Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Dystopias; Genetic engineering; Friendship; New York Times reviewed; Fiction, science fiction, general; Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author); Fiction, dystopian; Zukunft; Globalisierung; Science fiction; nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-10-11; New York Times bestseller; Environment; Disasters; 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA; Canadian literature; Canadian fiction; Catastrophes écologiques; Romans, nouvelles; Décadence; Large type books; biopunk; post-apocalyptic fiction; satirical fiction; MaddAddam Series

The Year of the Flood

Fiction

Regression (Civilization)

Environmental disasters

Literature

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dystopias

Genetic engineering

Friendship

New York Times reviewed

Fiction, science fiction, general

Fiction, dystopian

Zukunft

Globalisierung

Science fiction

nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-10-11

New York Times bestseller

Environment

Disasters

Canadian literature

Canadian fiction

Catastrophes écologiques

Romans, nouvelles

Décadence

Large type books

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Making Money

'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.' The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up in management. Cue Moist von Lipwig, Postmaster General and former con artist. If anyone can rescue the city's ailing financial institution, it's him. He doesn't really want the job, but the thing is, he doesn't have a choice. Moist has many problems to solve as part of his new role: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the chairman needs his daily walkies, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and the Royal Mint is running at a loss. Moist begins making some ambitious changes . . . and some dangerous enemies. Because money is power and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both . . . 'As bright and shiny as a newly minted coin; clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny' The Times Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

Postal service; Discworld (Imaginary place); Science Fiction & Fantasy; Ex-convicts in fiction; Paper money; Ex-convicts; Postal service in fiction; Fiction; Science Fiction; Paper money in fiction; English literature; Fiction, humorous; Fiction, fantasy, general; Discworld (imaginary place), fiction; Fantasía; Ciencia ficción; Humor; Fiction, general; Fiction, humorous, general; Large type books; fantasy; Discworld

Making Money

Postal service
Discworld (Imaginary place)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Ex-convicts in fiction
Paper money
Ex-convicts
Postal service in fiction
Fiction
Science Fiction
Paper money in fiction
English literature
Fiction, humorous
Fiction, fantasy, general
Discworld (imaginary place), fiction
Fantasía
Ciencia ficción
Humor
Fiction, general
Fiction, humorous, general
Large type books

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The Glass Castle

El Castillo de Cristal es la historia conmovedora de una familia que ama y que también abandona, que es leal y al mismo tiempo decepciona. Su lectura no dejará indiferente a ningún lector que se atreva con ella. Algunas pocas veces en la vida nos encontramos con libros excepcionales. Libros que se nos van imponiendo lentamente, que nos envuelven con su magia y que se instalan en nuestro corazón para no irse más. Así es la historia que nos cuenta Jeannette Walls, una exitosa periodista que durante muchos años ocultó un gran secreto. El de su familia. Una familia al mismo tiempo profundamente disfuncional y tremendamente viva, vibrante. El padre, Rex, es un hombre carismático y entusiasta, que logra transmitir a sus hijos la pasión por vivir. Les enseña física, geología, les cuenta historias. Pero Rex es alcohólico, y cuando está borracho se convierte en una persona destructiva y poco de fiar. La madre es un espíritu libre, una pintora muy orgullosa de su arte que aborrece la idea de una vida convencional y que no está dispuesta a asumir la responsabilidad de criar a sus cuatro hijos. La familia Walls es una familia errante. Viven aquí y allá y sobreviven como pueden. Los niños aprenden a cuidar de sí mismos, se protegen unos a otros, y finalmente consiguen salir del círculo infernal en que se convierte la familia para marcharse a Nueva York. En el camino quedan noches donde duermen al aire libre en el desierto, pueblos donde acuden por una semana a la escuela, vecinos que los ayudan y abusos de todo tipo. Una historia transformadora sobre la locura, la pobreza y el amor. Uno de esos libros después de cuya lectura uno no puede permanecer igual, sino que sale cambiado para siempre. Reseñas: «Un libro excelente... Walls tiene verdadero talento para contar historias.» Publishers Weekly «Walls ha pasado a formar parte de ese excepcional grupo de escritores como Mary Karr y Frank McCourt (Las cenizas de Ángela), capaces de transformar sus memorias de una infancia terrible en excelente literatura.» People «Walls recibió el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora: una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. [...] Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardónica pariente de espíritu libre: su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith». USA Today (Sobre Caballos salvajes) ENGLISH DESCRIPTION MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The first book by the beloved author of the new novel The Silver Star, the extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

Poor; Problem families; Dysfunctional families; Homeless persons; Case studies; New York Times bestseller; Family relationships; nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2007-03-03; Biography; Children of alcoholics; Extraterrestrial beings; Science fiction; Survival; War; Fiction; Reading Level-Grade 11; Reading Level-Grade 12; Child of Impaired Parents; Family Relations; Large type books; West virginia, biography; Rural poor; Poor, united states; Journalists, biography; New York Times reviewed; nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2011-02-13; Casos de estudio; Biografi a.; Hijos de padres alcoho licos; Desamparados; biography; memoir

The Glass Castle

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New York Times bestseller

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Survival

War

Fiction

Reading Level-Grade 11

Reading Level-Grade 12

Child of Impaired Parents

Family Relations

Large type books

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Journalists, biography

New York Times reviewed

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Biografi a.

Hijos de padres alcoho licos

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Hijos de padres alcohólicos

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Biografía

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Women journalists

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Planet of the Damned

Hugo nominated in 1962, originally published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction as "Sense of Obligation." Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition to test achievements in 20 categories of human activities -- but before he can enjoy his victory he's forced to leave his homeworld to help salvage Dis, the most hellish planet in the galaxy.

Fiction in English; Fiction; Science Fiction; American Science fiction; Human-alien encounters; Life on other planets; Fiction, science fiction, general; Extraterrestrial beings; Fiction, fantasy, general; science fiction; Brion Brandd

Planet of the Damned

Fiction in English
Fiction
Science Fiction
American Science fiction
Human-alien encounters
Life on other planets
Fiction, science fiction, general
Extraterrestrial beings
Fiction, fantasy, general

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Blue Mars

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars—a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling. “A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.

Life on other planets; Fiction; Science Fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Hugo Award Winner; award:hugo_award=1997; award:hugo_award=novel; Life on other planets -- Fiction; Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Fiction, science fiction, space opera; Science-fiction américaine; Overpopulation; science fiction; Mars trilogy

Blue Mars

Life on other planets
Fiction
Science Fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Hugo Award Winner
award:hugo_award=1997
award:hugo_award=novel
Life on other planets -- Fiction
Mars (Planet) -- Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Fiction, science fiction, space opera
Science-fiction américaine
Overpopulation

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Green Mars

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic trilogy depicting the colonization of Mars continues in a thrilling and timeless novel that pits the settlers against their greatest foes: themselves. “One of the major sagas of the [latest] generation in science fiction.”—Chicago Sun-Times Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planet’s hostile, barren beauty. Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, partnerships, and rivalries explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.

Hugo Award Winner; award:hugo_award=1994; award:hugo_award=novel; Fiction; Science fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Fiction, science fiction, general; terraforming; trilogy; Science-fiction américaine; science fiction; Mars trilogy

Green Mars

Hugo Award Winner
award:hugo_award=1994
award:hugo_award=novel
Fiction
Science fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Fiction, science fiction, general
terraforming
trilogy
Science-fiction américaine

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based. 'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMES Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing. Discover the book which inspired the classic film with David Bowie and the new Paramount+ series with Chiwetel Ejiofor!

Human-alien encounters; Fiction; Science Fiction; Life on other planets; Fiction, science fiction, general; Readers; Fiction, general; Kentucky, fiction; science fiction

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Human-alien encounters
Fiction
Science Fiction
Life on other planets
Fiction, science fiction, general
Readers
Fiction, general
Kentucky, fiction

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Tunnel in the sky

High school students enter a time gate to an unknown planet for a survival test, but something goes wrong and they have to learn to survive by their own resourcefulness.

society; Survival; political; Interplanetary voyages; Fiction; Science fiction; adventure; space travel; Juvenile fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; General; Fiction - Science Fiction; Classics; Science Fiction - General; Fiction / General; Fiction, science fiction, general; American Science fiction; Children's fiction; Outer space, fiction

Tunnel in the sky

society
Survival
political
Interplanetary voyages
Fiction
Science fiction
adventure
space travel
Juvenile fiction
Long Now Manual for Civilization
General
Fiction - Science Fiction
Classics
Science Fiction - General
Fiction / General
Fiction, science fiction, general
American Science fiction
Children's fiction
Outer space, fiction

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today's most widely read science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for general readers and for scholars interested in Gibson's oeuvre. In addition to providing a literary and cultural context for works ranging from Gibson's first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977), to his recent, bestselling novel, Zero History (2010), the companion offers commentary on Gibson's subjects, themes, and approaches. It also surveys existing scholarship on Gibson's work in an accessible way and provides an extensive bibliography to facilitate further study of William Gibson's writing, influence, and place in the history of science fiction and in literature as a whole.

Science fiction; Fiction, general; American literature; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Sprawl Trilogy; Canadian Fantasy fiction; Computers; Fiction; cyberpunk; science fiction; Sprawl trilogy

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Science fiction
Fiction, general
American literature
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Sprawl Trilogy
Canadian Fantasy fiction
Computers
Fiction

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The CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD

Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods—and risk their lives—in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay. They’d found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. But once there, they wonder about the world around them and how they are faring against the machines. In order to save everyone else, Will and his friends want to take down the Tripods once and for all. That means journeying to the Tripod capital: the City of Gold and Lead. Although the journey will be difficult, the real danger comes once Will is inside the city, where Tripods roam freely and humans are even more enslaved than they are on the outside. Without anyone to help him, Will must learn the secrets of the Tripods—and how to take them down—before they figure out that he’s a spy…and he can only pretend to be brainwashed for so long.

Science fiction; Juvenile fiction; Extraterrestrial beings; Juvenile literature; Children's stories; Large type books; Children's fiction; Music; Thematic catalogs; Library; Catalogs

The CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD

Science fiction
Juvenile fiction
Extraterrestrial beings
Juvenile literature
Children's stories
Large type books
Children's fiction
Music
Thematic catalogs
Library
Catalogs

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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents - to wipe out the world's most bloodthirsty aliens on The List. At the number-one spot, The Prayer is Daniel's ultimate target. With mind-blowing skills like telepathy and the ability to transform and create, Daniel's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Along with his friends Willy, Joe-Joe, Emma and Dana, Daniel hunts down the aliens on The List one by one. But as he battles towards his top target he can't forget one thing: he's got a host of aliens to fight, but on their lists there's only one name at the top . . . and that's his.

Human-alien encounters; Daniel X (Fictitious character); Teen science fiction; Fiction; Children's fiction; Extraterrestrial beings, fiction; Friendship, fiction; Young adult fiction; Extraterrestrial beings; Orphans; Teenagers; Science fiction; Criminals; Life on other planets; Kidnapping; Juvenile fiction; Criminals, fiction; Kidnapping, fiction; Orphans, fiction; Action & Adventure; Fiction / Adventure; Fiction - General; collectionid:jpdx; science fiction; Daniel X

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Human-alien encounters
Daniel X (Fictitious character)
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Fiction
Children's fiction
Extraterrestrial beings, fiction
Friendship, fiction
Young adult fiction
Extraterrestrial beings
Orphans
Teenagers
Science fiction
Criminals
Life on other planets
Kidnapping
Juvenile fiction
Criminals, fiction
Kidnapping, fiction
Orphans, fiction
Action & Adventure
Fiction / Adventure
Fiction - General
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Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle

In 'Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy; or, A Young Reporter on the Lakes' by Howard Roger Garis, readers are transported to the thrilling world of young Larry Dexter as he embarks on a suspenseful adventure to uncover the mystery of a stolen boy. Written in a fast-paced and engaging style, the book combines elements of mystery, friendship, and courage, making it a captivating read for audiences of all ages. Set against the backdrop of the Great Lakes, Garis masterfully intertwines the essence of the lakes with the protagonist's quest for truth, drawing readers into the story with vivid descriptions and plot twists. This book is a prime example of early 20th-century American children's literature, offering readers a glimpse into the literary landscape of the time. Howard Roger Garis, a prolific author known for his contributions to children's literature, brings his expertise to this tale, infusing it with charm and excitement. With his storytelling prowess, Garis creates a memorable and endearing protagonist in Larry Dexter, enticing readers to follow his adventures and cheer him on in his quest for justice. Fans of classic children's literature and mystery novels will delight in 'Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy' for its timeless appeal, captivating storyline, and well-crafted characters.

Fiction; Motorcycles; Adventure and adventurers; Classic Literature; Children's fiction; Science fiction; Swift, tom (fictitious character), fiction; Adventure and adventurers, fiction; Motorcycles, fiction

Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle

Fiction

Motorcycles

Adventure and adventurers

Classic Literature

Children's fiction

Science fiction

Adventure and adventurers, fiction

Motorcycles, fiction


The 5th wave (The 5th Wave #1)

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."—Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up. "Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . . should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires."—USAToday.com

Fiction; Extraterrestrial beings; Science fiction; Survival; War; War stories; YOUNG ADULT FICTION; Alien Contact; Survival Stories; Dystopian; Youth and war; Human-alien encounters; Survival skills; Brothers and sisters; Action & Adventure; Juvenile fiction; Military occupation; Imaginary wars and battles; nyt:young-adult-paperback=2015-08-30; New York Times bestseller; Children's fiction; Extraterrestrial beings, fiction; Survival, fiction; War, fiction; Large type books; Aliens; Dystopias; Thrillers (Children's / Teenage); Love & Romance; Suspense

The 5th wave (The 5th Wave #1)

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Alien Contact
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Dystopian
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Military occupation
Imaginary wars and battles
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New York Times bestseller
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Love & Romance
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New York Times reviewed
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Spanish language materials
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Roman pour la jeunesse

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3001

Un desenlace sorprendente y estremecedor en la conclusión de esta célebre saga. Frank Poole, subcomandante de la nave Discovery que en el año que en el año 2001 partió en misión secreta hacia Júpiter, es encontrado vagando por el espacio mil años después, en estado de hibernación. Frank tendrá que adaptarse a los increíbles cambios acontecidos durante el milenio. El momento cumbre será su reencuentro con su viejo amigo Dave Bowman, que ha sufrido una extraña simbiosis con el ordenador HAL... La Gran Muralla comienza a dar signos de inquietante actividad y la odisea iniciada mil años atrás se precipita a un desenlace tan sorprendente como estremecedor, en la conclusión de esta célebre saga.

Fiction; Thirty-first century in fiction; Outer space in fiction; Science fiction; Human-alien encounters in fiction; Exploration; Thirty-first century; Human-alien encounters; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Science-fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Large type books; New York Times reviewed

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Fiction
Thirty-first century in fiction
Outer space in fiction
Science fiction
Human-alien encounters in fiction
Exploration
Thirty-first century
Human-alien encounters
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Science-fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Large type books
New York Times reviewed

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A Fall of Moondust

A story of the future, about a specially designed air vessel that sinks with its human cargo into a sea of dust in one of the craters of the moon.

English Science fiction; Science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; science fiction

A Fall of Moondust

English Science fiction
Science fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general

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Ecotopia

In the year 1999 Wil Weston, investigative reporter, encounters a new way to live, and a new romantic interest, in a nation in charge of its own biological destiny.

Nature conservation; Utopias; Literary Criticism; Fiction in English; Fiction; Environmentalism; Conservation of natural resources; Nonfiction; Human ecology; Environmentalists; Utopias in literature; Fiction, science fiction, general; Geschichte; Geschichte, jüdisch; Sprache Jiddisch; Anthologie; Jiddisch; Dystopie; Ecologie; Ecology; Utopian societies; Biotic communities; Environmental responsibility; Ecological accountability; Ecology, fiction; Science fiction; Children's fiction; Human ecology--fiction; Environmentalism--fiction; Environmentalists--fiction; science fiction; utopian fiction

Ecotopia

Nature conservation

Utopias

Literary Criticism

Fiction in English

Fiction

Environmentalism

Conservation of natural resources

Nonfiction

Human ecology

Environmentalists

Utopias in literature

Fiction, science fiction, general

Geschichte

Geschichte, jüdisch

Sprache Jiddisch

Anthologie

Jiddisch

Dystopie

Ecologie

Ecology

Utopian societies

Biotic communities

Environmental responsibility

Ecological accountability

Ecology, fiction

Science fiction

Children's fiction

Human ecology--fiction

Environmentalism--fiction

Environmentalists--fiction

Nature conservation--fiction

Conservation of natural resources--fiction

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Bibliography

American Science fiction

Community life

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Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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Child slaves in fiction

Fiction

Darth Vader (Fictitious character)

Space warfare

Child slaves

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Fictitious character)

Space warfare in fiction

Fiction, science fiction, space opera

Science fiction

Ficción

Vader, Darth (Personaje literario)

Life on other planets

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Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

The first novel of the original Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker on a mission to save Princess Leia which leads him to the enemy Death Star where only the Force can save him.

Science fiction; Luke Skywalker (Fictitious character); Fiction, science fiction, general; Skywalker, luke (fictitious character), fiction; Star Wars; Luke Skywalker; Han Solo; Leia Organa; Darth Vader; Obi-Wan Kenobi; C-3PO; R2-D2; Star wars (Motion picture); Children's stories; Comic books, strips; Darth Vader (Fictitious character); Science fiction comic books, strips; Star wars, episode I, the phantom menace (Motion picture); Obi-Wan Kenobi (Fictitious character); Fiction; Fotonovela; Motion picture plays; Leia, princess (fictitious character), fiction; Solo, han (fictitious character), fiction; Fiction, science fiction, space opera; Kenobi, obi-wan (fictitious character), fiction; collectionID:starwars

Science fiction

Luke Skywalker (Fictitious character)

Fiction, science fiction, general

Star Wars

Luke Skywalker

Han Solo

Leia Organa

Darth Vader

Obi-Wan Kenobi

C-3PO

R2-D2

Star wars (Motion picture)

Children's stories

Comic books, strips

Darth Vader (Fictitious character)

Science fiction comic books, strips

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Fictitious character)

Fiction

Fotonovela

Motion picture plays

Fiction, science fiction, space opera

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Gladiator

Fiction; Human experimentation in medicine; Muscle strength; Loneliness; Alienation (Social psychology); Fathers and sons; Fiction, science fiction, general; Individualism; American Science fiction; Science fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction; Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction; Loneliness -- Fiction; Muscle strength -- Fiction; Fathers and sons, fiction; electronic music; rhythm and blues

Gladiator

Fiction

Human experimentation in medicine

Muscle strength

Loneliness

Alienation (Social psychology)

Fathers and sons

Fiction, science fiction, general

Individualism

American Science fiction

Science fiction

Fathers and sons -- Fiction

Psychological fiction

Loneliness -- Fiction

Muscle strength -- Fiction

Fathers and sons, fiction

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Kindred

A Study Guide for Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Fiction; Slaves; African American women; Slaveholders; Slavery; Time travel; Literature; open_syllabus_project; Historical; Science Fiction; African American; Contemporary Women; Fiction, science fiction, general; Slaves, fiction; African americans, fiction; Los angeles (calif.), fiction; Southern states, fiction; Fiction, psychological; Fiction, african american & black, general; Fourth dimension; Popular reading; Enslaved persons, fiction; American literature; Teen fiction; Fiction subjects; Science fiction & fantasy; African American literature; electronic literature; fantasy; science fiction

Kindred

Fiction

Slaves

African American women

Slaveholders

Slavery

Time travel

Literature

open_syllabus_project

Historical

Science Fiction

African American

Contemporary Women

Fiction, science fiction, general

Slaves, fiction

African americans, fiction

Los angeles (calif.), fiction

Southern states, fiction

Fiction, psychological

Fourth dimension

Popular reading

Enslaved persons, fiction

American literature

Teen fiction

Fiction subjects

Science fiction & fantasy


The Salmon of Doubt

“A fitting eulogy to the master of wacky words and even wackier tales . . . Salmon leaves no doubt as to Adams’s lasting legacy.”—Entertainment Weekly With an introduction to the introduction by Terry Jones Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he hitched his own ride to the great beyond much too soon. Culled posthumously from Adams’s fleet of beloved Macintosh computers, this selection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories offers a fascinating and intimate portrait of the multifaceted artist and absurdist wordsmith. Join Adams on an excursion to climb Kilimanjaro . . . dressed in a rhino costume; peek into the private life of Genghis Khan—warrior and world-class neurotic; root for the harried author’s efforts to get a Hitchhiker movie off the ground in Hollywood; thrill to the further exploits of private eye Dirk Gently and two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox. Though Douglas Adams is gone, he’s left us something very special to remember him by. Without a doubt. “Worth reading and even cherishing, if only because it’s the last we’ll hear from the master of comic science fiction.”—The Star-Ledger

Fiction; Science Fiction; English essays; Fiction, science fiction, general; Gently, dirk (fictitious character), fiction; Fiction, humorous; Private investigators, fiction; ENGLISH LITERATURE; Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy; Fiction, humorous, general; Literature and fiction, science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure; Humorous / General; Dirk Gently (Fictitious character); Short stories; Science Fiction / General; Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945); Humour; comic novel; science fiction; Dirk Gently series

The Salmon of Doubt

Fiction

Science Fiction

English essays

Fiction, science fiction, general

Fiction, humorous

Private investigators, fiction

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy

Fiction, humorous, general

Literature and fiction, science fiction

Humorous / General

Dirk Gently (Fictitious character)

Short stories

Science Fiction / General

Humour

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The Final Warning

___________________________ ‘Has all the characteristics of his work . . . pace, action, mystery and cool’ SUNDAY TIMES Max. Fang. Iggy. Gasman. Nudge. Angel. Six extraordinary avian-human hybrids, they are the result of a cruel Biotech experiment which manipulated their DNA and turned them into kids with wings. Hunted all their lives, the flock have had to fight life-threatening battles against their shadowy enemies. But as their predators evolved, their unique ability to fly is no longer enough to save them. Driven to the wastelands of Antartica, each day brings a new threat for the flock. While fighting to save their own lives, they have a new mission to undertake . . . One with potentially devastating global consequences. ________________________________ This book was recently reissued with a new cover, so stock may vary.

Science fiction; Adventure stories; Adventure and adventurers; Juvenile fiction; Genetic engineering; Global warming; Fiction; Fiction, suspense; Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure; Antarctica, fiction; Children's fiction; Adventure and adventurers, fiction; Young adult fiction; collectionid:jpmr; Maximum Ride

The Final Warning

Science fiction

Adventure stories

Adventure and adventurers

Juvenile fiction

Genetic engineering

Global warming

Fiction

Fiction, suspense

Antarctica, fiction

Children's fiction

Adventure and adventurers, fiction

Young adult fiction

collectionid:jpmr

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Red Planet

Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all! From the Paperback edition.

Mars (Planet); Fiction; Science fiction; Life on other planets; Human-alien encounters; Martians; Boys; Juvenile fiction; Space colonies; Fiction, science fiction, general; American Science fiction

Red Planet

Mars (Planet)
Fiction
Science fiction
Life on other planets
Human-alien encounters
Martians
Boys
Juvenile fiction
Space colonies
Fiction, science fiction, general
American Science fiction

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Time for the Stars

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century: 1948-1988 The Man Who Learned Better: The real-life story of Robert A. Heinlein in the second volume of the authorized biography by William H. Patterson! Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) is generally considered the greatest American science fiction writer of the twentieth century. His most famous and widely influential works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress—all published in the years covered by this volume. He was a friend of admirals, bestselling writers, and artists; became committed to defending the United States during the Cold War; and was on the advisory committee that helped Ronald Reagan create the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Heinlein was also devoted to space flight and humanity's future in space, and he was a commanding presence to all around him in his lifetime. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, the revelations in this biography make for riveting reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Science fiction; rah; robert heinlein; Fiction, science fiction, general; Twins; Fiction; Fiction, fantasy, general; American Science fiction; Dinosaures; Fantastique; Littérature fantastique; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Préhistoire; Roman anglais; Children's fiction; Long Now Manual for Civilization; science fiction; Heinlein juveniles

Time for the Stars

Science fiction

rah

robert heinlein

Fiction, science fiction, general

Twins

Fiction

Fiction, fantasy, general

American Science fiction

Dinosaures

Fantastique

Littérature fantastique

Préhistoire

Roman anglais

Children's fiction

Long Now Manual for Civilization


Tilting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 2)

While Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Togo worked out their strategy, the war against an even greater enemy continued . . . They cut the United States in two. They devastated much of Europe. They had a ferocious agenda. And no one could stop them. World War II screeched to a halt as the Russians, Germans, Americans, and Japanese scrambled to meet an even deadlier foe. In Warsaw, Jews welcomed the invaders as liberators, only to be cruelly disillusioned. In China, the Communist guerrillas used every trick they knew. In America, Washington, D.C., was vaporized in a matter of seconds. But humanity would not give up—whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy’s captured radar in England, or battling house to house on the streets of Chicago. . . . As Turtledove’s global saga of alternate history continues, humanity grows more resourceful, even as the menace worsens. No one could say when the hellish inferno of death would stop being a war of conquest and turn into a war of survival—a war for the survival of the planet.

Imaginary wars and battles; Fiction; Fiction, fantasy, epic; Fiction, science fiction, general; Science Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Life on other planets; Space warfare; Fiction, science fiction, military; Fiction, alternative history; World war, 1939-1945, fiction; Guerres et batailles imaginaires; Romans, nouvelles

Imaginary wars and battles
Fiction
Fiction, fantasy, epic
Fiction, science fiction, general
Science Fiction
World War, 1939-1945
Life on other planets
Space warfare
Fiction, science fiction, military
Fiction, alternative history
World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Guerres et batailles imaginaires
Romans, nouvelles

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The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)

The Dark Forest is book 2 of the phenomenal science fiction The Three-body Problem trilogy (also known as Remembrance of Earth's Past) by China's top sci-fi novelist Liu Cixin. An alien civilization of a dying planet is about to take over the earth. How would humans evaluate this civilization? Should they take them as foe or friend? Cixin Liu is an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Nebula Award. The trilogy has been translated into English, titled The Three-body Problem, by Ken Liu (book 1 and 3, ) the sci-fi writer who swept the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy Awards and Joel Martinsen (book 2). Professor Derwei Wang touted The Three Body Problem as the top pick of the Chinese sci-fi genre. Liu is acclaimed to be the Jin Yong (the number one Kung Fu novelist) of Chinese sci-fi. The English titles of the trilogy are: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and "Death's End." "The Three-Body Problem" has won Best Novel of the 2015 Hugo, the top honor of the Sci-fi genre. The English version of the novel is topping the Amazon bestselling list.

Chinese Science fiction; Fiction; Science Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Human-alien encounters; Imaginary wars and battles; FICTION / Science Fiction / General; General

Chinese Science fiction
Fiction
Science Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Human-alien encounters
Imaginary wars and battles
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
General

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Eternity

Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon--a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes. The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without. For physicist Konrad Korzenowski, murdered for creating The Way, and resurrected, is compelled by a faction determined to see it opened once more. And humankind will discover just how entirely they have underestimated their ancient adversaries.

Fiction; Science Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Interstellar travel; Physicists; Voyages interstellaires; Romans, nouvelles; Physiciens; K-pop; science fiction

Eternity

Fiction
Science Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
Interstellar travel
Physicists
Voyages interstellaires
Romans, nouvelles
Physiciens

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Letters from the Earth

Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com

Etiquette; Humor; Specimens; Miniature books; Religion; American wit and humor; American fiction (fictional works by one author); American literature; Science fiction; Humor, general; American letters; Satire; Collected works (single author, multi-form); Fiction, humorous, general; Wit and humor; Twain, mark, 1835-1910; Criticism, interpretation; Philosophy; Christianity; Theodicy; Suffering; Religious aspects; In literature; Good and evil; Bible; anti-clericalism; fiction literature; satire

Letters from the Earth

Etiquette

Humor

Specimens

Miniature books

Religion

American wit and humor

American literature

Science fiction

Humor, general

American letters

Satire

Fiction, humorous, general

Wit and humor

Twain, mark, 1835-1910

Criticism, interpretation

Philosophy

Christianity

Theodicy

Suffering

Religious aspects

In literature

Good and evil

Bible

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Time Must Have a Stop

Science fiction; English literature; British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author); bildungsroman; philosophical fiction; science fiction

Time Must Have a Stop

Science fiction

English literature

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The Memoirs of a Survivor

Fiction in English; Science fiction; British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)

The Memoirs of a Survivor

Fiction in English

Science fiction

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Astro boy

Tomando su segundo siglo por asalto, Astro Boy sigue siendo el robot elegido por legiones de lectores en todo el mundo.

Graphic novels; Science fiction comic books, strips; Comic books, strips; Heroes; Cartoons and comics; Fiction; Comics & graphic novels, general; Children's fiction; Science fiction; Adventure and adventurers, fiction; Literary collections; Comic books, strips, etc; Comic books, strips, etc--japan--juvenile literature; 741.5; Juvenile literature; Juvenile fiction

Astro boy

Graphic novels

Science fiction comic books, strips

Comic books, strips

Heroes

Cartoons and comics

Fiction

Comics & graphic novels, general

Children's fiction

Science fiction

Adventure and adventurers, fiction

Literary collections

Comic books, strips, etc

741.5

Juvenile literature

Juvenile fiction


Pretties

The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted. But beneath all the fun—the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom—is a nagging sense that something’s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally’s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what’s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life—because the authorities don’t intend to let anyone with this information survive.

Fiction; Science fiction; Personal Beauty; Brainwashing; Large type books; Young adult fiction; Ficton; Brainwashing in fiction; Teenage girls; Juvenile fiction; Personal beauty in fiction; Friendship; Reading Level-Grade 9; Reading Level-Grade 11; Reading Level-Grade 10; Reading Level-Grade 12; Plastic Surgery; Self-perception; Personal appearance; Children's fiction; Tally (Fictitious character); Teen fiction; Dystopia; youths; teens; Beauté corporelle; Romans, nouvelles; Adolescentes; Amitié; dystopian literature; science fiction; young adult literature; Uglies series

Pretties

Fiction
Science fiction
Personal Beauty
Brainwashing
Large type books
Young adult fiction
Ficton
Brainwashing in fiction
Teenage girls
Juvenile fiction
Personal beauty in fiction
Friendship
Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 10
Reading Level-Grade 12
Plastic Surgery
Self-perception
Personal appearance
Children's fiction
Tally (Fictitious character)
Teen fiction
Dystopia
youths
teens
Beauté corporelle
Romans, nouvelles
Adolescentes
Amitié


Specials

Tally Youngblood, who lives in a futuristic society where the government radically changes everyone's appearance on their sixteenth birthdays, discovers a different way of life when she is ordered to spy on a colony of rebels.

Reading Level-Grade 9; Reading Level-Grade 11; Reading Level-Grade 10; Reading Level-Grade 12; Fiction; Personal Beauty; Brainwashing; Science fiction; Teenage girls; Insurgency; Juvenile fiction; Personal appearance; Dystopias; Tally (Fictitious character); Children's fiction; Personal beauty in fiction; Brainwashing in fiction; Large type books; science fiction; Uglies series

Specials

Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 10
Reading Level-Grade 12
Fiction
Personal Beauty
Brainwashing
Science fiction
Teenage girls
Insurgency
Juvenile fiction
Personal appearance
Dystopias
Tally (Fictitious character)
Children's fiction
Personal beauty in fiction
Brainwashing in fiction
Large type books

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Witch & wizard

Todo está a punto de cambiar. Solo ellos son el futuro... Este es un libro de una importancia vital, y que revela la verdad prohibida acerca de este peligroso momento de la historia... Este es el increíble testimonio de los hermanos Allgood que fueron arrebatados a su familia en mitad de la noche y encerrados en la cárcel, acusados de hechicería. No son los únicos que han corrido esta suerte. Miles de niños y jóvenes han sido secuestrados. Algunos están en prisiones, otros en paradero desconocido. Su destino es incierto, y se teme lo peor, ya que el actual gobierno no se detendrá ante nada para suprimir la vida, la libertad, la música, los libros, el arte, la magia, y todo lo relacionado con la juventud. La mayor parte de las copias de este libro han sido confiscadas, destruidas o quemadas. Esta edición es una de las pocas que quedan, léela y haz correr la voz antes de que sea demasiado tarde. «Hay muchas y diferentes formas de catalogar el asombroso éxito de James Patterson. Aquí tenéis solo unas pocas: desde 2006, una de cada 17 novelas compradas en EE UU está escrita por James Patterson. Tiene el récord Guinness de ser el autor con más libros en las listas de más vendidos del New York Times, 45, pero este número está ya desfasado...». New York Times Magazine Los blogs han dicho: *** Con Witch and Wizard disfrutaréis de una lectura sencilla, directa, muy activa y rápida. Sin duda es un buen libro, y espero que también sea una buena saga. Libros con alma *** Patterson y Charbonnet han escrito un libro de lo más trepidante y lleno de acción, ni falta ni sobra nada en la trama. Es una novela que prácticamente se lee sola. Librohólicas *** La historia de los Allgood recuerda a la de Fahrenheit 411 o Un mundo feliz. El tiramilla

Brothers and sisters in fiction; Brothers and sisters; Fiction; New York Times bestseller; nyt:paperback_books=2010-11-06; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Young Adult Fiction; Science fiction; Supernatural; Adventure and adventurers; Siblings; Children's fiction; Witches, fiction; Brothers and sisters, fiction; Wizards, fiction; Fantasy fiction; Paranormal fiction; Adventure stories; Witches; Wizards; Magic, fiction; Czarownice i czarownicy; Dyktatura (ustrój); Dzieci; Kontrola; Rodzeństwo; American literature; American fiction; Literatura estadounidense; Novela estadounidense

Witch & wizard

Brothers and sisters in fiction
Brothers and sisters
Fiction
New York Times bestseller
nyt:paperback_books=2010-11-06
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Young Adult Fiction
Science fiction
Supernatural
Adventure and adventurers
Siblings
Children's fiction
Witches, fiction
Brothers and sisters, fiction
Wizards, fiction
Fantasy fiction
Paranormal fiction
Adventure stories
Witches
Wizards
Magic, fiction
Czarownice i czarownicy
Dyktatura (ustrój)
Dzieci
Kontrola
Rodzeństwo
American literature
American fiction
Literatura estadounidense
Novela estadounidense
Hermanos y hermanas
Novela
Littérature américaine
Roman américain
Frères et sœurs
Romans, nouvelles
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Siblings, fiction
Comics & graphic novels, manga, fantasy


Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, to actually find it - and with it their own destruction. Praise for the Culture series 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist

Fiction; Imaginary wars and battles; OverDrive; Science Fiction; Accessible book; Protected DAISY; Long now manual for civilization; science fiction; Culture series

Consider Phlebas

Fiction
Imaginary wars and battles
OverDrive
Science Fiction
Accessible book
Protected DAISY
Long now manual for civilization


Altered Carbon. Vol. 1

CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS (The Unbelievable Gwenpool! Secret Agent Deadpool! Adventure Time! I Am Groot!) and DAVID HAHN (Batman ’66! Bombshells: United!) proudly present a story from a time when there wasn’t internet, but there WERE cyborgs! It’s the 1970s. Things are going great. Steve Austen (used to be an astronaut, now has robo-parts & a laser eye) heads to Japan to help Secret Agent Niko Abe stop a madman with missiles. Steve figures, no sweat. But then…sweat. How’s Steve going to complete his mission, when his fancy $6,000,000 body starts (DRASTICALLY) depreciating in value!?

Science Fiction; Cyberpunk; Thriller; Life on other planets; Fiction; Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction; Fiction, science fiction, general; Long Now Manual for Civilization; Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction - High Tech; Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech; Conspiracy; Murder; Private investigators; Soldiers of fortune; Rich people; Investigation; Interstellar travel; Nanotechnology; Genetic engineering; Immortalism; General; Dystopias; Hard Science Fiction; Action & Adventure; Media Tie-In; Fiction, science fiction, steampunk

Altered Carbon. Vol. 1

Science Fiction

Cyberpunk

Thriller

Life on other planets

Fiction

Fiction, science fiction, general

Long Now Manual for Civilization

Science Fiction And Fantasy

Fiction - Science Fiction

Science Fiction - High Tech

Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech

Conspiracy

Murder

Private investigators

Soldiers of fortune

Rich people

Investigation

Interstellar travel

Nanotechnology

Genetic engineering

Immortalism

General

Dystopias

Hard Science Fiction

Action & Adventure

Media Tie-In

Fiction, science fiction, steampunk


The Difference Engine

1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future: Sybil Gerard—a fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for…. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson’s and Sterling’s unique visions—and the beginning of movement we know today as “steampunk!” From the Paperback edition.

American Science fiction; Computers; Fiction; Steampunk; Steampunk fiction; Fiction, science fiction, steampunk; Computer engineering; New York Times reviewed; Science fiction; alternate history; science fiction; steampunk

The Difference Engine

American Science fiction
Computers
Fiction
Steampunk
Steampunk fiction
Fiction, science fiction, steampunk
Computer engineering
New York Times reviewed
Science fiction

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The Diamond Age

Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer’s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands. Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes—members of the poor, tribeless class. Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian—John Percival Hackworth—in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer. Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist. His quest and Nell’s will ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer—a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive information network that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.

Revolutions; Open Library Staff Picks; Quests (Expeditions); Fiction; Hugo Award Winner; Science Fiction; award:hugo_award=1996; Young women; Nanotechnology; award:hugo_award=novel; Fiction, science fiction, general; Fiction, humorous; Books and reading; Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction; bildungsroman; cyberpunk; postcyberpunk; science fiction; steampunk

The Diamond Age

Revolutions

Open Library Staff Picks

Quests (Expeditions)

Fiction

Hugo Award Winner

Science Fiction

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Young women

Nanotechnology

award:hugo_award=novel

Fiction, science fiction, general

Fiction, humorous

Books and reading

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