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A Canticle Lebowitz Walter M Miller JR NEW SF Classic

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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr- an SF Classic In the Utah desert Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel unfolds it is the search itself--for meaning for truth for love--that offers hope to a humanity teetering on the edge of an abyss. About the Novel A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyp click here.....

Russian Amerika Stoney Compton NEW Book

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Russian Amerika - Stoney Compton - New Book Paperback Alaska 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past – as a major in the Czar’s Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now ten years later Grig charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon this is an epic tale of one man’s journey of redemption and courage to face old challenges and help birth a new nation. About more information.....

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift NEW Book

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Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift - New Book Paperback The book presents itself as a simple traveller's narrative with the disingenuous title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World its authorship assigned only to "Lemuel Gulliver first a surgeon then a captain of several ships". Different editions contain different versions of the prefatory material which are basically the same as forewords in modern books. The book proper then is divided into four parts which are as follows. May 4 1699 — April 13 1702 The book begins with a short preamble in which Gulliver in the style of books of the time gives a brief outline of his life and history prior to his voyages. He enjo extra info.....

Ender's Game Orson Scott Card NEW

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Enders Game - Orson Scott Card - New is one of the most well-known novels by Orson Scott Card. It is set in Earth's future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers" an insectoid alien race and the International Fleet is preparing for war. In order to find and train the eventual commander for the anticipated third invasion the world's most talented children including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin are taken into Battle School at a very young age. The book takes place around the year 2135 and its sequels Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind A War of Gifts and Ender in Exile: Ganges follow Ender to different worlds as he travels far into the future extra info.....

Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger NEW

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The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - New The Time Traveler's Wife is a 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger. It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel and his wife an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. In this book unlike many other time travel stories it is not possible to change the past or future. Plot The novel tells the story of Henry DeTamble (born 1963) a librarian at the Chicago Newberry Library and his wife Clare Abshire (born 1971) an artist from a wealthy family who makes paper sculptures. When 20-year-old Clare meets 28-year-old Henry in 19 more information.....

Black Cloud Fred Hoyle USED

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The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle- Used Book Used Paperback in good condition Other Classic Science Fiction Books click here In 1964 astrophysicists on earth become aware of an immense cloud of gas that enters the solar system. The cloud moving to interpose itself between the sun and the earth could wipe out most of the life on earth by blocking solar radiation and ending photosynthesis. A cadre of astronomers and other scientists is drawn together in Nortonstowe England to study the cloud and report to the British government about the consequences of its presence. As the behaviour of the cloud proves to be impossible to predict scientifically they come to the conclusion that it might be a life-f more details.....

Stand Stephen King Uncut USED Book

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The Stand - Stephen King - complete and uncut - Used Get The Stand by Stephen King Uncut NEW click here Other Stephen King Books are here From the Blurb: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile more.....

I am Legend Richard Matheson NEW

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I am Legend - Richard Matheson - New I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of the Dead Dress of White Silk Mad House more.....

Hearts Atlantis Stephen King USED Dark Tower

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Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King - Used Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Low Men in Yellow Coats Hearts in Atlantis Blind Willie Why We're in Vietnam Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are subtle conveyances of the Baby Boomer generation specifically King's view that this generation (to which he self-consciously belongs) failed to live up to their promise and ideals. Significantly the opening epigraph of the extra info.....

Star Wars Force Unleashed NEW Graphic Novel

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - NEW Graphic Novel Other Star Wars Books click here Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the graphic novel version of The Force Unleashed multimedia project. Along with the book it features the storyline of the game. The project bridges the two Star Wars trilogies and introduces a new protagonist Starkiller as Darth Vader's secret apprentice. Blurb Now it can be told: after the birth pangs of the Empire Darth Vader took on a secret apprentice. Sent on deadly missions to track down and destroy the Jedi this apprentice helped shape one of the darkest times in the history of the galaxy. Synopsis Star Wars: The Force Unleashed tells the story of Darth Vader's secret extra info.....

Scattered Suns Kevin J Anderson NEW Saga Seven Suns Book

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Scattered Suns - Kevin J. Anderson - New Book 4 of the Saga of the Seven Suns Paperback Get other Kevin J. Anderson books here The destructive Hydrogues continue their war against humans and the fiery entities the Faeros -a struggle that kills planets and extinguishes whole stars. Newly crowned Mage-Imperator Jora'h the leader of the ancient and vast Ildiran Empire struggles with the knowledge that the Hydrogues are only willing to give them peace if they help destroy the humans. But Jora'h's empire is destroying itself from within when his mad brother launches a bloody rebellion across the Ildiran planets appointing Jora'h's own first-born son as its leader. In the Terran Hanseatic League C find out more.....

Temporal Void Peter F Hamilton NEW Book

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The Temporal Void - Peter F. Hamilton - NEW Book Part Two of the Void Saga Get other Peter F. Hamilton Books click here Description The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity. Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo a ruthlessly single-minded investigator beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time. At the heart more information.....

th Immortal Robert Silverberg NEW Book

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13th Immortal - Robert Silverberg - New Book Paperback Unable to remember his past Dale Kesley believes that the answer to his life's riddle is in Antarctica - the now-forbidden contient - and with a price on his head searches for the one person who can help him find the truth. Original. About the Author Robert Silverberg Silverberg was born in Brooklyn New York. A voracious reader since childhood he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. He attended Columbia University receiving an A.B. in English Literature in 1956. His first published novel a children's book called Revolt on Alpha C appeared in 1955 and he won his first Hugo the following yea more.....

Singularity Sky Charles Stross NEW

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Singularity Sky - Charles Stross - NEW Novel The apparent cause of this distribution of humans is the mysterious and immensely powerful posthuman entity which calls itself "the Eschaton". Although the Eschaton is usually benign and uninvolved in human affairs it strictly enforces certain rules on human civilization out of apparent self-interest. To this end the Eschaton has helpfully left a message throughout human space for example engraved in huge letters on the sides of mountains and dispersed everywhere throughout computer networks. The message is as follows: I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you and exist in your future. Thou shalt not violate causality more.....

Road Dark Tower Bev Vincent USED

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The Road to the Dark Tower - Bev Vincent - Used Book used Paperback in good condition The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. It has been more than thirty years since Stephen King penned those words on a ream of bright green paper to begin his epic fantasy—and the crowning achievement of his literary career—The Dark Tower. Inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came " as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone King's seven-volume saga follows Roland the last gunslinger on his quest to reach the Dark Tower and not only save the world but save every world across cou find out more.....

Steven Gould Jumper NEW

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Jumper - Steven Gould - NEW Novel What if you could go anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do? Davy can teleport. To survive Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for him. Davy wants to find others like himself others who can Jump. Synopsis Deciding he has finally had enough abuse from his drunken father and is now determined to get away--any way he can--Davy discovers that he has the ability to teleport anywhere he wants. So he "jumps" to New York City. But next he finds himself desperately short on cash so he "jumps" into a bank vault. While find out more.....

Star Wars Dark Force Rising Timothy Zahn USED

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Star Wars - Dark Force Rising- Tomothy Zahn - Used Book used Paperback good condition Dark Force Rising is the second entry in the Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn. It takes place in 9 ABY. Dark Force Rising was adapted into a comic in 1997. The number-one New York Times bestselling Heir to the Empire was the publishing event of the year the first novel to continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker Princess Leia and Han Solo beyond the events of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now comes Dark Force Rising the second volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn. Five years after the events of Return of the Jedi click here.....

World War Z An Oral History Zombie War Max Brooks NEW

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks - NEW Novel Description World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (abbreviated WWZ) is a 2006 novel by Max Brooks. Though a follow-up to his humorously deadpan previous book The Zombie Survival Guide World War Z is more serious in tone and strives to be both factually and psychologically convincing. Brooks also states that World War Z follows the "laws" set up in The Zombie Survival Guide and that the guide exists in this world as a precursor to the war. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the novel in this fictional future after the United Nations left out much of his work f find out more.....

Gunslinger Born Dark Tower Stephen King NEW Graphic Novel Comic

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The Gunslinger Born - Stephen King - The Dark Tower - New - Graphic Novel - Comic The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." With those words millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now in a comic book personally overseen by King himself Roland's past is revealed! Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove adapted by long-time Stephen King expert Robin Furth (author of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower: A Concord more information.....

Old Man's War John Scalzi NEW Novel

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Old Man's War - John Scalzi - NEW Novel A stunning novel of the long war for human survival--in a universe replete with hostility. Description Old Man's War is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi published in 2005. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. A loose sequel The Ghost Brigades was published in 2006 and a more direct sequel The Last Colony was published in 2007. Synopsis The first-person narrative is about a soldier named John Perry and his exploits in the CDF (Colonial Defense Forces). Old Man's War is similar in overall structure to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War as it follows Perry's military career from CDF recru click here.....