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NEW Troopers Starship
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein It is told through the eyes of Starship Trooper Johnny Rico from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon of infantrymen. His destiny is a galactic war of unlimited violence and destruction in which he and his fellow troopers scour the metalstrewn emptiness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy an insect life form which threatens the very future of mankind. About the Novel Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein first published (in abridged form) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction and published hardcover in 1959. The first-per more here.....
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Dark Elzabeth NEW Novel
The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon - NEW Novel Get other Elizabeth Moon Books click here Description Lou is a high-functioning autistic adult who has made a good life for himself and is he thinks content. But a new manager in the pharmaceutical firm for which he works decides to put pressure on the unit that employs autistic persons. Lou is pressured to undergo an experimental treatment that might "cure" the autism he doesn't think needs curing or risk losing his job--and certainly the accommodations the company has put in place for its autistic employees. About the Author Elizabeth Moon Elizabeth Moon was born March 7 1945 and grew up in McAllen Texas graduating from McAllen High School in more.....
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USED McDowell Wars
Star Wars - Tyrant's Nest- Michael P. Kube-McDowell- Used Book used Paperback good condition Tyrant's Test the third novel in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy was written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell In the wake of a shattered alliance the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars saga… Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat—even at the cost of Han's life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship Luke's continuing search for his mother b find out more.....
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Gould
Reflex - Steven Gould - NEW Novel Davy has always been alone. He believes that hes the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isnt? Reflex released in 2004 picks up ten years after the events in Jumper. Synopsis A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They dont want to hire him and they dont have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him. They have even found a way to keep a teleport captive. Description Davy a young man with the ability to teleport instantaneously to any loca click here.....
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Swift Jonathan Travels Book Gulliver's NEW
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 find out more.....
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Book NEW
Nova Swing - M. John Harrison - New Book Paperback It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change but more problematically parts of it have also begun to fall to earth piecemeal on the Beach planets. We are in a city perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site the zone from out of which pour new inexplicable artefacts organisms and escapes of living algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the universe. They can cause plague and change. An entire department of the local police Site Crime exists to stop them being imported into the city by adventurers ent more information.....
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NEW Emperor
God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert - New Book Get more books in the Dune Series click here The seemingly immortal God Emperor Leto II has ruled his Empire for more than 3 500 years his lifespan lengthened due to his decision in Children of Dune to merge his human body with sandtrout the haploid phase of the giant sandworms of Arrakis. His continued evolution has slowly transformed him altering his human form into what he calls a 'pre-worm'. His body has come to resemble a small version of the ancient sandworms of Arrakis ribbed elongated and covered in scaly sandtrout; his face remains as do his hands and arms but his legs and feet have atrophied to be of no use. He moves from place to plac more details.....
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Book State
Halting State - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Get other Charles Stross Book click here The plot opens with a faux email addressed to Nigel MacDonald listing a job offer. It is later learned that this email is for a work-at-home programmer position at Hayek Associates PLC. It is then learned that a cybercrime has been committed in the MMORPG Avalon Four. A robbery of several thousand dollars worth of "prestige items" occurs in the game's central bank led by a band of orcs and a "dragon for fire support." It is later noticed that this seemingly simple incident has deep implications -- both financial (Hayek stock price) and logistical (compromised cryptographic key more.....
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Book Tower
The Gunslinger - Stephen King - Dark Tower 1 - USED Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In the first book of this brilliant series Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes Roland of Gilead The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world which frighteningly mirrors our own Roland pursues The Man in Black encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerl more information.....
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NEW Road Book McCarthy movie tie Cormac in
The Road - Cormac McCarthy - NEW Book new paperback - movie tie-in edition Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction - click here Get "The Road" in other paperback formats - click here "The Road" the movie information is here The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and seemingly most life on earth. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. McCarthy said the inspiration for Th more information.....
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Daniel Algernon NEW
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - NEW Novel The ideas for Flowers for Algernon developed over a period of 14 years and were inspired by numerous different events in Keyes' life starting in 1945 with Keyes' personal conflict between his parents pushing him through a pre-medical education and his own desire to write. Keyes felt that his education was driving a wedge between him and his parents and this led him to wonder what would happen if it were possible to increase a person’s intelligence. Another key moment came in 1957 while Keyes was teaching English to students with special needs; one student asked him if it would be possible to be put into a regular class if he worked hard a click here.....
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NEW Time Reborn Wheel Robert
The Dragon Reborn- Robert Jordan - New Book 3 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Rand al'Thor having been declared the Dragon Reborn by Moiraine Damodred at the end of the previous book The Great Hunt secretly leaves the Shienaran camp in the Mountains of Mist to go to Tear to prove himself the Dragon Reborn. Along the way he is hunted by Darkhounds. Moiraine Lan Mandragoran Loial and Perrin Aybara chase after Rand. Along the way they encounter a Hunter for the Horn Faile Bashere battle Darkhounds and discover that the Forsaken Sammael rules in Illian. Mat Cauthon is taken to Tar Valon by Verin Mathwin Nynaeve al'Meara Egwene al'Vere Elayne Trakan click here.....
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Eye World Book Wheel NEW Robert Time
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan - New Book 1 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Life in Emond's Field has been pretty boring for Rand Al'Thor and his friends until a strange young woman arrives in their village. Moraine is an Aes Sedai a magician with the ability to wield the One Power and she brings warnings of a terrible evil awakening in the world. That very night the village is attacked by bloodthirsty Trollocs - a fearsome tribe of beast-men thought to be no more than myth. As Emond's Field burns Moraine and her warrior-guardian help Rand and his companions to escape. But it is only the beginning of their troubles. For Moraine believes R more information.....
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Richard
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 click here.....
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Audrey Traveler's Niffenegger
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.....
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Book series First Goodkind
Wizards First Rule - Terry Goodkind- New Book Book 1 of the Sword of Truth series Get other Sword of Truth series books by Terry Goodkind click here Paperback The primary protagonist in Wizard’s First Rule is Richard Cypher a young woods guide. Richard lives in an area of the world known as Westland which is the only part of the world that at the time contained no magic. The Westland is separated from the other lands by a dangerous magical boundary that prevents anyone without powerful magic from passing through it. On the other side of the boundary lie many sovereign nations jointly known as the Midlands and the empire of D'Hara. Richard works as a woods guide leading important politi more details.....
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Case Stevenson Strange Jekyll NEW Louis Robert Mr
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - New Paperback Get other Classic Science Fiction books here Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Mr. Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other.The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language with the ver click here.....
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Machine G
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells - New Get other Classic Science Fiction books here The book's protagonist is a scientist and amateur inventor living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future. His journey takes him to the year A.D. 802 701 where he finds an apparently peaceful and pastoral society. Upon arrival he meets a small human people who name themselves the Eloi. The Eloi live in small communi click here.....
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Ken Grimwood
Replay - Ken Grimwood - New Paperback Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University. He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the next 25 years until despite his best efforts at cardiac health he dies of a heart attack again in 1988. He immediately returns to 1963 but several hours later than the last "replay". This happens repeatedly with different events in each cycle each time beginning from increasingly later dates (first days then weeks then years then ultimately decades). Jeff soon realizes that he cannot prevent click here.....
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Seven Kevin Ashes Worlds Anderson
The Ashes of Worlds - Kevin J. Anderson - New Book 7 of the Saga of the Seven Suns Paperback Get other Kevin J. Anderson books here The allied factions of humanity along with the waning Ildiran Empire and the powerful water elementals and sentient trees have defeated the near-invincible alien race of the hydrogues driving them back into the depths of gas-giant planets. But before peace can heal the wounds between the races two ancient enemies return: the capricious fiery elementals the faeros who mean to burn all those who fought alongside their mortal enemies. And the lost hive race of the Klikiss who intend to reclaim all the worlds they inhabited 10 000 years earlier worlds that are now h more details.....
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