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Alastair Reynolds Revelation Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - New Revelation Space is a 2000 hard science fiction space opera novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was the first novel set in the universe which became known as the Revelation Space universe although the then-unnamed universe had already been established by several published short stories. Revelation Space was followed in publication by Chasm City a stand-alone novel which was set earlier in the universe's timeline but wasn't strictly a prequel. Chasm City was followed by Redemption Ark which was a direct sequel both to Revelation Space and Chasm City. On the planet Resurgam archaeologist and scion of House Sylveste Dan Sylveste is engaged in a click here..... NEW Issac Asimov Foundation - Issac Asimov The first volume of Asimov's saga which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica" a complete account of human knowledge. About the Novel Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951. Together they form a single plot. Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists who seek to preserve knowledge as the civilizations around them more information..... Reality Peter Emergence Dysfunction F Part One Novel The Reality Dysfunction Part One: Emergence - Peter F. Hamilton - NEW Novel Part One: Emergence is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's Space Opera "The Reality Dysfunction". Description The Reality Dysfunction is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton and is the first book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Publishers on 26 January 1996. The first US edition which was broken into two volumes Emergence and Expansion (the UK paperback is not) followed in July and August 1997 from Time Warner Books. The second US edition published by Orbit Books in October 2008 is published click here..... Stephen NEW Wizard Dark Tower Wizard and Glass- Stephen King - Dark Tower 4 - New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Wizard and Glass - "YES " Blaine said at last. "I AGREE IF I SOLVE ALL THE RIDDLES YOU ASK ME I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE PATH ENDS IN THE CLEARING. IF ONE OF YOU TELLS A RIDDLE I CANNOT SOLVE I WILL SPARE YOUR LIVES AND LEAVE YOU IN TOPEKA FROM WHENCE YOU MAY CONTINUE YOUR QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER IF YOU SO CHOOSE. HAVE I UNDERSTOOD THE TERMS AND LIMITS OF YOUR PROPOSAL CORRECTLY ROLAND SON OF STEVEN?" "Yes." There was a moment of silence broken only by the hard steady throb of the slo-trans turbines bearing them o more here..... Hyperion Novel NEW Simmons Dan Hyperion - Dan Simmons - NEW Novel Simmons became famous in 1989 for Hyperion winner of Hugo and Locus Awards for the best science fiction novel. This novel deals with a space war and is inspired in its structure by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Description Mankind stands on the brink of Armageddon as a consequence of imminent warfare with the Ousters post-humans genetically altered to live in deep space. Humanity's deliverance may rest with seven pilgrims whose unique experiences offer understanding of the unsolved riddles of the Time Tombs located on the planet Hyperion. The unthinking hubris of man resulted in the death of the home-world (Earth) and this arrogant p more here..... Reynolds Rain NEW Alastair Century Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds - NEW Novel Century Rain is a 2004 noir science fiction alternate history mystery novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds Description Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space trilogy is "one of the most impressive serial space operas of recent times" (Locus). The award-winning author continues to forge the future of science fiction with Century Rain. In the far future the technological disaster known as the Nanocaust left Earth uninhabitable. Archaeologist Verity Auger continues to explore the remnants of the planet's environment. But Verity is needed to examine something far more important-the discovery of mid-twentieth century Earth at the far end of a wormhole click here..... Jumper NEW Steven 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 more here..... Mars Red Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - Used Get other Kym Stanley Robinson Books here The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning several centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances made on Mars while Earth suffered from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The three novels are Red Mars (1992) Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and background information was published find out more..... Novel Than Christopher Generation Greater Next Sum NEW Trek L Star Trek The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum - Christopher L. Bennet - NEW Novel Synopsis The Starship Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer Lieutenant T'Ryssa Chen--a half-Vulcan--makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made the Rhea comes under attack from the Einstein--a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilat more information..... NEW The Wastelands - Stephen King - Dark Tower 3 - New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands follows The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three as the third volume in this remarkable series which well may be the most extraordinary and most imaginative cycle of tales in the English language. Inspired in part by Robert Browning's narrative poem Stephen King has written once again of his twenty-year affair with The Dark Tower and its strange world that is both so familiar and unfamiliar to us. Writing of his masterwork King reveals that he is ". . .still able to find Roland's world when I set click here..... NEW A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge - New A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge an award-winning space opera about superhuman intelligences well-developed aliens variable physics space battles love betrayal genocide and Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 (tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis). Two major plotlines exist in the Fire; both are triggered by the revival of a malevolent five billion year old quasi-Power described as a "malevolent class 2 perversion" and initially known as the "Straumli Realm Perversion" (named after those responsible for its rebirth) but known eventually because of its cancerous more here..... Richard Matheson NEW Legend I am 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 here..... 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 find out more..... Niffenegger Traveler's NEW Audrey Time Wife 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 click here..... Redemption Ark Reynolds NEW Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds - New The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed!Many many millennia ago the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race...and awakened the Inhibitors.On Yellowstone where no one is quite who they appear the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with extra info..... John Old War NEW Man's Novel 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 more information..... NEW Atwood Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - New Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid's Tale the book is often categorized as science fiction novel but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year. Returning to the dystopic themes of Atwood's earlier novel The Handmaid's Tale Oryx and Crake presents a very different click here..... Cormac McCarthy NEW The Road - Cormac McCarthy - New 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 The Road came during a visit to El Paso Texas with his young son in 2003. Imagining what the city might look like in the future he pictured "fires on the hill" and thought about his son. He took some initia more details..... Fahrenheit Bradbury Ray NEW Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451 - The 50th Anniversary Edition - NEW Novel Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance as resonant today as it was when it was first published over 50 years ago. Description First published in 1953 Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero a book burner suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch. Synopsis Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires.The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning. Along more details..... Novel Dark Stephen King Born Gunslinger Tower Graphic NEW The Gunslinger Born - Stephen King - The Dark Tower - New - Graphic Novel 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 Concordance") a more details.....

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