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Double Star
By Robert A. Heinlein. 1956
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles…
as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever! Hugo Award winner.Cats vs. Robots #1: This Is War
By Margaret Stohl, Kay Peterson, Lewis Peterson. 2018
#1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson’s hilarious middle grade debut has it all: robot overlords,…
secret feline agents, and earthling humans who are in for a real catastrophe.With examples of why coding is fun and other STEM applications cleverly woven into this fun and thoughtful story about looking beyond binary terms, this is the perfect novel for fans of House of Robots and The Tapper Twins. The Robot Federation and the Feline Empire have been at war for eons. And now that fight is coming to a tiny primitive planetoid…Earth. The mission for both cats and robots: retrieve the Singularity Chip. With it, cats can live past their nine lives, and robots are granted eternal battery life. Meanwhile, twin siblings Max and Min Wengrod are as different as can be. Min always gets good grades, and she loves to read and build robots. Max hates school, and prefers to play games and spend time online with friends.When Max rescues two kittens and is determined to keep them, Min is horrified that these furballs could ruin her chances at the Battle of the Bots competition. But with hidden forces at play in their own house, and the larger war between cats and robots fast approaching, will the twins be able to put aside their differences before they get caught in the crossfire?Gaslight Chronicles Box Set 2
By Cindy Spencer Pape. 2014
Cards & Caravans Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them from burning her at the stake. Connor…
McKay knows there's no way she can be guilty of murdering village children. But telling anyone what he thinks would mean revealing his own powers—something he can't risk without revealing a plot that's bigger than the two of them. Ashes & Alchemy Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. But when Minerva Shaw lands on Sebastian's doorstep, desperately seeking a doctor for her young daughter, it's he who will need protecting—from emotions he'd thought buried long ago. Dragons & Dirigibles When airship engineer Melody McKay's dirigible explodes and plunges her into the yard of a gothic manor, she suspects foul play. She resolves to crack the mystery while in the care of Victor Arrington, the stuffy-yet-disarming Earl of Blackwell. As they navigate a treachery so deep it threatens the lives of everyone in Black Heath, the earl becomes unexpectedly attached to his fiery houseguest, and Melody discovers a softness in her heart for him. But when the enemy strikes, there's more at risk than just their future together.Coda
By Emma Trevayne. 2013
The Accidental War: A Novel
By Walter Jon Williams. 2018
Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times…
bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall series—a tale of blood, courage, adventure and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of a cadre of desperate exiles.It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a rigid, tradition-bound military establishment, Captain Gareth Martinez and Captain the Lady Sula are stewing in exile, frustrated and impatient to exercise the effective and lethal skills they were born to use in fighting the enemy.Yet after the ramshackle empire left by the Shaa conquerors is shaken by a series of hammer blows that threaten the foundations of the commonwealth, the result is a war that no one planned, no one expected, and no one knows how to end.Now, Martinez, Sula, and their confederate Nikki Severin must escape the clutches of their enemies, rally the disorganized elements of the fleet, and somehow restore the fragile peace—or face annihilation at the hands of a vastly superior force.Active Memory
By Dan Wells. 2018
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the third installment in a thrilling sci-fi…
noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.Even in a world where technology connects everyone’s minds, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden.For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: When she was two years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss’s wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud between the Carnesecas and the Maldonados. The secrets from the past rise violently to the surface when Zenaida's freshly severed hand shows up at the scene of a gangland shooting. If Zenaida is—or was—still alive, it means there’s even more about Marisa’s past that she doesn’t know.And when everyone from Los Angeles gangs to the world’s largest genetic engineering firms becomes involved in the case, it’s clear there’s more happening under the surface than anyone cares to admit.The truth is out there, and Marisa will have to thread together lost friends, corporate assassins, a gang lord’s digital brain, and what might be a literal ghost from the past in order to find it.Planet Bear (Once Upon a Harem #1)
By Rebecca Royce. 2018
Jessica White never intended to stray from her intended path Her assignment was hard but simple Travel through…
the unrestricted path of space corridor that runs between Planet Bear Planet Wolf and Planet Cat to human territory to deliver the packages the Union have entrusted her with The pay day she gets when she completes her job will seriously help her family But when she gets attacked and ends up crash landing on Planet Bear her life changes immediately Finn Cole and Rylan aren t just any shifters they run the planet and if they want their human mate accepted they re going to change everything to get what they want She is their mate Everyone else can get out of their way But Jessica isn t at all sure she wants to go along with this mating Their furniture is too big their food is weird she s not a bear shifter and she can t defend herself from crazy bears shifting to threaten her life The brothers three will have to convince her they re worth all the adjustment or lose her to spaceAfter Darkness Fell
By David Berardelli. 2014
In this sequel to And Darkness Fell, it has been nearly three months since the plague of death has wiped…
away most of the U.S. population. People continue to die, while others have gone into hiding from those who have turned into vicious savages. Most of the power grids have stopped working, and food and other necessities have become nearly non-existent. Alan Moss and his partner, Brooke Fields, remain living in quiet solitude in Alan's family home on their 88-acre farm in rural western Pennsylvania. They have managed to survive with the help of a home generator and stored food and supplies that Alan's uncle had accumulated before the old man died. But their stores have dwindled over the months, and occasional forays into the surrounding countryside for gas and canned goods have become necessary. It is only a short trip to the local country store, but with vicious killers now wandering the hills in packs, Moss and Fields know that every day could be fraught with terror, and each time they leave the house could be their last day on earth.The Lost World
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1990
The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big game hunter and a…
journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. The Lost World is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest sciencefiction stories ever written.Nina in Utopia
By Miranda Miller. 1950
A breathtakingly original novel of time travel, Bedlam, and a mad Victorian painter London, 1854: Nina, the wife of an…
ambitious doctor, is heavily traumatized by the death of her young daughter and finds herself mysteriously transported 150 years into the future. A tourist in the 21st century, she believes she is witnessing a Utopia, with the grime and evil of Victorian London expunged, and while in the future, she embarks upon a brief affair. Returning to her own time, her husband takes fright hearing her experiences and has her committed to Bedlam, where she meets Richard Dadd and finds another Utopia under the charge of a doctor with 21st-century ideas on patient rehabilitation. Meanwhile, her husband is on a collision course with her lover who is traveling to find her from another time, in this mesmerizing blend of time travel, Victoriana, and romance.Crying Star, Parte 2
By Kane Banway, María del Carmen Sánchez. 2018
"Aún separados por años luz, ahora y siempre sentiremos la necesidad de matarnos los unos a los otros por una…
u otra razón. Y no crea ni por un solo instante que la humanidad pueda quedarse corta de pretextos en el futuro: aún peor, se recicla”. La Olimpo se encuentra bajo el fuego enemigo. Por primera vez Perseo está entre la muerte y las elecciones drásticas que debe tomar para sobrevivir. El mundo, su mundo se va resquebrajando a cada instante y con cada una de sus decisiones. Segunda parte de “Crying Star” en la que ya era hora de poner a prueba los ideales de Perseo y ver hasta dónde puede conducir una moral llevada a su extremo.Shadow City
By Diana Pharaoh Francis. 2012
The world is falling apart. The magical apocalypse has come. Now is the time to guard the covenstead against both…
raiders and refugees. But Max has been stolen by a powerful demi-god who is determined to force her to find a way to use a magical power she never knew she had--even if it kills her. Meanwhile, back in Horngate, a Fury is birthing. When the creature breaks free of the fragile bonds that enclose her, her rage will scour the covenstead from the earth. Max finds herself in the Shadow City, a place of mysteries and magic, where she must battle for her freedom or become a slave to creatures of dreadful greed and power. Back in Horngate, Alexander must swallow his anger and pride if he hopes to defeat the Fury, a creature that no one has ever successfully fought before. In the end, it will be courage, friendship, faith and loyalty that win the day. Or else so one will live to see tomorrow.The Legacy Chronicles: Chasing Ghosts (Legacy Chronicles #4)
By Pittacus Lore. 2018
The X-Files meets The X-Men in this digital original companion series that's set in the world of Pittacus Lore’s #1…
New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series and its spin-off series, the Lorien Legacies Reborn.This is the fourth 100-page novella, continuing the electrifying story of fan favorite characters Six and Sam. The couple may have decided to leave Peter McKenna’s covert organization, but they still have unfinished business. Six and Sam feel responsible for Ghost, one of the young Human Garde they’d met back in New Orleans. They’re not sure why the girl turned against them in Mexico, but they are determined to track her down and get some answers. But are they chasing after a friend or a foe? And will they need to rescue her or defeat her? When the group finally makes contact, it seems like they might be able to convince Ghost to come back to the Academy. That is until then their plans go up in flames, forcing Six and Sam to jump into action. Without any backup from McKenna or the HGA. Without their Legacies fully returned. And without a clue as to who their real enemy is.Always Coming Home
By Ursula K. Le Guin. 1985
A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the…
culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance (Mammoth Books)
By Trisha Telep. 2013
Love will find a way - 19 fantastic future-set romances.The good news is, in the future there will be no…
shortage of romance. On space ships, on newly-colonized planets or on a barely recognizable Earth, life forms, whether human, alien or something in between, will find their way to love.As giant corporations grasp new opportunities for profit and future armies clash, both in deep space and 'dirtside', former romantic partners try to put the past behind them and time-travelling rebels set out to romance the past.These science fiction stories of future love and lust - by Marcella Burnard, Bianca d'Arc, Jess Granger, Linnea Sinclair, C. L. Wilson and many more - are brimming with passion and humour. So, even though in space no one can hear you scream, they might just be able to hear you laugh.The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women
By Mike Ashley. 2010
Rare jewels of Victorian fiction highlight the fantastic contributions made by women writers in the early development of science fictionA…
selection of early science fiction short stories by women are collected here, along with an introduction exploring the contributions women made in the early development of the field--in particular the different perspectives they cast on the wonders or fears that technological and scientific advances may bring. The contributions of women to the history of science fiction and to the genre's development has been sorely overlooked. Frankenstein, generally reckoned as the first true work of science fiction, was by Mary Shelley, and one of the first utopian works written in America was also by a woman, Mary Griffith. A companion volume to his acclaimed The Darker Sex, Mike Ashley's latest collection is more essential reading by such female writers as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, Adeline Knapp, and many others.The Blood of Angels
By Johanna Sinisalo. 1958
Another haunting novel of eco-speculation from Johanna Sinisalo, the award-winning author of Troll and a powerhouse of the Finnish science…
fiction and fantasy sceneIt is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, it's clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvo's special knowledge of bees just may enable him to glimpse a solution to catastrophe: he takes a desperate step onto a path where only he and the bees know the way but it propels him into conflict with his estranged, but much-loved son, a committed animal activist. A magical plunge into the myth of death and immortality, this is a tale of human blindness in the face of devastation--and the inevitable.Birdbrain
By Johanna Sinisalo. 1958
From the author of the critically acclaimed Troll, the new novel from Johanna Sinisalo is full of her trademark style,…
surreal invention, and savage humor Set in Australasia, this is the story of a young Finnish couple who have embarked on the hiking trip of a lifetime, with Heart of Darkness as their only reading matter. Conrad's dark odyssey turns out to be a prescient choice as their trip turns into a tortuous thriller, with belongings disappearing, and they soon find themselves at the mercy of untamed nature, seemingly directed by the local kakapo--a highly intellegent parrot threatened with extinction. This is a skillful portrait of the unquenchable desire of Westerners for the pure and the primitive, revealing the dark side of the explorer's desire--the insatiable need to control, to invade, and leave one's mark on the landscape. But what happens when nature starts to fight back?Man in a Cage
By Brian M. Stableford. 1975
Harker Lee is a survivor. His mind withstands the threat of insanity and the pressure of imprisonment. His lifelong struggle…
to keep mind and body together in the face of the hostile environment of the maximum-security block is a struggle against the society of his fellow men. But that society can still find a need for him; a need for the ability to survive which it is testing to the full. He was taken from his cell once to be used in experiments in reading minds. Now he is brought forth again, to endure the ultimate test: to fly a Titan spaceship through hyperspace to the stars. Starflight destroys the minds of sane men. But Harker Lee is not sane and his mind has strength which sane men lack. In Harker Lee, the man whom society is caging for his crimes, now lies the hope that man might break out of the greatest of all cages: the void of empty darkness which enfolds the Earth. In this chilling, enthralling novel of psychology and science fiction, one final escape must be made, for a man and for mankind.Doorways in the Sand
By Roger Zelazny. 1976