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Childhood's End
by Arthur Charles Clarke

ISBN 0345347951 (0-345-34795-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning? [via]
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover

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Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Contact
by Carl Sagan

ISBN 0671004107 (0-671-00410-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic. [via]
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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0253328535 (0-253-32853-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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Cronicas Marcianas
by Ray Bradbury, Francisco Abelenda

ISBN 8445073850 (84-450-7385-0)
Softcover, Minotauro Ediciones Avd

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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 0312853238 (0-312-85323-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Ender's Game
by Tami J. Strege

ISBN 1560778024 (1-56077-802-4)
Softcover, Center for Learning

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Footfall
by Larry Niven

ISBN 0345323440 (0-345-32344-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE.

I LOVED IT!"
--Tom Clancy

They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.

The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.

Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender--or death for all humans.

"ROUSING . . . THE BEST OF THE GENRE."
--The New York Times Book Review

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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven

ISBN 0671741926 (0-671-74192-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.
This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and sociology with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity's economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Op Tommyknockers
by Stephen King

ISBN 0399136991 (0-399-13699-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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Ringworld
by Larry Niven

ISBN 0345333926 (0-345-33392-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A two-headed creature and a large, red-furred carnivore are among the members of a party that arrives to explore a mysterious world created in the shape of a ring. [via]
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The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell

ISBN 0449912558 (0-449-91255-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. [via]
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Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 0312853254 (0-312-85325-4)
Softcover, Tor Books

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Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein

ISBN 1568492871 (1-56849-287-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Reserve on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper. In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (as it always does for soldiers), he will learn why he is a soldier. Many consider this Hugo Award winner to be Robert Heinlein's finest work, and with good reason. Forget the battle scenes and high-tech weapons (though this novel has them)--this is Heinlein at the top of his game talking people and politics. [via]
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Tommyknockers
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451156609 (0-451-15660-9)
Softcover, Signet

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[This is Part 2 of a 2 part cassette audiobook edition.]
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover&an invasion of body and soul--and mind. [via]
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 1416523693 (1-4165-2369-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The War Of The Worlds
by Edward Gorey, H. G. Wells

ISBN 1590171586 (1-59017-158-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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War of the Worlds
by Martin A. Danahay

ISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The War of the Worlds: Level 5, Penguin Readers
by Orson Wells

ISBN 1405806389 (1-4058-0638-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth? [via]
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The War of the Worlds/the Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells

ISBN 0706430182 (0-7064-3018-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 1417646519 (1-4176-4651-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Orson Scott Card's Xenocide is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin's story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of pequeninos, and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it's hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender's tale will want to start reading this series with the first books, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Contacto
by Carl Sagan

ISBN 8401462231 (84-01-46223-1)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Ender El Xenocida / Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 8466618090 (84-666-1809-0)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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On Lusitania, Ender Wiggins found a world where humans and the alien race of pequininos live together and find common ground. Ender was wrongLusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but pequininos require it to become adults. Seeing no other alternative, the Startways Congress orders the destruction of the entire planet and all who live there, not knowing that concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that could save the planet and the galaxy.
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El Fin De LA Infancia/Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke

ISBN 9684460422 (968-446-042-2)
Softcover, Minotauro Mexico

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La Guerra De Los Mundos/ The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells, Ramiro de Maeztu

ISBN 840805922X (84-08-05922-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Han legado del espacio exterior. De Marte, para ser exactos. Equipados con terribles máquinas, los invasores aterrizan en nuestro planeta y empiezan a sembrar el terror y la destrucción. Su único objetivo es conquistar la Tierra y convertir a los humanos en sus esclavos, y parece que nada ni nadie podrá detenerlos. Éste es el inicio de una de las guerras más importantes en la historia de la humanidad cuyas repercusiones harán que la Tierra nunca más vuelva a ser la misma. [via]
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El Juego De Ender / Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card, Antonio Sanchez, Jose Maria Rodelgo

ISBN 8466616896 (84-666-1689-6)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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Aliens have attacked Earth twice and have nearly destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has begun breeding military geniuses and training them in the arts of war. Early soldier training takes the form of 'games,' and Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he outmaneuvers each opponent he encounters. He is smart enough to know that time is running out, but he has not yet played a game as intricate as trying to save the planet.
La Tierra se ve amenazada por una raza extraterrestre que se comunica telepáticamente y considera no tener nada en común con los humanos, a los que quiere destruir. Para vencerles es necesario un genio militar y por ello se ha permitido el nacimiento de Ender. Ender es un genio y puede ganar todos los juegos usados por en gobierno para entrenar el ejército a proteger la Tierra. Pero salvar la planeta va a ser el juego más complicado que Ender ha jugado en su vida.
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Mundo Anillo
by Larry Niven

ISBN 8484212440 (84-8421-244-0)
Softcover, LA Factoria De Ideas

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La Voz de los Muertos
by Orson Scott Card, Rafael Marin Trechera

ISBN 8466618082 (84-666-1808-2)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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In the aftermath of the terrible war with the Buggers, Ender Wiggin disappeared and a powerful voice arose in his placethe Speaker for the Dead. Years later, a second alien race is discovered whose first contacts with humans have caused incomprehensible deaths. It is only the Speaker for the Dead who has the courage to confront the truth about this new enemy.
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