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All the Weyrs of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345368932 (0-345-36893-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Weyrs of Pern'Book summary:For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planets surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. Now, for the first time, it looks as if that dream can come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and Flar and Lessa, Weyr-leader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavate the ancient remains of the planets original settlement, they uncover the colonists voice-activated artificial intelligence system which still functions. And the computer has incredible news for them: There is a chance a good chance that they can, at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all. When McCaffreys beloved dragons roar and their riders soar upon the beasts mighty backs...fans of Pern will likely be enthralled. Publishers Weekly [via]
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Children of Godby Mary Doria RussellISBN 067945635X (0-679-45635-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of God : A Novel'Book summary:Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future.
Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place.
Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Chil-dren of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell's special literary magic. [via] -
Collected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. DickISBN 0806512768 (0-8065-1276-8)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'Book summary:Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal [via]
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells'Book summary:Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Congoby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060541830 (0-06-054183-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Congo'Book summary:If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for that to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of '80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you'll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton's other work. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Dhalgrenby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553253913 (0-553-25391-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'Book summary:What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).
The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Ender's Shadowby Orson Scott CardISBN 031286860X (0-312-86860-X)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Shadow'Book summary:Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Excessionby Iain BanksISBN 0553575376 (0-553-57537-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excession'Book summary:Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.
There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.
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Footfallby Larry NivenISBN 0345323440 (0-345-32344-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Footfall'Book summary:"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."
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The Forge of Godby Greg BearISBN 0312930216 (0-312-93021-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forge of God'Book summary:"A gripping panorama of a world in peril" (Chicago Sun-Times) from the author of Anvil of Stars. June 26, 1996: One of Jupiter's moons disappears. September 28, 1996: A mysterious cinder cone is found in Death Valley. October 1, 1996: An enormous granite mountain is discovered in Australia. It wasn't there six months ago. . . . "Bear's best novel".--San Diego Union. [via]
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293389 (0-553-29338-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!
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I Sing the Body Electricby Ray BradburyISBN 0553263196 (0-553-26319-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Inversionsby Iain BanksISBN 1857236262 (1-85723-626-2)
Hardcover, Orbit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inversions'Book summary:Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas," is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess.
Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct.
No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal. "Inversions" is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers. [via]
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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. WellsISBN 1595400281 (1-59540-028-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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- The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition: ISBN 1846377757 (1-84637-775-7)
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Softcover, Wildside Pr - The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition: ISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
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- The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition: ISBN 1846377757 (1-84637-775-7)
Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 1420925482 (1-4209-2548-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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- Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0451529898 (0-451-52989-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0486290271 (0-486-29027-1)
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Island of Dr. Moreau: ISBN 0812567072 (0-8125-6707-2)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom - Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0451191897 (0-451-19189-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0451521919 (0-451-52191-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Island of Dr. Moreau: ISBN 0679602305 (0-679-60230-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0681103612 (0-681-10361-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Island of Dr Moreau: ISBN 0760755841 (0-7607-5584-1)
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 8497594347 (84-9759-434-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Minority Reportby Philip K. DickISBN 0806521686 (0-8065-2168-6)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Minority Report'Book summary:Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes The Minority Report, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety and The Eyes Have It. [via]
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The Minority Report and Other Classic Storiesby Philip K. Dick, James TriptreeISBN 0806523794 (0-8065-2379-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Mostly Harmlessby Douglas AdamsISBN 0613139461 (0-613-13946-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Harmless'Book summary:Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. [via]
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312850581 (0-312-85058-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastwatch'Book summary:Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.
Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Robots and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345328949 (0-345-32894-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robots and Empire'Book summary:Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win.... [via]
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Shadow Of The Giantby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312857586 (0-312-85758-6)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Of The Giant'Book summary:Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.[via]
For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic ENDER'S GAME, and its parallel, ENDER'S SHADOW.
Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.More editions of Shadow Of The Giant:
Sundiverby David BrinISBN 0553269828 (0-553-26982-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Ubikby Philip K. DickISBN 0679736646 (0-679-73664-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 1416523693 (1-4165-2369-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary: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: ISBN 1416903682 (1-4169-0368-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 1593080859 (1-59308-085-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 1595400303 (1-59540-030-3)
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Softcover, Benbella Books - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 1596792531 (1-59679-253-1)
Hardcover, Spotlight - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0451522761 (0-451-52276-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0460873032 (0-460-87303-2)
Softcover, Everyman - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0486295060 (0-486-29506-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0486405524 (0-486-40552-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0486419371 (0-486-41937-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0553213385 (0-553-21338-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The War Of The Worlds: ISBN 0809593130 (0-8095-9313-0)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0812505158 (0-8125-0515-8)
Softcover, Tor Books - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0973728213 (0-9737282-1-3)
Softcover, Coscom Entertainment - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0531169634 (0-531-16963-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0688131379 (0-688-13137-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0786407808 (0-7864-0780-8)
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Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0671673041 (0-671-67304-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0804900450 (0-8049-0045-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0893753475 (0-89375-347-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0755104269 (0-7551-0426-9)
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The War Of The Worldsby Edward Gorey, H. G. WellsISBN 1590171586 (1-59017-158-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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War of the Worldsby Martin A. DanahayISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War of the Worlds'Book summary: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 Readersby Orson WellsISBN 1405806389 (1-4058-0638-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds: Level 5, Penguin Readers'Book summary: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 Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0706430182 (0-7064-3018-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Weby Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The White Dragonby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345341678 (0-345-34167-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Dragon'Book summary:A LEGEND? , A MYTH? , A FAIRY TALE? A NICE SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE. [via]
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Xenocideby Orson Scott CardISBN 1417646519 (1-4176-4651-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Xenocide'Book summary: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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Ender El Xenocida / Xenocideby Orson Scott CardISBN 8466618090 (84-666-1809-0)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender El Xenocida / Xenocide'Book summary: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.[via]More editions of Ender El Xenocida / Xenocide:
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La Guerra De Los Mundos/ The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Ramiro de MaeztuISBN 840805922X (84-08-05922-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Guerra De Los Mundos / the War of the Worlds'Book summary: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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Ubikby Philip DickISBN 8498000831 (84-9800-083-1)
Softcover, LA Factoria De Ideas
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