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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Harrison Solow, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500200 (1-4165-0020-0)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Bring The Classics To Life. This novel has been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details sequence the events draw inferences from story context develop another name for the chapter and choose the main idea. Let the Classics introduce Kipling Stevenson and H.G. Wells. Your students will embrace the notion of Crusoe s lonely reflections the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. In our society knowledge of these Classics is a cultural necessity. Improves fluency vocabulary and comprehension. [via]
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- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 1555760910 (1-55576-091-0)
Softcover, Edcon Pub Group - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 157646279X (1-57646-279-X)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 1853260312 (1-85326-031-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 140272599X (1-4027-2599-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas: ISBN 1404340963 (1-4043-4096-3)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 1578400325 (1-57840-032-5)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 157765806X (1-57765-806-X)
Hardcover, Spotlight - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0812550927 (0-8125-5092-7)
Softcover, Tor Books - 20,000 Leagues under the Sea: ISBN 0816718806 (0-8167-1880-6)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 0883011042 (0-88301-104-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 1416500200 (1-4165-0020-0)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ISBN 1555760910 (1-55576-091-0)
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Ron Miller, Jules Verne, Paul WrightISBN 0789434288 (0-7894-3428-8)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:The adventure begins when Professor Aronnax accidentally becomes a prisoner of the very monster he is seeking to destroy -- the submarine Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Invited to experience the marvels of the Nautilus' magnificent undersea world, Arronnax struggles to piece together Nemo's tragic past. This exciting retelling captures the essence of Verne's visionary and unforgettable story, while also explaining the fascinating facts and fantasies of Captain Nemo's marvelous ocean realm. A unique cross-section of the Nautilus, color photographs, diagrams, and narrative illustrations explore Verne's unique vision and knowledge of the deep. [via]
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Lisa R. Church, Dan AndreasenISBN 1402725337 (1-4027-2533-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:[via]Jules Vernes classic science fiction fantasy carries its heroProfessor Aronnax of the Museum of Parison a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the oceans depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Malvina G. VogelISBN 0866119698 (0-86611-969-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Library Binding: 240 pages Publisher: Abdo Pub Co; First Edition edition (June 1992) Language: English [via]
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20.000 Leguas De Viaje Submarino / 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 9583001384 (958-30-0138-4)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: '20.000 Leguas De Viaje Submarino / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the worlds greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo. [via]
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The Algebraistby Iain M. BanksISBN 1597800449 (1-59780-044-9)
Softcover, Night Shade Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Algebraist'Book summary:It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.[via] -
Art Song: The Marriage of Music and Poetryby Barbara MeisterISBN 0893416355 (0-89341-635-5)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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The Cat Who Walks Through Wallsby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399131035 (0-399-13103-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'Book summary:Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, Colonel Colin Campbell (23rd century writer, traveller and bon viveur) is pursued by mysterious forces. Heinlein is also the author of "Stranger in a Strange Land". [via]
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The Cat Who Walks through Walls: A Comedy of Mannersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441094996 (0-441-09499-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary:Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
City of Golden Shadowby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Consider Phlebasby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292811 (0-553-29281-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Consider Phlebas'Book summary:The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination. [via]
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A Deepness in the Skyby Vernor VingeISBN 0812536355 (0-8125-3635-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Deepness in the Sky'Book summary:This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters. In the sky, hopes of rebellion against tyranny continue despite soothing lies, brutal repression, and a mental bondage that can convert people into literal tools. Down below, the engagingly sympathetic spiders have their own problems. In flashback, we see the grandiose ideals and ultimate betrayal of the merchant culture's founder, now among the human contingent and pretending to be a senile buffoon while plotting, plotting... Major revelations, ironies, and payoffs follow. A powerful story in the grandest SF tradition. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Doomsday Bookby Connie WillisISBN 0553562738 (0-553-56273-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doomsday Book'Book summary:Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
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Dragonflightby Anne McCaffreyISBN 1560600748 (1-56060-074-8)
Softcover, Eclipse Books
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I Will Fear No Evilby Robert Anson HeinleinISBN 0441359175 (0-441-35917-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Walter James Miller, Frederick Paul WalterISBN 1557508771 (1-55750-877-1)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Based solely on the original French version, this edition contains "the lost 23%" of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. [via]
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The Number of the Beastby Robert HeinleinISBN 0449130703 (0-449-13070-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Number of the Beast'Book summary:When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril. [via]
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Best-selling fantasy author Tad Williams (Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series) begins a far-reaching cyberpunk saga with Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizing something is wrong on the network. Some of the younger kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, but they can't get back out. The clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but everyone who tries to find out what's going on ends up dead. Settle in for a long, enjoyable ride, because this 770-page monster is just the first of four projected novels. [via]
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Out of the Silent Planetby C. S. LewisISBN 002086910X (0-02-086910-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of the Silent Planet'Book summary:[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Geoffrey Howard - aka - Ralph Cosham]
Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel from Lewis's Space Trilogy, (also called the Space Trilogy,the Cosmic Trilogy and the Ransom Trilogy,) considered to be his chief contribution to the science-fiction genre. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for mankind. On a walking tour of the English countryside, Ransom falls in with some slightly shady characters from his old University and wakes up suddenly to find himself naked in a metal ball in the middle of the light-filled heavens. He learns that he is on his way to a world called Malacandra by its natives, who also call our world Thulcandra...the Silent Planet. The Malacandrans see planets as having a tutelary spirit: those of the other planets are good and accessible, but that of Earth is fallen and twisted. [via]More editions of Out of the Silent Planet:
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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- Quicksilver: ISBN 0060833165 (0-06-083316-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Quicksilver: ISBN 0060599332 (0-06-059933-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Quicksilver: ISBN 0380977427 (0-380-97742-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Quicksilver: ISBN 0434008931 (0-434-00893-1)
Softcover, Heinemann - Quicksilver: ISBN 0434008176 (0-434-00817-6)
Hardcover, Heinemann - Quicksilver: ISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Quicksilver: ISBN 0060833165 (0-06-083316-5)
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Readers Digest Best Loved Book for Young Readers: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0945260296 (0-945260-29-6)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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Rendezvous with Ramaby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0553287893 (0-553-28789-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rendezvous with Rama'Book summary:An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible "southern" half of the enormous cylinder. Rama's unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II. [via]
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- Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0899684491 (0-89968-449-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0345350561 (0-345-35056-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0151768358 (0-15-176835-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0330240242 (0-330-24024-2)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 057501587X (0-575-01587-X)
Hardcover, Gollancz - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0816130388 (0-8161-3038-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0553287893 (0-553-28789-3)
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- Rendezvous with Rama: ISBN 0899684491 (0-89968-449-1)
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Rendezvous With Ramaby Clarke Arthur C.ISBN 0613069498 (0-613-06949-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rendezvous With Rama'Book summary:An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible "southern" half of the enormous cylinder. Rama's unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II. [via]
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Ringworld Engineersby Larry NivenISBN 0345334302 (0-345-33430-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ringworld Engineers'Book summary:Ringworld: the most stunning artifact in known space, an articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area. Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstasy), the aged Kzin warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of mad Nessus, return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. IN the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's incredible secrets... [via]
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The Salmon of Doubtby Douglas AdamsISBN 1400045088 (1-4000-4508-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Salmon of Doubt'Book summary:On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacywhich includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfictionDouglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.
In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boys first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans cant make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
Welcome to the wonderful mind of Douglas Adams.
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 1400096901 (1-4000-9690-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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- A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 0679736654 (0-679-73665-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 0879979232 (0-87997-923-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library - A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 0375424024 (0-375-42402-4)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books - A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 0385016131 (0-385-01613-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday - A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 1400096901 (1-4000-9690-1)
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- A Scanner Darkly: ISBN 0679736654 (0-679-73665-4)
Shadow Puppetsby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765340054 (0-7653-4005-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Puppets'Book summary:In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow has dissipated.
Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in Shadow of the Hegemon, rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It's up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.
Shadow Puppets is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 0871358816 (0-87135-881-6)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises
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Startide Risingby David BrinISBN 0785787380 (0-7857-8738-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Startide Rising'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Timelineby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345417623 (0-345-41762-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timeline'Book summary:When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Timeline: ISBN 034544194X (0-345-44194-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd - Timeline: ISBN 0345468260 (0-345-46826-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Timeline: ISBN 0375704167 (0-375-70416-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Timeline: ISBN 061333633X (0-613-33633-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Timeline: ISBN 0679444815 (0-679-44481-5)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 1420922645 (1-4209-2264-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:[via]Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.
The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarinethe Nautiluscommanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice andmost spectacular of allthe magnificent lost city of Atlantis!Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at the Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Completely Restored and Annotatedby Jules VerneISBN 0870216783 (0-87021-678-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Completely Restored and Annotated'Book summary:This edition is based solely on the original French text of this classic work. This edition contains the the lost 20% of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. Contains 45 woodcut illutrations.Translated by Water James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter [via]
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Prisonniers Du Tempsby Micheal CrichtonISBN 2266115227 (2-266-11522-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prisonniers Du Temps'Book summary:601pages. poche. Broché. Au beau milieu du désert d'Arizona, un couple trouve sur la route un vieil homme en robe de bure. Il n'a plus sa tête, parle sans cesse d'écume quantique et ses doigts semblent gelés. Il meurt quelques heures plus tard à l'hôpital de Gallup. On ne retrouve sur lui que le plan d'un monastère français du XIVème siècle et un objet fabriqué par la société ITC -entreprise de haute technologie spécialisée dans la recherche en physique quantique -pour laquelle il travaillait. ITC est dirigée par Robert Doniger, un brillant -et non moins arrogant -physicien qui, depuis quinze ans, est à la pointe des recherches, et dont la plus récente et secrète entreprise est de recréer, grâce à une équipe de chercheurs, une communauté médiévale du XIVème siècle en Dordogne. Quelle n'est pas l'extrême surprise de ces historiens de l'université de Yale lorsqu'ils vont comparer le plan des fondations du monastère trouvé sur le vieillard et les résultats de leurs propres investigations: celui-là est plus riche d'informations que toutes leurs recherches! Mais ce n'est que la première de leurs surprises: quelques jours plus tard sont mis au jour des parchemins remontant à six cent cinquante ans: l'un d'entre eux, daté très précisément du 4 juillet 1357, dit "A l'aide". Il est signé par le professeur Johnson, leur propre directeur de recherches, parti deux jours plus tôt rencontrer Robert Doniger. [via]
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Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)by Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376362 (0-307-37636-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)'Book summary:Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes del mundo. Al principio de la novela sabemos que ITC necesita otra gran cantidad de dinero para seguir adelante con sus investigaciones y para conseguirlo se necesitan pruebas de los adelantos en sus proyectos para enseñar a los posibles inversionistas. Robert decide que las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la región de la Dordogne en Francia son las más avanzadas y allí envía a Diane, una de sus ayudantes para que consiga estas pruebas.
Un grupo de expertos americanos está excavando el castillo de Castelgard y todos sus alrededores. Diane les informa que ITC quiere que vayan más de prisa y que empiecen ya la reconstrucción de los edificios. El profesor Johnson, el responsable de los trabajos, le contesta que es totalmente imposible, que todavía no saben lo suficiente para hacerlo con autenticidad. Pero, es evidente que ITC sabe mucho más que los historiadores de cómo era Castelgard, tiene planos del monasterio, de todo ¿Pero cómo?
Johnson acompaña a Diana a ITC para informarse y lo que descubre ni no lo habría soñado. ITC ha desarrollado un sistema de viajar hacia atrás en el tiempo. El método está basada en la física cuántica, descompone la materia del lugar de origen y lo recompone en el tiempo elegido. Miembros del equipo de ITC ya han viajado al Castelgard de hace 600 años y por lo tanto saben exactamente como eran la ciudad, el castillo, el monasterio...
Mientras tanto en Francia los arqueólogos descubren una pila de documentos dentro de las excavaciones y sobre uno está escrito en su letra un mensaje escrito por Johnson, " Ayúdame, 7.4.1357". Todos los tests demuestran que es auténtico, fue escrito en el año que pone.
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