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1) Prodigals
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If they're coming for us, who's coming for them? A first contact novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic.
The galaxy is vast, and not everything is what it seems. The invasion we always feared is here.
Which begs the question: what do the invaders fear? If not us, then what . . . or who?
And what happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous,...
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Ray Bradbury's terrifying short story, one of the great stories of childhood-as-nightmare, appeared originally in Esquire in October 1953; it first appeared in book form in the Ballantine first issue of his famous novel, Fahrenheit 451. Charles Underhill, seeking to protect his young son from the agonies of schoolyard bullying in the playground makes a deal with the playground's mysterious manager but only at the end discovers the true nature of the...
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Have you ever wished that science and religion shook hands? It is possible if both surrendered their centuries-old views and renewed their vision. In this book I will take you through simple logic and alternative thinking to show you that science and religion are actually inseparable. Yes, God created this world, but not by simply pronouncing it into existence, but instead worked remarkably hard to accomplish this extraordinary feat. This book will...
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Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award At once a biting satire and a taut sci-fi thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who are sent through a "window" from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap a young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve the powerful conglomerate Dryco as a ready-made cult leader. But when Elvis proves to be a reluctant messiah, things...
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The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. In the World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah, God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and...
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DigiCat Verlag stellt Ihnen diese Sonderausgabe des Buches "Auf silbernen Gefilden" (Ein Mond-Roman) von Jerzy Żuławski vor. Jedes geschriebene Wort wird von DigiCat als etwas ganz Besonderes angesehen, denn ein Buch ist ein wichtiges Medium, das Weisheit und Wissen an die Menschheit weitergibt. Alle Bücher von DigiCat kommen in der Neuauflage in neuen und modernen Formaten. Außerdem sind Bücher von DigiCat als Printversion und E-Book erhältlich....
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DigiCat Verlag stellt Ihnen diese Sonderausgabe des Buches "Wunderwelten" (Wie Lord Flitmore eine seltsame Reise zu den Planeten unternimmt und durch einen Kometen in die Fixsternwelt entführt wird) von Friedrich Wilhelm Mader vor. Jedes geschriebene Wort wird von DigiCat als etwas ganz Besonderes angesehen, denn ein Buch ist ein wichtiges Medium, das Weisheit und Wissen an die Menschheit weitergibt. Alle Bücher von DigiCat kommen in der Neuauflage...
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Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing...
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BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER • "Mind-blowing is an understatement!"-I♥Sci-Fi Online
"Fans of Interstellar, Stargate, and Arthur C. Clarke will love this thought-provoking science fiction saga written for our changing world."-NJ BOOK REVIEW
From Amazon Top 100 author A.W. Davidson comes the time-twisting tale of two scientists on a mission to reverse climate change - and unravel a mystery spanning eons.
In 2296, an unstoppable mass extinction is underway....
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Three classics from the science fiction master in one volume.
From the incomparable H. G. Wells, this volume includes three novels of imagination, wit, and terror.
The Island of Doctor Moreau: The classic tale of a man's nightmarish experience trapped on an island where a doctor conducts gruesome experiments.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth: A science fiction tale with satirical undertones about scientists who create a race of giants,...
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Can a man escape from his past in a fighting battalion on an alien battlefield? Wolfgang Hauser was an aristocrat-right, privileged, pampered … until the day alien invaders overwhelmed his world and stripped him of everything he held dear. Now he was an outcast, without a family or a home, his honor tainted by accusations of cowardice and murder. He was a man on the run, and sooner or later his enemies would find him and destroy what was left of...
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ALGUNOS AMORES DURARÁN HASTA EL ÚLTIMO SUSPIRO
Toda elección tiene sus consecuencias, y Layla tiene que hacer frente a elecciones especialmente complicadas. Luz u oscuridad. Roth, el diabólicamente sexy príncipe de los demonios, o Zayne, el atractivo Guardián que nunca creyó que podría ser suyo. Sin embargo, la elección más complicada que debe tomar Layla es en qué
parte de sí misma debe confiar.
Además, Layla tendrá que hacer frente...
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As the novel opens four young Englishmen are enjoying a peaceful days' relaxation punting on the river but they are all too keenly aware of the storm clouds that are gathering. It is late July 1914 and the assassination of a certain Austrian archduke has Europe poised on the brink of war. Being patriotic manly Englishmen all four friends intend to do their bit by enlisting. Before doing so young Ronald Ewart must pay a visit to Scotland to see his...
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Los Red Battlenauts no tienen piedad. Rugiendo desde la oscuridad del espacio profundo, estas máquinas de guerra de altísima tecnología machacan a ambos bandos en una sangrienta guerra civil interestelar. Nadie puede ni siquiera VER a los rojos, excepto el cabo Solomon Scott. Reclutado por los Diamondbacks, los SEAL más duros, Scott se convierte en un arma secreta en la lucha definitiva por la supervivencia. Batalla tras batalla en peligrosos...
15) The icy princess
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Jennifer Shue is a successful actress at the age of only 22, despite her cold temperament for which she has gained the nickname "icy princess": as graceful as a princess, as icy as ice.
Nothing seems to unsettle her, and her work is the only thing that matters to her.
When she decides to buy Greg McKay's house, little does she know that fate is lurking around the corner and that her life is bound to change for good...
Dedicated to romantics,...
16) Imperio
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El Edificio Imperio ha abierto sus puertas. En él se lleva a cabo la competición en directo más importante del mundo, y para ganarla solo hay que hacer dos cosas: formar parte de sus juegos y conseguir que toda la gente posible se fije en ti.Dana Shifter no quería asistir, al contrario que su hermana pequeña, Liv, que tiene claro que quiere ganar. Ganar es lo que desea también Evan Walker, que quedó segundo en la pasada edición y este año...
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Avelyn's life was turned upside down the day she lost her baby and realized her husband was a monster who couldn't be redeemed. Now that she's divorced and having to make it on her own, she knows she needs to make some major changes in her life. But when she enters the Terran Station in Las Vegas in search of a job, the last thing she expects is to find her arms full of a screaming alien baby, and faced with a very flustered daddy.
Thrace adopted...
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What if Britain's royal family had been murdered?
It's 1919 and an atrocity with worldwide implications plunges a returning WWI veteran straight into a new fight – against the rise of the Nazis and a mysterious multiverse-bending professor determined to help the monsters. But why?
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Doctor Strange
The Great War is over and Major Arthur Bridgehead VC DSO MC is finally going home, but why does the British...
19) Secret Passages
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On the isle of Crete, a renowned physicist experiments with the nature of reality in this enthralling novel from the author of Broken Symmetries. Secret Passages follows the life of mathematics prodigy Manolis Minakis from the quiet hills of Crete to the lofty chambers of Cambridge University. Upon his retirement, Minakis returns to his Greek island home a renowned physicist and successful industrialist-and ready to embark on his true life's work....
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Zeitreisen gehen anders Ein Roman, der die Protagonisten aus dem beschaulichen Kettwig an der Ruhr unserer Zeit über das Römische Reich, die Revolution in Mexiko, die ausgehende Eiszeit und einen Abstecher in den Weltraum wieder zurück nach Kettwig bringt. Immer das Ziel vor Augen, durch Manipulation historischer Ereignisse ein gewünschtes Ergebnis hervorzurufen.
Aus dem Geleitwort von Andreas Eschbach: "Das ist anspruchsvoll. Das ist richtig...
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