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1) The long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, humankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by stepping. Valhalla is emerging more than a million steps from Datum our Earth. Thanks to a bountiful environment, the Valhallan society mirrors the core values and behaviors of colonial America. And Valhalla is growing restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government. Soon Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal...
Author
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xix, 562 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A textbook for library students and reference for public librarians and booksellers to books people read voraciously just for entertainment, including westerns, crime novels, adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Defines each genre, describes its characteristics and subgenres, groups authors according to type or subject, and provides a selective annotated bibliography of the history and criticism of each genre.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It was not his war.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders.
But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster....
Author
Series
Artemis awakening novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed and the animals (and the humans brought to live there) were bioengineered to help the guests enjoy their stay…but there was always the possibility of danger so that visitors could brag that they had “bested” the environment. The Empire was...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites", Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series. Demonic forces time-warp him into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of undead beasts, including a ghastly army of skeletons.
Author
Language
English
Description
Elon Musk is the most daring entrepreneur of our time There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies...
7) Spacehunter
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
1983 ; 2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 90 min.), sd., col. ;
Language
English
Description
Blast off on a high-powered adventure starring Peter Strauss as a galactic bounty hunter menaced bya mechanical madman. It is the year 2136 and Wolff (Strauss), while answering a distress signal from Terra Eleven, agrees to rescue three beautiful maidens from the plague-ridden planet. When the women are kidnapped by henchmen of Overdog (Michael Ironside), the wicked half-man/half-machine who rules the planet, Wolff takes off in hot pursuit. As he...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (17 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harlan Ellison's work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. From the...
Author
Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
235 pages
Language
English
Description
DOM SALABOS HAD A LOT OF ADVANTAGESAs heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?
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