An evocative story of a young boy thrown into the thick of the Cold War when he is faced with some very tough choices, the sort which turn a boy into a man - and which could also spell doom for all life on Earth if he chooses wrong....[more]

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The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startlingly original and powerful novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words....[more]

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Frank Poole was last seen alive in the vicinity of the United States Spaceship Discovery en route to Jupiter's moons. The year was AD 2001 and the Series 9000 HAL computer on board Discovery had malfunctioned....[more]

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Book Seven from The Wheel of Time. Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat come ever closer to the bowl ter angreal that may reverse the world's endless heat wave and restore natural weather conditions....[more]

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For more than 30 years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons. As anyone knows who has been touched by the storytelling magic of Anne McCaffrey, to hear of the exotic world of Pern is to inhabit it - and to experience its extraordinary dragons is to soar aloft with them and share their dazzling adventures....[more]

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For some years now, Robert Silverberg has been publishing a string of elegant and sophisticated alternate history stories, the Roma series, to which "A Hero of the Empire" belongs: a world in which the Roman Empire never fell, and the Pax Romana has continued even to the present, creating a society half-strange and half-familiar, full of haunting echoes of our own timeline, yet also very different....[more]

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Ex-confederate army captain John Carter finds himself unwittingly transported to Mars, while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians, whose culture is based on the ability to fight for their race....[more]

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This first volume of the Earthsea Cycle is a tale of wizards, dragons, and shadows, played out in a world like and unlike our world, in an archipelago of imagined islands....[more]

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Renowned UFO researcher Timothy Good has gathered reports from all over the world to show that UFO sightings are an international phenomenon. In Above Top Secret, Good argues that U....[more]

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George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words....[more]

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This gripping tale of the future anticipates Ayn Rand's later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In the dark ages of the future, individuals have no name, no independence, and no values....[more]

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They called him unfit to rule - a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. He had learned powerful secrets at the knee of the mystical sage Merlin....[more]

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When David Innes and his inventor friend pierced the crust of the Earth in their new burrowing device, they broke out into a strange new inner world of eternal daylight - a world in back of the Stone Age, where prehistoric monsters still lived, and cave men and women battled against cruel, inhuman masters....[more]

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It's been 20 years since the end of the Cylon war. The 12 human colony worlds are rebuilding and the Cylons...the Cylons have been just too quiet. They are nowhere to be found....[more]

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For 40 years, the Twelve Colonies of Man experienced peace, united since the war against the man-made Cylons. The Cylons, mechanical beings created to perform the manual labor civilization required, were gone forever....[more]

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