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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
Flight Cursed Beyond Death is a Science Fiction Fantasy which
cleverly weaves horror and the occult into a story that builds
around genuine historical events. It is easy to follow, intriguing
and has a sting in the tail. The story begins in 1962 and continues
through to 2014. It believably makes the normal world part of what
happens in the realms of fantasy/horror by following a logical
progression through events that are disturbing, but dealt with in a
plausible way after the souls of four men become the tools of
immortal entities, intent on returning the Earth to times before
civilization of humans.
Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear's next science fiction epic.
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace. Sunya Song's job is to stop that from happening.
She's an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her - and her family - halfway across the galaxy to save the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called the Baomind.
As vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star's time has nearly ended.
The remote research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that artificial intelligence is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting the lives of Sunya and her family at risk.
Tens of thousands of light years from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.
Attention Blackadder, Python, and Red Dwarf fans: Isambard Smith
and his loyal and noble friend, the psychopathic alien headhunter,
Suruk, are back in a fourth laugh-out-loud installmentIn the 25th
century the future of the galaxy rests on a knife-edge. The actions
of one man could save the British Space Empire or leave Earth at
the mercy of deadly legions of ant-people. That one man is Captain
Isambard Smith, and Earth is in a lot of trouble. After blowing up
a top-secret enemy base, Space Captain Smith and his crew deserve a
rest. But their holiday ends when forces unknown destroy the robot
convoy they were meant to be guarding. Smith finds himself in hot
pursuit of a mysterious vessel that can pass through dimensions,
incurring the wrath of the dreaded Grand Witchfinder of New
Eden--which would be much easier to deal with if his pilot wasn't
cowering under the dashboard and his spaceship wasn't infested with
man-eating toads. Meanwhile, the Empire is gathering its allies to
form a united front against alien tyranny. Unfortunately, the
delicate negotiations have been entrusted to Major Wainscott, a man
who knows no fear and very little about diplomacy or trousers. Once
again, Captain Smith must summon all his courage to unite humanity
behind the Empire. His quest will take him on a journey to face his
greatest fears: from the depths of space, through hell itself--and
even to France.
In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by
intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial
intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their
future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an
experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by
surveillance.
Seeking reprieve from her recent hardships and her family’s addiction
to their devices, May splurges on passes for her family to spend three
nights respite in the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where
forests, streams, and animals still thrive. But when her children come
under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain
motives to save her family.
Written with “precision, insight, sensitivity, and compassion” (Kirkus
Reviews, starred review), Hum is a “striking new work of dystopian
fiction” (Vogue) that delves into the complexities of marriage,
motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and
dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and
utopian possibilities.
Jamie and Todd are horrified to learn that the grand plan, which
they thought had been defeated, might be about to be implemented in
1775, America. Hector and Catherine have to go back in time and
thwart Travis - an agent of the grand plan - who is hell bent on
world domination. Jamie and Todd go with Hector and Catherine on a
mission to 1775, to prevent a super gun from being used in the
battle of bunker hill, during the American war of independence, but
they have only days to stop history from being altered.
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed
since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr
Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and
summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another
magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very
antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men -
which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own
secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble
than they can imagine.
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The Night House
(Paperback)
Jo Nesbo; Translated by Neil Smith
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WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard
Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote
town of Ballantyne.
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate
named Tom goes missing, no one believes him when he says the telephone
booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like
something out of a horror movie.
No one, that is, except the enigmatic Karen, who encourages Richard to
pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number to
an abandoned house in the woods. There he catches a glimpse of a
terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start.
When another classmate disappears, Richard grapples with the dark magic
that's possessing Ballantyne to try and find them before it’s too
late...
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11.22.63
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Stephen King
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
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1984
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George Orwell
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