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Hier is iets betreklik nuut in Afrikaans: wetenskapfiksie vir volwassenes.
Die stories is uiteenlopend, maar deur elk loop die silwer draad van fantasie en wetenskap. Uiteindelik gaan dit natuurlik oor die karakters en Schoombie se gatskop-verteltrant.
Hier is ’n bedrewe skrywer met ’n verstommende verbeelding aan die woord – innovering, spanning en die verrassingselement is op die spyskaart.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history.
It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling
Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big
Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good
citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and
the Party; abstain from all vices; and, most importantly, possess
no critical thoughts of their own. The new notebook he's begun to
write in is definitely against the rules - in fact, the Thought
Police could arrest him simply for having it. Yet, as Winston
begins to write his own history, a seed of rebellion begins to grow
in his heart - one that could have devastating consequences. In
George Orwell's final and most well-known novel, he explores a
dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the
actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens, exercising
power through control of language and history. Its lasting
popularity is testament to Orwell's powerful prose, and is a
passionate political warning for today.
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Sorrowland
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Rivers Solomon
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Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and
raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something
is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. It's changing, it's
itching, it's stronger, it's... not normal.
To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just
the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of
dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it.
In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters
aren't just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.
Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the
tangled history of racism in America and the marginalisation of
society's undesirables. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the
arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.
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Salt Slow
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Julia Armfield
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The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . .
Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives, attended to by the support staff who live on a cramped neighbouring island, where whispers begin to grow into cries for revolution. Meanwhile, life for Prosperans is perfection - and when it's not, their bodies are sent to the mysterious third island: a facility named The Nursery, to be rebooted and restart life afresh.
Proctor Bennett is a Ferryman, who shepherds the soon-to-be retired into the unknown. He never questioned his work until the day he is delivered a cryptic message: "The world is not the world..."
These simple words unravel something that he has secretly suspected. They seep into strange dreams - of the stars and the sea - and the unshakeable feeling that someone is trying to tell him something important. Something greater than anyone could possibly imagine, which could change the fate of humanity itself...
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of
Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you
deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary
journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little
home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots
– fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly
sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and
attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a
family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an
unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’, he learns of a shared dark
past between Hap and Gio – a past spent hunting humans. When Hap
unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their
whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is
captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of
Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family
must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to
rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the
way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection
for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: can he accept love with
strings attached? Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of
Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone
fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the
Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson
comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel
beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.
Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space
between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face
with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's
had about her own strange Cytonic gifts. The Superiority didn't
stop in it's fight for galactic dominance while she was gone,
though. Spensa's team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off,
and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it's only a
matter of time until humanity - and the rest of the galaxy - falls.
Defeating them will require all the knowledge Spensa gathered while
in the Nowhere. But being Cytonic is more complicated than she ever
could have imagined. Now, Spensa must ask herself: how far is she
willing to go for victory, if it means losing herself - and her
friends - in the process. The final book in the Skyward series will
free humanity, or see it fall forever.
Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? Like nothing
is real and it doesn't matter? What if you found out you were
right? Dog Villain, burdened by this ultimate knowledge, has built
a machine. A machine with a single purpose: To destroy the
simulation and free Dog Villain from where he feels trapped inside
the never ending farce. But there's something Dog Villain doesn't
know. At the end of the simulation there will be no freedom. Will
Dog Villain be able to give up control long enough to find the
truth and learn the things that really matter? Based on the
mythology created by Dance Gavin Dance The Tale of The Robot is a
mind bending story for both fans and new comers
The Day The Law Died: It is a dark time in the history of Mega-City
One. Having employed blackmail and coercion in order to topple the
balance of power within the Justice Department, the tyrannical head
of the Special Judicial Squad Judge Cal has managed to secure the
position of Chief Judge. The crazed Cal has enlisted the help of an
army of reptilian alien mercenaries known as the Kleggs, appointed
his pet goldfish as deputy Chief Judge and framed Judge Dredd for
murder in order to maintain power. But Dredd is the kind of Judge
who doesn't go down too easily and together with a rebel army made
up of other Judges and citizens, prepares to fight back. Judge
Dredd Luna 1: In 2061, an international lunar treaty divided a
million square miles of the moon's surface between Mega-Cities One,
Two and Texas City. Every six months one of these cities has to
supply a Judge-Marshal to govern it... enter Judge Dredd! An
environment every bit as deadly as the streets of the 'Big Meg',
Judge-Marshal Dredd has his work cut out for him - especially when
war breaks out during the first Lunar Olympics! The Judge Child:
When Judge Feyy, Mega-city One's oldest pre-cognitive, has a vision
of the city being destroyed in 2120, Judge Dredd and a select group
of other Judges, including future Chief Judge Hershey, are sent on
a mission to find the Judge Child. Apparently, young Owen Krysler
may be the only one with the power to stop the apocalyptic event
from ever happening.
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Earth Abides
(Paperback)
George R Stewart; Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and
fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally
acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century
literature. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. The terrifyingly
prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman.
His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of
all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is
discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The
Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal
hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those
dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic
dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands
alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic
account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs
and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with
uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel
which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to
dazzle and shock.
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