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The lengths to which the underworld will go for a legendary prize
is unparalleled. What started as a simple logbook with a piece of
valuable information was soon stolen, traded, and smuggled around
the outer rim and shady ports. With each pirate, thief, gambler,
and criminal who took possession of the book, new insight and
details were added, creating the Smuggler's Guide - a coveted
collection of hidden treasure locations, advice, and hard-earned
data. Recovered from a strong box on the Millenium Falcon, the
Smuggler's Guide traces its own extraordinary journey through such
notorious characters as Maz Kanata, Hondo Ohnaka, Drydon Vos, Lando
Calrissian, and Han Solo. Explore previously unknown details about
the underhanded dealings of the galaxy's underworld.
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
The stunning, internationally bestselling sequel to Caraval.
After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna
has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a
disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but
Tella isn't yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious
criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver:
Caraval Master Legend's true name.
The only chance of uncovering Legend's identity is to win Caraval, so
Tella throws herself into the competition once more. Caraval has always
demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice, but now the game is asking
for more. If Tella can't fulfill her bargain and deliver Legend's name,
she'll lose everything - maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend
and Caraval will be destroyed forever.
The games have only just begun.
"All those disaster movies you've watched, all the YouTube videos
you've seen with people frying eggs on the pavement, seeing ice
cubes melt in minutes, that's nothing. You've no idea." London,
2022. The heat is rising and things are reaching boiling point. As
the world struggles in an endless heatwave, nineteen-year-old Luke
Spargo believes he's the only one who understands what's really
happening to the sun - and if he's right, he's the only one who can
stop it. But Luke's childhood demons are closing in. With the
arrival of vibrant, turbulent Fee, the precarious balance of Luke's
life shifts irrevocably. As his secrets become harder to control,
Luke must confront the terrible price of protecting them.
'My final Science Fiction novel' - Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has
announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final
science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most
illustrious careers in the genre. Set on the Red Planet, it follows
a group of colonists and the problems they have in setting up a new
society. Life can be sustained but new life will not prosper - the
women on the planet only ever give birth to stillborn children.
Exploring many of the author's classic themes, this is a landmark
novel in any genre.
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson
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The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction
President Barack Obama's summer reading choice THE EARTH WAS A
TICKING TIME BOMB. To ensure the survival they had to look beyond
its atmosphere. So they became pioneers. Five thousand years later
and their progeny form seven distinct races and they must journey
to an alien: Earth. A magnificent, visionary work of speculative
fiction from a true visionary that will dazzle you with its depth,
psychology and awesome imagination.
Big, bold military science fiction action from New York Times
bestselling author, Ian Douglas. Marines are still the toughest
sons of guns in the galaxy. As Bravo Company defuses a hostage
crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot "Doc"
Carlyle not only saves the lives of a wounded Marine and two
extraterrestrial friendlies-he averts a terrorist strike intended
to kill billions. His reward? Deployment on a recon mission into
the darkest depths known to man. Abyss Deep is a foreboding ocean
planet torn by extremes: boiling storm world on one side, unbroken
glacier on the other. Humans established a research colony there to
study the planet's giant sea serpents-but the colony has gone
ominously silent. When Carlyle's team arrives, they discover a
vessel belonging to a warlike alien species hovering above the
atmosphere. But below the ice lurks a mystery so chilling it will
make even Elliot Carlyle's blood run cold.
When a girl who said she had been kidnapped from the year 1777
appeared in modern New York, she was either deluded or the victim
of an incredible time-spanning plot. And when it turned out the
strange man with a mechanical servant who had kidnapped her had
been seen in other centuries, it became clear that a
super-scientific plot was afoot that must reach far into the
unknown cities of the future. THE EXILE OF TIME is a novel of
adventure and wonder such as only the hand of a classic master of
science-fiction could have written.
"Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most
influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto
Bolano
In "Counter-Clock World," time has begun moving backward. People
greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and
rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and
powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad
scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly
benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than
alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back
to the grave.
What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back?
Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead?
In "Counter-Clock World," one of Dick's most theological and
philosophical novels, these troubling questions are addressed;
though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself.
Just hours following their climactic battle on the Forerunner
planet Genesis, the Spartans of Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris find
themselves running for their lives from the malevolent machinations
of the now-renegade artificial intelligence Cortana. But even as
they attempt to stay one step ahead, new trouble seems to find
Spartan Edward Buck no matter where he turns. A secret mission
planned by the Office of Naval Intelligence could possibly help
turn the tide, and has Buck reluctantly agreeing to reform his old
team, Alpha-Nine. But if the band is really getting back together
for this one, that means everybody-including the Spartan who Buck
never wants to see again, the one who committed the ultimate
betrayal of trust...
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1984
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George Orwell
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