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Dune
(Paperback)
Frank Herbert
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Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.
Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis.
Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.
When stewardship of Arrakis is transferred to his house, Paul Atreides must travel to the planet's dangerous surface to ensure the future of his family and his people. But as malevolent forces explode into conflict around him, Paul is thrust into a great destiny beyond his understanding.
And in this game of power, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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.
What lies beyond the veil of death? Journey past this mortal coil
and discover the secrets of the Shadowlands. Study the practices
around death and dying on Azeroth, then follow a Broker through the
groves of Ardenweald, over the gleaming towers of Bastion, and into
the depths of the Maw for a detailed voyage unlike any other.
Featuring gorgeous artwork never before glimpsed by mortal eyes, a
stunning fold-out map, and secrets straight from the game team,
Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond is made to be treasured for
eternity. In his authorial debut, Blizzard Entertainment historian
Sean Copeland teams up with World of Warcraft's Lead Narrative
Designer, Steve Danuser, to open the vaults of hidden knowledge for
all curious souls.
Insurrection: Liberty: Mega-City colonial space, 2135AD. Mining
colony K Alpha 61 renamed itself Liberty after cutting loose from
the Big Meg. Furious at this dissent, and in a bid to stop the
revolt spreading to other colonies, the SJS launched a blistering
attack on Colonial Marshal Kerel Luther's forces. Now the alien
Zhind have been defeated, and the SJS are turning on the
insurrectionists... Insurrection: Mega-City One mining colony K
Alpha 61 has declared independence from the Big Meg and renamed
itself Liberty. This act of defiance has angered the Justice
Department's Special Judicial Squad. In a bid to stop further
colonies from rebelling, war is inevitable..
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The Men
(Hardcover)
Sandra Newman
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From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in
which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from
the face of the earthDeep in the California woods on an evening in
late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their
five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to
sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin
are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y
chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating
theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from
arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone
in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or
where. After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a
world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways
of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come
together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce
resources, Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college
girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of
America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile,
strange video footage called "The Men" is being broadcast online
showing images of the vanished men marching through barren,
otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the
key to the Disappearance?From the author of The Heavens, The Men is
a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias
and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect
society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of
the community.
THE MIND IS IT'S OWN PLACE... Psi -Judge Cassandra Anderson spirals
into her darkest adventures yet, as her greatest nemesis - Judge
Death - returns to plague Mega-City One! Together with his vile
'sisters' Nausea and Phobia, Death has created the Half-Life virus,
unleashing a wave of homicidal behaviour in Mega-City One that only
Anderson can stop - even if it means sacrificing her own life to do
so! The continuing saga of everybody's favourite Psi-Judge, are
written by Alan Grant (Batman, Judge Dredd) and feature the superb
artwork of Arthur Ranson (Mazeworld, Button Man) and Steve Sampson
(Doctor Who Magazine), with bonus material from Mark Millar (The
Ultimates) and Dermot Power (Slaine). THIS VOLUME INCLUDES THE
STORIES HORROR STORY (2000 AD Progs 1132-1137) SEMPER VI (2000 AD
Prog 1140) R*EVOLUTION (2000 AD Progs 1263-1272) HALF-LIFE (JUDGE
DREDD Megazines 214-217) WMD (JUDGE DREDD Megazines 221-226)
LOCK-IN (JUDGE DREDD Megazines 227-230) CITY OF DEAD (2000 AD Progs
1087-1089) THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (JUDGE DREDD Yearbook 1992) BABY
TALK (JUDGE DREDD Mega Special 1992) GEORGE (JUDGE DREDD Yearbook
1993) PLUS! Creator Bios Gallery
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Girl One
(Paperback)
Sara Flannery Murphy
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Firebreak
(Paperback)
Nicole Kornher-Stace
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"Egan is determined to make sense of everything - to understand the
whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally
manipulable) realm - even if it means abandoning comfortable and
comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of
SF and it's why Egan's Best - and his Rest - is worth any number of
looks. -Locus What happens when your digital self overpowers your
physical self? A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to
which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live
forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd
expect. Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized,
scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a
Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the
issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting
themselves down. You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an
Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular
automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the
mathematical "laws of physics." Paul makes Maria an offer to design
and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge
in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer
terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your
normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is
this what she really wants? Is this what we really want? From the
brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in
1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or
is the Copy of you the real you? Skyhorse Publishing, under our
Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range
of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera,
time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia),
fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy,
steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and
the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title
we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national
bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to
publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly
speculative writer of his generation. "Greg Egan is perhaps the
most important SF writer in the world."-Science Fiction Weekly "One
of the very best "-Locus. "Science fiction with an emphasis on
science."-New York Times Book Review Since the Introdus in the
twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically.
Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious
software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic
bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and
friction. Many of these have left the solar system forever in
fusion-drive starships. And there are the holdouts: the fleshers
left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth-some devolved into
dream apes, others cavorting in the seas or the air-while the
statics and bridgers try to shape out a roughly human destiny. But
the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen
disaster ravages the fleshers and reveals the possibility that the
polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical
processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. The
orphan Yatima, a digital being grown from a mind seed, joins a
group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the
knowledge that will guarantee their safety-a search that puts them
on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the
power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the
macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in
the higher-dimensional vacuum. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night
Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of
titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time
travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy
(grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy,
steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and
the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title
we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national
bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to
publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
"Unlike anything I've ever read. Muir's writing is as sharp as a
broken tooth, and just as unsettling." -V.E. Schwab on Gideon the
Ninth "Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and
wildly original." -The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth She
answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits,
and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After
rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues
the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a
mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem.
Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of
the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark's health is
failing, her magic refuses to cooperate, her sword makes her throw
up, and even her mind threatens to betray her. What's worse,
someone is trying to kill her. And she has to wonder: if they
succeeded, would the universe be better off?
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