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The world’s greatest heroes must defeat the evil Dormammu and
free the planet from his insidious mind control in the ultimate
team-up action from Marvel Crisis Protocol Dormammu, Lord of the
Dark Dimension has almost completed his conquest of Earth, with a
stranglehold on the minds of its citizens. Only a few have managed
to resist him… To free the world, Doctor Strange must reassemble
his Shadow Avengers, while Tony Stark and a team of amoral tech
geniuses cook up a tech defense to break the mind control. As the
Shadow Avengers defend Earth, even against those heroes under
Dormammu’s influence, Ms Marvel must enlist an unlikely ally to
destroy the evil lurking within the Dark Dimension.
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Roadside Picnic
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Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
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The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first
contact that inspired the classic film Stalker Red Schuhart is a
stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some
unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of
the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien
visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone
and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the
nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is
for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous
and hostile depths. Readers can't stop thinking about Roadside
Picnic: 'A story of a horrific yet fascinating place, a story of an
ordinary and unlikable man just trying to get by, a philosophical
interlude on humanity and its significance or lack thereof, of
greed and wonder, and the fever dream of the soul scream. It still
speaks to me' Goodreads reviewer, 'Such an intriguing setting for
me, such an unusual take on alien interaction' Goodreads reviewer,
'It is a thought-provoking, hard-to-put down masterpiece, most
probably the best introduction to Soviet science fiction. A must
read for any sci-fi fan' Goodreads reviewer, 'A fantastic and
creative exploration of what first contact might be like' Goodreads
reviewer, 'The tone of the book is akin to that of some noir works,
dark, gritty, getting darker and grittier as the tale wears on . .
. Like many great books, the meaning of the ending is left up to
the reader' Goodreads reviewer, 'A beautifully depressive and
wonderfully atmospheric science fiction novel about life on Earth
after an alien "Visitation" that leaves humans with more questions
than answers . . . Once I started reading it today, I couldn't
stop. The story captured my heart and held my attention' Goodreads
reviewer, 'This is the sort of book that you read and then
immediately feel the need to lend it to someone you know so that
they can experience and enjoy it themselves . . . I was truly
astonished-by both the poignancy and the deceptive(?) simplicity of
this relatively short novel' Goodreads reviewer,
Earth is on course for a devastating invasion from the Dark
Dimension, forcing the world's mightiest heroes into unthinkable
alliances, in this heart-stopping new novel in the Marvel: Crisis
Protocol series Doctor Strange created the Shadow Avengers to save
the world from Dormammu, but instead they're on the verge of
dissolution. When sudden weather anomalies across the world
correspond with Asgardian heroes emerging from portals ripe with
Dormammu's magical signature, the Shadow Avengers realize the
"Master" is making his move. Loki, Venom, and Green Goblin are
behind a ceremony plotting to open a portal big enough to encompass
Dormammu's presence. From the Sanctum Sanctorum to the streets of
NYC to beautiful Wakanda, the Shadow Avengers must stop Dormammu at
any cost - but the Master, in all his cunning wisdom, has something
greater in store that will doom the world once and for all.
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Wild
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Joma West
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Everything good is wild. It's the word we use when something's
worth something. Wild is what you want to be, wild is how you want
to look, wild is what you want to have. The world is a dangerous
place. People live in domed cities, walls keep nature out,
everything is civilised. But there is a way to experience a
different kind of world. Step into a word museum, plug into a
simulation, experience being anything, anywhere, anytime...All the
wild kids are doing it. So that's how it begins. I walk into a
museum with one aim: to understand 'wild'. It's important. Because
if you're wild, you can fit in. You're not alone.
Caught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is
transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of
the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater,
despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire
because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man.
And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much
of its soil - so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the
age of sixty. And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. Asimov's Galactic
Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the
twentieth century's greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and
wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction's Golden
Age.
The third collection of Britain's best-loved homegrown superhero,
collects stories published in Buster from 1978 through to 1979.
Billy Farmer, AKA the Leopardman continues to juggle his tough home
life with his career as Selbridge's premier superhero! As the
Leopardman, Billy has managed to thwart countless dastardly
villains, but now he faces an all new challenge as The Snow Beast
is in town, intent on causing chaos during a cold winter...
A stunning blend of vivid fantasy and political drama, The Vanished
Queen is the timely story of a young resistance fighter working to
overthrow a totalitarian ruler's regime of terror and lies.
"[G]ripping...this is the novel the world needs now" (Kate
Heartfield, Nebula Award finalist and author of Aurora
Award-winning novel Armed in Her Fashion). Long ago, Queen Mirantha
vanished. King Karolje claimed she was assassinated by a
neighboring ruler, but her people knew the truth: the king had
Disappeared her himself. Now the queen's disappearance is hardly a
memory-merely one among many horrors the king's reign has wrought.
But when Anza, a young student impassioned by her father's unjust
execution, finds the missing queen's diary, she is inspired by
Mirantha's words-joins the resistance group to overthrow the king.
Prince Esvar is the second son to an evil king. Trapped under his
thumb and desperate for a way out, a chance meeting with Anza gives
him the opportunity to join the resistance. Together, they might
have the leverage to move against the king-but if they fail, their
deaths could mean a total loss of freedom for generations to
follow. In this dangerous game of court politics, one misstep could
lead to a fate worse than death. Set in a world where resistance is
as dangerous as it is important, The Vanished Queen is a "big,
dark, intricate novel" (Lousia Morgan, author of A Secret History
of Witches) about the courage and sacrifice it requires to take on
a tyrant.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper
that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the
most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking,
feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and
Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of
turn-of-the-century America. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman
frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded
mansion. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she
can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much
too nervous. And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which
seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes...
Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as
they arrive in a female-only society. Peace and tranquillity thrive
in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their
own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive.
Cal Kestis leads the Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star
Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi:
Survivor. Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew
of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal's crew has brought down bounty
hunters, defeated Inquisitors, and even evaded Darth Vader himself.
More important, Merrin, Cere, Greez, and faithful droid BD-1 are
the closest thing Cal has had to a family since the fall of the
Jedi Order. Even as the galaxy's future grows more uncertain by the
day, with each blow struck against the Empire the Mantis crew grows
more daring. On what should be a routine mission, they meet a
stormtrooper determined to chart her own course with the help of
Cal and the crew. In exchange for help starting a new life, the
Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable
tool for their fight against the Empire. And even better, she can
help them get to it. The only catch-pursuing it will bring them
into the path of one of the Empire's most dangerous servants, the
Inquisitor known as the Fifth Brother. Can the Imperial deserter
truly be trusted? And while Cal and his friends have survived
run-ins with the Inquisitors before, how many times can they evade
the Empire before their luck runs out?
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Emma
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Jane Austen
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Mega-City One: a future metropolis plagued by every crime
imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force
acting as judges, juries and executioners. Toughest of all is Judge
Dredd. He is the law! Volume 20 in this best-selling series sees
Dredd travel to the North African city of Luxor, where he has to
battle a flesh-hungry mummy! The past catches up with Dredd when an
undead abomination from the ashes of East Meg One travels to the
Big Meg with vengeance on its' mind. Mean Machine is back! Plus the
return of the first-ever published Judge Dredd artist, Mick
McMahon!
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Another Now
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Yanis Varoufakis
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In the nightmare metropolis of the future he is judge, jury and
executioner - he is Judge Dredd! The best-selling Complete Case
Files series continues with Judge Dredd leaving the mean streets of
Mega-City One to bring his own brand of 'justice' to other parts of
the world. The hunt for one perp leads the lawman to the ruins of
Cincinnati, while another criminal racket has links to the Far
East. Against his better wishes, Dredd must join forces with
People's Justice Ministry Inspector Liu Chan Yeun, known on the
streets as 'Johnny Woo'!
In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats
memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business.
Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick. In an
alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no
cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones-the recollectors-need
the treatment only once a day. Freya Izquierdo isn't lucky. The
high school senior is a "degen" who needs artificial recall several
times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories that take her to her
knees, she's desperate to remember everything that will help her
investigate her father's violent death. When her sleuthing almost
lands her in jail, a shadowy school dean selects her to attend his
Foxtail Academy, where five hundred students will trial a new tech
said to make artificial recall obsolete. She's the only degen on
campus. Why was she chosen? Freya is nothing like the other
students, not even her new friends Ollie, Chase, and the alluring
Fletcher Cohen. Definitely not at all like the students who start
to vanish, one by one. And nothing like the mysterious Dean
Mendelsohn, who has a bunker deep in the woods behind the school.
Nothing can prepare Freya and her friends for the truth of what
that bunker holds. And what kind of memories she'll have to access
to survive it. "Vaca's debut is a thrilling and often unsettling
examination of the elusive nature of memory and truth. The Memory
Index will leave you breathlessly turning pages until its
satisfying conclusion." -Jonathan Evison, New York Times
bestselling author of Small World Get hooked on The Memory Index
Duology: Book 1: The Memory Index Book 2: The Recall Paradox
(coming Spring 2023)
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High-Rise
(Paperback, Reissue)
J.G. Ballard; Introduction by Ned Beauman
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From the author of `Crash' and `Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving
tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within
the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the
affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail
parties degenerate into marauding attacks on `enemy' floors and the
once-luxurious amenities become an arena for riots and
technological mayhem. In this visionary tale of urban
disillusionment society slips into a violent reverse as the
isolated inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges,
create a dystopian world ruled by the laws of the jungle. This
edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works,
featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including
Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and
brand-new cover designs.
A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their
existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the
Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.
Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their
captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending
their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society.
Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans'
culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.
Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for
many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin's
'Hainish Cycle'. It explores a future history of Earth and
pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and
resistance. 'A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote,
packs a powerful emotional and critical punch'- Tordotcom 'Deeply
moving and shocking by turns'- Suzanne Reid 'Le Guin writes in
quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are
being torn apart by massive forces in society . . . and who fight
courageously to remain whole' - The New York Times Book Review
Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest
in science fiction
Behind enemy lines, Jedi Knight Aayla Secura's covert mission is
threatened by an encounter with Shon-Ju-a former Padawan turned
cult leader. Shon-Ju claims to be after the same Separatist warlord
that Aayla was sent to capture, but he also has plenty of reasons
to hate the Republic and the Jedi. The Force is with Aayla, but she
may need more than her lightsaber against The Deadly Hands of
Shon-JuA"!
"Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious,
engrossing story" -Analog SF Reclaimed Earth Book 2 In the year
2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive
supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast
orbiting ringstations. Tem, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation
anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter, wants nothing more than to
become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch
as the only brown-skinned child in the village, his mother Car-En
decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford
ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana, the
tentacle-enhanced Squid Woman , while protecting a secret that
could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian,
the sequel to the The Sky Woman, is a story of colliding worlds and
the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the
new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the
list brings together brilliant new authors and the more
established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
A thrilling space opera celebrated as one of science fiction's most
profound explorations of diversity, THIS ALIEN SHORE is a modern
classic of the genre. Jamisia, a young girl protected by biological
brain-ware and troubled by multiple voices in her head, flees her
comfortable life on a satellite when corporate raiders destroy the
entire colony. To her horror, she learns that they were looking for
her. Launched into the intrigues of the mysterious Gueran guild,
mutant star-pilots who have a stranglehold on galactic commerce,
Jamisia is desperate to avoid capture, and must form uncertain
alliances with exotic strangers. Yet, as a rogue computer virus
wreaks havoc across the galaxies it seems that humanity's future
rests in her hands: but first she must unlock the deadly secret
hidden inside her head. Against the rich and compelling backdrop of
this epic story the author has succeeded in creating a truly unique
character in Jamisia and placed her in a novel of fantastic
diversity, and breathtaking possibility.
An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! The
USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of
ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route,
sudden tragedy strikes a Federation science station on the isolated
planet Kota, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has no qualms sending
William Riker, Data, and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher to
investigate. But what begins as routine assignments for the two
parties soon descends into chaos: Picard, Worf, and Deanna Troi
must grapple with a dangerous diplomatic crisis as historic
artifacts are stolen in the middle of a high-profile
ceremony...while nothing is as it seems on Kota. A mounting medical
emergency coupled with the science station's failing technology-and
no hope of rescue-has Doctor Crusher racing against time to solve a
disturbing mystery threatening the lives of all her colleagues....
(TM), (R), & (c) 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related
marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
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Death's End
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Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu
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