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1) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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English
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• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOW IN THEATERS
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård,...
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård,...
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Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 2
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English
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It doesn't matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland's father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels-like the one Ray's father manages-overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet. Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure, when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray heads back to Florida to help family and friends...
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From the national bestselling author of Battle Hymn comes the conclusion to the electrifying sci-fi thriller duology begun with At Empire's Edge…
On the surface, the Uman Empire seems as glorious as ever, with its citizens reveling in their proud civilization, the Legions defending its borders, and the Emperor ruling benevolently over all. Yet it is a facade. In truth, the alien Vord are pushing deeper into Uman space even as the noble families...
4) Spindrift
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Coyote novels volume 4
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Ace Books
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English
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More than fifty years after a European starship goes missing while investigating an unidentified space object, the expedition's three surviving members return to Earth without having aged and possessing claims about an extraterrestrial race.
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Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
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English
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A third generation Martian, Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland joins the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy and is sent to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, as an entertainer, but she soon discovers that hidden dangers lurk everywhere.
6) Logos run
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With the acclaimed "Runne" the author introduced readers to Jak Rebo. Now, the interstellar courier returns in his second adventure, a novel of one man's choices - and a galaxy's fate.
9) Echo
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Alex Benedict novels volume 5
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English
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Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of...
10) Terminal world
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Living in the last human city, incognito enforcement agent Quillon discovers a near-dead angel while working in the Spearpoint district morgue, and must travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city to save the angel's life.
11) House of suns
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but...
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 10
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English
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Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse contends with the outcome of the Faery War, her feelings for vampire Eric Northman, and the Shifter community going public.
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When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time-or worse-Shel enlists Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission.Their journey through history takes them from the Enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil rights upheavals of the twentieth century. Along the way, they encounter...
14) Marsbound
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Ace Books
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English
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Joining her family as a colonist on Mars, rebellious young Carmen Dula ventures alone out into the harsh Martian landscape, where an accident nearly claims her life and she is rescued by a mysterious alien being.
16) Firebird
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Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
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English
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Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath try to find a missing physicist whose fringe science theories on endless alternate universes led him to fly interstellar yachts outside the planetary system.
17) Galaxy blues
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Coyote novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
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English
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Accused of grand theft and expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet, Jules Truffant becomes a shuttle pilot for the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in exchange for amnesty, only to find himself taking part in a perilous voyage to plant a probe in the path of a black hole.
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Book of the change volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
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English
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Thirty years after the cities went dark and the laws of humanity were replaced by magic, Fred Garey's friend Yan thinks he's found a way to reverse the Change.
19) Quantum night
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"With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, Flash Forward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be "a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing... Experimental psychologist Chris Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying...
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