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But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end.
One of the lesser known novels by Jules Verne, but certainly a novel that is worth reading, An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields is a fictional travelogue that describes the narrator's adventures as he travels from Kerguelen Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, towards the South Pole.
The novel is the account of the...
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From a New York Times bestseller, "firmly planted in the steampunk genre, an epic-scale story . . . with beautiful illustrations" based on the album from Rush(Booklist).
A remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in its scope and realization, this exquisitely wrought novel represents an artistic project between the bestselling science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson and the multiplatinum rock band Rush. Rush's concept album, Clockwork...
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The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written during a period of increased interest in Egyptology across Europe, The Jewel of Seven Stars helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early twentieth-century.
In the middle of the night, a young lawyer is roused from sleep by Margaret Trelawny. At her urgent request, he accompanies her to the house of her father, Abel...
4) Dr. Alien
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Pure science fiction fun mixed with sense-of-wonder! Not terribly far in the future, a highly sophisticated alien species, the Tsf, have set up trading posts on Earth. Naturally, humans want to please them in hopes that the Tsf will share their ultra-advanced technology. And an opportunity arises to do just that. The Tsf have rescued three aliens of different, unfamiliar species on three damaged spaceships. But something psychological appears to be...
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Venus has become a world of Zeppelin cities where merchants fly carbon-fiber airships. Whalers harpoon tin behemoths that rise from the murky depths. And the only woman who can save it all from ruin is being hunted by a man willing to do anything to seize her father's empire. Privilege is a double-edged sword. As a young noblewoman, Willamette Lolofi has an education and the freedom to indulge her curiosities. But the political marriage she faces...
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Earth's thriving lunar colony faces a mysterious, growing threat on the far side of the Moon . . . an alien invasion or nanotechnology run amuck.
The crew of Moonbase Columbus makes an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon-a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and...
7) Blindfold
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Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers. Parentless, trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas, a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty. Truthsayers are Justice-infallible, beyond appeal.
But sometimes they are wrong.
Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren trusts the young Truthsayer Kalliana...until, impossibly, she convicts him. Still shaken from a previous...
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For comic book and steampunk fans, the original scripts to the comic book series adapted from the New York Times–bestselling novel based on a Rush album.
Clockwork Angels is a steampunk fantasy adventure-and an innovative multimedia feast! Based on a story and lyrics by legendary drummer Neil Peart, Clockwork Angels became the worldwide bestselling concept album by Rush and was developed into a New York Times bestselling and award-winning novel...
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Phule's Company volume 6
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From a New York Times bestseller, a commander in charge of a legion of misfit troops must track down his missing butler in this sci-fi comedy.
Phule is without a doubt the only captain in the Space Legion with his own butler, but Beeker has stuck with him through thick and thin. Which is why it’s incomprehensible to Phule why Beeker has run off-planet without a word—and with Omega Company’s lovely new medic.
Without his right-hand man,...
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Can a man escape from his past in a fighting battalion on an alien battlefield? Wolfgang Hauser was an aristocrat-right, privileged, pampered … until the day alien invaders overwhelmed his world and stripped him of everything he held dear. Now he was an outcast, without a family or a home, his honor tainted by accusations of cowardice and murder. He was a man on the run, and sooner or later his enemies would find him and destroy what was left of...
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Phule's Company volume 3
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From a New York Times bestseller, a commander leads a legion of misfits as they create an amusement park on another planet in this sci-fi comedy.
Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into . . . a crack team of casino security guards. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. And what better way to utilize their major area of expertise-goofing...
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Fifteen tasty tales from a master of fantasy!
The dead. The undead. Those who wish they were dead. They're all here, along with a legend from a Pacific island, a legend from beneath a Pacific island, and much, much more. Frogs and dogs, knaves and slaves, and maybe a smidgen of real but impertinent food. Extend your imagination and have a nibble. You'll come back for more.
Includes the never before published story "Fetched."
13) Club Anyone
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In an age of augmented reality, love is found in the most dangerous places. Stranded on Mars, megacorp programmer Derek Tobbit drowns his sorrows in augmented reality sex, only to have his drug-fueled midlife crisis hijacked by a conspiracy that threatens the solar system. It will take all his hacker skill, the friendship of a rogue AI, and the redemptive power of an impossible love to save them.
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Phule's Company volume 4
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From a New York Times bestseller, a commander of a legion of misfits takes control of an alien planet in this sci-fi comedy.
You can't mistake just anyone for a Phule. When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaur-like Zenobians . . . But, unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price...
15) Higher Mythology
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Third in the series of "hilarious enjoyable myth-adventures" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mythology 101 and Mythology Abroad (Crescent Blues).
Holl, Keith Doyle's best friend, has finally tied the knot with his beloved, Maura, in the Little Folks' new home, Hollow Tree Farm. Keith has good news of his own: he has started on an internship as a copywriter with a Chicago advertising agency, coming up with slogans and designs...
16) The Flux Engine
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John Porter didn't expect his experiment to go horribly awry and send every Tommy in town on a rampage.
The steam-powered metal men tore down half of Sprocketville before they were stopped. After that debacle, John expected a visit from the sheriff ... not a robber who stole his heirloom crystal-a mysterious gift from his long-lost mother-and then shot him in the chest for good measure.
Left for dead, John is revived, and then deputized, by...
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TARGETS ARE LOCKED! Five short novels by five masters of military SF capture the excitement, and hell, of fantastic future war-on and off the battlefield. Stories of terrifying monsters, dangerous aliens and staggering cosmic dreadnaughts march alongside far-flung courtroom dramas and cautionary tales involving man and his devices. Michael A. Stackpole-The Star Tigers are commandeered by a powerful alien overseer on a covert mission to a world long...
18) Five by Five
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Face aliens, monsters, and more in these five short novels by five masters of military science fiction.
It's a war out there . . .
In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor:
Big Plush by Aaron Allston (a novella from the Action Figures series)-The Dollgangers, artificial...
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It's the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy — and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor's Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine. She has a menagerie of very special assistants, including an Abyssinian cat, a dog, rabbits, mice, and an alien ottle named Chirwl. Now, this highly trained crew faces the ultimate medical mystery. On Chirwl's home world, humans and ottles alike are aging at an...
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