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Small Gods | In the beginning was the Word.
And the Word was: "Hey, you!"
For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love.
He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please... | Discworld (Imaginary place), Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Fantasy | null | Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 19... |
Never Let Me Go | Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, *Never Let Me Go* is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age. | Fiction, Organ donors, Cloning, Donation of organs, tissues, Women | null | Kazuo Ishiguro | Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (/kæˈzuːoʊ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊəroʊ, ˈkæzuoʊ -/ kaz-OO-oh ISH-ig-OOR-oh, KAZ-oo-oh -; born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five.
He is one of t... |
The Poison Belt | Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee and Mr E. D. M
alone, the discoverers of "The Lost World". | Professor Challenger (Fictitious character), Fiction, Classic Literature, Science Fiction, British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author) | null | Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
He is also known for writing the fictional a... |
The Passage | The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks. It is the first novel of a completed trilogy; the second bo... | FICTION, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945), HORROR & GHOST STORIES, SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY | Before she became the Girl from Nowhere - the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, wh lived a thousand years - she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. | Justin Cronin | Born and raised in New England, Justin Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Awards for his fiction include the Stephen Crane Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is a professor of English at Rice University and lives with his wife and children in Ho... |
Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space | Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds. | Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Heroes, Humorous stories | null | Dav Pilkey | null |
Foundation and Earth | Golan Trevize, Janov Pelorat, Bliss go looking for earth. | Fiction, Psychohistory, Life on other planets, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
At The Earth's Core And Out Of Time's Abyss | Dr. Abner Perry has invented a high-calibration digging machine affectionately called 'The Iron Mole'. While testing his invention with his financial backer and former student David Innes, the machine malfunctions and the pair end up burrowing deep into the earth to emerge in Pellucidar, a lush underground cavern fille... | American Science fiction, Classic Literature, Core, Earth, Fiction | null | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduate... |
One Shot | Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this sho... | Detective and mystery stories, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Tom Cruise, movie | null | Lee Child | Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director du... |
State of Fear | State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his fourteenth under his own name and twenty-fourth overall, in which eco-terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming. Despite being a work of fiction, the book contains many graphs and footnotes, two appendices, and a 20-page ... | conflicts of interest, swashes, blue-ringed octopuses, scientific conferences, Chinese language materials | In the darkness, he touched her arem and said, "Stay here. | null | null |
Out of the Silent Planet | The first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, *Out of the Silent Planet* tells the story of Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist who likes to explore the English countryside on foot. Seeking out a place to stay the night, he ends up at the estate of a colleague who is away in London. However, the house is not empty. Ransom st... | Linguists, Elwin Ransom (Fictitious character), Readers, Philologists, Science fiction | null | C.S. Lewis | Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. |
The Stars, Like Dust | Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin.
He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Ranch... | Science fiction, Space colonies, Imperialism, Manned space flight, Fiction | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
The Scarlet Plague | It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 191... | Fiction, American Science fiction, Plague, End of the world, Classic Literature | null | Jack London | John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an i... |
Государство и революция | On the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. | State, The, Socialism, Revolutions, The State, History | null | Vladimir Il’ich Lenin | Russian politician, communist theorist and first leader of Soviet Russia |
Understanding Media | The author examines all types of communication including photographs, ads, games, television, radio, telephone, comics, numbers, money, clothing, movies, recordings, housing, and weapons. | Communication, Communication and traffic, Mass media, Technology and civilization, Transports et communication | null | Marshall McLuhan, Marshal McLuhan | null |
The Currents of Space | High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters.
Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do t... | Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, sci-fi, science, space | null | null | null |
Pyramids | It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end al... | American Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Fiction, Pyramids | null | Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 19... |
Divergent | ‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth. The book is written from Beatrice Prior’s (Tris), point of view and is written in short chapters making it easy to put down and pick up again.
The story is fast paced with full on action throughout. It contains elements of humour and rom... | New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_books=2012-02-25, Families, Family, Juvenile fiction | null | Veronica Roth | Veronica grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent Series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection). ... |
Player Piano | Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. | Fiction, Classic Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Utopias | null | Kurt Vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as [*Slaughterhouse-Five* (1969)][1], [*Cat's Cradle* (1963)][2], and [*Breakfast of Champions* (1973)][3]. He was known for his humanist beliefs as well as being honorary president of the American Human... |
Dragonfly in Amber | From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a... | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Time travel, Imaginary voyages, Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 | Roger Wakefield stood in the center of the room, feeling surrounded. | Diana Gabaldon | Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona and is of Mexican-American and English descent. She has earned three degrees: a B.S. in Zoology, a M.S. in Marine Biology, and a Ph.D in Ecology. She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. She writes Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance.
So... |
The House on the Borderland | The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in ... | Classic Literature, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | William Hope Hodgson | William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to ... |
The Forever War | "The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space and time, The Forever War explores one soldier's experience as he is caught up in the brutal machinery of a war against a... | Aging, Hugo Award Winner, Fiction in English, Aging in fiction, Space and time | Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." | Joe Haldeman | Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974). That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. He was awarded the ... |
Perelandra | Dr. Ransom is ordered to Perelandra by the supreme being, and there he finds a Garden of Eden. | Linguists, Elwin Ransom (Fictitious character), Open Library Staff Picks, Life on other planets, Philologists | null | C.S. Lewis | Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. |
Two years before the mast | *Two Years before the Mast* is but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance.
His services in fields other than literary occupied the greater part of his life. Dana was a well known and r... | Alert (Brig : 1843-1862), Large-type books, Pilgrim (Brig), Sailors, Seafaring life | null | Richard Henry Dana | null |
Song of Susannah | [The Dark Tower][1] VI
Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. The demon-mother, Mia, uses Susannah and Black Thirteen to transport to New York City of 1999. Jake, Oy, and Pere Callahan must rescue Susannah while Eddie and Roland transport to the Maine of 1977. A vacant lot in New York is t... | horror fiction, good and evil, heroes, literature, supernatural | "How long will the magic stay? | null | null |
Pebble in the Sky | *Pebble in the Sky* is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of de... | Fiction in English, American Science fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias, Time travel | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Interesting Times | "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Co... | Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, Drama (dramatic works by one author) | null | null | null |
Prelude to Foundation | Voici une occasion tant pour ceux qui ont lu les cinq volumes du cycle ##Fondation## d'en constater la prȟistoire, que pour ceux qui ne les ont pas lus d'inaugurer la lecture d'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la science-fiction contemporaine. [SDM]. | American Science fiction, Psychohistory, Psychohistory in fiction, Fiction, Science fiction | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
The Book Of Three | Taran is bored with his Assistant Pig-Keeper duties, even though his charge is none other than Hen Wen, Prydain's only oracular pig. He'd rather be doing something more heroic, like making swords and learning to use them. When Hen Wen escapes and Taran goes after her, he finds himself farther from home than he's ever b... | Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Swine, Celtic Mythology, Heroes | null | Alexander, Lloyd Alexander | null |
Thuvia, Maid of Mars | Thuvia, Maid of Mars, is the next generation of Barsoomains. Instead of John Carter “Warlord of Mars”, it is his son, Cathoris, that gets to try to rescue the princess Thuvia that has been kidnapped by the evil prince Astok of Dusar. This is another Edgar Burroughs action packed science fiction adventure.Please Note: ... | American Science fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, American, Science Fiction, Classic Literature | null | Edgar Rice Burroughs, Craig Trahan, Eric King, J. Allen St. John | Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduate... |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memorable stories. | Comics & graphic novels, literary, American Short stories, Cuentos estadounidenses, Aging, Translations into Chinese | null | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four nov... |
Forward the Foundation | During the whole Foundation series, one man has always had his hand in the development of a galaxy. Merely hinted at in previous books, visited off and on for historical background - finally here delved into as deep as one can go - the demystified Hari Seldon. This follows about 40 years of his life, and traces his pro... | Fiction, Historians, Ficción, Prophecy, Psychohistory | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
2010, odyssey two | When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has ... | English Science fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Arthur C. Clarke | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all t... |
The Robots of Dawn | A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
Detective... | American Science fiction, Robots, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general | null | Isaac Asimov | Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy stor... |
Sabriel | Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world.
Though her journey begins alone, s... | Fathers and daughters, Missing persons, Magic, Teen fantasy fiction, Fiction | THE RABBIT HAD been run over minutes before. | Garth Nix | null |
Gravity's Rainbow | I changed the Publication year from 1973 to 1980. This digital edition is a scan copy of the 9th printing edition of this book (1980) not the first printing(1973) | Fiction, Rockets (Ordnance), Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Rocketry | null | Thomas Pynchon | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and ... |
A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2 | A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet).
It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. Tha... | Science fiction, Juvenile literature, Brothers and sisters, Fantasy, Sick | null | Madeleine L'Engle | American writer |
Duma Key | Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008 by Scribner. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida and/or Minnesota. | Accidentes, Accident victims, Paranormal fiction, Sobrenatural, Novela | Start with a blank surface. | null | null |
A Feast for Crows | Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in *A Feast for Crows*, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last... | New York Times bestseller, nyt:mass_market_paperback=2011-08-20, Seven Kingdoms (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy fiction | "Dragons," said Mollander. | George R. R. Martin | George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing *A Song of Ice and Fire* series of epic fantasy novels.
Critics have described Martin's work as dark and cynical. Hi... |
Fight Club | A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together.
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden... | Fiction, Millennialism, Young men, Science fiction, open_syllabus_project | null | Chuck Palahniuk, James Colby, Javier Calvo Perales, Jordi Cussà Balaguer | Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel <em>Fight Club</em>, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.<sup>[1][1]</sup>
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.... |
Ready Player One | In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts *really* feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop ... | Regression (Civilization), Utopias, Virtual reality, Fiction, Puzzles | null | Ernest Cline, Arnaud Regnauld, Ernest Cline | ERNEST CLINE is an internationally best-selling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. He is the author of the novels Ready Player One and Armada and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spen... |
The Queen of the Damned | The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines.
The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampires will be among the fans that night and that they are committed to destroying him for risking exposing them all.
T... | Fiction, Vampires, Horror tales, horror, rock music | I'm the Vampire Lestat. | Anne Rice | Anne Rice was born on 04 October 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was the second of four daughters of Irish Catholic parents, Katherine "Kay" Allen and Howard O'Brien. In 1961, she married Stan Rice, who passed away in 2002. They had two children, Christopher (1978) and Michele (1966-1972). She started to publi... |
Inuyasha | The aftermath of an argument has Kogome stomping back to the present day and Inu-Yasha sulking in the past. Then, Naraku's most enigmatic pawn yet enters the battle--Kagura, a beautiful woman who can control the dead. | Good and evil, Magic, Teenage girls, History, Fiction | null | 高橋留美子 | null |
Galapagos | Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands. | American Science fiction, Fiction, Ghost stories, Humorous stories, Satire | null | Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Chaim Tadmon | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as [*Slaughterhouse-Five* (1969)][1], [*Cat's Cradle* (1963)][2], and [*Breakfast of Champions* (1973)][3]. He was known for his humanist beliefs as well as being honorary president of the American Human... |
Before Adam | A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating yo... | Fiction, Prehistoric peoples, Dreams, Evolution, Bibliography | null | null | null |
The Lathe of Heaven | “The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story)
George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up. He is aware of his past and present, two or more sets of memories, although the people around him are only aware of the current re... | Dreams, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
God Emperor of Dune | Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded his humanity to become an immortal sandworm of Dune. | American Science fiction, Dune (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction | null | null | null |
The Children of Men | "The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to an end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is inexorably growing older. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and, incidentally, cous... | End of the world, Fiction, Male Infertility, Fiction, science fiction, general, England, fiction | null | P. D. James | An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. |
The selfish gene | As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their repl... | Evolution (Biology), Genetics, Sociobiology, Behavior genetics, Genetica | null | Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward Richard Dawkins | Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-... |
The Word for World is Forest | Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society.
Humans have... | noteworthy & awarded Science fiction, Hainish Cycle, resource conservation, rebellion, Science fiction | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
The Running Man | The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy... | horror fiction, Game shows, Television game shows, Fiction, Suspense | She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window. | Stephen King | Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels,... |
Xenocide | On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, shou... | Space warfare, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Reading Level-Grade 7 | null | Orson Scott Card | Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's... |
The White Dragon | On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years. When dragons hatch, each gold (the Queen), bronze, blue or green ... | Pern (Imaginary place), Fiction in English, Fiction, Science fiction, Life on other planets | null | Anne McCaffrey | null |
The Chrysalids | This book is about a post apocalyptic world returned back to the times of the horse and carriage seen through the eyes of a young boy. Deviations are punished or destroyed and what few books remained govern the way people think about change and the differences from the norm. The twists and turns in this rather short bo... | Fiction, Science Fiction, Post-Apocolyptic Life, Mutation (Biology), Telepathy | null | John Wyndham | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works written using the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic lands... |
Feet of Clay | Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel follows Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes, and the rest of the Night Watch as they attempt to unravel the mystery of who poisoned Lord Vetinari the Patrician. | Discworld (Imaginary Place), Science Fiction, Fantasy, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Fiction | null | Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 19... |
Speaker for the Dead | Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers. | Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12 | null | Orson Scott Card | Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's... |
In the days of the comet | H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student William Leadford struggles against the harsh conditions the lower-class live under. He also falls in love ... | Classic Literature, Collisions with Earth, Comets, Fiction, Fiction in English | null | H. G. Wells | Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. |
The New Machiavelli | null | Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, general, Political science, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) | null | H. G. Wells | Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. |
The Princess and the Goblin | There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. His palace was built upon one of the mountains, and was very grand and beautiful. The princess, whose name was Irene, was born there, but she was sent soon after her birth, because her mother was not very strong, ... | Classic Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Literature | There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. | George MacDonald | null |
The fire next time | **From Amazon.com:**
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, *The Fire Next Time* galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injust... | Race relations, Black Muslims, African Americans, Afro-Americans, Muslims | null | James Baldwin | James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way... |
The Stepford Wives | The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who suspects the submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighborhood may be robots created by their husbands.
Also contained in:
- [Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume ... | horror tales, conspiracy, photographers, satire, thriller | The Welcome Wagon lady, sixty if she was a day but working at youth and vivacity (ginger hair, red lips, a sunshine-yellow dress), twinkled her eyes and teeth at Joanna and said, "You're really going to like it here! It's a nice town with nice people! You couldn't have made a better choice! | Ira Levin, Ira Levin | Ira Levin was born in 1929 in New York City and is a graduate of New York University. He wrote television plays and short stories and, when he was twenty-two, A Kiss Before Dying. After two years of military service he turned to playwriting; No Time for Sergeants, adapted from Mac Hyman's novel was his most successful ... |
Stranger in a Strange Land | Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation o... | Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1962, award:hugo_award=novel, Fiction, Fiction in English | null | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary qua... |
Cloud Atlas | From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited compos... | Fate and fatalism, Fiction, Reincarnation, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction | null | David Mitchell | David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, *number9dream* (2001) and *Cloud Atlas* (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for *The Guardian*... |
Bad Luck and Trouble | From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code t... | Detective and mystery stories, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Ex-police officers, Fiction | null | Lee Child | Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director du... |
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) | For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition. And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire n... | Vampires, Cocktail servers, Telepathy, Waitresses, Fiction | null | Charlaine Harris | American writer |
三体 | Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military prject sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens... | Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=2015, award:hugo_award=novel, Human-alien encounters, Imaginary wars and battles | null | 刘慈欣 | Chinese science fiction writer |
Alanna | "From now on, I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.
And so yound Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magin. So one day they decide to switch pl... | Fiction, Song of the Lioness, Tortall, Knights and knighthood, Sex role | That is my decision. | Tamora Pierce | This author's name is Tamora Pierce, the second vowel is an O not an A. |
The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember) | A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers alike for almost fifteen years and has sold over 3.5 MILLION copies!
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great... | Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction | null | Jeanne DuPrau | null |
Dragonsong | Menolly, a young fisher's daughter, had dreamed all her life of learning the Harper's craft. Her musical talent is not valued in her fishing hold, especially by her parents the holders, as women in general tend to be less valued and have fewer choices than men in Pernese society. When her father denies her what she reg... | Harper Hall, Pern, Dragons, Fantasy, Fiction in English | null | Anne McCaffrey | null |
Star Maker | After reading "Last and First Men", I approached Olaf's next masterpiece, "Star Maker" ( first published in 1937), with some disbelief as to how on earth he could possibly better the span, pathos and magnanimity he had already laid out. A quick scan of the appendices yielded the impression that this book would embrace ... | Fiction, general, Fiction in English, Science fiction, Fiction, Cosmology | One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill. | Olaf Stapledon | null |
Stay Out of the Basement | When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless. | Horror stories, Fiction, Botany, Botany in fiction, Fathers | null | null | null |
Salammbô | Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.[1] It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC,[1] immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War.
After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfil promises made to its army of mercenaries, an... | Fiction, History, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Rome, fiction, Historia | null | Gustave Flaubert | Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style. ([Source][1].)
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert |
Gathering Blue | Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. | Fiction, Ficción juvenil, Impedidos, Orphans, People with disabilities | null | Lois Lowry | Lois Ann Lowry (/ˈlaʊəri/;[2] née Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for ... |
Nova Atlantis | **New Atlantis** is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, *Sylva sylvarum* (forest of materials). In *New Atlantis*, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, e... | Early works to 1800, Education, Natural history, Philosophy, Philosophy of nature | null | Francis Bacon | An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism. |
The Last Unicorn | *The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone…*
…so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love b... | Unicorns, Fiction, Legends and stories, Juvenile literature, American Fantasy fiction | The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. | Peter S. Beagle | American writer |
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants | Por burlarse del nombre del profesor Pipicaca, Jorge y Beto están a punto de hacer que su nuevo maestro de ciencia enloquecido de rabia se apodere del planeta entero. Pero Capitán Calzoncillos viene al rescate.
When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes... | Humorous stories, Héroes, Juvenile fiction, School principals, Ficción juvenil | null | null | null |
Red Mars | Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution. | Mars, science fiction, terraforming, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Ciencia-ficción | null | Kim Stanley Robinson | American science fiction writer |
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | Zitat Klappentext: Eine mordsmäßige Detektiv-Gespenster-Horror-Kriminal-Zeitreisen-Romanzen-Musikkomödien-Geschichte von Douglas Adams, dem Autor des Bestsellers »Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis«. | Fantasy, Krimi, abiogenesis, laudanum, Kubla Khan | Durch die Fähigkeit der Nacht, alles in die Länge zu ziehen, hatte sich der Alptraum über Matsch und Einsamkeit scheinbar über angsterregende, unvorstellbare Zeiten erstreckt und war erst mit dem Auftauchen schleimiger Wesen mit Beinen zu Ende gegangen, die aus dem schleimigen Meer gekrochen waren. | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. |
The fountains of paradise | In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean. | Fiction, Mountains, Elevators, Monks, Design and construction | null | Arthur C. Clarke | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all t... |
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so sec... | Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Data encryption (Computer science), Cryptography | null | Neal Stephenson | Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, lingu... |
The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.[1]
The novel takes place in 2016. Under United Nations authority, humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. Like many of Dick's nov... | Drugs, Fiction, Fiction in English, Immortalism, Science Fiction | His head unnaturally aching, Barney Mayerson woke to find himself in an unfamiliar bedroom in an unfamiliar conapt building. | Philip K. Dick, Luke Daniels | Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered... |
The Cyberiad | OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, l... | Poland in fiction, Fiction, Polish Science fiction, Polish fiction, Polish Short stories | null | Stanisław Lem | Stanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish author known for his contributions to science fiction, philosophy, and literary criticism. Born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), Lem initially pursued medical studies, which, though unfinished due to fears of military conscription and discomfort ... |
The Fires of Heaven | The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the shadow, weave their snares and tighten their grip upon the realms of men, sure in the knowledge that their master will soon break free...
Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reb... | Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Rand al'thor (fictitious character), fiction, Fantasy fiction, Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character) | null | Robert Jordan | James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author known for his epic fantasy series *The Wheel of Time*. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Jordan developed a passion for storytelling and served two tours in Vietnam before pursuing a writing ca... |
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People | Hardcover | Humorous stories, School principals, Fiction, Captain Underpants (Fictitious character), Schools | null | Dav Pilkey | null |
Allegiant | The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, ... | dystopian, young adult, fiction, dystopian fiction, sci-fi | null | Veronica Roth | Veronica grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent Series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection). ... |
Jingo | It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- ... | Fiction, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Discworld (imaginary place), fiction | null | Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 19... |
Heretics of Dune | With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of s... | Science Fiction, Fiction, Dune (Imaginary place), Anglais (langue), Roman américain | null | Frank Herbert | Real name: Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. |
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://op... | Norse mythology, horoscopes, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, science fiction, general | It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He was creator of all the various manifestations of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. |
Naruto 5 | When Naruto sees Sasuke dead, he realizes that ninjas are weapons and are trained to kill. His rage fuels the fox spirit within him and allows him to beat Haku and avenge Sasuke. | Pariahs, Graphic novels, Fiction, Ninja, Competition (Psychology) | null | Masashi Kishimoto, Frances Wall | null |
Chapterhouse Dune | The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. | Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction, Science fiction, Dune (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Frank Herbert | Real name: Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. |
Une si longue lettre | This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. A beautiful glimpse inside a woman's heart. | Fiction (fictional works by one author), Women teachers, Women, Fiction, Teachers | null | Mariama Bâ | Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929–August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions. Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to ... |
Star Wars - Thrawn Trilogy - Heir to the Empire | It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the... | star wars, the thrawn trilogy, timothy zahn, Science fiction, Star Wars fiction | null | Timothy Zahn | Timothy Zahn (born Chicago, Illinois) is a writer of science fiction short stories and novels. His novella Cascade Point won the 1984 Hugo award. He is known for three Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, called the Thrawn Trilogy, which takes place after Return of the Jedi. He also wrote the young adult Dragonback seri... |
Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because ... | mutants, love, death, amputation, sex | Imagine that you are living your life out of order. | Audrey Niffenegger, Laurel Lefkow | null |
2061 | A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books [2001: A Space Odyssey][1] and [2010: Odyssey two][2].
Two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the... | Science fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, Fiction, General Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization | "For a man of seventy, you're in extremely good shape," remarked Dr. Glazunov, looking up from the Medcom's final printout. | Arthur C. Clarke | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all t... |
The Wind's Twelve Quarters | This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. First published in 1964 in an issue of Fantastic, the story can be found in a handful of anthologies but can be hard to lay... | American Science fiction, English Short stories, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, science fiction, general | null | Ursula K. Le Guin | "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a vol... |
A history of New York | A history of New York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty ; containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong ; the three Dutch govern... | Dutch Americans, Social life and customs, Literature, Fiction, City and town life | null | Washington Irving | American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent" (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving>Wikipedia</a>). |
Crossroads of Twilight | Mat Cauthon flees the Shadow and the Seanchan Empire with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, while Perrin Aybara seeks to free his captive wife, and Egwere al'Vere seeks to reunite the Aes Sedai. | Fantasy fiction, Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, epic | null | null | null |
Have Spacesuit--Will Travel | A science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. It is the last of the Heinlein juveniles.
Plot summary:
Clifford "Kip" Russell, ente... | Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction | null | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary qua... |
All the President's Men | Investigation and report of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel that culminated with President Richard Nixon's resignation from office. | Corrupt practices, Elections, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974, Washington Post (1877), Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations | null | Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward | Carl Milton Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal || Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 194... |
V for Vendetta | A seminal graphic novel that defined sophisticated storytelling, Alan Moore's best-selling V For Vendetta is a terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance, superbly illustrated by artist David Lloyd. The graphic novel that inspired the hit movie V For Vendetta is a powerful story about loss of freedom and ind... | Fiction, Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Politics and government, Anarchism | null | Alan Moore, David Lloyd | British comic book writer || British comics artist |
Ender's Shadow | This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who have read Ender's Game and want to know more about Bean and his background.
Here is the description from the back of the book:
> Welcome to Battleschool.
>
> Growing up is never easy. But try liv... | Child soldiers, Child soldiers in fiction, Bean (Ficticious Character), Ender Wiggin (Fictitious character), Exceptional children | null | Orson Scott Card | Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's... |
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