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1) AMYGDALA
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Amygdala is a story of animals, born to a world of swirling, fractal chaos, who learned the art of civilization. Their government was forged in fire, ruled only by the objective truth of all things, with no room for incompetence, mercy, or even morality. Their city, 'The Underbirth', holds within it the greatest collection of animal minds, born of mechanical systems designed to test everything: natural, cultural, industrial selection. Their art
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A hustler searches for truth in a dystopian Boston. An abandoned child hustles on the streets of a dystopic, near-future Boston in the aftermath of the Great Devaluation, as squatters have turned the tunnel system into an underground hive known as Dig City. During an elaborate search for his unknown parents, Eddie narrates his adventures as a street performer, pickpocket, adoptee, casino employee, and, finally, commander of the subterranean revolution....
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"Our people are survivors, Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots-could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape...
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A story of a parallel universe that connects to ours. A portal, formed sixty-five-million years ago when the comet crashed into our Earth and created it. The portal is a stable, small black hole encased in a magnetic field that allows transfer from our universe to another very similar universe between the universes. They are very similar, but not exact copies of each other.
Over four-hundred years ago a Mayan village in the Yucatan was fleeing from...
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Jackal Segura is a Hope: born to responsibility and privilege as a symbol of a fledgling world government. Soon she'll become part of the global administration, sponsored by the huge corporation that houses, feeds, employs, and protects her and everyone she loves. Then, just as she discovers that everything she knows is a lie, she becomes a pariah, a murderer: a person with no community and no future. Grief-stricken and alone, she is put into an experimental...
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Le tourbillon de l'existence et ses mystères
Jusqu'à ce jour crucial o sa route croisa celle d'Auxane, Tiago vivait comme la majorité de ses semblables. Sa vie différait peu de celles de millions d'hommes et de femmes pris dans le tourbillon d'une existence entremêlant ambition, succès , échecs et frustrations, le tout agrémenté ici et là de petites fenêtres de respiration, o fidélité pour Anna et tromperies avec Clara entretenaient...
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Je vous invite à entrer dans un monde o les hommes sont emprisonnés, o les femmes règnent sur un univers qu'elles croient parfait, et o pourtant l'amour et la rébellion font leur apparition, aux risques et périls de notre héroïne.
Ceci n'est pas un livre féministe. Ce n'est pas un livre antiféministe. Ce n'est pas une histoire réelle, et pourtant elle n'est pas irréelle non plus. Alors qu'est-ce? Ce sera à vous d'en juger. Mais je peux...
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In a far-off future, two anthropologists-gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naïve Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes of a sort no longer welcome on Home World-have been assigned to conduct a study on Abydos, a deeply forested wilderness planet of little note whose only evidence of civilization is a single enclave: small, rough, dingy Company Station, a fueling station occasionally utilized...
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Could a dark agenda be woven into the architecture of China's most sacred ancient temple? An agenda that only Julian Mancer is seeing? Or is Julian off his meds again? If the structure were in fact a doomsday device awaiting an astronomical tripwire-could Julian stop it? Julian is determined to discover the answer, as soon as he concludes a far more pressing matter involving a sixteen-year-old girl with a MOST intriguing mutation.
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"In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, Hopkinson continues to create bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders."--Back cover.
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Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose-or are forced-to leave home and familiar places.
Recommended by Booklist (American Library Association), Library Journal, School Library Journal, Foreword Reviews, and Locus.
Migration. A transformation of time, place, and being . . .
WHO ARE THE SHADES WITHIN US?
An American father...
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Unlike other robots, Totah operates on the Karii'wio (The Great Law of Peace) and not the Three Laws of Robotics. Her indigenous knowledge is gleaned from a mind map of the last speaker of Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk). Her community views her as a vital resource for their language revitalization project, despite her age. However, support for her O/S is coming to an end. Can a reformat by the Free and Open Source Software community preserve her precious...
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Avec son idée d'attrape-rêves électronique, Bertrand Nef est la cible des railleries de ses condisciples. Étudiant à l'École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, il est pourtant persuadé de tenir, avec cette machine capable d'enregistrer puis de restituer les rêves en vidéo, l'idée du siècle. Lorsque deux français s'installent par hasard à sa table un midi, faisant preuve d'un intérêt inespéré, notre narrateur suisse s'empresse de...
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What is a life well-lived? What decisions will you make to have a meaningful life? What kind of stories will you leave behind? Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Booklist, and Foreword Reviews (starred review). Travel with twenty-three speculative fiction authors through the seasons of life to capture the memories, identities, and moments of stepping through the portal of change, as they cope with their own journeys...
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Descubra las mejores novelas de Julio Verne.
Considerado el precursor de la Ciencia Ficción, Julio Verne fue el más adelantado y visionario de los grandes escritores que nos dio el siglo XIX. Su desbordada imaginación dio lugar a medio centenar de las mejores novelas de aventuras de todos los tiempos: De la tierra a la luna, 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino o La vuelta al mundo en 80 días. La gran mayoría de su obra es digna de mención, y raro...
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They came to our world seeking new resources. Earth was lush with both plant life and mineral deposits, and alive with a vast array of creatures, not unlike their past world where they had evolved over two million years ago. It took them over twenty thousand years to reach our solar system, and another twenty thousand to return home and report their findings. To their dismay, all that remained of their world was decaying cities and wandering souls....
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Un conflit interracial et religieux avait déjà fait des ravages, réduisant d'un tiers la population mondiale. Rien ne semblait capable d'arrêter cette spirale destructrice. Les morts restaient souvent sans sépulture et l'humanité se trouvait à un point critique de son histoire, o l'autodestruction paraissait inévitable. Cependant, des scientifiques français vont faire une découverte cruciale. Ils proposent de « mixer » les gènes de toute...
18) The Dream-Chosen
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Humans and aliens struggle to survive on a planet surface foreign to them both, which still suffers the aftermath of a past disaster. Dunnagh is responsible for his people, wanting to bring his soldiers and civilians to safety. The Khutani work to preserve not only their own people, but the races of this planet Timorna where they dwell. It takes all the Khutani mind powers, and those of Dunnagh, to bring them together for symbiosis.
The Dream-Chosen...
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Though they have mind powers, the Khutani in their underground havens do not all think as one, nor do the races of this planet nor human newcomers. Dunnagh and his symbiote Tani are doing as they think best, but not everyone agrees with them. Tani is only a child, with ancestral memories vital to their survival as their surroundings and the seasons are changing. To support their band of human and alien refugees, Tessa takes on a spiritual bond she...
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In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like.
Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control.
Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion?
Using science...
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