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Mission Earth dekalogy volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 03
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 3
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 03
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Earthlings: Beware! Do you know who your enemies are? Your neighbor? Your boss? Your butcher? Your wife? Only the Voltarians know for sure. They’ve successfully infiltrated our little world—and it may never be the same. They walk among us. They work among us. And they’re making themselves right at home, prepping the planet for a power play unlike any you’ve ever seen before. In this web of espionage, intrigue and betrayal, even Voltarian...
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Mission Earth dekalogy volume 5
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 05
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 5
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 05
(La Fayette Ron),Mission earth volume 5
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The Voltarian invaders are getting down and dirty . . . in the deadliest of games. The price: Planet Earth. Voltarian Royal Officer Jettero Heller has heart, nerve and a quick mind on his side. His archenemy Soltan Gris has cunning, ruthlessness and a devious plan on his. But what neither of them has is money—and without that they may as well pack up and go back to Voltar. Because as every earthling knows—no pay, no play. Heller’s solution is...
3) Herland
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Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century.
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Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension.
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical...
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John Buchan (1875-1940), author of over 100 books including The Thirty-Nine Steps, was a stealth writer of supernatural and Weird fiction. From the beginning of his career to his last works, he brought supernatural elements into his narratives to test his characters and thrill his readers.
His 1932 novel The Gap in the Curtain was his last full-length work devoted to exploring a supernatural theme: if you were able to see one year into the future,...
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Bertha and Alfred, married for twenty years, enjoy a truly science fictional life in the twenty-first century. But in spite of all the technological marvels surrounding them, an argument about sharing a dessert at an upscale restaurant escalates and threatens their friendship with their neighbours, the Hoppenstedts.
This parodistic piece is a mundane short story of 6000 words or approximately 25 print pages, written in the style of science fiction's...
7) Death quest
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Alien assassin Soltan Gris will stop at nothing to destroy Fleet Officer Jettero Heller and sabotage his mission to save Earth from drowning in its own environmental problems, while, at the same time, he's forced to play husband to two wives and keep up with a teenage nymph. To add to his troubles, Heller has unearthed the long-lost son of Delbert John Rockecenter on a pig farm! A rip-roaring motorboat chase tops off this sixth action-filled installment...
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Dans cette allégorie mathématique, l'auteur donne vie aux dimensions géométriques.
Edwin Abbot nous fait découvrir les aventures d'un Carré, habitant de Flatland, le Pays Plat. À l'aube du deuxième millénaire, ce proéminent mathématicien est initié aux mystères de la troisième dimension — voire d'autres encore. Avec de nouvelles illustrations par Débora Bertol.
Satire pointue sur la religion et la société victoriennes, ce roman...
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Un cauchemar totalitaire déguisé en leçon de géométrie pour enfants.
Le héros habitant la 2e dimension fait un voyage fantastique dans la 3e dimension et tente de convaincre les autres habitants de son monde de l'existence d'autres possibilités dimensionnaires.
Sous ses faux airs de traité de géométrie, cette fable philosophico-mathématique s'emploie habilement à critiquer la société victorienne.
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Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Fritz Leiber is a science fiction grand master with an unparalleled ability to discern the stranger side of the universe. The Green Millennium is set in a futuristic human society based on our own. The regimented, regulated, and bureaucratized lifestyle led by the misanthropic Phil Gish leaves him feeling vaguely dissatisfied and emotionally cut off from other people. He is surprised when a pure green cat appears...
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