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Dune (Graphic novels) volume 1
Dune House Harkonnen volume 11
Dune Prelude to Dune volume 02
Dune House Harkonnen volume 10
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Dune House Harkonnen volume 11
Dune Prelude to Dune volume 02
Dune House Harkonnen volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 37
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"Before Dune . . .The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power ... The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ... The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron's secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school ... The schemes of Shaddam Corrino to create a synthetic spice that may bring unlimited wealth, or cause the collapse of the Spacing Guild ... And the implausible dream of Planetologist...
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Everyman's library volume 326
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840L
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A collection of one hundred Bradbury stories from the past four decades includes the Martian stories, tales of magical nostalgia, celebrated fantasies, and six stories appearing in a book for the first time.
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2023.
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
5) Exordia
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2024
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"Anna Sinjari--refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker--has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other... While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they...
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He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form — self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. Created by one of the most brilliant and eccentric intellects the Federation has ever known, the android Data has always believed he was unique, the one true fulfillment of a dream to create children...
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"Special Forces are used to crazy ops, but orbiting a black hole to slow down time and fight Earth's dirty battles in the future? That's new, even for them. But that's the mission for Owen Quarry, Anaya Pretorius, and the rest of COG, a company of elite, disgraced, soldiers from around the globe. They join a defrocked company commander, an AI warship with self-confidence issues, and a crew of misfit troupers on a dizzying time-quest: prove the concept...
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Space between worlds volume 02
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When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause-a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen-and it could spell doom for the entire world.
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Fortress series volume 4
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Long after the Shaping Tristen turns back an evil sorcerer and places his friend Cefwyn on the throne, Cefwyn is once again threatened by the forces of evil, a situation that brings Tristen unexpected challenges.
11) Playing God
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Ecologist Lynn Nussbaumer and her company are hired to detoxicate Dedelphi, a planet polluted by years of bacteriological warfare. A dangerous assignment because hostilities are about to start anew, but an interesting one as the planet is run by women who become men in old age.
12) Trapped
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Life on Old Earth is simple. Under the rule of the Spark Lords, most chaos has been brought under control. Five unsatisfied teachers out for a night of drinking is nothing out of the ordinary . . . until they find one of their students has been murdered by an unknown alien organism. When it is discovered that the murdered student's boyfriend has gone missing, these misfits find themselves tangled in an unofficial homicide investigation that uncovers...
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"Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama, the science fiction writer who drafted the 1954 original film and its first sequel and, in 1955, published these novellas. This book finally provides the first-ever English-language translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, revealing valuable insights into Kayama's...
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2024
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Jack Campbell's New York Times bestselling The Lost Fleet sci-fi adventure series has transported legions of fans out of this world and into the heat of battle. Now, readers will discover how it all began--not only for John "Black Jack" Geary and his descendant Commander Michael Geary, but for those who fought and sacrificed so much alongside them.Spanning from before the Alliance/Syndicate war to the devastating initial conflagration that would lead...
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2023.
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"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only peopleguaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
16) 7th sigma
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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In the desert Southwest, Kimble Monroe and others fight for their lives against the "bugs," self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines.
17) Superluminal
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The love story of Radu Oracul and Laenea Trevelyan, who has sacrificed her heart for a bionic machine in order to join the select band of the pilots of the starships, which travel faster than light.
18) Richter 10
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A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country?
19) Reading the wind
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The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings. So when Chelo, her brother Joseph, and others were abandoned on Fremont, they were not welcome. Joseph managed to escape, but Chelo was left behind, in this latest work in the Silver Ship saga.
20) Tunc: a novel
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A scientist discovers that his famous invention leads to a dangerous outcome. Felix Charlock's scientific genius is unrivaled, and so is his very special invention. So special, in fact, that a shadowy and enigmatic international firm, called Merlin, recruits Felix and marries him into the family. He is betrothed to the erratic Merlin heiress, Benedicta, and given access to an inexhaustible fortune. Yet he longs to be free of the psychological and...
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