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Le Livre de poche Le noeud de la sorciere
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Pocket Gardiens des cites perdues
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Les Prairies Numeriques A Garland For Girls: A book by Louisa M. Alcott
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£15.19
Springer Nature Switzerland AG New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring
Book SynopsisThis book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story’s main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading. Table of ContentsLife … but not as we know.- Transmogrification.- Pandemic.- Life on Mars.- Artificial Intelligence.- Attractive Androids.- Big Data.- Faster Than Light Travel.- Antigravity.- Matter Transmission.- The Sub-microscopic World.- Impact Events.
£23.74
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Maiden Voyage of Petrus van Stijn: A Novel
Book SynopsisPetrus van Stijn’s world is besieged by two prime engines of destruction: massive geomagnetic storms caused by unprecedented solar storms – protracted coronal mass ejections (CME), and climate change wreaking unprecedented, but predictable collapse of the Antarctic ice shelves. Petrus has other problems to contend with, like surviving on a floating archipelago of ice, and then walking 2200 kilometers through a post-Apocalyptic world. At the same time, Petrus will discover something of a true social and biological paradise. Herein lies the paradox of a world where one species – ours – is facing extinction, while others – many genetically re-engineered – are enjoying a biodiversity renaissance.With a Foreword by William Shatner, this provocative, lyrical, deeply philosophical work of fiction explores the ethical limits of science and technology, and the future of all life on earth.Table of ContentsFOREWORDChapter 1 doomsday shelfs Chapter 2 incoming storms Chapter 3 the beryllium-10 factor Chapter 4 absentis diebus quattuor Chapter 5 a clou within the frozen eyewall Chapter 6 doomed logistics Chapter 7 the evacuation attempt Chapter 8 lone Chapter 9 salvaging Chapter 10 the plight of the emperors Chapter 11 journeying Chapter 12 as the last continent vanishes Chapter 13 a floating archipelago Chapter 14 quantum ecodynamic substrates Chapter 15 looming equations for lost and found Chapter 16 gardens in the fog Chapter 17 the legacy of thomas ralph merton Chapter 18 petrus discovers wonderland Chapter 19 in the morning Chapter 20 2200 kilometers to bruges Chapter 21 adventure in extremadura Chapter 22 the french Chapter 23 affable landscapes Chapter 24 coming into focus Chapter 25 going home Chapter 26 a new life Chapter 27 rights of passage Chapter 28 the state of the world, cont. Chapter 29 a stroll through town Chapter 30 the castle Chapter 31 acclimation Chapter 32 basics Chapter 33 the codex stefanus Chapter 34 the emergency beacon Chapter 35 the science of restraint Chapter 36 ethical choices and fine wine Chapter 37 Something not human Chapter 38 and that night Chapter 39 that day Chapter 40 miracles Chapter 41 town crier Chapter 42 genes and molecules awry Chapter 43 the van stijn paradox Chapter 44 leviathans Chapter 45 dinner with hans Chapter 46 the radio Chapter 47 the search for dulce Chapter 48 strange memories Chapter 49 new world Chapter 50 coda
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Springer International Publishing AG Incident on Simpac III: A Scientific Novel
Book SynopsisA few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth’s history of successes and failures. Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up, making an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data, the computations, or is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program? A race against time ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge. While grounded in the social systems aspect, the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based tools than most contemporary science fiction – which most often relies entirely on non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies – predicts. The result is an entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF, complemented by a nontechnical appendix describing the underlying science. Table of ContentsPart I (Novel): Incident on Simpac III.- Part II: Scientific Appendix.
£999.99
Books on Demand Transport 3: Todeszone
Book SynopsisWährend Russell und die anderen Siedler von New California mit General Morrow und seinen Söldnern um die Unabhängigkeit ihrer Kolonie streiten, taucht eine neue Gefahr auf. Die Transporter entpuppen sich als fürchterliche Waffen, die nicht nur die Menschen auf New California, sondern die gesamte Milchstraße bedrohen.Eine Gruppe Freiwilliger begibt sich schließlich auf eine Reihe gefährlicher Missionen mit dem Transporter, um der Gefahr entgegenzutreten. Aber am Ende muss sich Russell fragen, wer der größere Feind ist: Die geheimnisvolle Macht hinter den Transportern oder General Morrow.
£14.92
Outlook Verlag The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret
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Outlook Verlag Shadows in Zamboula
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Hofenberg Auf zwei Planeten
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Sternberg Press Bezoar Delinqxenz
Book SynopsisA techno-fiction novel on the uneasy desire for anti-rationalist ideas on the internet.Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments to forge a transnational narrative that trips through the incompatible fantasies of rationality and civilization, with wormholes through ancient tales, recent cinema, plain-wrong art histories, and pirated philosophical reflections. The novel opens with a case of abduction in India. The operations of a far-right publishing house are interrupted by extraterrestrial influences with political intent. The attack on a science-fiction writer at a beach in Goa seems connected to a bot-propelled puzzle revolving around the defacement of Medieval temple relics elsewhere. A detective specialized in interstellar sociology finds clues that point to a transgalactic anarchist group with ties to online Posadist forums, while Eurasian political theory circulates as noise-objects in Goa’s beachside clubs. Meanwhile, occultist explorers in the sci-fi writer’s story find that the legendary homeland for Hinduism in the Arctic has become infested by “Gradients of Hegelian Unhappiness” by way of an invasive subzero entity buried in deep snow. The detective’s investigations eventually turn metaphysical, settling on impossible solutions spanning the far reaches of outer space.Reactionary behavior on the internet, having spawned numerous retroactive origin stories for itself, takes on a tentacular presence across diverse political spectrums, time periods, and cultural contexts, giving the impression of a vast and tangled entity with distributed intelligence. Fatally fused by a common hatred for the legacies of the Enlightenment, popular manifestations go by terms like “alt-right” and “neo-reaction,” powered by nerdy forums and blog posts across the web. Stationing conspiracy theory itself as the central form of thinking, acting, and concept-making in the twenty-first century, Bezoar Delinqxenz is a mixtape simulation of these entanglements at the borderlands of fiction, insanity, and political emancipation.
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Next Chapter Twisted Tales From The Universe
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Next Chapter Twisted Tales From The Universe
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Next Chapter Twisted And Untwisted Tales
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Next Chapter Organo-Topia
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Next Chapter The Edge Of Destiny
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Next Chapter Catching Butterflies
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Justfiction Edition Turing Test
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Chongqing Publishing House The Three-Body Problem: Death's End
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Chongqing Publishing House The Three-Body Problem: The Dark Forest
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Manywhere APS The Humane Algorithm
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Alice Westcreek Beyond the Walls
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Emerging Synthesis wild irises
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Double 9 Booksllp The Scarlet Plague
Book SynopsisIn 1912, Jack London written a book 'The Scarlet Plague'. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease. Victims face turned scarlet and their lower side become numb. Within 30 minutes, of first seeing symptoms, victims usually died. There was no cure, doctors and scientists, who were trying to do so were also get infected. The Scarlet Plague is an amazing story, showing us the same scenario as pandemic Covid-19 shown us.
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Double 9 Books LLP Out of Time's Abyss
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Double 9 Booksllp The Girl in the Golden Atom
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Double 9 Booksllp Four-Day Planet
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Double 9 Books LLP We
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Double 9 Booksllp The Face in the Abyss
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Double 9 Booksllp Operation: Outer Space
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Double 9 Booksllp The Land That Time Forgot
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Double 9 Booksllp The Lost Continent
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Double 9 Booksllp Deathworld
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Double 9 Booksllp Plague Ship
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Double 9 Booksllp The Devolutionist And The Emancipatrix
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Double 9 Booksllp The Mad Planet
Book SynopsisBurl was aware of wasps with stings nearly as long as his own body that could rapidly kill prey. The skulking tribe members of Burl had minimal fear of wasps since each species had a defined prey item. Invoking the horrifying screams of his grandfather, who had been attacked by a black-bellied tarantula years ago, he opened his mouth to scream. In addition to crickets, beetles, and spiders, Burl once spotted a swarm of large, red Amazon ants moving in a neat line across a blue-green mold that had emerged from the river. Under the same silky covering, the tarantula writhed in agony on Burl's spear point. He awaited the introduction of the poison fangs. Above the flames, moths, flying beetles, enormous gnats, and midges performed the death dance. Burl could see them as the flames drew closer to him. Moths beat the air fiercely with their wildly colored thirty-foot-spread wings. As they fixed their crazed attention on the blazing fires below them, their enormous eyes shone like carbuncles. It didn't matter to Burl that one large insect was consuming another. He kept vigil, his eyes darting from the cricket to the odd opening behind the trap.
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Double 9 Booksllp Underground Man
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Double 9 Books The Secret Of The Island
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Double 9 Books A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder
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Double 9 Booksllp The Metal Monster
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Double 9 Booksllp The Poison Belt
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EduCart Thuvia, Maid of Mars
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Double 9 Books The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
Book SynopsisA playwright and poet from England, Christopher Marlowe wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus between 1564 and 1593. The drama, which originally appeared on stage in the late 16th century, is about a great scholar called Faustus who strikes a bargain with the devil in return for limitless wisdom and power. As he grows more and more corrupt and immoral, Faustus' ambition and quest for knowledge lead him down a road of vice and ruin. Faustus continues to pursue knowledge despite the cautions of his confidant and buddy Mephistopheles, and finally pays a terrible price for his desire. As one of Marlowe's most well-known works and a standard illustration of Elizabethan tragedy, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is frequently studied.
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Double 9 Books Trips to the Moon
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Double 9 Books The Great War Syndicate Edition2023
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Double 9 Books A Journey in Other Worlds A Romance of the Future
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Double 9 Books The Seven Temporary Moons
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Lector House Banzai!
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