Science fiction
Eve Langlais King
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D.M. Pruden Kaine's Retribution
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Stark Publishing Obsessions: An Anthology of Original Fiction
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£17.24
Sj Whitby Project Himbo
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£11.99
New Curiosity Shop Scotland in Space
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£14.20
Les Prairies Numeriques A Garland For Girls: A book by Louisa M. Alcott
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£15.19
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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£25.11
Outlook Verlag Shadows in Zamboula
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£26.91
Hofenberg Auf zwei Planeten
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£43.88
Next Chapter Twisted Tales From The Universe
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Next Chapter Twisted Tales From The Universe
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£12.32
Next Chapter Twisted And Untwisted Tales
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£16.49
Next Chapter Organo-Topia
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£17.99
Next Chapter The Edge Of Destiny
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£14.53
Justfiction Edition Turing Test
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£38.56
Alice Westcreek Beyond the Walls
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£11.90
Emerging Synthesis wild irises
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£8.10
Double 9 Books LLP We
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Double 9 Books A Journey in Other Worlds A Romance of the Future
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£14.39
Austin Macauley Hainds and the Quantum Mind
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£10.79
Ergo Sum Publishing The Place of Quarantine
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£18.99
Ergo Sum Publishing The Place of Quarantine
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£26.99
Le Lys Bleu AEGUS Solstice
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£22.86
Independently Published Nochoy Dain: Dogs of War
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£12.59
Independently Published Maikhatun: The Blossom That Resists
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£15.44
Independently Published Relive: The Journeyer Series: Book One
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£14.24
Independently Published His Human Ward
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£8.46
Independently Published Corsairs: Mathiras
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£15.59
Yen Press Overlord The Undead King Oh Vol. 13
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Independently Published Life After Ruin
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Independently Published Homo Machina: Extinto Artificial
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£9.88
Kodansha Comics GAEATIMA the Gigantis 2
Book SynopsisA gigantic monster returns to the town it ravaged years earlier in this poignant kaiju manga from the creator of the hit series Colorless. In the spirit of the classic Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One, GAEA-TIMA combines thunderous action and character drama with the social conscience and thematic complexity of the genre's post-war roots.A monster that people call GAEA-TIMA devastates a small, seaside town. Ten years later, the resilient community has emerged as a tourist destination, and Miyako, who became a local celebrity by surviving the attack, is making a living selling mini-replicas of the beast. But when GAEA-TIMA returns, Miyako and her neighbors will discover that their enduring connection to the creature goes deeper than tourism and trauma. Just what is the true agenda behind the attack of the gigantis? Are there more like GAEA-TIMA waiting for their moment?And is humanity capable of responding to violence with anything other than more violence?
£12.59
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Scroll of a Good Person
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£19.79
Seven Seas My Wife Has No Emotion Vol. 7
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Seven Seas My Wife Has No Emotion Vol. 8
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Tenebrous Press Brave New Weird
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Orion Publishing Co Queen of Nowhere
Book SynopsisThe Sidhe look like us. They live amongst us. What they lack in numbers they make up with their fearsome mental abilities and the considerable physical resources at their disposal. And their biggest advantage? No one believes they exist.Almost no one.Bez, the best hacker in human-space, is fighting a secret war against them. Always one step ahead, never lingering in one place, she''s determined to bring them down. But she can''t expose the Hidden Empire alone and when the only ally she trusted fails her she must accept help from an unexpected quarter.Just one misstep, one incorrect assumption, and her Sidhe trap - her life''s work - could end in vicious disaster. Worse, if Bez fails then humanity may never have another chance to win free of the manipulative and deadly Sidhe ...
£8.24
Orion Publishing Co Sweet Dreams
Book SynopsisDreamhacking. The ability to enter someone's dreams and influence them. Charlie uses her power for good, to help people - but not everyone is as nice as Charlie.Trade ReviewSullivan uses the tired tropes of paranormal fantasy and high-tech SF to explore ideas of morality and identity, and has produced a work of startling originality * The Guardian *Fast and fun, thrilling and chilling by turns. -- InterzoneA fast-paced SF thriller that delivers the author's usual blend of convincing characterisation and well researched science. * GUARDIAN *Occupy Me keeps the pages turning and the wheels of thought whirring. It's a psychedelic experience, a wacky tapestry of an idea * SFX *this is science-fiction at its most surreal...the premise is brilliant * The Daily Mail *It's completely bonkers, incredibly brave and well worth exploring at ease. Occupy Me is bound to be one of the literary treats of 2016 so make sure you don't miss it. * Upcoming 4 Me *Conspiracies galore, questions about the nature of identity, brilliant evocative writing never detract from the unceasing pace of Sullivan's, a past Arthur C. Clarke Ward winner, futuristic fantasy thriller. Heralds a major new series * Lovereading.co.uk *Occupy Me is very funny and highly unusual, not least of which is having a main character who isn't just an angel, but a middle aged, black lesbian. It's highly imaginative, difficult to categorise, and frequently bizarre. But what it has done is inspired me to go and read Sullivan's other work because like Lauren Beukes, her stories certainly stand out out from the pack. * Fantasy Book Review *Occupy Me is a lot of fun to read, there are so many concepts and ideas thrown into the mix and yet it all works really well. The character interactions can be hilarious at times especially when they are trying to explain away the fantastic or when they are at cross purposes to each other. Tricia Sullivan has written a vivid story that is absorbing from start to finish. * Flickering Myth *This is truly subtle, masterful writing that has so much to offer...I thoroughly enjoyed it, I'm a sucker for fiction that forces a reader to think. * The Eloquent Page *
£7.19
NeWest Press Rescue in the Rockies
Book SynopsisCan 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it''s too late?Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma - and her grandma''s new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max - in Banff, Alberta. Janey can''t believe her parents might potentially miss one of the most important holidays of the year and resigns herself to spending her time away from home wandering around the hotel with, of all people, Max, who she bickers with constantly. Getting frustrated with their constant fighting, Janey turns to run away and finds herself, all of a sudden, standing in snow drifts; the hotel has disappeared, and in its place is, well... nothing.As Janey travels back and forth in time - first to 1883, then, with an unwitting Max along, to an internment camp during World War I and finally the Banff area after the war - she struggles to not only escape the chaotic situations she finds herself in, but to try and figure out what is causing her mysterious disappearances. What do the three places have in common, and can she solve the mystery before the enemy she''s made in the past captures her and Max for good?
£9.49
Vertical Inc. Seraph Of The End 1: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe
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Little, Brown & Company Yokohama Station SF National
Book SynopsisThis follow-up volume to the science fiction hit sheds light on the history of YokohamaStation and people all across Japan through a series of short stories. “Kyoto” tells thetale of a struggle against the information warfare of the station monitoring systems.“Gunma” details the collapse and reconstruction of Yokahama Station. In “Kumamoto,”people tolerate violence and mistreatment in exchange for safety from the loomingthreat of the station. Finally, “Iwate” follows a spy's escape to an unknown region ofthe north.
£15.19
Baen Books We Shall Rise
Book SynopsisLIFE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE The world has been brought to its knees by the “zombie virus.” Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better, and unafraid. All new stories from New York Times best-selling author John Ringo’s “Black Tide Rising” series: Kevin J. Anderson Brendon DuBois Jody Lynn Nye Michael Z. Williamson Kacey Ezell Mike Massa Christoper L. Smith Lydia Sherrer Jason Cordova Brian Trent Patrick Vanner Jamie Ibson About Black Tide Rising: “. . . an entertaining batch of . . . action-packed tales. Certainly, fans of Ringo’s particular brand of action-adventure will be pleased.”—Booklist “This anthology broadens Ringo’s Black Tide world, serving up doses of humanity amid the ravenous afflicted. Comedy has a place in this harsh reality, and these stories stir adventure and emotion at a frantic clip throughout. Zombie fiction fans will be thrilled.”—Library Journal About the Black Tide Rising Series: “Not only has Ringo found a mostly unexplored corner of the zombie landscape, he's using the zombie frame to tackle a broader theme: the collapse and rebirth of civilization. The zombie scenes are exciting, sure, but its the human story that keeps us involved. A fine series.”—Booklist About Under a Graveyard Sky: “Ringo combines humor and horror in this strong series debut, the thinking reader’s zombie novel.”—Publishers Weekly About John Ringo: “[Ringo’s work is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.”—Library Journal “. . . Explosive. . . . fans . . . will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and flavorful characters.”—Publishers Weekly “. . .practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.”—Booklist “Crackerjack storytelling.”—Starlog BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES: Under a Graveyard Sky To Sail a Darkling Sea Islands of Rage and Hope Strands of Sorrow Black Tide Rising Voices of the Fall We Shall Rise At the End of the World At the End of the Journey The Valley of Shadows River of Night
£17.24
University of Minnesota Press Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
Book SynopsisThe first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world’s most successful movie and media franchises. 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. Although the Godzilla films have been analyzed in detail by cultural historians, film scholars, and generations of fans, Kayama’s two Godzilla novellas—both classics of Japanese young-adult science fiction—have never been available in English. This book finally provides English-speaking fans and critics the original texts with these first-ever English-language translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again. The novellas reveal valuable insights into Kayama’s vision for the Godzilla story, feature plots that differ from the films, and clearly display the author’s strong antinuclear, proenvironmental convictions. Kayama’s fiction depicts Godzilla as engaging in guerrilla-style warfare against humanity, which has allowed the destruction of the natural world through its irresponsible, immoral perversion of science. As human activity continues to cause mass extinctions and rapid climatic change, Godzilla provides a fable for the Anthropocene, powerfully reminding us that nature will fight back against humanity’s onslaught in unpredictable and devastating ways. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "At long last, the pathbreaking novellas by Shigeru Kayama that launched the Godzilla franchise are finally available in English. It was well worth the wait: Jeffrey Angles’s lively translation captures all the action, emotion, and political edge of the original Japanese texts. This engaging volume will be a revelation for Godzilla fans, a rich resource for students of Japan, and a rewarding read for anyone who enjoys classic tales of science fiction and adventure."—William M. Tsutsui, chancellor of Ottawa University and author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters "The contributions of Japan’s speculative fiction writer Shigeru Kayama to the Godzilla film franchise have long been overlooked in the West. Jeffrey Angles’s translation of Kayama’s Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again novellas, along with Angles’s own afterword with a biographical sketch of the writer, correct this longstanding oversight. An invaluable addition to the history of Japanese science fiction cinema and literature."—Steve Ryfle, coauthor of Ishirō Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa "Angles’s contributions will be immeasurably useful to those interested in Shigeru Kayama and the beginnings of a pop culture icon. In an age where the vast majority of fandom clamors aggressively for overpriced plastic, Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again is a treasure not to be missed."—Our Culture Magazine "Fun novellas, a deeper understanding of the creature and the themes the original movie was trying to explore, and a glimpse into Japan of the 1950s."—The Irresponsible Reader "Angles' Afterword, 'Translating an Icon', is useful and welcome supplementary material, both in giving a history of the different Godzilla-adaptations, as well as also offering some interesting observations about translating the novellas."—The Complete Review "Translated by Jeffrey Angles, Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again is a truly fascinating and historic release."—FilmJuice "There's undoubtedly a mythological heft to Godzilla, and to Angles' new translation of Shigeru Kayama's text. It's a wonderful new book with an extremely insightful afterword filled with information that's been largely unavailable in the West."—Movieweb Table of Contents Contents Note on Japanese Names Godzilla: Godzilla in Tokyo A Strange Bright Light from the Ocean Floor The Kaiju of Ōdo Island The Eerie Island of Ōdo Godzilla Appears The Mysterious Trilobite The Underground Laboratory We Mustn’t Kill The Tokyo Godzilla Society Godzilla Attacks the Metropolitan Center The Oxygen Destroyer Prayer for Peace Godzilla Raids Again: Godzilla in Osaka Flight over the Ocean Two Kaiju Professor Yamane Godzilla Approaches Crowds of Evacuees The Escaped Prisoners Godzilla Makes Landfall Anguirus The Hokkaido Branch The Far North Celebrating the Big Catch Godzilla Appears in the Northern Seas Kobayashi’s Plane Meets Its End Nature’s Victory Song Afterword: Translating an Icon Jeffrey Angles Glossary of Names, Places, and Ideas
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Pan Macmillan Deep Wheel Orcadia: Winner of the 2022 Arthur C
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the YearAstrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.Trade ReviewA symphony o yotuns, peedie suns and langships tae Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles hauds the starns in the loof o thier haun, terraformin new warlds in Scots. (A symphony of giants, miniature suns and longships to Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles holds the stars in the palm of their hand, terraforming new worlds in Scots.) -- Matthew FittDeep Wheel Orcadia is a mysterious and moving novel in verse about finding home in the farthest reaches. Giles lifts us to new worlds, in space and in language, we could never have imagined. A singular and numinous work -- Morgan M Page * author of One From the Vaults *I can't remember the last time I was this beguiled, this engrossed and this inspired by a book. It's like nothing else I've ever read. It was a joy to feel so entranced by the possibilities and complexities of each and every word. Harry Josephine Giles is a true original and a vital voice – don't miss this. -- Kirsty Logan * author of The Gracekeepers *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Star Wars
Book SynopsisThe release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's six-part narrative has grown into something more: a culture that goes far beyond the films themselves, with tie-in toys, novels, comics, games and DVDs as well as an enthusiastic fan community which creates its own Star Wars fictions. Critical studies of Star Wars have treated it as a cultural phenomenon, or in terms of its special effects, fans and merchandising, or as a film that marked the end of New Hollywood's innovation and the birth of the blockbuster. Will Brooker's illuminating study of the film takes issue with many of these commonly-held ideas about Star Wars. He provides a close analysis of Star Wars as a film, carefully examining its shots, editing, sound design, cinematography and performances. Placing the film in the context of George Lucas's previous work, from his student shorts to his 1970s features, and the diverse influences that shaped his approach, from John Ford to Jean-Luc Godard, Brooker argues that Star Wars is not, as Lucas himself has claimed, a departure from his earlier cinema, but a continuation of his experiments with sound and image. He reveals Lucas's contradictory desires for total order and control, embodied by the Empire, and for the raw energy and creative improvisation of the Rebels. What seemed a simple fairy-tale becomes far more complex when we realise that the director is rooting for both sides; and this tension unsettles the saga as a whole, blurring the boundaries between Empire and Republic, dark side and light side, father and son. In his foreword to this new edition, Will Brooker discusses is how subsequent films in the series, specifically Rogue One (2016) and The Last Jedi (2017), foregrounded and developed the themes of opposition that are at the heart of Star Wars. He shows how Derridean theories of opposites which become undermined and subverted, and which change places are made more clear with hindsight and provide us with a useful lens for looking back at the 1977 Star Wars.Trade ReviewThe tone of this book is playful and thoughtful… A great stocking filler for the Star Wars geek in your life. * Irish Tech News *Table of ContentsForeword to the 2020 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction.- 1. Before Star Wars 2. Dirt 3. Order 4. Border Crossing 5. Notes 6. Bibliography 7. Credits
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Indiana University Press Strategies of Fantasy
Book SynopsisDrawing on a number of literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), the author makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. It examines fantasies by Ursula K Le Guin, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others.Trade ReviewThis is one of the most persuasive and well-reasoned accounts of how and why fantasy works and what its relationship is to canonical literature. -- Gary K. Wolfe
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