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The Telefax Box
ISBN: 9781434841841 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are machines taking over? When societies use machinery to eliminate work, does it free consumers to realize higher callings or merely make them dependent on machines and less able to care for themselves? If each new convenience means greater dependence, is the consumer a slave? "The tool is the slave of the being. The being is the slave of the machine." This is a Samerac saying. Sameracs are against machinery, a stance that makes them outcasts. The Telefax Box is a social and political satire depicting this clash over technology. No element of modern life, from spy ware to gene pools, is...
Are machines taking over? When societies use machinery to eliminate work, does it free consumers to realize higher callings or merely make them depend...
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Hellburner
ISBN: 9780446364515 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A futuristic tale of governmental coverups, betrayal, and murder follows the belter Pollard as he tries to determine if his partner's space flight training accident was a mishap or attempted murder.
A futuristic tale of governmental coverups, betrayal, and murder follows the belter Pollard as he tries to determine if his partner's space flight tra...
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A King of Infinite Space
ISBN: 9781604599190 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is the story of the last day of my life, and everything that happened after that." Back in print after a decade, A King of Infinite Space is the final volume of Allen Steele's award-winning Near-Space series, and a cult-favorite among readers. Ranging from a Lollapalooza concert of 1995 to the asteroid belt of 2099, it's the tale of a young man who dies, becomes reborn, and crosses the solar system in search of his lost love... and grows to be a better man, despite himself. "Steele's hero tells his story in such a way that the reader learns a lot more about him than he is aware of...
"This is the story of the last day of my life, and everything that happened after that." Back in print after a decade, A King of Infinite Space is the...
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Terminal Velocity: The Adventures of Josiah Jones, Book Two
ISBN: 9780615339245 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The imaginary world is just as Josiah Jones left it, but it's all about to change. Events surrounding the death of an agent have compelled Josiah and Tom to find the RED Agency's new headquarters, but things are more than they seem. A mysterious third party interferes, and no one knows whose side they could be on. The second installment of the Adventures of Josiah Jones is more exciting, more action-packed, and even more intriguing than the first.
The imaginary world is just as Josiah Jones left it, but it's all about to change. Events surrounding the death of an agent have compelled Josiah and ...
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Tell No Lies: But Keep Secrets
ISBN: 9781440403361 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sci-fi is very popular these days. We love our tech gadgets that do wonders that seem like miracles or magic. We can't get enough of it, in books, in movies and on television. We are on a train that no one knows for sure where it's leading us. Will technology be used to help us gain better control over our lives or will our lives become controlled by technology instead. What if the answer was both? The former wouldn't be cause for alarm but, the latter would be. Just how is technology going to control our lives and will it hurt? Tell No Lies But Keep Secrets takes the reader on a journey...
Sci-fi is very popular these days. We love our tech gadgets that do wonders that seem like miracles or magic. We can't get enough of it, in books, in ...
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The Collected Works of Mohammed Ullyses Fips: April 1 -- Important Date for Hugo Gernsback and other April Fools
ISBN: 9781450559850 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By this time, most people know that "Mohammed Ullyses Fips" was Hugo Gernsback. What fewer people realize is that Hugo Gernsback was also Mohammed Ullyses Fips The intriguing thing about all of the Fips inventions was that there was -- through all of them -- an undertone of practicality, and several have indeed seen the ultimate light of day as practical inventions in later years. Hugo Gernsback was an inventor, an innovator, and a force in his industry. He founded the electronics publishing industry and at one time, was perhaps best known as publisher of science fiction. The Fips stories...
By this time, most people know that "Mohammed Ullyses Fips" was Hugo Gernsback. What fewer people realize is that Hugo Gernsback was also Mohammed Ull...
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SIMbiosys: Ultimate Cyber Attack
ISBN: 9780615350844 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Jim Andrews, loses everything he thought was important, only to come face-to-face with the consequences of his life choices and the terrorizing realities of the digital age. When the modern world comes under the ultimate cyber siege, Dr. Andrews is faced with the mysteriously deadly yet alluring requirements to save the world.
Dr. Jim Andrews, loses everything he thought was important, only to come face-to-face with the consequences of his life choices and the terrorizing re...
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The Barsoom Project: A Dream Park Novel
ISBN: 9780765326683 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Barsoom Project" is the direct sequel to 1981's "Dream Park. "Eviane's first visit to the-state-of-art amusement arena Dream Park ended in disaster: the special effects had seemed more real than life... until the holograms she was shooting with live ammunition turned out to be solid flesh and blood... and very, very dead. Haunted by the past, rebounding from a lengthy spell in a mental hospital, she has returned to Dream Park to exorcise a nightmare that has become reality. But in Dream Park, nothing is what it seems. The Inuit mythology controlling the images is part of a "Fat... "The Barsoom Project" is the direct sequel to 1981's "Dream Park. "Eviane's first visit to the-state-of-art amusement arena Dream Park ended in dis... |
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The Price of Free Will: The Singularity Cometh
ISBN: 9781432755706 / Angielski / Miękka / 433 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Big Bang
ISBN: 9780982327135 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A group of eclectic characters finance the construction of a huge underground complex beneath the streets of London, to use as a retreat in case of nuclear war. The complex is run by a supercomputer that can twist reality around to its own ends. None of the group thought they would ever have to use the complex - right up until the day they did. Welsh writer A.J. Desmond takes readers on a wild trip down Alice's rabbit hole in this visionary science fiction novel.
A group of eclectic characters finance the construction of a huge underground complex beneath the streets of London, to use as a retreat in case of nu...
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Threads Across the Canyon: The Wise Child Trilogy Book One
ISBN: 9781450552295 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Am I doing this?" George beseeched the unknown mechanism, out loud, wondering if some amazing probabilistic coincidence was in effect instead. The year is 1997. In his garage in the sleepy suburbs of Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Carter has just inadvertently created a telepathic receiver while trying to conduct an experiment on X-ray bands. Unfortunately, he has no idea how he did it. But while he is working on perfecting the new device, others become aware of George's experiments. It is only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Meanwhile, in an unknown location somewhere in the...
"Am I doing this?" George beseeched the unknown mechanism, out loud, wondering if some amazing probabilistic coincidence was in effect instead. The ye...
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First Against the Wall
ISBN: 9781934081136 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Transition
ISBN: 9780316071994 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?
Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal,... There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in ...
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Time Captain
ISBN: 9781436364331 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We start with the ordinary story of three everyday high school friends.
Ken, Amy, and Roger stand out only by helping each other and putting bullies in their place. Then one night Ken is called out by the school's top bully. Ken takes on the bully at a chemical plant during a thunder storm. During the fight that ensues, lightning ignites barrels of toxic waste. Noxious goo is sent flying everywhere - over everything and everyone. The next day continues on as normal until Ken and his friends develop super powers. This new discovery starts out as a fun game, until their fun is... We start with the ordinary story of three everyday high school friends.
Ken, Amy, and Roger stand out only by helping each other and putting bull... |
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It's Down To Earth
ISBN: 9781441467423 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seven billion people of the Clarke Belt Cities are desperately seeking ways to return to their homes on the ground, after being stranded in Geostationary Earth Orbit by the cutting down of their centrifugally-supported space escalator by which they had temporarily migrated to cities built up there, to live in while the Earth's ecosystem was being cleansed and jump-started back to a long-term viable condition again. Now, how can they get back down? "It's Down To Earth" is a science fiction novel in a series by Jim Cline about efforts to rejuvenate the planet by gaining high efficiency...
The seven billion people of the Clarke Belt Cities are desperately seeking ways to return to their homes on the ground, after being stranded in Geosta...
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One-Half C
ISBN: 9781448692002 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. science fiction novella, set in 2090, Tom Aurora, a space academy washout, assigned as a cargo pilot to a special technology test mission bound for Mars, is challenged with doomsday on Earth shortly after launch. He is redirected to a survival flight to an unchartered planet. Tom is determined to change the future of the human species.
science fiction novella, set in 2090, Tom Aurora, a space academy washout, assigned as a cargo pilot to a special technology test mission bound for Ma...
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Orbital Maneuvers
ISBN: 9781451549430 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (New cover artwork and expanded author's notes on asteroid impacts and the search for Near-Earth Objects.) ORBITAL MANEUVERS takes you on a wild roller coaster ride with the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, as they struggle for survival in the aftermath of a catastrophic asteroid impact on the United States. First time shuttle commander, Susan Corin, is plagued by a premonition of disaster, which dampens the successes of the mission. Her fears soon turn into a horrific reality, as a catastrophic asteroid impact on the United States wipes out Mission Control, leaves one crewmember dead,...
(New cover artwork and expanded author's notes on asteroid impacts and the search for Near-Earth Objects.) ORBITAL MANEUVERS takes you on a wild rolle...
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The Razz
ISBN: 9781450219259 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid 21st century, teleportation becomes an everyday reality, the exclusive province of American citizens. But such luxury comes with a hidden price, known only to a select few within the U.S. government. Such knowledge can make the difference between life or death on the American Continent when terrorists south of the border threaten the United States with a stolen, lethal bio-agent. With time running out, the fate of an entire nation depends on the combined efforts of both the military and a reluctant group of civilians. Their only hope is to recover a technology so unique, no other...
In the mid 21st century, teleportation becomes an everyday reality, the exclusive province of American citizens. But such luxury comes with a hidden p...
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The Razz
ISBN: 9781450219266 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid 21st century, teleportation becomes an everyday reality, the exclusive province of American citizens. But such luxury comes with a hidden price, known only to a select few within the U.S. government. Such knowledge can make the difference between life or death on the American Continent when terrorists south of the border threaten the United States with a stolen, lethal bio-agent. With time running out, the fate of an entire nation depends on the combined efforts of both the military and a reluctant group of civilians. Their only hope is to recover a technology so unique, no other...
In the mid 21st century, teleportation becomes an everyday reality, the exclusive province of American citizens. But such luxury comes with a hidden p...
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103,86 |
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Plains of Busai
ISBN: 9781934625880 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Erskan Chronicles blends science-fiction to an erotic journey of dominance and submission. Plains of Busai leads the second Erskan trilogy with a fast-paced story that celebrates the courage and determination of a young female warrior against impossible odds of survival. An expansive and beautiful ocean of grasses is the backdrop for unforeseen clashes of deceit, betrayal, and tumultuous cultural upheaval in a land where protection - and sexual slavery - of the male is the paramount essence of the Plainswoman's life. As Stee of Eongin writes in the Bretilan Scrolls: We paused as four...
The Erskan Chronicles blends science-fiction to an erotic journey of dominance and submission. Plains of Busai leads the second Erskan trilogy with a ...
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