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Only One Winner: Science Fiction Mystery Tales
ISBN: 9781479400980 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stanson's scheme was audacious in its scope: highjack a space liner, kill the passengers and crew, and then live off the rich pickings for years to come. They won't even have to leave the well-stocked craft--and the security forces can never locate them in the void between the worlds. But Leahry, another ex-con, knows that everything has to go "just right" for the plan to succeed; and when things begin to go awry, the only option is to flee the ship in a rescue pod. The pair still have enough loot to live well--but if two can live comfortably, why, just one can live very well indeed Here are...
Stanson's scheme was audacious in its scope: highjack a space liner, kill the passengers and crew, and then live off the rich pickings for years to co...
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75,78 |
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Natural Selection
ISBN: 9780981101286 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short story collection by acclaimed SF author and ecologist Nina Munteanu explores humanity's co-evolution with our environment and technology. A man uses cyber-eavesdropping to make love. A technocratic government uses gifted people as tools to recast humanity. The ruins of a city serve as battleground between pro-technologists and pro-naturalists. From time-space guardians to cybersex, GMO, and biotech implants, this short story collection is a journey of great scope, imagination and vision. ..".a stunning example of good storytelling with an excellent setting and cast of...
This short story collection by acclaimed SF author and ecologist Nina Munteanu explores humanity's co-evolution with our environment and technology. A...
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91,17 |
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The Savage Awakening: A Preppers Perspective
ISBN: 9781481906838 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second in a series of stand-alone interconnected "Short stories for preppers. The survivors of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that has devastated the electrical grid are trying to cope in a darkened world as society collapses. It's the morning of day seven in this post-apocalyptic world and from the news on the radio it appears WWW III has already begun. How long until the batteries in the radios and flashlights fail? How long until a light in the night or the sound of a generator running signals not hope and coping but a target for the desperate and unprepared? Join the...
This is the second in a series of stand-alone interconnected "Short stories for preppers. The survivors of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that ...
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25,95 |
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Multiples
ISBN: 9781596066250 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone's life in the wild, stormy period we know as "the Sixties," which for me had actually lasted from 1968 to 1974 or 1975. I had come through my own angry four-year-long retirement from writing in the middle 1970s, and was working again at a steady pace, though not with the frenetic prolificacy of the pre-retirement years. At the beginning of this period my personal life was still pretty chaotic, a carryover from all that Sixties madness, and plenty of new chaos was...
"By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone's life in the wild, ...
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72,03 |
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Tales of the Unexpected
ISBN: 9781927621226 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five stories of fantasy and science fiction each an unexpected twist on reality. In this collection you will find tales of dragons, AI robots engaged in a secret war, a shipwrecked vampire, a man who fixes a UFO, and a writer of coffee table books who enters a fantasy world in search of the perfect cup. Tales to entertain, amuse, and make your pulse race.
Five stories of fantasy and science fiction each an unexpected twist on reality. In this collection you will find tales of dragons, AI robots engaged ...
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35,88 |
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Grinning Cracks
ISBN: 9781475211931 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-five short works filled with the upsetting and uncanny, from the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series (Alliteration Ink) and the horror novella We Shadows Have Offended (Etopia Press). This newly revised and updated second edition includes eight pieces not found in the first release, featuring the never before published stories "The Apple Box," "Colleagues," and the poems "Floater" and "Il Necromantiosmo." Taylor reimagines both classic, familiar fairytales and superstitions ("Abaddon," "The Apple Box," "Rabbit Rabbit," "Trichotomy") and a sequence of Breton folk stories ("The...
Thirty-five short works filled with the upsetting and uncanny, from the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series (Alliteration Ink) and the horror...
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39,87 |
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A Pox Upon Us
ISBN: 9781483982854 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book 4 of the "Preppers Perspective" series finds the survivors of a state sponsored EMP attack on Americas electrical grid facing the new danger of a terrorist released small pox virus. Without a viable vaccine the preppers revert to self quarantine and untried old Indian remedy's to combat the virulent plague sweeping the world.
Book 4 of the "Preppers Perspective" series finds the survivors of a state sponsored EMP attack on Americas electrical grid facing the new danger of a...
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23,95 |
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100 Short Stories and First Chapters
ISBN: 9781484109991 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great collection of short stories and first chapters. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and some definitely weird stuff. If you like to read short stories to spur your imagination, this is the book for you.
A great collection of short stories and first chapters. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and some definitely weird stuff. If you like to read short s...
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72,84 |
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V11, the Pulp Writers
ISBN: 9781483701981 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 is a collection of seven si-fi stories from some of the most prolific writers of the past century. Included are: The Second Satellite by Edmond Hamilton, Out of the Dreadful Depths by C. D. Willard, Monsters of Mars by Edmond Hamilton, The Flying City by H. Thompson Rich, The Eye of Allah byC. D. Willard, The Sunken Empire by H. Thompson Rich, Four Miles Within by Anthony Gilmore.
The Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 is a collection of seven si-fi stories from some of the most prolific writers of the past century. Included are: The Secon...
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76,58 |
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V14
ISBN: 9781483702124 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anthology of Sci-Fi V14 is a collection of seven the past century. Included are:
The Soul-Snatcher By Tom Curry, Giants of the Ray By Tom Curry, From An Amber Block By Tom Curry, The Lord of Space By Victor Rousseau, Hells Dimension By Tom Curry, The Moon Destroyers By Monroe K. Ruch, Spacewrecked on Venus By Neil R. Jones. The Anthology of Sci-Fi V14 is a collection of seven the past century. Included are:
The Soul-Snatcher By Tom Curry, Giants of the Ray By To... |
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76,58 |
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The Universe vs: The Beast of Harmala
ISBN: 9781490461809 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beast of Harmala is on the rampage and wants control of the entire Universe. The war is on and no one is safe from his wrath. The greatest and last war of the Universe has begun.
The Beast of Harmala is on the rampage and wants control of the entire Universe. The war is on and no one is safe from his wrath. The greatest and las...
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51,68 |
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The 400-Million-Year-Itch
ISBN: 9781921857171 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,56 |
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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
ISBN: 9780192803818 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Readers can sample H.G. Well's 1903 story "The Land Ironclads" (which predicted the stalemate of trench warfare and the invention of the tank), Jack Williamson's "The Metal Man," a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak's 1940s classic, "Desertion,"...
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to gi...
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68,26 |
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Swiftly
ISBN: 9780575082342 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slavesthe finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of miniature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work. But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants and invasion looms. In a world where humanity is both smaller and larger than it once was, love and hate loom large. Mankind discovers itself at the center of scale. Lilliputians are 12 times smaller than us but there are those12 times smaller than them, and 12times smaller again and so on. And... It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slavesthe finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of miniature e... |
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96,90 |
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Pushing Ice
ISBN: 9780575083110 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships like Bella Lind's Rockhopper. Bella and her crew are desperate for some much-needed R&R - until Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit.
The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships like...
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65,23 |
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Galactic North
ISBN: 9780575083127 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Galactic North', Alastair Reynolds' first collection features eight novellas and short stories, three brand-new for this volume.
'Galactic North', Alastair Reynolds' first collection features eight novellas and short stories, three brand-new for this volume.
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55,19 |
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The Caltraps of Time
ISBN: 9780575118287 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of science fiction stories.
This is a collection of science fiction stories.
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50,16 |
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Pump Six and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781597802024 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.
The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man." The title story is original to this... Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and envi...
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56,97 |
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Brave New Worlds
ISBN: 9781597804547 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You are being watched. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared -- swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and...
You are being watched. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listen...
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75,98 |
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Space Opera
ISBN: 9781607014072 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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90,32 |