ilość książek w kategorii: 4399
The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever, Volume 4
ISBN: 9780810846708 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers. Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for...
Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the ...
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165,29 zł |
Selected Stories of H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780812970753 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.
He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection. "Wells imagined both dark and bright futures... Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the u...
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96,10 zł |
The Last of the O-Forms & Other Stories
ISBN: 9780974657356 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Van Pelt's first collection, "Strangers and Beggars," was voted one of the Best Books of 2003 by the American Library Association. This new collection continues to explore the ever-changing boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Van Pelt's first collection, "Strangers and Beggars," was voted one of the Best Books of 2003 by the American Library Association. This new collection...
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88,01 zł |
Just Like the Jetsons
ISBN: 9780977304042 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected here for the first time are seventeen stories from World Fantasy and Hugo Award nominee Warren Lapine. These stories are diverse and imaginative, compellling and exciting, as they take you down paths you might never have found on your own. Here you'll meet astronauts, famous dead rock stars, cyborgs, vampires, mercenaries, dragons, knights, artists, clones, aliens, and much, much more. Lapine ranges effortlessly from hard sf to dark fantasy and back again. And since each story has an afterword where Lapine explains how it came to be and what it means in the context of his varied...
Collected here for the first time are seventeen stories from World Fantasy and Hugo Award nominee Warren Lapine. These stories are diverse and imagina...
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146,72 zł |
Absalom's Mother and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780978907839 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marleys first collection includes ten science fiction and fantasy stories, most with a feminist take. Due to Marleys background as a concert opera singer, many stories have music at their heart.
Marleys first collection includes ten science fiction and fantasy stories, most with a feminist take. Due to Marleys background as a concert opera sin...
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98,70 zł |
Herald Et Ali
ISBN: 9781403325242 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guanidino compounds comprise Creatine, Arginine, and the Guanidines. Since 2001 there have been over 2000 published articles with the names of these compounds in the title. One can go to any nutrition or health food store and buy these as supplements because it is believed they improve health and athletic performance. This volume includes an up-to-date summary of the scientific and clinical aspects of essentially all the biologically active Guanidino Compounds. The articles summarize the current scientific knowledge of these compounds with reference to relevant clinical conditions, and...
Guanidino compounds comprise Creatine, Arginine, and the Guanidines. Since 2001 there have been over 2000 published articles with the names of these c...
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129,69 zł |
Ascent Stage
ISBN: 9781411601307 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,32 zł |
Spacebraid and Other Tales
ISBN: 9781413443462 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spacebraid and Other Tales of a Dystopian Universe is a collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore the most powerful of human emotions, fears and desires in settings sometimes hostile, sometimes surreal, and always a bit off-kilter. The tales vary from the humorous to the tragic, from the idealistic yearning of the hero in Darwin to the horrifying fate of Godfrey in Heisenberg in the Macro. Spacebraid, the longest piece in the collection, is the story of a dedicated group of individuals led by a brilliant theoretical physicist in a dash through time to circumvent...
Spacebraid and Other Tales of a Dystopian Universe is a collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore the most powerful of human emot...
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100,42 zł |
Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories
ISBN: 9781414042817 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
Strange New Worlds: Bk. 8
ISBN: 9781416503453 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newest volume of Strange New Worlds features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation ®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans
Each of these stories features our favorite Trek characters in new and adventurous situations. In this anthology, we get to experience a new version of the Kobayashi Maru, feel what it's like to be inside the Borg collective, delight in tasting new foods, and encourage Starfleet's future. ... This newest volume of Strange New Worlds features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation ®, Star Trek: De...
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104,79 zł |
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds X
ISBN: 9781416544388 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's music. Strands of DNA are woven together from four Starfleet captains, creating one man with one mission. An entity fights for its right to live, despite the fact that it is not alive. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, all of these stories are embraced by the vision of Star Trek(R). When Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, he also tapped a wellspring of human imagination. Viewers were transformed into fans, who embraced the show...
Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's music. St...
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100,42 zł |
The English Teacher Chronicles: A Collection of Short Stories
ISBN: 9781420839494 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The English Teacher Chronicles is divided into three "miniseries," each written during a particular year of school. The "miniseries" are subdivided into several short stories. The first, written in the seventh grade, involves an English teacher, who is actually an alien from a distant planet, and her attempts to take over the world. The second, written in the tenth grade, involves an English class's field trip to Iraq going horribly wrong. The third group of short stories, written in the twelfth grade, involves an English class attempting to travel through time to the Renaissance era, but...
The English Teacher Chronicles is divided into three "miniseries," each written during a particular year of school. The "miniseries" are subdivided in...
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77,71 zł |
Twelve Stories and a Dream
ISBN: 9781421838618 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men-this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided t
In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men-this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellec...
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136,73 zł |
And Now the News . . .: Volume IX: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781556434600 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known works, two cowritten with genre legend Robert Heinlein. Spanning his most creative period, these tales show why Sturgeon won every science fiction award given.
Written between 1955 and 1957, the 15 stories in And Now the News ... include five previously uncollected stories along with five well-known wo...
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165,56 zł |
Beast of the Heartland: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781568581262 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his work transcends the limits of genre fiction.
Beast of the Heartland contains seven tales that explore the darkside where science fiction meets horror. Headed by the award-winning "Barnacle Bill the Spacer, " a story of high-space mutiny, the book includes "A Little Night Music, " a gothic tale of insanity; "All the Perfumes of Araby, " where an adventurer in the Middle East links up with an ancient entity; "Human History, " a... The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpun...
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121,02 zł |
Wandering Stars
ISBN: 9781580230056 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy? Yes Wandering Stars is the landmark collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. The first of its kind, it is an established and enduring classic. This is the first time in a science fiction collection that the Jewish People and the richness of their themes and particular points of view appear without a mask. Wandering Stars is a showpiece of Jewish wit, culture, and lore, of the blend of humor and sadness, cynicism, and faith. In these pages you ll find superlative tales of fantasy and science fiction by... Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy? Yes Wandering Stars is the landmark collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Th... |
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82,95 zł |
Bloodchild: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781583226988 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes -Bloodchild, - winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and -Speech Sounds, - winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, -Amnesty- is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is -The Book of Martha- which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability--and responsibility--to save humanity from itself?
Like all of Octavia... A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes -Bloodchild, - winner of both the Hugo...
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46,53 zł |
Reverse Field
ISBN: 9781585006755 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,71 zł |
Reality Redefined
ISBN: 9781585009299 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,83 zł |
The Lunatics of Terra
ISBN: 9781587154102 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Sladek's hilarious SF satires may show a world riddled with shambolic flaws, but this (he pointed out) is actually the good news: "My own small ray of hope concerns human frailty. All conspiracies, no matter how monstrous, are ultimately the work of mere imperfect people, whose irresolution or bad judgement or even bad conscience works against the system. They get bunions, their cars break down, their children run away -and all this grit gets into the smooth-running gears of their world domination plans. I hope."
John Sladek's hilarious SF satires may show a world riddled with shambolic flaws, but this (he pointed out) is actually the good news: "My own small r...
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78,03 zł |