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TimeShift
ISBN: 9780994922571 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TimeShift is a gripping journey of suspense, drama and sci-fi action spanning 900 years in 185 days. Four interconnected story lines turn up the heat in this futuristic techno-thriller.
Owen Taylor is suspicious when a team arrives from eighty years in the future to enlist him for knowledge they claim only he possesses. In 2097, the missing link to Artificial Intelligence is uncovered when conventional robots are programmed with human personalities, giving them the desire to "be." While these free-thinking robots struggle to understand their own existence, they... TimeShift is a gripping journey of suspense, drama and sci-fi action spanning 900 years in 185 days. Four interconnected story lines turn ...
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Millennium
ISBN: 9780441006779 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,78 |
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Blackout
ISBN: 9780345519832 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone's schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids,...
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor...
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73,17 |
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Kafka in Richmond
ISBN: 9780692741917 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Franz Kafka wakes up from a nap to discover that he occupies a bed at a homeless shelter called the "Roach Motel," in the year 2015, and no one could be more surprised than he. Computers, television, Smartphones, rock bands, urinals: what can it all mean? Under threat of the madhouse for believing that he is Franz Kafka, he makes his escape into a world and a cast of characters he could hardly have imagined. What will he do with his time now that he is stranded in Richmond, Virginia? What is this new world like in which he finds himself? How will he ever make his way back to 1920? In the end,...
Franz Kafka wakes up from a nap to discover that he occupies a bed at a homeless shelter called the "Roach Motel," in the year 2015, and no one could ...
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61,67 |
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Eviternity
ISBN: 9780692728482 / Angielski / Miękka / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kestral's audacious three part novel pits Humanoids and Virtual Individuals against an unrelenting enemy. Will their dreams of life beyond death be shattered? Can they even survive? In part one PREDICTION, an aware computer (Daryl), and a psychology professor fall in love with the fate of the planet on the line. The enemy (Xetacon), another electronic life form from the future, threatens all organic life. After several hundred years have past, Xetacon returns in part two MECWORLD where Virtual life forms and the lone Human survivor battle him for the right to exist. In Part three MEC HEAVEN,...
Kestral's audacious three part novel pits Humanoids and Virtual Individuals against an unrelenting enemy. Will their dreams of life beyond death be sh...
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89,02 |
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Atlantis sind wir: In 30 Jahren zum ersten Roman
ISBN: 9783833493003 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Am Anfang war nur die Idee einer Geschichte uber eine junge Frau, die auf der Suche nach ihrer wahren Identitat eine Menge Abenteuer erlebt. In den folgenden 30 Jahren erlebte ich noch mehr abenteuerliches beim Schreiben der Geschichte. Bevor ich mit dem Schreiben anfing, war mir gar nicht klar, wieviel man konnen und wissen muss, um eine einfache Geschichte ordnungsgema zu Papier zu bringen. Wie ich es dann schlielich doch geschafft habe, davon handelt dieses Buch.
Am Anfang war nur die Idee einer Geschichte uber eine junge Frau, die auf der Suche nach ihrer wahren Identitat eine Menge Abenteuer erlebt. In den fo...
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48,15 |
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Chronoliths
ISBN: 9780765325280 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years hence. As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo... One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arriva... |
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69,32 |
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Q: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062015839 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story." "Amiably outrageous....Mandery is a worthy son of those great writers of the 1970s, Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth." "I've never read anything like it and enjoyed every minute of it " Q: A (Timeless) Love Story is a smart, romantic, and funny novel about tender and requited love, a wonderfully original literary... "A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story." "Amiably outrageou... |
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53,91 |
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Thirsty Planet: A Green Fable of Future Earth
ISBN: 9781460943083 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who killed Keesha Leder? Was it a water burglary gone wrong? Was it a dehydrated squatter trying to stave off a thirsty death? Was it the religious sect known as Sectarians trying to replenish their inventory of drinkable water? Or was it her husband, Moss, who was falling in love with his assistant, Zoe? There are plenty of other motivated suspects (and murders) in this Multi Century Whodunnit Thirsty Planet takes place in two time periods and is packed with political corruption, greed, murder, and even an inter-century love affair. It's the year 2121 and the veneer of civilization is...
Who killed Keesha Leder? Was it a water burglary gone wrong? Was it a dehydrated squatter trying to stave off a thirsty death? Was it the religious se...
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64,53 |
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Stop 9/11
ISBN: 9781456558222 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 11, 2001, the world stood by in horror as terrorists hijacked airliners and brought down the World Trade Center, killing thousands of innocent civilians as well as many police and firemen who dutifully responded to the call to help those in danger. Included among those who died that day were FDNY Lieutenant Salvatore Pulino, Sr. and his brother NYPD officer Robert Pulino. Years later, budding medical and science prodigy Michael Zweistein is fiercely dedicated to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease after he watches his grandmother suffer from the debilitating malady. He...
On September 11, 2001, the world stood by in horror as terrorists hijacked airliners and brought down the World Trade Center, killing thousands of inn...
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64,70 |
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A Bridge of Years
ISBN: 9780765327420 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge--a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end--New York City, 1963. His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But he finds that the tunnel holds a danger far greater than anything he left behind: a human killing machine escaped from a bleak and brutal future, who will do anything to protect... Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge--a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happines... |
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77,03 |
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Seven Days in New Crete
ISBN: 9780141197678 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to realize that their perfect existence, inspired by the poets and magicians of their strange occultic religion, lacks one fundamental thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as nothing less than his duty to introduce them to the darker side of life. First published in 1949 and also known as Watch the...
Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Creat...
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56,66 |
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In War Times: An Alternate Universe Novel of a Different Present
ISBN: 9780765332431 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kathleen Ann Goonan burst into prominence with "Queen City Jazz," the start of her Nanotech Quartet. "The Bones of Time," her widely acclaimed second novel, was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2000. "In War Times "is deeply satisfying SF. Sam, the protagonist, is a young enlisted man in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Seduced by a mysterious woman, Sam gives her plans for a device that will end not just the war, but perhaps even the human predilection for war. Sam spends his war years trying to construct the device and discovers only later that... Kathleen Ann Goonan burst into prominence with "Queen City Jazz," the start of her Nanotech Quartet. "The Bones of Time," her widely acclaimed seco... |
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Counter-Clock World
ISBN: 9780547572192 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto Bolano
In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to... "Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto Bolano
In Counter-... |
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73,17 |
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Sequence
ISBN: 9781612046297 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrea Remus and Thomas Charon are trapped inside the Pandora Complex, a phenomena which causes thoughts to travel from one memory to the next as they are downloaded into the Pandora system. Each download causes Andrea and Thomas to feel as though they are reliving their memories for the first time. As they increase contact with Pandora, their minds become trapped in the past. Will Andrea and Thomas regain their full memories? What dangers will they encounter as their intense visits to the past cause a stunning affect? The riveting Sequence questions our reality, while taking the reader on a...
Andrea Remus and Thomas Charon are trapped inside the Pandora Complex, a phenomena which causes thoughts to travel from one memory to the next as they...
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Turn Back Tomorrow: A Deliciously Indelicate Gambol Through Time and Space
ISBN: 9780692835159 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the turn of the millennium, and as the world prepares to "party like it's 1999," young rock musician and ladies' man Reno Vegas finds himself an unscheduled guest at the ball--having been unceremoniously booted thirty years into the future from his idyllic sixties scene--the aftermath of his abduction by extraterrestrials. Now he finds himself struggling to understand why the world he knew has changed so much--and much of it not for the better--while trying to dodge a relentless FBI agent with personal reasons for not wanting the bewildered time traveler to spill his story. But Reno will...
It's the turn of the millennium, and as the world prepares to "party like it's 1999," young rock musician and ladies' man Reno Vegas finds himself an ...
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The Beautiful Land
ISBN: 9780425265277 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takahiro O Leary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak s... Takahiro O Leary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines as many and as varied as an... |
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Eryphea: Second Guess: Second Guess
ISBN: 9781477656860 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aerys Dawson has just lost three of her closest friends to this dimensional time warp of a building. After learning that all the people in the building can't escape she and her remaining group of friends try to hatch an escape plan. While the group grows and loses some of its members to a similar fate the trials and tribulations of friendships and relationships start to take their toll. Traveling through time floor by floor they meet new and old faces that stir up old feelings. Now she is questioning choices she has made thus far. It is clear that some people from Aerys? past have come back...
Aerys Dawson has just lost three of her closest friends to this dimensional time warp of a building. After learning that all the people in the buildin...
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The Kronos Interference
ISBN: 9780615651620 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How far would you go to save the world? When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange vessel discovered at the bottom of the South Pacific, he finds evidence of time travel, along with implications that a judgment day against mankind is imminent. But it isn't until he cracks the time travel technology and uncovers a startling link to his own family history that he undertakes a dangerous mission back to 1924 to kill Adolf Hitler and undo a horrific episode of Earth's violent past. The results are catastrophic, and soon he discovers...
How far would you go to save the world? When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange ve...
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Eryphea: Third Chance
ISBN: 9781477656914 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aerys Dawson is now the only one left from her group of friends that has not moved on or ran off. For the first time on entering the building she travels alone through history to truly find out who she is and what she is looking for so that she too may move on. After having lost countless friends she realizes that all the people in the building are dead. They are physical souls that are in limbo until they find their soul mate and what makes them who they are. Again she reunites with some new and familiar faces from earlier travels which brings new relationships into question. Now that she...
Aerys Dawson is now the only one left from her group of friends that has not moved on or ran off. For the first time on entering the building she trav...
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