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Four Corners
ISBN: 9780962783579 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1945, the town of Four Corners, Georgia found they were having babies born with four-arms. It happened on the black side of town first, and they tried to keep it a secret . . . until the first white babies were born with four-arms. Now the two sides of the town had to come together to save itself and regain its balance. This story has heart, humor, and action as the town copes when the discovery begins with one of its own after a big rig truck crash. Four Corners is never going to be the same . . . again . . .
In 1945, the town of Four Corners, Georgia found they were having babies born with four-arms. It happened on the black side of town first, and they tr...
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Doomseeds
ISBN: 9780985901349 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exciting second novel in the Botanicaust Series
"How could a rescue mission go so wrong?" When Jubal, a friendly trader, arrives at the Holdout with news of Eily's lost twin sister, Eily doesn't hesitate to head into the cannibal wasteland to save her. But the government insists she carry a tracking device she knows will be the end of the people she once called family. Jubal has always avoided two things: slave trading and the green-skinned Flame Runnas. But now a cannibal king is holding his father prisoner until he brings back a Flame Runna slave. Beautiful, green-skinned... The exciting second novel in the Botanicaust Series
"How could a rescue mission go so wrong?" When Jubal, a friendly trader, arrives at the Ho... |
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55,84 |
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Only Superhuman
ISBN: 9780765378910 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of humans. It's a volatile situation that threatens the peace and stability of the entire solar system. Emerald Blair is a Troubleshooter. Inspired by the classic superhero comics of the twentieth century, she's joined with other mods to try to police the unruly Asteroid Belt. But her loyalties are tested when she finds herself torn between... 2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes... |
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72,18 |
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Queen of Angels
ISBN: 9781480444485 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder . . . Why? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind-the nightmare soul-of the psychopath himself . . . Greg Bear, author of more than twenty-five books that have been translated into seventeen languages, has won science fiction's highest honors and is considered the natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke. The recipient of two Hugos and four Nebulas for his fiction, he...
In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder . . . Why? That crime, that question, leads a police...
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The Empty
ISBN: 9781628151923 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Less Than Hero
ISBN: 9781476711744 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the razor-sharp satire that earned him rave reviews for Big Egos and Lucky Bastard, among others, S.G. Browne delivers another irresistible read, about an unlikely band of heroes who use their medical complications to gain fame, confront villains, and bring their own unique brand of justice to New York City. Faster than a spreading rash More powerful than dry heaves Able to put villains to sleep with a single yawn Convulsions. Nausea. Headaches. Sudden weight gain. For the pharmaceutical soldiers on the front lines of medical science--volunteers who test...
With the razor-sharp satire that earned him rave reviews for Big Egos and Lucky Bastard, among others, S.G. Browne delivers another irre...
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This Plague of Days, Season One: The Siege
ISBN: 9781927607206 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is like reading World War Z...hooks you from the beginning and you can't stop reading " Armand Rosamilia, Author of the Dying Days zombie series An autistic boy + elements of The Stand + 28 Days Later = A haunting protagonist versus the Running Dead Jaimie Spencer is a strange autistic boy caught in a fight for survival as the Sutr-X virus spreads across the world. While governments lie to their citizens to quarantine victims and isolate cities, the inexorable mind virus brings civilization as we know it to an end. Sutr-X sweeps away all we knew, but the plague doesn't stop there. As...
"This is like reading World War Z...hooks you from the beginning and you can't stop reading " Armand Rosamilia, Author of the Dying Days zombie series...
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99,74 |
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In the Land of Nod
ISBN: 9780991590124 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They were born to the hive, but an invasion changed them forever. Their ancestors tried their hand at revolution and failed. Exiled to a world that teems with hostile life, burned by radiation from a small red sun, infighting caused their colony to collapse, leaving them bound in a dark age, surrounded by flora designed to consume everything it can. Four thousand years later, the former penal colony has been long forgotten. It has struggled its way back to industry, and only two civilizations remain - one, a mercantile theocracy, an experiment in controlled chaos, and the... They were born to the hive, but an invasion changed them forever. Their ancestors tried their hand at revolution and failed. Exiled to a wor... |
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53,17 |
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The Next Day
ISBN: 9780991329748 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Top secret bio-warfare after 9/11 changes an American geneticist and an Iraqi jihadist into the next evolution of man, one evil and one good, and their end game will decide the fate of the human race. Alex Smith, an adventure seeking American geneticist, remembers 9/11 with crystal clarity. A girlfriend was incinerated at the Twin Towers at the same time he was infected by a lethal virus he genetically modified in an illegal, U.S. bio-warfare facility in the Amazon jungle. Then he changes, physically and psychologically, into a creature he hates and must learn to control before he loses his...
Top secret bio-warfare after 9/11 changes an American geneticist and an Iraqi jihadist into the next evolution of man, one evil and one good, and thei...
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86,07 |
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To Be Human
ISBN: 9781632163028 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TM 05637 was created to be a killer. Genetically engineered for superiority, he was facing a life of missions, blood, and death until his creator decides to set him free. On the run from those holding his leash, he is found by David Conley, an ordinary store owner who stumbles upon a remarkable find. Renaming himself Tim, TM 05637 sets out to discover what it means to have a normal life. Through his friendships with a young boy dealing with a nightmarish family life, and David s mother, who decides Tim is perfect for her son, Tim slowly discovers his humanity. Even more importantly,... TM 05637 was created to be a killer. Genetically engineered for superiority, he was facing a life of missions, blood, and death until his creator d... |
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68,38 |
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Love, Lattes and Mutants
ISBN: 9781616506070 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finding love is hard, even when you aren't a mutant.
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Piper Dunn wants to blend in with the crowd. Having a blowhole is a definite handicap. A product of a lab-engineered mother with dolphin DNA, Piper spends her school days hiding her brilliant ocean-colored eyes and sea siren voice behind baggy clothing and ugly glasses. When Tyler, the new boy in school, zeroes in on her, ignoring every other girl vying for his attention, no one, including Piper, understands why... Then Piper is captured on one of her secret missions rescuing endangered sea creatures... Finding love is hard, even when you aren't a mutant.
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Piper Dunn wants to blend in with the crowd. Having a blowhole... |
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57,02 |
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Pegasus Colony
ISBN: 9780990709107 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A MISSION TWICE DOOMED ... In the year 2132, World Space Coalition sent three ships to establish Earth's first galactic colony on the planet Akiane in the Pegasus Constellation. They were never heard from again. Three hundred years later, a radio technician has discovered the colony survived. But those of Akiane want nothing to do with Earth. Everything they have accomplished they did without Earth's help. The colony was supposed to be WSC's greatest achievement, and it is determined to reclaim the planet and its people as its own. WSC Space Force has ordered Lt. Jessica M. Hewitt to...
A MISSION TWICE DOOMED ... In the year 2132, World Space Coalition sent three ships to establish Earth's first galactic colony on the planet Akiane in...
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The Proteus Cure
ISBN: 9780692373330 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In medical ethics, the line between right and wrong is often blurred. Who is to decide what is for the good of humanity? Changing the world. One person at a time... That is the mission statement of Tethys Hospital, run by Dr. Bill Gilchrist and his deformed sister, Abra. VG723, their revolutionary stem-cell-based therapy, appears to be capable of doing just that for the cancer patients who come to Tethys. VG723 is often their last hope. But if they match the protocol, they're virtually guaranteed a cure. Dr. Sheila Takamura, a young, dedicated oncologist, is proud to be involved in the...
In medical ethics, the line between right and wrong is often blurred. Who is to decide what is for the good of humanity? Changing the world. One perso...
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To Be Loved
ISBN: 9781632163042 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sequel to To Be Human " Tim designation TM 05637 thought he'd escaped his fate as a genetically engineered supersoldier when David Conley offered him a precious chance at a normal life. But General Woodard, Tim s handler, captures them, crushing Tim s short-lived dream. Thrilled at the return of his pet killing machine, Woodard plans to break Tim s resistance by forcing him to virtually kill David. Fortunately, Dr. Paul Anderson, the scientist who created Tim, offers them a chance at freedom. But a deadly weakness implanted in Tim s DNA threatens his life. Without regular doses of a... "Sequel to To Be Human " Tim designation TM 05637 thought he'd escaped his fate as a genetically engineered supersoldier when David Conley offer... |
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Eugenia: A Fictional Sketch of Future Customs
ISBN: 9780299306847 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is the year 2218. In "Villautopia," the capital of a Central American nation, the state selects young, biologically desirable citizens to act as breeders. Embryos are implanted in males to increase a flagging population rate, and the offspring are raised in state facilities until old enough to choose their own, non-nuclear families. Sterilization of children with mental or physical abnormalities further ensures the purity of the gene pool.
Written two years before Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and twelve years before Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Eugenia recounts the... It is the year 2218. In "Villautopia," the capital of a Central American nation, the state selects young, biologically desirable citizens to act as br...
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Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow
ISBN: 9780819575944 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Ilium with fair Helen as she tries to convince both sides to abandon their absurd Trojan War. Visit the nursery of Zenobia Garber, born to a Pennsylvania farm couple who accept her for the uncanny little biosphere she is. Scramble aboard the raft built by the passengers and crew of the sinking Titanic--and don't be surprised when the vessel transmutes into a world even more astonishing than the original Ship of Dreams. Reality by Other Means...
Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Il...
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106,41 |
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Fardwor, Russia!: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin
ISBN: 9781632060396 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The forces of science, human error, and power run amok all collide in a wildly inventive, funny, and razor-sharp political satire about Putin's Russia, from one of the country's most fearless journalists. When a scientist experimenting on humans in a sanatorium near Moscow gives a growth serum to a dwarf oil mogul, the newly heightened businessman runs off with the experimenter's wife, and a series of mysterious deaths and crimes commences. Fantastical and wonderfully strange, this political parable has an uncanny resonance with today's Russia under Putin. Oleg Kashin is a...
The forces of science, human error, and power run amok all collide in a wildly inventive, funny, and razor-sharp political satire about Putin's Rus...
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Imposters
ISBN: 9780692444245 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rick Pine-veteran, ex-convict, and now, chef and part owner of a French bistro-needs a cigarette and about twenty hours of sleep after working all day at the restaurant. He does not need this cute Japanese-American woman coming into the bistro and asking for him by name. Particularly not returning his coffee mug. The one he lent the alien. Just before she blasted off in her spaceship. And he really does not want to know what sort of trouble this woman has gotten herself into. However, like the last time, he has no choice. "Imposters" introduces us to Rick Pine and the fascinating universe of...
Rick Pine-veteran, ex-convict, and now, chef and part owner of a French bistro-needs a cigarette and about twenty hours of sleep after working all day...
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51,68 |
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City
ISBN: 9781504013031 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.
Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of... This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human fore...
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Atlantos: The Early Erthe Chronicles Book I
ISBN: 9780996375900 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by the writings of Plato
12,000 years in the past... On two primeval sister-planets two magnificent civilizations hurtle towards their cataclysmic destinies. Poseidon and Athens Ra are the two rival brothers who govern them. They possess advanced technos and all-too-human passions. Are they gods or are they men? Level-headed Terresian explorer and scientist Poseidon Ra commands an expedition to Erthe where a routine genetic protocol on the aboriginal population has unexpectedly triggered a... Inspired by the writings of Plato
12,000 years in the past... On two primeval sister-pl... |
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