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Cult Sci-Fi Movies is a collection of 10 essays that examine, dissect, defend, and exalt the greats of classic cult sci-fi films. Film geeks, cinema snobs, VHS collectors, and anyone else who likes their entertainment a little on the weird side will appreciate author Danny Peary's in-depth approach to their favorite sci-fi films ranging from Barbarella to Liquid Sky. Danny Peary is an American film critic and sportswriter. His film writing has been...
32022) Downdrift: A Novel
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Narrated by an Archaeon, a 3.8 billion year old species, the oldest on earth, Downdrift is a work of speculative eco-fiction that describes the impact of ecological pressures on animals that are adopting human behaviors, with droll and sometimes alarming, results. The book follows a year of changes and the travels of a housecat and a lion who are inexplicably driven towards a rendezvous. At first, a few isolated harbingers of change appear, but they...
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Plongez aux ctés des héros dans une guerre politique aux confins de la galaxie.
D'un cté, l'Empire Watashitachi. De l'autre, l'Union. Au milieu, Iceltane, planète conquise par l'Empire, mais trop proche des frontières de l'Union. Carys Llanelli a fui Iceltane pour échapper au joug des Watashitachi. Elle lutte au sein du Département Diplomatique de l'Union pour que des nations indépendantes ne connaissent pas le même sort que sa planète...
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New York Times-bestselling author, Grady Hendrix (Horrorstör, Paperbacks from Hell), savagely satirizes Victorian adventure fiction in this steampunk smackdown full of decapitated heads that sing, Tong wars, bacon sex, German holiday demons, and the Potato Homunculus! Some of the most popular stories ever released on audio fiction platform Pseudopod, the White Street Society tells the tales of a band of 19th Century gentleman adventurers who investigate...
32025) Happy Ending
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A world had collapsed around this man-a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting...
32026) The Three Little Peggs
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"The mission continues..." The second part of the exciting fairytale space adventure!The Goldilocks continues to flee as the enemy hunts them down. During their escape into the Old Sultan Solar System, Commander Red and her computer companion Grimm encounter three space stations. Each one has a unique little girll protector named Pegg. These three monitor and protect the region of space around the core world inside the system. Red must reach that...
32027) Implosion
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The United States of the World continues to expand into the greatest empire in human history. Politicians vow that democracy and freedom will span the globe, but other rising empires vow to destroy it.
Paul and Finley are two regular high school kids trying to make it through another week of exams, football, and social life. But as the religious politics of the day take over their school, an unexpected phenomenon will bring them closer together in...
32028) México 2050
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Aquí algunos de los expertos en políticas más destacados y calificados del estado responden dos preguntas vitales: Nuevo México 2050: ¿Qué podemos ser? ¿Qué seremos? En este volumen, editado por el ex senador estadounidense Fred Harris, han producido un plan dinámico para el futuro de Nuevo México: un manual para líderes y funcionarios públicos, un texto para estudiantes, un libro de consulta para profesores e investigadores y una guía...
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… Une apocalypse. Un terme universellement compris dans toutes les langues de l'humanité. Les combats étaient marqués par une brutalité presque extraterrestre, comme si personne ne cherchait à prolonger l'agonie, préférant en finir au plus vite. Dans ce chaos, toutes les limites semblaient disparaître, jusqu'à ce que tout s'achève. Pour ceux qui n'ont pas vécu cette expérience, c'est ce que nous appelons la guerre.
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32030) Cultivating Sunshine
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IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT MAKING MEMORIES.
Living in an impoverished, post-war city, Mona has finally gotten her wish of leaving the orphanage, although she hasn't been adopted. Instead, she is going to join other children who have been given up by their families to live a better life at the Company.
The Company is one of the most successful businesses in the city. They have developed a procedure to extract memories from one person and implant...
32031) Radiant
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Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast-no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City's floating Towers.
When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman's ghost tethered...
32032) Empathy
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Rod is the perfect male-chauvinist. He mocks anyone different from himself and has no problem using racist slurs. He demands his wife serve him hand and foot. If not, he thinks nothing of using his fists. But one day, the neighbors call the police. Rod is sentenced to Personality Modification. Will it make him a good person or is it just a way of turning real men into wimps?
Sci-Fi Fantasy Graded Readers for ELT are designed to bring science fiction...
32033) Bible Stories With A Twist
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Satan is a coward who is afraid of Hell, therefore, he deceives a third of the angels of Heaven to be with him in Hell. Enoch walks with God but he also is a role model to the fallen angels who seek his wisdom. Nehemiah sees the destruction of the walls of Jerusalem and his king gives him permission to rebuild the city walls but will he succeed?
32034) The Firebrand Trilogy
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THE FIREBRAND TRILOGY Where the young fight for survival against thesavage monsters they are destined to become.
By the time you reach 240 months old on this flooded earth, you've already gone Gray. One month later, you're dead.
That's the reality facing Scout.
To save herself and everyone she loves, she dedicates the remainder of her life to finding a cure to going Gray. Together with her brother, Lord, and their young companions, they are...
32035) Alone Out Here|Non-Disney
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What do you stand for,when you're one of the last left standing? The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up. While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule,...
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The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all! ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY Enter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the killers, the misfits, the oddballs and the weirdos. Enter the world of Skulduggery Pleasant. This definitive story collection has been updated with seven new twisted tales of...
32037) Escape Velocity
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A twisty new near-future genre-bending thriller: Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist.
A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end space hotel . . . while an unforeseen threat percolates in the service corridors. The guests are about to experience the hospitality they deserve.
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions...
32038) L'arbre du crépuscule
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Le chaos est en marche dans la ville de Marseille : alors qu'une tempête à nulle autre pareille est en train de s'abattre sur la cité, un tueur en série sème la terreur en multipliant les meurtres sanguinaires, laissant derrière lui une signature ADN indéchiffrable pour la police scientifique.
Le capitaine Pierre Brétal, chargé de l'enquête, va devoir faire appel au Docteur Audrey Basun, une chercheuse spécialisée dans les cellules...
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Thrilling short stories featuring fan favorite characters from the beloved High Republic series each written by a New York Times bestselling author. The High Republic authors share unmissable short stories that bridge Phases, resolve mysteries, and offer tantalizing hints of what is to come. Rejoin the adventures of the Jedi and Padawans, Pathfinders and Path members, heroes and villains ahead of the launch of Phase III. Authors: Zoraida Córdova,...
32040) Cineris: Saga fantasy
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Quand la nature se fait vengeresse...
2056 après JC. Le Cataclysme a pris de court les Hommes. En une nuit, tout ce qui a trait à la technologie s'est vu réduit en poussière, désintégré. Plus d'ordinateurs, de télévisions, ni de voitures ou de téléphones, d'appareils médicaux. La Nature a assassiné les trois quarts de la population mondiale. Elle a repris avec violence ce que l'Homme lui avait extorqué.
2219 après JC. Une gigantesque...
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