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Series
Library of America volume 183
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
2) Snow crash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
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Description
Now featuring never-before-seen material, the “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states,...
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Description
This is the first story collection ever from the bestselling fantasy and science fiction writer L.E. Modesitt, Jr. He began publishing as a short story writer in the SF magazines in the 1970s, mostly in Analog. Some of the earliest stories are kernels for his early SF novels, others display the wide range of his talents and interests, from satire to military adventure.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.
In "The Days of Perky Pat," people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth's real inhabitants. "Adjustment Team" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridge Publications
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Volume 1 of a 10 volume series. Contents: V. 1 The invaders plan--v. 2 Black genesis--v. 3 The enemy within-v. 4 An alien affair--v. 5 Fortune of fear--v. 6 Death quest--v. 7 Voyage of vengeance--v. 8 Disaster--v. 9 Villainy victorious--v. 10 The doomed planet.
7) Radicalized
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A timely collection ... connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future"--
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets... The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself... Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas-each distinctly different, yet uniquely...
13) Far futures
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Five original novellas set in a very distant future. Poul Anderson's Genesis, set a billion years from now, deals with machine intelligences recreating humans, Joe Haldeman's For White Hill confronts humanity with hostile aliens, while Greg Bear's Judgment Engine, is on the end of the universe.
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
17) Mirkheim
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Corp. : distributed by Putnam
Pub. Date
1977
Description
When the Baburites, an alien race, claim the phenomenally metal-rich core of the blasted planet, Mirkheim, a union of interplanetary governments joins with the Terran empire's Polesotechnic League in clamoring for war against the interlopers.
18) Rescue run
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Publisher
Wildside Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
The distress call was sent by Pernese settlers who had just experienced their first Threadfall. A Federation ship answered the call but not until 49 years later.
20) Man plus
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1976
Description
In the race to colonize Mars, Roger Torraway is selected to undergo many painful operations that will enable him to stay alive on Mars without artificial aids.
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