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Black Star Rising

Author: Frederik Pohl
Publication Date: 1 January 1980

It's the late 21st century. The USA and the USSR have destroyed eachother in a catastrophic nuclear exchange and now Chi...

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Preferred Risk

Author: Frederick Pohl
Publication Date: 1983

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Psychlone

Author: Greg Bear
Publication Date: 31 December 1988

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Blood Music

Author: Greg Bear
Publication Date: 12 April 2001

The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.

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The Prince of Sparta

Author: Jerry Pournelle
Publication Date: 1 June 1998

Defeated before, the Earth-backed Helot terrorist hordes renew their assault on the legitimate government of Sparta. And if ...

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Discworld Companion

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publication Date: 19970522

Guide to Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' with an A-Z of characters, places, flora and fauna. Illustrated with sketches and maps.

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Strata

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publication Date: 22 April 1988

The Company builds planets. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. She is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, doesn't dismay her. But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new.

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Interstellar Two Five

Author: John Rankine
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1968

They were stranded... faced with the choice of remaining on the planet... or dismantling the ship and moving it......

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Operation Umanaq

Author: John Rankine
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1973

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The Seedy

Author: Robert Ray
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1969

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Down the Bright Way

Author: Robert Reed
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1981

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The The Hormone Jungle

Author: Robert Reed
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1989

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Stalking the Unicorn
A Fable of Tonight

Author: Mike Resnick
Publication Date: 1 January 2000

It's 8:35 pm on New Year's Eve, and Private Detective John Justin Mallory is hiding out in his Manhattan office to avoid his landlord's inquiries about the unpaid rent. As he reflects on the passing of a lousy year, which saw his business partner run off with his wife, he assumes the bourbon is responsible for the appearance of a belligerent elf.

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Soothsayer

Author: Mike Resnick
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1991

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Ivory
A Legend of Past and Future

Author: Mike Resnick
Publication Date: 31 December 1989

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Earth Unaware (Of Godlike Power)

Author: Mack Reynolds
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1983

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Feersum Endjinn

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publication Date: 8 June 1995

In the penultimate year before the Encroachment, the dimming sun still shines on the cloud-high weathered walls of Serehfa Fastness. On the day the Count Sessine dies for the final time, the chief scientist to the clan Accounts/Privileges receives a summons from the office of the High Sortileger.

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A Song of Stone

Author: Iain Banks
Publication Date: 19980800

The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning - armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep.

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Against a Dark Background

Author: Iain Banks
Publication Date: 19940120

From the author of CONSIDER PHLEBAS, a science fiction novel whose heroine, a former warrior-spy faces a threat to her life from a religious cult.

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Machines and Men

Author: Keith Roberts
Publication Date: 19741003

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The The Power

Author: Frank Robinson
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1968

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Ice-mage

Author: Julia Gray
Publication Date: 3 December 1998

A stunning new epic fantasy adventure, full of magic and adventure.

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Transcendent
Destiny's Children Book 3

Author: Stephen Baxter
Publication Date: 14 September 2006

The breathtaking conclusion to Baxter's landmark SF trilogy, DESTINY'S CHILDREN

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The winds of limbo

Author: Michael Moorcock
Publication Date: 19700600

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Alien Influences

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Publication Date: 19950605

Planet Bountiful, where humans and aliens live side by side. However, the alienshave their own rituals which are incromprehe...

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The Adolescence of P-1

Author: Thomas J Ryan
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1979

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The Robots of Dawn

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 10 January 1994

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw. Together they are tasked with proving that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime.

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Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Crichton
Publication Date: 3 January 1998

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. Drawing on his talent and brilliance, the author has written the techno-thriller of our time.

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I, Robot

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 1 September 1968

A collection of robot stories.

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Flash Forward

Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publication Date: 9 October 2009

An acclaimed high concept SF novel, the basis for a new SF series, destined to be the new LOST.

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Games of State

Author: Tom Clancy
Publication Date: 10 June 1996

In the third volume in the bestselling series of action-packed high-tech thrillers, the Op-Centre team come up against neo-Nazis using cutting-edge technology to spread their message to the world.

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Phase Space

Author: Stephen Baxter
Publication Date: 21 July 2003

Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered.

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Origin

Author: Stephen Baxter
Publication Date: 22 September 2001

Concluding the epic Manifold series that began with TIME and continued with SPACE: the adventures of the maverick astronaut Reid Malenfant bring him at last to the beginning of everything.

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Origin

Author: Stephen Baxter
Publication Date: 20010806

Concluding the epic Manifold series that began with TIME and continued with SPACE: the adventures of the maverick astronaut Reid Malenfant bring him at last to the beginning of everything.

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Longtusk

Author: Stephen Baxter
Publication Date: 20000120

A sequel to MAMMOTH. BOOK ONE: SILVERHAIR in which Longtusk is responsible for leading the mammoths away from the first incursion of the dreaded human hunters, taking them to the safety of the American land mass, a mammoth whose heroic example inspired Silverhair's actions.

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Lord Foul's Bane

Author: Stephen Donaldson
Publication Date: 3 April 2002

He called himself Thomas Covenant, "the Unbeliever", because he dared not believe in the strange world on which he suddenly found himself - the Land. But only the mystic powers of the white gold he carried could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of the Despiser, Lord Foul.

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Berserker's Planet

Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publication Date: 19750100

Aliens intent on wreaking destruction on the galaxy...

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Changeling Earth

Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publication Date: 1974

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The Ultimate Enemy

Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1979

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The Water of Thought

Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publication Date: 1981

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Strider's Universe

Author: Paul Barnett
Publication Date: 5 March 1998

Volume Two of the STRIDER CHRONICLES - science fiction with an epic sweep.

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Strider's Galaxy

Author: Paul Barnett
Publication Date: 6 March 1997

In the year 2531 a human expedition led by Captain Leonie Strider sets off from Jupiter orbit to claim humanity's first colony world outside the solar system. But their progress is rudely halted by a hyperspace portal which lands them in the middle of a galactic conflict.

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Mother of Storms

Author: John Barnes
Publication Date: 19960805

A science fiction novel from the author of A MILLION OPEN DOORS, which takes its start from global warming reaching its full potential, describing what might happen in the next century.

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Finity

Author: John Barnes
Publication Date: 11 January 2001

In the far future, the Third Reich is heading confidently into its thousand-year reign. America was devastated by a nuclear exchange in 1980 and now there is seemingly nothing to stop Nazism spreading its message beyond Earth: one solar system, one people. But history has other ideas.

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Million Open Doors

Author: John Barnes
Publication Date: 19930610

Science fiction novel in which humanity has spread across a swathe of stars and the Thousand Cultures age has begun.

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Contact

Author: Carl Sagan
Publication Date: 19870402

A science fiction novel which opens in December 1999 as a multinational team set out on a journey to the stars.

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Weaveworld

Author: Clive Barker
Publication Date: 19880825

Originally published in 1988. Set in contemporary England, two friends discover a secret magical world and are drawn into a battle between good and evil. From the author of EVERVILLE.

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Factoring Humanity

Author: Robert J Sawyer
Publication Date: 19990104

From the author of ILLEGAL ALIEN, FAR-SEER and FOSSIL HUNTER, a science fiction novel in which a psychologist decodes an alien message and links into the Overmind, allowing her to establish that her ex-husband did not abuse her daughter, as he was believed to have done.

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Thraxas

Author: Martin Scott
Publication Date: 1 April 1999

A comic fantasy set in the magical city of Turai, where the only people more corrupt than the politicians are the Royal Family. Murder, mayhem and ruthless criminal brotherhoods reign, and the civic guards are incapable of keeping order. It's left to men like Thraxas to do what they can.

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The Flight of the Eisenstein
The Heresy Unfolds

Author: James Swallow
Publication Date: 5 March 2007

Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp. Can Garro and his men survive the depradations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time?

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Dawnthief

Author: James Barclay
Publication Date: 20000703

The Raven are six men and an elf. They have fought together for years. When they agree to escort a Xesteskian mage on a sinister mission, they find themselves fighting for one of the most evil Colleges of magic known to man or elf.

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The Player of Games

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publication Date: 10 August 1989

Bored with success, Gurgeh - The Player of Games - travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. This is a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.

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Inversions

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publication Date: 27 May 1999

In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realizes, but she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, the chief bodyguard of the regicidal Protector General also has his enemies.

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Against a Dark Background

Author: Iain M. Banks
Publication Date: 5 January 1995

Sharrow was once a warrior-spy and leader of a combat team. Living in a state of semi-retirement, she suddenly found herself the target of the Huhsz, a religious cult, and realised that she had to find and reform her old team if she had any hope of survival. By the author of the "Culture" sequence.

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Starbeast

Author: Will Baker
Publication Date: 19960919

A novel by the author of "Shadow Hunter".

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Shadow Hunter

Author: Will Baker
Publication Date: 19940224

A future world novel crossing the boundaries of science fiction and mainstream fiction and incorporating a strong green theme.

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Destination Earth

Author: Alan Baker
Publication Date: 1998

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Night Walk

Author: Bob Shaw
Publication Date: 19770700

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Who Goes Here?

Author: Bob Shaw
Publication Date: 19930715

Warren Peace joined the Space Legion to forget-but mow he's forgotten what it was he wanted to forget... But whatever t...

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Author: Douglas Adams
Publication Date: 12 October 1979

One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed ...

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The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publication Date: 3 January 1998

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

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Radix

Author: A A Attanasio
Publication Date: 19941201

Not since Tolkien's Middle Earth has a complete world of the imagination been so brilliantly realised....A masterpiece o...

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The Hugo Winners Volume One 1963-1967

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1973

Anthology of Hugo Award Winning stories/novellas...

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Child of Time

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 27 November 1992

Based on an Asimov short story, "The Ugly Little Boy". A children's nurse is hired as part of a scientific project aimed at bringing a living being from the past to the present. A four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.

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Robots and Empire

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 10 January 1994

Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria.

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Prelude to Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 22 August 1994

In PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION, what happed in the many centuries before the events made famous in Asimov's other Foundation novels - hitherto only hinted at - is now revealed.

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Nemesis

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 19900921

Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is Nemesis, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the colour of blood. Circling Nemesis is Rotor an Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy and degeneration of an old and wasted world. For them Rotor is a kind of Ark. And Nemesis is the Flood.

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Foundation's Edge

Author: Isaac Asimov
Publication Date: 22 August 1994

It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences.

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The Skinner

Author: Neal Asher
Publication Date: 20020322

To the remote planet of Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for 700 years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal.

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The Line War

Author: Neal Asher
Publication Date: 4 April 2008

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships, kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate.

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Kissing Sin

Author: Keri Arthur
Publication Date: 5 April 2007

Keri Arthur's Riley Jenson Guardian series is packed with everything you need: a feisty heroine, vampires and werewolves, suspense and a whole lot of sexy action

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Summertide

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publication Date: 1991

A story set more than 4000 years in the future in a galaxy populated by humans and a variety of intelligent aliens, all of...

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Cold as Ice

Author: Charles Sheffield
Publication Date: 31 December 1993

Twenty-five years after the great interplanetary war in which nine billion people were killed, Cyrus Mobarak is determined to bring human settlement to the protected seas of Europa. Reissue.

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Cavalcade

Author: Alison Sinclair
Publication Date: 16 December 1999

The aliens have landed and sent out an invitation to the people of the world - a one-way ticket to a better life.

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Highways In Hiding

Author: George O. Smith
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1967

Strange signposts led to an underworld of ESP, espionage... and untold danger......

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Venus Belt

Author: L Neil Smith
Publication Date: 19810730

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Metal Swarm

Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publication Date: 24 May 2008

The penultimate volume of one of the most popular science fiction series of recent years

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Last Argument of Kings
Book Three of the First Law

Author: Joe Abercrombie
Publication Date: 20 March 2008

Striking, character-driven and cynical noir fantasy

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We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Author: Philip K Dick
Publication Date: 19911100

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is the fith and final volume of the collected shorter fiction of Philip K. Dick. This l...

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Sacred Seven

Author: Amy Stout
Publication Date: 19960620

A fantasy novel in which, a penniless mercenary finds herself caught up in a series of ethnic elf/human clashes. She becomes reunited with her twin brother and discovers her true identity, as the mixed-race daughter of a king and an elf.

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Accelerando

Author: Charles Stross
Publication Date: 1 June 2006

The third novel from one of the most exciting new British SF writers of the decade.

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King Kobold Revived

Author: Christopher Stasheff
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1984

Completely revised by the author - 2nd book in the Warlock series...

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Mockingbird

Author: Walter Tevis
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1981

world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by elec tronic bliss. Where quick sex is best... A dying world of no children, no art, no reading......

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World War
Tilting the Balance

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 1 January 1997

The war between humans judders to a halt as Germany, Russia and all the great military powers scramble to meet an even deadl...

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Worldwar: in the Balance
In the Balance

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 1 May 1995

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Worldwar
Striking the Balance

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 21 August 1997

What would happen if the Earth had been invaded by aliens at the height of World War II? This is the fourth and final volume of the Worldwar saga, which continues with the Colonization trilogy and ends with Homeward Bound.

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Worldwar
Upsetting the Balance

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 15 August 1996

What would happen if the Earth had been invaded by aliens at the height of World War II? This is the third volume of the Worldwar saga, which continues with the Colonization trilogy and ends with Homeward Bound.

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Colonisation
Second Contact - Second Contact

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 20 January 2000

Halfway through World War II aliens invaded Earth. They were repelled - but now, years later they are back ... This is the first volume in the three-part Colonisation series, which follows the Worldwar trilogy. The whole sequence will conclude with Homeward Bound.

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Homeward Bound

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publication Date: 24 October 2005

The brilliant conclusion to Turtledove's epic alternate history of the second half of the twentieth century, which began with the Worldwar trilogy and continued with the Colonisation trilogy. Halfway through World War II aliens invaded Earth. They were repelled - but not for long.

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Veruchia

Author: E. C. Tubb
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1973

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Rama Revealed

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publication Date: 18 January 1996

After the appearance of a spaceship, Rama, a second craft arrives, destined to house a group of colonists. But, the colony has become a dictatorship. Nicole Wakefield, condemned to death, escapes to an island called New York, and is forced to flee to the corridors inhabited by octospiders.

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Rama II

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publication Date: 22 August 1991

The sequel to "Rendezvous with Rama". It is the year 2200, four years after a second approaching spacecraft has been detected. But this time, the Earth is ready and some of the questions posed by Rama may at last be answered.

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The Garden of Rama

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publication Date: 9 December 1993

An instalment in the saga which began with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Rendezvous with Rama" and "Rama II". Now "Rama II" is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown.

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Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Crichton
Publication Date: 19930700

On a Pacific island an unprincipled entrepreneur is preparing a theme park. It could be a scientific triumph....instead, Jurassic Park explodes into disaster. For the people stranded deep inside the park during a tropical storm, on a night when all the systems fail, a terrible fight for survival begins.

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Mayenne

Author: E C Tubb
Publication Date: 19770700

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Doctor Who The Last Dodo

Author: Jacqueline Rayner
Publication Date: 2008

The Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the Tardis to the mysterious Museum of the La...

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Sting of the Zygons

Author: Stephen Cole
Publication Date: 2008

Synopsis The Tardis lands the Doctor and Martha in the Lake District in 1909, where a small village has been terrorised by a...

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Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

Author: Jacqueline Rayner
Publication Date: 13 April 2006

Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.

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Minority Report

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publication Date: 5 December 2002

Tie-in to new $80 million Spielberg blockbuster

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Man with a Thousand Names

Author: A E Van Vogt
Publication Date: 19751204

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