The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another front-page story told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear. Other stories told of deaths here and there, all attributable to the "Black Horror," as it was called.
Science fiction
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Author:Simak, Clifford D.Summary: - Author:Herbert, BrianSummary:
Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans...but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers. Against all odds, an exiled general named Adolphus has turned Hellhole into a place of real opportunity for the desperate colonists who call the planet their home. While the colonists are hard at work developing the planet, General Adolphus secretly builds alliances with the leaders of the other Deep Zone worlds, forming a clandestine coalition against the tyrannical, fossilized government responsible for their exile. What no one knows is this: the planet Hellhole, though damaged and volatile, hides an amazing secret. Deep beneath its surface lies the remnants of an obliterated alien civilization and the buried memories of its unrecorded past that, when unearthed, could tear the galaxy apart.
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Author:Gideon, C. H., Martelle, Craig, Wachter, CalebSummary:The Brick was an inhospitable planet in Finjou space. Humans settled there anyway, and now the aliens want them gone. Captain Xi Bao, your orders are to conduct Operation Red Rock. Evacuate the human colonists from the Brick before the Finjou find them. Collect material evidence of the Jemmin conspiracy buried more than thirty kilometers below the surface. Easy mission. But the colonists don't want to leave. And the Finjou don't want the humans boring a hole in their dead planet. And everyone has nukes. Metal Legion gets thrown into the middle of an intergalactic cesspool. Make the humans evacuate. Peacefully. Using the awe-inspiring firepower of the mechs. Make peace with the aliens, even if you have to fight them. The Finjou aren't amused - they're predators who believe in dominance.
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Author:Smith, Nicholas SansburySummary:Centuries after World War III, humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe. Keeping these ships aloft are the Hell Divers--men and women who scavenge the surface for parts. But there's something down there--something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.
- Author:Flewwelling, PatSummary:
Eva and the Padre must risk their lives to rebel against one creature's well-intended quest: the annihilation of her own kind.
- Author:Zahn, TimothySummary:
Set five years after Return of the Jedi, this first installment in a trilogy depicts an attack on the Republic and an attempted kidnapping of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia at the hands of Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, and his rogue Jedi knight.
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Author:Eon de BeaumontSummary:Terry is grieving the loss of his former lover, Dante, when an enigmatic and very attractive stranger named the Professor drags him into an Airstream trailer/time machine. Together with his trusty hedgehog companion, Thigden, the Professor sets out to show Terry a vision of his future with a rakishly handsome pirate. Terry doesn't expect an intergalactic space cruise, ginger snaps, or an attack for something he hasn’t even done yet, but one thing is certain: when it comes to time travel, romance is never truly dead. A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2012 Daily Dose package "Time Is Eternity."
- Author:Brin, DavidSummary:
The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.
- Author:Muir, TamsynSummary:
Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperors haunted space station. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side by side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her. Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperors Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: Is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?
- Author:Williams, Joy.Summary:
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices . . . camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams's imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review. Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a "resort" on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call "Big Girl." In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this "gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth"? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams's searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons-against all reasonableness-to try and recover something of it.
- Author:Mack, DavidSummary:
An all-new Star Trek novel--continuing the legacy of the critically acclaimed Vanguard series!Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise go in search of a missing Federation scientist--only to become trapped between a Klingon warship and Starfleet's mysterious Operation: Vanguard.
- Author:Wexler, DjangoSummary:
"You're finished. The house owns you now." Kas is a junior academic on a research mission to Old Earth. When a con artist tricks her into wagering a huge sum of money she doesn't have on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of Old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights. Is it time to get back to the books yet?
- Author:Babin, AliceSummary:
2040. L'Europe, suite à des années de crises sanitaires, économiques et politiques, est devenue un vaste État fédéral plus écologique, plus sécurisant, plus sain. Une société idéale, selon la plupart des Euro-citoyens. Pourtant, « les Briseurs de rêves » luttent clandestinement contre ce qu'ils considèrent comme des injonctions au Bonheur et dénoncent le « puçage » : l'implantation sous-cutanée d'un dispositif mesurant le taux individuel de Bonheur (TIB) de chaque citoyen. Ils pratiquent un jeu cruel consistant à gâcher le Bonheur des Hyper-heureux, les citoyens dont le T.I.B. est supérieur ou égal à 90 %...La course au bonheur a créé des perversions et des clivages sociaux que la plupart nient, mais la situation se radicalise rapidement.Du petit Sunny Talleyrand, le marginal fils du ministre, à Nisou et Jeannot, nonagénaires au caractère bien trempé, en passant par de jeunes implantés qui feraient tout pour s'arracher leur puce, chacun va devoir trouver sa place dans cette société manichéenne. Quel camp l'emportera et jusqu'où devront-ils aller pour vivre selon leur désir ?Pour les fans de Le Meilleur des mondes d'Aldous Huxley. -
- Author:Bertauski, TonySummary:
A synthetic stem cell called a biomite can replace any cell in your body. They are infallible. As our percentages of biomites rise, we become stronger, we become smarter and prettier. We become better. Can we resist the temptation of perfection? Are we still human when our bodies are replaced by synthetic replications? If biomites exist, laws will be imposed to prevent excess and abuse. Those with 50% biomites will no longer be considered human. They will be halfskin. Halfksin: The Vignettes is a compendium of short stories found throughout the Halfskin trilogy, a harbinger of what humanity’s pursuit of perfection may look like.
- Author:Wright, NatalieSummary:
H.A.L.F. 9 has taken his first breath of desert air and his first steps in the human world. Created to be a weapon, he proved too powerful for his makers, hidden from humans and sedated. But H.A.L.F. 9 has escaped the underground lab he called home, and the sedation has worn off. He has never been more alive. More powerful. Or more deadly.Erika Holt longs to ride her motorcycle east until pavement gives way to shore. She bides her time until graduation when she’ll escape the trailer she shares with her alcoholic mother and memories of her dead father. But a typical night in the desert with friends thrusts Erika into a situation more dangerous than she ever imagined.Circumstances push the two together, and each must make a fateful choice. Will Erika help H.A.L.F. 9 despite her “don’t get involved” rule? And will H.A.L.F. 9 let Erika live even though he was trained to kill?The two may need to forget their rules and training if either is to survive the dangers of the deep beneath them.
- Author:Wilson, Robert CharlesSummary:
Karen knows she must discover the truth about the "Grey Man" who stalked her when she was a child and now is following her son, Michael. When they travel to California to find Karen's estranged sister, Laura, they also find an alternate Earth. 1989.
- Author:Miner, MattSummary:
To get into the Master's good graces, the Destructo brothers have trapped Gwar in order to interrogate them to find the key to destroying Cardinal Syn once and for all. Will Sawborg and Bozo Destructo get the answers they need? Can Gwar escape their clutches? Will Cardinal Syn destroy them all? And what really happened when Gwar were banished to earth? With art by some of the greatest comic creators this side of Flab Quarv 7, hand-picked by Gwar themselves, including Matt Maguire, Liana Kangas, Lukasz Kowalczuk, Matt Lejeune, Katie Longua, Jeff Martin, Kelly Williams and Josh Jensen.
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Author:Aida, YuSummary:When Henrietta barely survives a brutal attack that killed her family, she is "rescued" by the Social Welfare Agency who repairs her body with robotic components and brainwashes her to forget her past and become a lethal cyborg assassin.
- Author:Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d.Summary:
Lieutenant Gulliver Jones, U.S.N., arrived on Mars in a most unexpected fashion and promptly found himself head-over-heels in adventure. For Mars was a planet of ruined cities, ancient peoples, copper-skinned swordsmen, and weird and awesome monsters. There was a princess to be rescued, a River of Death to be navigated, and a strange prophecy to be fulfilled.
- Author:Castle, JayneSummary:
Welcome to Illusion Town on the colony world of Harmony-like Las Vegas on Earth, but way more weird. Living in this new, alien world doesn't stop the settlers from trying to re-create what they've left behind. Case in point-weddings are still the highlight of any social calendar. But it's the after-party that turns disastrous for Lucy Bell. Kidnapped and drugged as she leaves the party, she manages to escape-only to find herself lost in the mysterious, alien underground maze of glowing green tunnels beneath Illusion Town. She's been surviving on determination and cold pizza, scavenged for her by a special dust bunny, when help finally shows up. Gabriel Jones is the Guild Hunter sent to rescue her, but escaping the underground ruins is only the beginning of Lucy's troubles. With no rational reason for her abduction, and her sole witness gone on another assignment for the Guild, whispers start circulating that Lucy made it all up. Soon her life unravels until she has nothing left but her pride. The last thing she expects is for Gabriel Jones to come back to town for her. The Lucy that Gabriel finds is not the same woman he rescued, the one who looked at him as if he were her hero. This Lucy is sharp, angry, and more than a little cynical-instead of awe, she treats him with extreme caution. But a killer is still hunting her, and there aren't a lot of options when it comes to heroes. Despite her wariness, Gabriel is also the one person who believes Lucy-after all, he was there. He's determined to help clear her reputation, no matter what it takes. And as the new Guild Boss, his word is law, even in the lawlessness of Illusion Town.
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