The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred...
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Author: Leinster, MurraySummary:Genre: Science fiction
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Author: MELVILLE, HermanSummary:
Supremo capolavora di questo autore Americano che viene riconosciuto come un gigante fra tutti i letterati USA. L'atteggliamento di Batleby, chiuso nel suo dignitoso silenzio, induce a...
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Author: LASENBY, JackSummary:
Aunt Effie has six gigantic pig dogs, twenty six nieces and nephews and a never-ending supply of stories. She also has the ability to transport her nieces and nephews into her stories, which are...
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Author: SILVERBERG, RobertSummary:
This novel takes us to a strange and distant world dominated by a gigantic mountain, Kosa Saag. No human lowlander has ever reached its peak although countless have tried and perished. This is the...
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Author: Cobb, William J.Summary:
Goodnight, a fishing town on the Gulf Coast of Texas, is slowly being swallowed by an increasingly lifeless sea. Shrimpers and fishermen, with nothing to catch, watch their vessels rot in the...
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Author: Battery RadioSummary:
On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive. The blow to the culture...
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Author: VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her lover, Wick, is keeping...
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Author: Anthony, JessicaSummary:
Early one morning on a hot day in August, millennial Congress-bro Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his reelection campaign when a mysterious FedEx delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside is a...
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Author: Charles, NormaSummary:
Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with...
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Author: Inglis, KateSummary:
Contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions,...
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This piece was created to mark the tenth anniversary of an environmental catastrophe in the North Atlantic. The gigantic Northern Cod Stock discovered by European fishermen five centuries ago...
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Author: Gillmore, Karen, Snively, GloriaSummary:
Sam and Crystal’s coastal adventure continues as brother and sister dive deeper into the marine habitats of Eagle Cove, home of Aunt Kate and Uncle Charlie. In their latest adventure, the kids...
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Author: Taylor, GeneSummary:
When Everett Coleman’s longtime enemy JB Sanderson dies, Everett’s nephew Blake comes to visit his uncle. He worries JB’s death might have a negative effect on the old man, despite Everett and JB’...
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Author: Alexander, CarolineSummary:
With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her adventures...
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Author: Banks, ChrisSummary:
Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called "a single symmetry," amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A...
Genre: Canadian poetry