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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
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"Set in an unnamed valley--surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time--a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
Publisher
Leomark Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation. In a world dependent on machines she learns not all technological advancement has humanity's interests in mind. From IMdB.
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"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: Uncertainty about the future? Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Since Grandpa died, Dally's days are dull and restricted. She's eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already grooming her to take over the family business. Starved for adventure and release, Dally rescues a mysterious envelope from her mother's clutches, an envelope Grandpa had earmarked for her. The map she finds inside leads straight to an ancient vault, a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment...
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Adventure! Danger! Revenge! And a mail-order robot gunslinger in a wedding dress? Only in the wildest parts of space could this happen. It's time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universe's western territories with this follow-up to Gunfight on Europa Station. Meet the employees of a space bordello as they're drawn together to pull a con on a con. Or the crew filming a Western on a colony ship only to fight gravity and...
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RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel—“a stone-cold classic” of hard sci-fi (The Guardian).
An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What...
An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What...
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English
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A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel--only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth. Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about a refugee from Earth and a xenophobic Mars politician who decide to fake marry after a media encounter damages both their reputations. In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee on Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. In Tharsis, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a...
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The last human volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
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Baen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The chicks are back! Celebrating fearless and fearsome females--and their armored vehicles. Stories inspired by the classic Chicks in Chainmail series! It's an idea as simple and timeless as it gets: A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther. Besides,...
16) X-Men red: 4
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
The FALL OF X is felt on Arakko! As the Brotherhood reels from the cataclysmic events of the Hellfire Gala, Genesis takes advantage of the chaos ? and declares war! Two vast mutant armies clash, and Arakko?s idols fall. But this is only the beginning of a conflict that will remake the Red Planet. Under siege in Port Prometheus, Storm readies to hold the line against the ultimate bioweapon. Meanwhile, the Fisher King finds himself tormented by his...
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Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Renowned filmmaker and record-shattering comic creator Keanu Reeves is joined by writer/artist Steve Skroce (The Matrix, Post Americana), screenwriter and director Mattson Tomlin (A Vicious Circle, The Batman Part II), and artist Rebekah Isaacs (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Money Shot) for a pair of self-contained stories set within the 80,000 year history of BRZRKR! In Poetry of Madness, a sea of gore and devastation awaits as B., through a fateful...
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Publisher
Six Sticks Productions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Brandon Blake has had a perfect free-and-easy life, except for those unnerving memories of past lives. What he decides to do about these launches him on a daring journey across times and places, challenging everything he knows about our familiar world. In this masquerade called life he learns you never know who you will meet or when. For Brandon it is a lonely game until he finds his true self and true love.--from Amazon website.