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1) Mr. Nobody
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117-year-old Nemo Nobody is ill and facing his last days as he looks back on his past and a particular crucial moment -- at the age of nine, Nemo's parents divorced, and as his mother and father stood on a train platform, he had to choose who he would go with. Either choice would bring with it a wide variety of possibilities regarding the sort of life he would lead, and Nemo imagines nearly all of them. But as Nemo considers the many different paths...
3) Jules
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An unusual and unexpected visitor brings together several people living in a small city in rural Western Pennsylvania.
4) Cat City
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Unflappable and unstoppable mouse secret agent Nick Grabovsky (László Sinkó) with his deadpan voice, baggy pants and a big “G” on his shirt, goes up against the criminal cat gang run by the sinister, metal-pawed Mr. Teufel (Miklós Benedek), in Hungarian director Béla Ternovszky’s surreal, animated sci-fi treasure. Set in the year 80 AMM (“After Mickey Mouse”) on Planet X where cats and rats have banded together to eliminate mice, the...
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An action-packed sci-fi fantasy that shows that following your dreams is sometimes the best way to discover your past.The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa often dozes off, entering a dream-world called Heartland full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But when her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is kidnapped for stealing technology from a powerful...
7) Deliver Me
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Jora’s perfect relationship with himself becomes the worst “little prison” imaginable.
8) Bone Dance
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Back in print, Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory
Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen-the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between...
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
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Sarah lives a solitary life in her small homestead, surrounded on all sides by a vast forest that seems to go on endlessly. While she finds peace in her daily routines and connection to the natural world, Sarah also feels a deep loneliness as the sole human inhabitant in this isolated place.
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Detective Inspector Louisa Bennett's arrest of Portal CEO Benoit Walsh and the resulting scandal have done little to diminish the network's popularity. Its hand-held terminals have been replaced by implants, providing a deeper and more personal integration for millions of devotees.Yet not everyone is so enamoured with Portal's technological utopia. Terrorists strike against the company, demanding the dissolution of its network. When Louisa's foster...
12) I Am Legend
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The genre-defining classic of horror sci-fi that inspired three films.
The population of the entire world has been obliterated by a pandemic of vampire bacteria. Yet somehow, Robert Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of what happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him nightly.
As months of scavenging and hiding turn to years marked by depression and alcoholism, Robert spends his days hunting his...
13) Vegas In Space
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After some rare gems go missing on a distant planet where men are not allowed, three soldiers posing as women are sent from Earth to aid in the investigation.
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Dive back into the world of The Institute in this gripping sequel to The Orphan Chronicles: Genesis… Ananya Patel is a young woman with extraordinary abilities. Her keen instincts for sensing danger have been enhanced and honed during her upbringing at The Institute, a clandestine underwater research facility established and funded by billionaire philanthropist, Gregory Cornelius. In The Orphan Chronicles: Evolution, the time has come for Ananya...
15) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
17) Alien Child
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Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute's computers give her everything she could want-except another human to share her life with. Long ago there were people at the Institute, but something happened that wiped them out. As she matures, Nita slowly...
18) One Human Minute
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Essays by the author of Solaris. Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution ," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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Serafina Glutt ist Pilotin und unterwegs zu einer großen Werft nahe des Saturn, als ihr Schiff in Schwierigkeiten gerät. Sie kann sich gerade noch auf dem kleinen Jupitermond Eukelade retten. Dort wird sie einigermaßen unfreundlich von Tadius Uriel empfangen, der diesen Mond bewohnt. Schnell bekommt sie heraus, dass Tadius ein Geheimnis verbirgt. Schließlich erfährt sie, dass Tadius Kybertium abbaut, den begehrtesten Stoff im Sonnensystem - und...
20) The Square
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"You are hereby banished from the North American continent. Should you reenter it, you will be executed upon recognition. Within this facility, you have the right to life and to defend that life, unto your death."
These are the last words spoken to the exiles banished to the Square, a massive penal colony encompassing the western triangle of what was once the state of Texas. Paxton Stephens, a disgraced and exiled scientist, gave the authoritarian...
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