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The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFirst published in 1927, "The Colour Out of Space" is H. P. Lovecraft's signature science-fiction horror story, finely presented here in a single volume with Lovecraft's landmark essay on "weird" fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" - a must-read for all students and lovers of horror. Quixotic Books are reprints of important classic and historic texts, handsomely formatted and presented... -
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us... -
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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind..Categorized as:
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Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPrepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie... -
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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsNine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity... -
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A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations... -
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The Void by Brett J. Talley
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the deepest reaches of space, on a ship that no longer exists, six travelers stare into the abyss . . . and the abyss stares back. Man has finally mastered the art of space travel and in a few hours passengers can travel light years across the galaxy. But, there's a catch-the traveler must be asleep for the journey, and with sleep come the dreams... -
![Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsChilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian TchaikovskyMy name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut...Categorized as:
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Ghosts of War by George Mann
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGhosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors – strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night...Categorized as:
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We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the source of her crew's madness... or risk succumbing to it herself.Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy... -
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Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nick Mamatas
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDecades, centuries and even thousands of years in the future: The horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time...or space. Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and drive a crew mad. Worship the Tloque Nahuaque as he overtakes Mexico City... -
![Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman... -
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The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Captain Carlsen entered the vast derelict spaceship, he was stunned by its awesome splendor--and shaken by the discovery of its immobilized humanoid passengers.Later, after three of those strange aliens had been transported to Earth, his foreboding was more than justified. The creatures were energy vampires whose seductive embraces were total, whose lust for vitality was boundless... -
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The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher
Rated: 3.27 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAdam Christopher’s dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark.Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds... -
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Dead Moon by Peter Clines
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the year 2243, the Moon belongs to the dead. The largest graveyard in the solar system, it was the perfect solution to the overcrowding and environmental problems that had plagued mankind for centuries. And the perfect place for Cali Washington to run away from her past... -
![Southern Cross, Vol. 2: Romulus by Becky Cloonan, Andy Belanger]()
Southern Cross, Vol. 2: Romulus by Becky Cloonan, Andy Belanger
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHazel Conroy was ready to retire. She left her life as a detective behind on Earth for a cushy job as a personal assistant on Titan...That is, until the disappearance of the Southern Cross dregs up skeletons from her past, shedding light on a bigger, more sinister conspiracy... -
![Hellstar Remina; 地獄星レミナ; Jigokuboshi Remina by Junji Ito]()
Hellstar Remina; 地獄星レミナ; Jigokuboshi Remina by Junji Ito
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsOne day, the world found out about newly discovered star, that was "eating" other stars. At first, it was so far away, that it became just a nice curiosity entertaining people in their normal daily lives. Then, it begun to come closer and closer, finally eating some of the solar system's planets and taking a straight course for Earth itself..Categorized as:
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Nameless by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNameless tells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as "Nameless" who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. A massive asteroid named Xibalba — the "Place of Fear" in Mayan mythology — is on collision course with the planet Earth...
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