Books like 'Superman & Batman: Generations, An Imaginary Tale'
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Traitor's Chase by Stuart Gibbs
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGreg Rich is beginning to get the hang of things in 1615 Paris. Having assumed the identity of a young D'Artagnan, Greg united the legendary three Musketeers and succeeded in freeing his parents from a dank prison cell. But he hasn't figured out how to get home. Or how to defeat the dangerous Michel Dinicoeur...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: The Giggle (Target Collection) by James Goss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this thrilling third adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble...Categorized as:
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The Rewind Files by Claire Willett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a bookish junior agent at the U.S. Time Travel Bureau stumbles across a massive conspiracy with roots in 1972’s Watergate, she is forced into her first- ever field assignment - to expose the conspirators and avert World War III.----------------------------------Washington, D.C. 2112United States Time Travel BureauRegina Bellows, junior agent at the U.S...Categorized as:
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Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
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Jacks Are Wild by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the world of the popular Out of Time series comes the first book in the time travel adventure series, Saving Time, starring Jack Wells!Former OSS officer Jack Wells’s first solo assignment for the Council for Temporal Studies sounds deceptively simple—stop a murder before it happens...Categorized as:
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Centurion's Rise by Mark Henrikson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOrigins Series ContinuesROME. The mere mention of the name instills images of grandeur. The mighty empire was a guiding light for the civilized world for a thousand years. Was that by chance or careful design? A psychiatric patient named Hastelloy has the answer. He believes he was there for it all: Caesar, legions, gladiators...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters by Daniel Wallace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Star Wars universe is expanding faster than ever before, and Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters has received an exciting new face-lift–with completely updated text and more than a hundred brand new, full-color illustrations by extraordinary new artist Michael Sutfin...Categorized as:
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Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
Unforgotten by Jessica Brody
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome memories are better left forgotten... After a daring escape from the scientists at Diotech who created her, Seraphina believes she is finally safe from the horrors of her past. But new threats await Sera and her boyfriend, Zen, at every turn as Zen falls prey to a mysterious illness and Sera’s extraordinary abilities make it more and more difficult to stay hidden...Categorized as:
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The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor as long as 17-year-old Alex Wayfare can remember, she has had visions of the past. Visions that make her feel like she’s really on a ship bound for America, living in Jamestown during the Starving Time, or riding the original Ferris wheel at the World’s Fair...Categorized as:
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Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRay Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was...Categorized as:
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Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
Regia Occulta by Dan Abnett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world wracked by storms, Inquisitor Eisenhorn investigates a series of bizarre murders. Aided by local officials and using arcane methods of detection, Eisenhorn must decipher the secret of the Regia Occulta and stop the bestial killer before it strikes again. Read it because Mysterious deaths, strange storms, a monstrous killer that defies belief.. -
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Time Ship #1 by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most imaginative and gripping time travel story you will ever read! Image the combination of four amazing films - 'The Perfect Storm' meets 'The Philadelphia Experiment' meets ' Contagion' meets 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and you will have the plot for Time Ship... -
Doctor Who: The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive in 1930s L ondon to return some overdue library books. They plan to tak e a rest after their recent adventures, but Romana detects a distress signal from the future and the Doctor is attacked by a suffocating green mist... -
Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAntofagasta, Chile...Rae Stanley was in trouble... -
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont, Christopher Lane
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers.Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries...Categorized as:
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Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack after 20 years! Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called…. The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage!Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons—a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus... -
Korn åt små fåglar by John Dickson Carr, Sven Bergström
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLondon was wrapped in fog when Inspector John Cheviot got into a twentieth century taxi. The city was still fogbound when he got out - but the cab was a hackney coach, the year was 1829, and murder was a safe and profitable business... -
The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vile greenish vapor was all that remained of the first victim of the monstrous Smoke of Eternity. There would be thousands more if Kar, master fiend, had his evil way. Only Doc Savage and his mighty five could stop him. But the corpse-laden trail led to mortal combat with the fiercest killing machines ever invented by nature... -
Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Mystery & Detective by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe house on the hill showed lights only upon the first floor -- in the spacious reception hall, the dining room, and those more or less mysterious purlieus thereof from which emanate disagreeable odors and agreeable foods... -
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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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The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle, Harold Emery Jones
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The Horror of the Heights” is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle (1865-1930). First published in 1913, the tale is about aeronautics and the practice of flying at the beginning of twentieth century. This edition also contains a choice of Conan Doyle’s best aphorisms and an essay on the invention of Sherlock Holmes’ character written by Harold Emery Jones (1875-1909) in 1904... -
Unnatural History by Jonathan Green
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo...Categorized as:
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The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip José Farmer
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA secret alien war has raged on Earth for years and is about to culminate in an epic race. Phileas Fogg's epic global journey is not the product of a daft wager but, in fact, a covert mission to chase down the elusive Captain Nemo, who is none other than Professor Moriarty. About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs...Categorized as:
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Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollects issues 13-27 of the original series as well as 14 pages of additional content.As the series hurtles towards its conclusion, Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan to stop The Four, makes a startling revelation about his past, and uncovers information on the world's first moon shot ..
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