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Terry Pratchett Discworld Collection 7 Books Set (Unseen Academicals, the Colour ofMagic, GoingPostal, Making Money, the Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort) by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTerry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the Discworld series, started in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, and which has now reached 37 novels with Unseen Academicals. Worldwide sales of his books are 60 million, and they have been translated into 37 languages. Terry Pratchett was knighted for services to literature in 2009. Titles Included in this set : 1. Unseen Academicals 2... -
![Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins]()
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
![His Human Socialite by Michele Mills]()
His Human Socialite by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been set up on a blind date with a Hyrrokin named Idun Grindstone?Noooo. This will never work!How can a human who is set to gain a significant inheritance have anything in common with a foul-mouthed, satanic-looking security specialist? Smoke regularly wafts out of this guy’s nostrils and his shiny barbed tail juts out in the air behind him as he prowls across the military hanger... -
![Roo the Day by Jerry Boyd]()
Roo the Day by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Gene are off to take Joanna’s new friend home. Finding derelicts with no survivors gets them down, and one of them brings Topper to a crisis of conscience. When they find a ship that looks like Zoom built it, Bob hires the builder. Time will tell, if she is as good as Zoom. Then little Roos get the ship hopping... -
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![Gene's Regret by Jerry Boyd]()
Gene's Regret by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhile Veronica is searching for a system to call home, she finds one that was torn up a long time ago. Bob gathers the fleet to go check it out, but Gene balks at the idea... -
![Deadbot by Jerry Boyd]()
Deadbot by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBob and the crew get the Roos to their new home. It’s not what they expected, and they raise a fuss. Andre has fun, until he finds out how the planet got its name. Then, a Roo explorer finds a whole other set of problems for Bob and the crew. Come along as our heroes try their best to make things come out right... -
![Can You Take a Juke? by Jerry Boyd]()
Can You Take a Juke? by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBob thought BSR might be able to do some business with Homm and his people. Turns out he was wrong, but their ancestors had left knowledge the company could use. Watch the crew try to recover the knowledge, without getting mixed up in their troubles. Of course, Bob picks up another apprentice for Scotti along the way... -
![Baycation by Jerry Boyd]()
Baycation by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBob wanted to take a few days off, to chill after spending so long in the black. Letting go of his stress turns out to be harder than he thought it might be, and of course, Murphy gets to have a say. Come along, and see how Bob handles trying to stay out of trouble... -
![The Incredible Adventures of Professor Shonku by Satyajit Ray]()
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Shonku by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
![Dark Side of the Moon by V.R. Tapscott]()
Dark Side of the Moon by V.R. Tapscott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this sequel to Jane Bond, Jane finds some very interesting things in the basement left behind when Kit went away. Among them is a fully operational space ship. Of course, the catch is, how can Jane fly it? Once Jane overcomes that hurdle, she and her friends are on the way again - and a new friend by the name of Olive comes along to pilot the ship - and make pancakes... -
![The Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space and Time by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright]()
The Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space and Time by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first-ever collection of the most intelligent, strangest, mysterious, and wonderful quotes from all fifty years of the BBC America hit television series Doctor Who.Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever growing and extremely dedicated fan base... -
![FANG: A MAXIMUM RIDE NOVEL - Free preview: Book One by James Patterson]()
FANG: A MAXIMUM RIDE NOVEL - Free preview: Book One by James Patterson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFANG: A MAXIMUM RIDE NOVEL - Free preview: Book One <br>FANG WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE. <br>For years, Max has been desperately on the run from evil forces trying to prevent her from her destiny to save the world –– but nothing has ever rocked her world like this horrifying prophetic message . Fang is Max’s best friend, her soul mate, her partner in leading the flock of winged children... -
![Foundation's Friends: Stories In Honor Of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury]()
Foundation's Friends: Stories In Honor Of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn this anthology honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Isaac Asimov's remarkable science fiction novel, today's leading authors—including Pul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, and Connie Willis—present stories set in the future that Asimov created in his own stories and novels... -
![Mail-Order Brides of Crakair: Scifi Alien Romance Box Set: A Complete, 6 Book Series Plus 2 Bonus Novellas by Ava Ross]()
Mail-Order Brides of Crakair: Scifi Alien Romance Box Set: A Complete, 6 Book Series Plus 2 Bonus Novellas by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThey're scaly and green, seven-feet-tall, much too cocky, and they're seeking Earthling brides.The Complete Mail-Order Brides of Crakair Series includes:VorkBrykJorgKralWulfLyelAxilGajePLUS SIX bonus epilogues never before released!Over 14 million page reads in this bestselling series... -
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![The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds]()
The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) -- stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. (He also wrote excellent short stories and novels... -
![Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card by Orson Scott Card]()
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well... -
![Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters by Andy Mangels]()
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters by Andy Mangels
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 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... -
![100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, C.M. Kornbluth]()
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, C.M. Kornbluth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsContents:- Introduction: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov- A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov- The Advent on Channel Twelve by C.M. Kornbluth- Plaything by Larry Niven- The misfortune cookie by Charles E. Fritch- I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini- FTA by George R.R. Martin- Trace by Jerome Bixby- The Ingenious Patriot by Ambrose Bierce- Zoo by Edward D... -
![Aliens Love Panta Claus. Claire Freedman & Ben Cort by Claire Freedman]()
Aliens Love Panta Claus. Claire Freedman & Ben Cort by Claire Freedman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe aliens are excited because tomorrow's Christmas day. So instead of stealing underpants - they're giving them away! Join them as they help out in Santa's busy workshop, put neon pants on Rudolph & tie knickers up in the place of stockings... -
![The Best of Eric Frank Russell by Eric Frank Russell]()
The Best of Eric Frank Russell by Eric Frank Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings13 classic stories. Includes: Allamagoosa (1955 Hugo winner); Dear Devil (nominated, 1950 Retro Hugo); Mana; Jay Score; Homo Saps; Metamorphosite; Hobbyist; Late Night Final; Fast Falls the Eventide; I Am Nothing; Weak Spot; Into Your Tent I'll Creep; Study in Still Life. Introduction by Alan Dean Foster. 10th place, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection... -
![Aquila by Andrew Norriss]()
Aquila by Andrew Norriss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's a spaceship from the past - can it change the future?Aquila has been found by boys bunking off a geography field trip. They have no idea where it came from or what it does. But Geoff's discovered that when you sit in it these little coloured lights come on, and if you push one of the big blue oneS . . -
![Spanish Short Stories For Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! by Olly Richards]()
Spanish Short Stories For Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImprove your comprehension, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these eight unconventional Spanish short stories! ** Fully revised and updated! ** In this book you will find: Short stories from a variety of compelling genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller, so you’ll have great fun reading, whilst learning a wide range of new vocabulary and rapidly... -
![Sleye by Ava Ross]()
Sleye by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm falling for an alien who's forbidden. Does our interstellar love stand a chance?The alien I’m crushing on has one destiny—to set up the computer tech division on the new colony before returning to his home planet. As for me, I’m supposed to make sure the aliens locked in stasis on the interstellar ship arrive on the planet ready to assume their duties. Then it’s a one-way back to Earth for me... -
![Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson]()
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
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![With Friends Like These... by Alan Dean Foster]()
With Friends Like These... by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwelve stories of science fiction and interstellar adventure include Space Opera, He, Dream Done Green, Why Johnny Can't Speed, and The Emoman.• With Friends Like These .. -
![The Winds of Change by Isaac Asimov]()
The Winds of Change by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAnother fascinating science fiction book of 21 short stories from Isaac Asimov: About Nothing A Perfect Fit Belief Death of a Foy Fair Exchange? For the Birds Found! Good Taste How it Happened Ideas Die Hard Ignition Point! It Is Coming The Last Answer The Last Shuttle Lest We Remember Nothing For Nothing One Night of Song The Smile That Loses Sure Thing To Tell at a Glance The Winds of... -
![Buy Jupiter and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov]()
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratings24 stories, by the Master.. -
![Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by Alan Dean Foster]()
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“THE FALLEN SHALL RISE AGAIN. . . .”This cryptic warning is ignored by the national security adviser who feels the ruthless Decepticon threat is no more. The allies are victorious, the enemy has been defeated, and the world is safe... -
![New American Stories by Ben Marcus]()
New American Stories by Ben Marcus
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between... -
![The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson]()
The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsContents:· The Wizard of Nehwon— · Poul Anderson · in · Gonna Roll the Bones · nv Dangerous Visions, ed... -
![Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson]()
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas . . . Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre... -
![Legends of the Ferengi by Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolf]()
Legends of the Ferengi by Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Once you have their money, never give it back." -- #1 "Anything worth doing is worth doing for money." -- #13For centuries these and the other famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high cost in lives and latnium... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
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![See Otto: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 by David Milgrim]()
See Otto: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 by David Milgrim
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOtto runs, runs, runs in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator, David Milgrim. This is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series.Meet Otto, an excitable robot who seeks adventure—and finds it—when he falls off his spaceship and lands on Earth, directly in front of a very cranky rhinoceros... -
![Pew! Pew! Volume 1: Sex! Guns! Spaceships! Oh My by Rachel Aukes, M.D. Cooper]()
Pew! Pew! Volume 1: Sex! Guns! Spaceships! Oh My by Rachel Aukes, M.D. Cooper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings9 Comedic space opera tales of big spaceships, poor life decisions, and lots of Pew! Follow the adventures of swashbuckling heroes and heroines who forgot their swash and didn't do up their buckles as they gallivant across the stars, saving the downtrodden and trodding on some of the down. Delta-Team: A "Simple" Kidnapping - M. D. Cooper The Methane Lake of Excruciating Tedium - Felix R... -
![A Company of Stars by Christopher Stasheff]()
A Company of Stars by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the 2700s, two narrators describe the Star Company troupe, taking live New York theater to colony planets. Runaway Ramou Lazarian loves to fight, rescues impresario Horace Burbage. Valdor, rich brother of Horace's pal, Barry Tallendar, funds the trip. Stage designer Merlo finds Captain McLeod and a rocketship. But Elector Rudders wants censorship, orders them stopped... -
![The Chicolini Incident by Robert Kroese]()
The Chicolini Incident by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInterstellar con artist Rex Nihilo has just hijacked a shipment of five thousand lazepistols, and he needs to unload them fast. When Rex encounters a band of stick-wielding separatists on the planet Chicolini, he thinks he’s found the buyers he’s been looking for... -
![Off the Wall at Callahan's by Spider Robinson]()
Off the Wall at Callahan's by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAll the best lines from the Saloon at the far-out edge of space-time!Off the Wall at Callahan's is a collection of epigrams, maxims, proverbs, observations, eye-watering puns, and original song lyrics distilled from the first five volumes of the Callahan's Place series (from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon to Lady Slings the Booze)... -
![Young Blood by Andrew Barrer, Lauren Ezzo, MacLeod Andrews, David de Vries]()
Young Blood by Andrew Barrer, Lauren Ezzo, MacLeod Andrews, David de Vries
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYouth wasted on the young? Not in this provocative, darkly comic story of cold-blooded dreams by the cowriter of Ant-Man and the Wasp. In the near future, the fountain of youth has been found—running through the veins of post-millennials. It’s a win-win... -
![...Who Needs Enemies? by Alan Dean Foster]()
...Who Needs Enemies? by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCollection of short stories. Swamp Planet ChristmasSnake EyesBystanderWhat do the Simple Folk do?.. -
![Consecuencias naturales by Elia Barceló, Teresa López-Pellisa]()
Consecuencias naturales by Elia Barceló, Teresa López-Pellisa
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnos cuantos siglos en el futuro, las y los habitantes de la Tierra han alcanzado muchas metas deseadas: bien en materia de viajes espaciales, bien en sus políticas de igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, presentes en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad y el idioma... -
![Full Court Press by Mike Lupica]()
Full Court Press by Mike Lupica
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis season, the coolest guy in basketball isn't a guy. From the author of the boisterous, bawdy, sharp-witted (The Philadelphia Inquirer) national bestseller comes another deliciously wicked tale of contemporary professional sports...Categorized as:
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![Hoka! by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson]()
Hoka! by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas . . . Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre... -
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![The Haunted Earth by Dean Koontz]()
The Haunted Earth by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Maseni were humanoid, but no creature with bulbous forehead, slit mouth and tentacles where fingers should be would ever be mistaken for a man. The Maseni had been on Earth for ten years - years in which the human race reeled under the shock not only of meeting an alien intelligence, but of knowing for the first time that Earth did not belong to men alone... -
![The Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven]()
The Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him.And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. ALl he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.But when he returns, Hanville Svetz won't be alone... -
![Terra! by Stefano Benni]()
Terra! by Stefano Benni
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden... -
![Spacial Delivery by Gordon R. Dickson]()
Spacial Delivery by Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Nebula Award-winning AuthorIn the good old days they gave you a suit of armor and a mighty steed to rescue a maiden in distress. But John Tardy didn't know about this battle until he was in it. No suit of armor, no magnificent charger. He'd have been happy just to arrive on his own two feet, or any way other than as a package labeled Spacial Delivery... -
![Clocked by Elle Strauss]()
Clocked by Elle Strauss
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Novelette.Written from Nate Mackenzie's point of view, this new companion novelette to the Clockwise series is a much expanded version of the short story found in the In His Eyes Anthology (from 3k to 15k)...Categorized as:
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![My Not So Super Sweet Life: A Hollywood High School Romance by Rachel Harris]()
My Not So Super Sweet Life: A Hollywood High School Romance by Rachel Harris
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCat Crawford just wants to be normal—or at least as normal as a daughter of Hollywood royalty can be. And it looks like fate is granting her wish: she's got an amazing boyfriend, Lucas; her fabulous cousin, Alessandra, living with her; and her dad planning his second marriage to a great future stepmom...
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