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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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... -
Summa Technologiae by Stanisław Lem
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh... -
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
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... -
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
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... -
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... -
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Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! by Todd Tarpley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA playful robot bedtime story, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco! Quiet at last. Not a peep. Three little robots are... BEEP! BEEP!When his three rambunctious robots give every possible excuse not to go to sleep, what's a little boy to do? With a fun refrain that will have readers of all ages chanting along, here's a book that kids will be begging to read every night before bed... -
Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne day, a boy and a robot meet in the woods. They play. They have fun.But when Bot gets switched off, Boy thinks he's sick. The usual remedies—applesauce, reading a story—don't help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then falls asleep.Bot is worried when he powers on and finds his friend powered off. He takes Boy home with him and tries all his remedies: oil, reading an instruction manual...Categorized as:
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U-10 by Sam B. Miller II
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe U-10 is a survival kit you might not survive using. Activated by unreadable cards, it could create a can of soup - - or an explosive grenade that looks like a can of soup. The U-10 is a guessing game of life or death.A top-secret paramilitary agency wants the U-10 and its gadgets, the guy who has the U-10 wants to keep it, and the alien who lost the U-10 wants it back... -
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual by Rick Sternbach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUNLOCK THE SECRETS OF TEROK NOR! It was once a battered Cardassian ore-processing facility orbiting the planet Bajor. But Terok Nor took on new life when the Cardassians evacuated and were replaced by Starfleet personnel... -
Doll-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA STEM-friendly tale of a girl and the doll she upgrades to be her new friend, for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer.Charlotte's world is fully charged! With her dog at her side, she's always tinkering, coding, clicking, and downloading... -
Clink by Kelly DiPucchio
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClink was a state-of-the-art robot with the dazzling ability to make toast and play music at the same time. But that was many years ago.Now kids want snazzier robots who do things like play baseball and bake cookies. So day after day, Clink sits on a shelf and sadly watches as his friends leave with their new owners... -
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
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
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
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 . . -
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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
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
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... -
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 .. -
Unplugged by Steve Antony
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeet Blip. Blip loves being plugged into her computer. When a blackout occurs, Blip trips over her wire and tumbles outside. Suddenly, Blip's gray world is filled with color and excitement. She plays with her new friends and has adventures all day long. When Blip finally returns home, she realizes that the world can be even brighter once you unplug... -
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet... -
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratings24 stories, by the Master.. -
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... -
Robots, Robots Everywhere by Sue Fliess
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the ground and in the air,/Robots, robots everywhere!Up in space, beneath the seas,/Robots make discoveries . . .So begins this rollicking Little Golden Book featuring robots of all kinds, from ones up in space to the ones we use at home... -
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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
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
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
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... -
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... -
We Open on Venus by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung Ramou and mentor Horace both narrate first stop of the Star Company actors on New Venus, run by Amalgamated Petroleum monopoly, who charge high for water and air. Smoking is a capital crime. Before landing, alcoholic Ogden 80s, has heart attack, forbidden to imbibe. The school gym overflows, the audience roars, and more catches fire than arts appreciation... -
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... -
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
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
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... -
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...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?.. -
The Box by Hugh Howey
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when artificial intelligence comes online, only to find itself locked in a room with a... -
Semiotext (e) SF by Rudy Rucker, John Shirley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA science fiction anthology at the extremes of the genre (including gore, deviant sex, blasphemy and radicalism of all sorts), this book includes edgy works by 45 contemporary authors... -
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... -
User Friendly by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpider Robinson has won every major award in the science fiction field with his Heinlein-influenced stories. This reader friendly chunk of Spider's universe will be heartily welcomed by his many readers... -
Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence by Susan Schneider
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments...
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