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Halting the Reaper by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis hard Sci-Fi novel is the fourth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s developing a device that allows them to stop time within limited volumes of space-time... -
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... -
System Restored by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDerek Cooper is a retro gamer.His small flat is crammed with old consoles, controllers, accessories and shelves brimming full of old games. Quite an amazing collection, but there's always room for one more, isn't there?1981. The world of arcade games is just coming into its own... -
The Callahan Touch by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOpening Night at Mary's Place is the hottest ticket in the galaxy - a brand-new bar with some old familiar faces. Jake's back, along with Doc, Fast Eddie, and the rest of the Callahan's gang. And just when things couldn't get crazier, guess who shows up in the Mick of Time to make sure they do.. -
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Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future? Into a world where your home is no longer yours and you've been declared legally dead?This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself as the latest Time Bubble story begins. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as:
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Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology by S.B. Divya, Mur Lafferty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fifteenth anniversary of the Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast Escape Pod, featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers.Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod... -
Secrets by Ernestine Tito Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDon't go in the attic. Out of the 100 rules their grandparents gave them to follow, that one was the most important, so of course, it was also the first one Hazel's six-year-old sister, Bess, decides to break. Hazel cannot believe she has to be in charge of her crazy little sister this entire summer... -
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself... -
Eureka: Road Less Traveled: Road Less Traveled by Cris Ramsay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Global Dynamics researcher has a breakthrough on her project visualizing another dimension. And since GD's experiments have a bad tendency to affect the entire town, Sheriff Jack Carter heads over to check it out. What he sees blows him away... -
Arnesto Modesto: The World's Most Ineffectual Time Traveler by Darren Johnson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"There's going to be an attack." By sending his memories back in time, Arnesto Modesto gets to live his life over again. Of course, his much younger self may not be prepared to handle all that foreknowledge... Encouraged by his friend Pete, Arnesto attempts to use his limited recall to do some good — and winds up stumbling through some of the biggest events of the past quarter-century... -
Doctor Who: The Star Beast (Target Collection) by Gary Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this brand-new adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin takes readers to a whole new level with his darkly comic sci-fi thriller. A Winner of the 2016 Alex AwardsNightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat... -
Duckett & Dyer: Dicks For Hire by G.M. Nair
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael Duckett is fed up with his life. His job is a drag and his roommate and best friend of fifteen years, Stephanie Dyer, is only making him more anxious with her lazy irresponsibility. Things continue to escalate when they face the threat of imminent eviction from their palatial 5th floor walk-up and find that someone has been plastering ads all over the city for their Detective Agency... -
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A Time-Traveller's Best Friend by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet Marx. Meet Kez. Marx is a small, angry man with a time machine and a chip on his shoulder. Kez is a homicidal little girl with a price on her head and a penchant for kicking people where it hurts the most. When Marx crash-lands on Second World, he has no idea that he has plunged headfirst into the middle of an assassination plot- or a one day war that’s about to make his day a very bad one... -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of successThis is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach... -
By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUSFrom the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves a web of wonder.Sound profound? Nah... -
Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories by Drew Hayden Taylor
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C... -
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... -
Time Scout by Robert Lynn Asprin, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKit Carson best time scout is retired now shadowing endangers his life, can get caught at same time and die. Gamine redhead Margo 16 wants him to teach her. Malcolm 30s guides her in Victorian England. Mistakes get worse, she runs away in Coliseum era Rome. Her trip through dying Gate to Africa 1542 may be their last; grandpa Kit and lover Malcolm head to rescue... -
Time Is Irreverent by Marty Essen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAN IRREVERENT, LIBERAL, TWISTY, TIME TRAVEL COMEDY! What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and 5 billion people poof... -
The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward Books #AN1171Chester W. Chester IV inherits a run-down mansion and millions in back taxes. In order to pay the taxes, he initially decides to auction off the mansion and its contents, but then he discovers a massive computer (the Generalized Nonlinear Extrapolator, or "Genie") that can bring any situation or time to life... -
Joyride by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of three thrilling companion novels, set in the universe of the new Doctor Who spin-off show, Class, created by New York Times bestselling novelist Patrick Ness, author of The Rest of Us Just Live Here and the Carnegie Medal-winning A Monster Calls.Young people across the city are acting crazy. But they aren't the ones in control.. -
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K.A. Bedford
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor "Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait" specialist, Aloysius "Spider" Webb, time travel has lost its luster.Working as a senior time machine repair technician, Spider has seen it all - past, present and future. Wanting more out of life, Spider hates time travel and everything that goes with it...after all, time travel cost him his job as a top investigating police officer... -
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The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Volume 3 by James Roberts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe crew of the Lost Light finally reach Crystal City, home to the mysterious Circle of Light, as the origins of the Knights of Cybertron are revealed in "Primus... -
سریال چهار سابقهدار، قسمت ۷/ داینا-چیچی یا چیچی-سوروس؟ by Aaron Blabey
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Bad Guys are back in their first ever super special, including the next hilarious installment of their adventures, plus a bonus short story, quizzes, games, and...Categorized as:
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Silver Surfer A Power Greater than Cosmis by Dan Slott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Surfer and Dawn are back out in space and back in trouble! But at the universe's slickest space casino, Norrin Radd is going all-in - and the stakes have never been this cosmic! When our heroes are accidentally swallowed by Jumbonox the Giganormous, their only hope is a society of sentient macro-microorganisms.. -
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (2011-2016) Vol. 4 by James Roberts, Brendan Cahill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHADOWLAND CONCLUDES! And it’s the end of an era when, on pre-war CYBERTRON, enemies close in on all sides and Orion Pax—the future OPTIMUS PRIME—selects a team of AUTOBOTS to help him pull off the ultimate heist—with the fate of the planet hanging in the balance! Collects issues #12–15... -
Robo-Rabbit Boy, Go! by Thomas Flintham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen hero Super Rabbit Boy disappears, it's up to Robo-Rabbit Boy to power up and save the day!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina... -
Invincible, Vol. 12: Still Standing by Robert Kirkman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAngstrom Levy finally attacks - and the world has never been in moredanger! Guest-starring the entire Image Universe... and this is justa lead-in for CONQUEST! Invincible faces his most deadly threats yetin this can't-miss volume of the critically-acclaimed series...
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