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Space Living by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn space, the smartest sentient in the room is alien artificial intelligence.A visit to Union Station brings Flower the welcome addition of a honeymoon couple as the Dollnick AI prepares to host Rendezvous and promote her ship as THE place for humanity to do business... -
![The '86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson]()
The '86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsImagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything? Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke... -
![Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni]()
Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCleaning a space station is easy. Staying under the radar? Priceless. Triana Moore programs the robots that clean the glitzy Station Kelly Kornienko. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of the station is her number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate." But when one of her bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the window... -
![Independent Living by E.M. Foner]()
Independent Living by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn space, nobody can hear retirees complain about the food. What do a group of retirees leaving Earth and a young woman in EarthCent's new witness protection have in common? They're all going to live on Flower, an enormous alien colony vessel employed by Eccentric Enterprises to travel a circuit of far-flung human communities... -
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![বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsসূচিপত্র*কাচ্চি... -
![System Restored by Adam Eccles]()
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 You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale]()
The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is drawn from the universe of Severance, the globally acclaimed hit Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson.Are you ready to meet the person who truly makes you “You”: You?In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness... -
![The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor]()
The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly a few years ago (1950s) we walked on solid earth. Today we whirl through space. Space is big. It is not cozy. But with these verses and drawings... cheerfulness breaks in. Suddenly, science seems merry. And space begins, with the rhyme on page 1, to feel a little more like home. A witty collection of 1950's space age poetry accompanied by clever black and white line drawings by Marian Parry... -
![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... -
![Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder]()
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the writer of 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
![সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ৪ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ৪ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর আরো ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সংকলন।*ত্রাতুলের জগৎ*বেজি*ফিনিক্স*সায়রা সায়েন্টিস্ট*সুহানের স্বপ্ন*অবনীল*নায়ীরা*বিজ্ঞানী অনিক... -
![টুকি ও ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক অভিযান by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
টুকি ও ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক অভিযান by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings... -
![Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell]()
Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 10 in the Ciaphas Cain Series... -
![Men In Black by Steve Perry]()
Men In Black by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhile much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here--now--walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens--a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black... -
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![A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi, Natalie Metzger]()
A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi, Natalie Metzger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps fifteen short takes on the holiday season—interviews with holiday notables, “informational” articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s—and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for... -
![The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder]()
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the author of "The Time Machine Did It", "Double Wonderful", "How I Conquered Your Planet", and 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
![Rock of Ages by Walter Jon Williams]()
Rock of Ages by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe saga of Drake Maijstral, introduced in The Crown Jewels, continues. Drake is the number one rated Allowed Burglar in the Human Constellation, a vast-galaxy spanning confederation that exists side-by-side with the ancient Khosali Empire--but nearly everyone he meets seems to want to challenge him to a duel to the death... -
![Deep Space Accountant by Mjke Wood]()
Deep Space Accountant by Mjke Wood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould this be the worst job interview in the entire history of the universe? Possibly. So when Elton D Philpotts lands his dream Space Corps accountancy job he can’t help wondering how it happened. And why.Somebody in the Space Corps must need him, and they need him bad.But the work is dull; nothing like the glamour job he expected... -
![Gods of the Dead by Tracey Ward]()
Gods of the Dead by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE WORLD IS A FADED MEMORY The Fever took hold of Portland first. They tried to contain it. They built barriers, brought in experts, promised cures. But the day they flew in bombers and burned Portland to the ground, the rest of the world knew the truth. There was no containing it. Soon panic spreads with the Fever, consuming everyone and everything in its path... -
![The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur]()
The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe plant which Michael grows from mail-order seeds develops an appetite for dirty socks. Sloppy Michael and his neatnik brother convince their parents to let them keep the voracious greenery... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Earth Vs. Everybody by John Swartzwelder]()
Earth Vs. Everybody by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the writer of 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
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![Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book) by Margie Palatini, Chuck Groenink]()
Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book) by Margie Palatini, Chuck Groenink
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs... -
![Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi]()
Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohn Scalzi visits the universe of his bestselling novel The Android's Dream for this exclusive short story, featuring fan favorite character Judge Nugan Bufan Sn -- a brilliant alien jurist whose misanthropy and lack of social graces is matched only by his futile, unrequited for the game of golf... -
![By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson]()
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... -
![Bombardiers by Po Bronson]()
Bombardiers by Po Bronson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do with My Life?, Bombardiers is Po Bronson’s first novel, a devastating satire of the business world told through the lens of a crazed and colorful group of salespeople forced to push increasingly absurd financial products... -
![Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Paul Magrs]()
Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Paul Magrs
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘Grrrrr.’The greatest book ever written.Professor Reginald Tyler’s The True History of Planets was a twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren’t when the Doctor read it... -
![Bacalaureat by Ovidiu Eftimie]()
Bacalaureat by Ovidiu Eftimie
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsO nouă aventură din universul romanului Arhanghelul Raul.Necazurile se țin lanț de subinspectorul Petre Popescu... -
![National Lampoon's Doon by Ellis Weiner]()
National Lampoon's Doon by Ellis Weiner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNational Lampoon's Doon brings the hottest science fiction phenomenon ever to a new, hysterical foaming head.In a very distant galaxy, far, far away, a plot is brewing as vast and elaborate as the Empire itself.. -
![Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake]()
Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the 25th Century, and the President of American has taken over the world.Meanwhile... after a cleaner unplugged his cryogenic freezing machine by accident, Detective Inspector Capstan wakes up to find that he's been in a state of suspended animation for over four hundred years... -
![ডক্টর কিজিল by মাশুদুল হক]()
ডক্টর কিজিল by মাশুদুল হক
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsসদ্য জুওলজিতে মাস্টার্স শেষ করা হাসান ঘটনাক্রমে পরিচিত হয় প্রখ্যাত বিজ্ঞানী ডক্টর কিজিলের সাথে। কিজিল মানুষ হিসেবে অদ্ভূত ও খাপছাড়া, বিপজ্জনকও। কিজিলের রিসার্চ অ্যাসিটেন্ট হিসেবে যোগ দিয়ে হাসানের শুরু হয় সম্পূর্ণ ভিন্ন এক জীবন । সবার চোখের আড়ালে কি ভীষণ সব কাজ করে বেড়াচ্ছেন তিনি সেটা হাসান নিজ চোখে না দেখলে কখনোই বিশ্বাস করতো না।সূচিপত্র -১. কটকট২. অকুলোম্বুষ দ্বীপ৩... -
![Doctor Who: Living Legend by Scott Gray]()
Doctor Who: Living Legend by Scott Gray
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a free promotional audio play released with issue 337 of Doctor Who Magazine.Set after the events of The Chimes of Midnight, The Doctor and Charley have landed in Italy on 11 July 1982. While the Italians are celebrating their Football World Cup championship over West Germany, the Doctor and Charley are tracing "an odd signal"... -
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![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... -
![Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand]()
Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER’S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today’s hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster’s point of view.SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-eating plant named Max, surviving in the greenhouse with his mad doctor keeper when he gets a new female neighbor... -
![Fat by Rob Grant]()
Fat by Rob Grant
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRob Grant's new novel is a revelation. After INCOMPETENCE we would all have expected a killingly funny satire. And in its satire of our obsession with body image, of how the media makes us what we are FAT is certainly that... -
![Rico Slade Will F*cking Kill You by Bradley N. Sands]()
Rico Slade Will F*cking Kill You by Bradley N. Sands
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat the crap is Arnold Schwarzenegger doing on the cover of Rico Slade's book? This is Rico Slade's goddamn book. Rico Slade is not a body builder, an actor, or a governor. Rico Slade is an action hero. Rico Slade doesn't care about the political climate. Rico Slade has an advance degree in badassery. Rico Slade's favorite food is the honey-roasted peanut... -
![Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon by Douglas Sarine, Kent Nichols]()
Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon by Douglas Sarine, Kent Nichols
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJACarefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path. After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement, the International Order of Ninjas has chosen to produce The Ninja Handbook, the first-ever secret ninja training guide specifically designed for the non-ninja... -
![Access by Andy Weir]()
Access by Andy Weir
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginal Fiction, Short StoryHolding a cup of coffee in one hand and several folders in the other, he dragged his chair out from behind his desk and plopped down in to it.Sipping the all important morning brew, he opened the first of the folders and read the summary on the front page. It was a minor matter, but something he’d need to deal with eventually... -
![Space Opera by Jack Vance]()
Space Opera by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn opera company composed of aliens from a world no human is familiar with makes a concert hall appearance on Earth. Their music is strange, somewhat disconcerting, but the performance closes to rave reviews. The next day, every one of the aliens has vanished... -
![Teleport This by Christopher M. Daniels]()
Teleport This by Christopher M. Daniels
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereIn Teleport This, Simon and Gilbert, two terrestrial physicists, leave Earth and stumble into and across a larger universe, trying desperately to find their way back to Earth in one piece while possibly purchasing a working lightsaber or two along the way... -
![Humancorp Incorporated by Andrew Stanek]()
Humancorp Incorporated by Andrew Stanek
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHumancorp Incorporated is another wacky comedy adventure from author Andrew Stanek. Meet Sean. Sean is the worst employee in the whole world. After being fired, Sean can't find a job and enters a downward spiral. He becomes depressed, turns to drinking, and experiences thoughts of suicide and sociology professorship. Then, an idea dawns on him... -
![Killer Diller by Clyde Edgerton]()
Killer Diller by Clyde Edgerton
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWListre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents... -
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![Channel Blue by Jay Martel]()
Channel Blue by Jay Martel
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlien Execs are planning a disastrous finale to their Big Brother style show, in which earth is the star. Only one man can save our planet, and he's hardly a likely hero. Earth used to be Galaxy Entertainment's most lucrative show... -
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![The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons by Matt Phillips]()
The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons by Matt Phillips
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Truth about Sharks and Pigeons has been compared to the work of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt, with just a dash of Dr Dolittle... It’s not paranoia, if they really are out to get you... Bill Posters is an ordinary kind of guy. He’s put a great deal of effort into it... -
![Prostho Plus by Piers Anthony]()
Prostho Plus by Piers Anthony
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists!For Dr... -
![Greegs & Ladders by Zack Mitchell, Danny Mendlow]()
Greegs & Ladders by Zack Mitchell, Danny Mendlow
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGreegs & Ladders is a wildly exciting tale of three oddball characters romping around space and time. Equal parts social satire and fun loving adventure, Greegs promises laughs, a few mildly intelligent and/or interesting observations, & several run-on sentences... -
![The Call by Merrill Gemus]()
The Call by Merrill Gemus
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTania is the new girl at school and she caught the attention of Simon. Unfortunately, every other guy is already calling dibs on her. Simon becomes more attracted to Tania, but is unable to strike up a conversation with her. Determined to catch her eye, even though he knows she is out of his league, he asks his closest friend, Mark, for her number...
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