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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... -
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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... -
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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]()
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]()
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 Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as: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]()
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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![Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox]()
Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the hilarious follow-up to Llama Destroys the World, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox give Llama another shot at saving the world…from himself, in Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse. Llama’s back and ready to destroy the world AGAIN… this time with his best camelid, Alpaca!Llama loves cooking. And baking. And, above all, eating... -
![Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology by S.B. Divya, Mur Lafferty]()
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]()
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... -
![Eureka: Road Less Traveled: Road Less Traveled by Cris Ramsay]()
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]()
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... -
![Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
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... -
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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... -
![Doctor Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin]()
Doctor Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRussell Tovey reads this gripping story of a haunted planet and a terrifying super-weapon. At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It’s a brutal structure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war that’s long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the planet was killed in an instant by the weapon housed in the heart of the Fortress... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom by Philip Hinchcliffe]()
Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom by Philip Hinchcliffe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the frozen reaches of the Antarctic, deep in the permafrost, the World Ecology Bureau has uncovered two pods buried in the ice for more than 30,000 years. But when one of the pods is stolen and it is discovered to be an alien Krynoid, Dr. Who must act swiftly to save all humanity from destruction... -
![Doctor Who - Zeitreisen 3: Ständiger Wettbewerb by Nick Harkaway]()
Doctor Who - Zeitreisen 3: Ständiger Wettbewerb by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZEITREISEN - Eine einzigartige Kurzgeschichtensammlung neuer Doctor-Who-Abenteuer von einigen der besten Autoren, die das uns bekannte Universum zu bieten... -
![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"... -
![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... -
![Time Scout by Robert Lynn Asprin, Linda Evans]()
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... -
![The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer]()
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... -
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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... -
![سریال چهار سابقهدار، قسمت ۷/ داینا-چیچی یا چیچی-سوروس؟ by Aaron Blabey]()
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]()
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.. -
![Robo-Rabbit Boy, Go! by Thomas Flintham]()
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]()
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... -
![Deadpool, Volume 2: Dark Reign by Daniel Way, Paco Medina]()
Deadpool, Volume 2: Dark Reign by Daniel Way, Paco Medina
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRemember when Deadpool saved the Earth from those pesky Skrulls? Well, the guy who stole the intel Deadpool worked so hard to acquire - and positioned himself as Earth's Number One War Hero - wants to make sure you don't... -
![B^F: The Novelization Of The Feature Film by Ryan North]()
B^F: The Novelization Of The Feature Film by Ryan North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1984, George Gipe was contracted to write the novelization of the movie Back To The Future. He was supplied with a screenplay still in flux, writing his novelization even as the movie itself was being rewritten and as major roles were being recast (Michael J. Fox was not the first person to play Marty McFly)... -
![Deadpool, Volume 3: X Marks the Spot by Daniel Way]()
Deadpool, Volume 3: X Marks the Spot by Daniel Way
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeadpool has ceased to exist, he's said his good-byes, he's driven his car into the ocean. They'll think he's dead, but he'll sail away...
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