Greg Bear
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English
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Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality. The shocking evidence: a "virus-hunter" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring.
2) Rogue planet
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English
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The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker . . . so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan, like his slain Master Qui-Gon, believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance. Dispatched...
3) Quantico
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English
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When the political situation in the United States becomes balanced against the administration, only three FBI agents and one bio-terror expert are left to deal with a domestic terrorist who holds a plague targeted to ethnic groups.
4) Legacy
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Eon volume 3
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English
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"Greg Bear's beloved SF classic, Legacy, now available for the first time in trade paperback. The Way is a tunnel through space and time. The entrance is through the hollow asteroid Thistledown and the space station Axis City that sits at the asteroid's center. From there the Flawships ride the center of the Way, traveling to other worlds and times. Now the rulers of Axis City have discovered that a huge group of colonists has secretly entered one...
5) Eon
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Greg Bear's Eon is now available for the first time in trade paperback. The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface ... and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from...
6) Mariposa
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English
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The world just keeps getting tougher and more complicated. America teeters on the edge of bankruptcy because of crushing foreign debt and an apparent savior, The Talos Corporation, delivers training for soldiers and security forces around the world, logistical support and badly-needed troops economically, but with a hidden cost that's both sinister and disturbing.
The three rookie FBI agents who survived the challenges portrayed in Quantico,...
The three rookie FBI agents who survived the challenges portrayed in Quantico,...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Classic fantasy stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author, "one of our very best, and most innovate, speculative writers" (New York Daily News).
Collecting six stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear's outstanding fantasy writing: "Webster," "The White Horse Child," "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run," "Through Road No Whither," and the Nebula Award finalist "Petra." This edition also includes
8) Eternity
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The New York Times–bestselling author of Eon continues the interstellar saga of the Way.
A devastating war has left Earth a nuclear wasteland. Orbiting the planet is the asteroid-starship containing the civilization of Thistledown, humanity's future descendants. For decades, they have worked to heal their world and its survivors, but their resources are finite. They need to reopen the Way.
An interdimensional...
A devastating war has left Earth a nuclear wasteland. Orbiting the planet is the asteroid-starship containing the civilization of Thistledown, humanity's future descendants. For decades, they have worked to heal their world and its survivors, but their resources are finite. They need to reopen the Way.
An interdimensional...
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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In a time like the present, three young people dream of the fabulous ruins of a decaying city somewhere in the distant future called the Kalpa. The dreams of Ginny and Jack overtake them without warning into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa—a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba. In turn, the dreams of Tiadba and Jebrassy carry them back, into the minds of Jack and Ginny. As for the dreams of Daniel, they...
10) The forge of God
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[Forge of God] volume 1
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T. Doherty
Pub. Date
c1987
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English
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On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globeL: a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the Earth's core, flashes of light among the asteroids, it becomes clear...
11) Moving Mars
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[Queen of angels] volume 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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In this Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that...
12) Vitals
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin's Radio and War Dogs
Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biological underpinnings of immortality. Funded by angel investors, the brilliant researcher makes a trip by submersible to the bottom of the sea, searching for primitive one-celled...
Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biological underpinnings of immortality. Funded by angel investors, the brilliant researcher makes a trip by submersible to the bottom of the sea, searching for primitive one-celled...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale
Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters—not just with press gangs hoping to fill English
...14) Corona
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Series
Star trek volume 15
Publisher
Gregg
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
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An awesome force of protostars known as Corona has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The Starship Enterprise has come on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk's command. Suddenly, the rescuers must save themselves and the entire universe before Corona unleashes a Big Bang.
15) [Slant]
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[Queen of angels] volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It's a sane and perfect world. Almost. A man called Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure building in all of...
16) Dinosaur summer
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Warner
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Peter Belzoni and his father, a photojournalist, accept the nearly impossible task of returning "a menagerie of avisaurs, centrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, as well as one large predatory raptor named Dagger" from their previous home in the Lothar Gluck Circus in Venezuela to "the wild."--Jacket.
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[Darwin's radio series] volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Greg Bears Nebula Awardwinning novel, Darwins Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolutionone that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where "survival of the fittest" takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus,...
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Second foundation trilogy volume 2
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HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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A conflict breaks out between humans and humanform robots on the planets of the Galactic Empire. The conflict leads to the empire's founder, psychohistorian Hari Seldon, being put on trial for treason.
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Series
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.
But one species—eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge—achieved dominance.
They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.
They were the Forerunners—the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe's Living Time.
And then they vanished.
This is their
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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In Halo: Silentium, Greg Bear's final novel in the New York Times bestselling Forerunners series, it is the last years of the Forerunner empire and chaos rules. The Flood—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.
Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible
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