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1) Earth
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.
2) Elven star
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English
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On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the other races, whose incessant warfare sends a steady steam of profits and essential resources skyward. Now, generations of dissent and race hatred will not heal -- not even under the threat of annihilation at...
3) Mars
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Geologist Jamie Waterman is a last-minute replacement on the first international Mars landing team. He endures training rigors, personality conflicts, political intrigues, and over 100 million kilometers travel in space. The crew battle an alien landscape and earthbound bureaucrats. Heading toward a chasm over 10 times the Arizona Grand Canyon, they make a shocking find.
4) Snow crash
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English
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In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? But now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope.
5) Glory season
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English
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Sailing the Stratoin oceans on her coming-of-age apprenticeship, Maia, a half-caste var, endures hardship, hunger, imprisonment, loneliness, battle, separation from her twin sister, and a rendezvous with a threatening long-distance traveler.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself on a collision course that results in a desperate romance, and a journey into the ecstasy and dread that mirror each other at the heart of the postmodern experience.
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in the hilarious, bestselling series Kirkus calls "a splendid romp". The Stainless Steel Rat--the 25th century's most canny criminal--is handed an unusual sentence in exchange for his life: journey to a prison in order to retrieve a legendary alien artifact.
11) The diamond age
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
While humans and alien Zhirrzh prepare for galactic war, a handful of individuals from both sides learn that the reason was all a misunderstanding. Both were mistaken. To avoid extinction for both their races, this band becomes the focus of a subtle dangerous force that intends overall destruction.
13) Infinity's shore
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
On the planet Jijo six races have finally reached a modus vivendi after years of war. But peace does not last, the balance broken by the arrival of colonists who exploit old grudges for their own benefit. A study of different cultures.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, the magical land of Thimhallan was destroyed with the forging of the Darksword, leaving a small group of survivors exiled on Earth. Only Joram, who created the Darksword, remained behind in the shattered land. But another catastrophe beckons, as an alien race plans to annihilate the remaining colonists. But Joram has forged another Darksword, and Earth's leaders see it as their only salvation. And it is up to Saryon, an old friend...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Leia works to clear Han Solo's name when he is blamed for an explosion that decimates the ranks of the Senate, while Han, Chewbacca, and Luke follow separate courses in an attempt to search out the source of a plot that threatens the lives of Luke, Leia, and her Jedi children.
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English
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The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the...
18) Shadow dawn
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
The second novel in the original saga based on the movie Willow. From the story by George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and Chris Claremont, author of the bestselling X-Men adventures, comes the thrilling sequel to Shadow Moon, taking readers deeper into a stunningly original world of magic, myth, and legend. The momentous Ascension of Princess Elora Danan should have brought peace to the Thirteen Realms. Instead, an intense Shadow...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of the two-volume series The hand of Thrawn, "Princess Leia struggles against all odds to hold the New Republic together" while Luke Skywalker "pursues a mysterious group of pirate ships whose crews consist of clones."--Jacket.
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English
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Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things...
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