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3) Accelerando
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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur
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House of Doors novels volume 2
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English
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Alien beings bent on our destruction have seeded the world with horrible machines capable of transforming our planet into a hellhole where only they can live.
Our only hope is to solve the puzzle of a four-dimensional maze, an alien thing that is part building, part machine, and part psychological torture chamber. A few brave men and women-and one fearless dog-dare to enter the maze. What they find there will change their lives forever, as the alien...
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The highly acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's THE TIME MACHINE, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke. Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells's classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter's stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction. The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced...
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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English
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After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent and his intrepid friend Ford Prefect, travel the galaxy from one comic misadventure to another.
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The inspiration for the 2006 film of the same title. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the...
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Hitchhiker volume 1-5
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Wings Books
Pub. Date
1996
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xi, 815 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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This outrageous volume contains six zany, out-of-this-world adventure stories by this incomparable novelist. From the very first to the very latest-all best sellers-includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; Young Zaphod Plays it Safe; and Mostly Harmless.
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Warner Books
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1997.
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588 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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In the far future, humanity has divided into two diametrically opposed groups. The Edenists are genetically engineered space-dwellers with telepathic affinity for their biotechnological homes and ships. The Adamists, effectively the Luddites of the future, are willing to pioneer new worlds, much as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. The two groups, peopled by fascinating characters, clash on a primitive world called Lalonde, setting in motion...
17) The collector's book of science fiction by H.G. Wells: from rare, original, illustrated magazines
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Castle Books
Pub. Date
2005
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vii, 514, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
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English
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Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
1994
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x, 517 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In The Time Machine the Time Traveler journeys to a futuristic environment and people. There he finds that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi--vegetarians who tire easily--and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks; thus symbolizing the duality of human nature, as these turned upon each other in a primal display of horror. After narrowly escaping from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller undertakes another journey even further into the...
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