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511 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.
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"A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own "psi" powers -- among them telepathy, clairvoyance, telekenesis, and teleportation -- make him a type of messiah figure among humans. Stranger in a Strange Land grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic...
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291 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Success is in reach when electronics engineer Dan Davis invents a household robot that could do almost anything. His greedy partner and fiancée trick him into a long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. But he discovers he has the ability to travel back in time and seek revenge after the is awoken in a different world in A.D. 2000.
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262 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam is an endless struggle for life.
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350 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Thorby es, al principio, un niño aterrorizado vendido en una subasta de esclavos en el tiránico Imperio de los Nueve Mundos. Su comprador demuestra ser un agente de espías galácticos de la policía. La relación con su nuevo maestro dará lugar a una curiosa costumbre: una misión delicada que involucrará a Thorby en las aventuras de los Free Moneychangers y lo involucrará en una lucha por el reconocimiento como ciudadano de la galaxia.
Thorby...
12) Space cadet
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7 audio discs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.
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501 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Pursuit of the Pankera is one of the most audacious experiments ever done in science fiction. Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda and Jake are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) which can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. However, unknown...
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