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Albert Halstead provides a fascinating analysis and interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey--his most famous film and perhaps the most important science fiction film ever made. Intended for both the film scholar doing research and the lay reader who is simply interested in learning more about 2001 and Kubrick's work, the book includes thirteen full-color frame enlargements along with color photographs which not only help the reader...
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In a cyber-enhanced, futuristic Chicago, Sonata knows near-immortality is achievable through downloading her mind into a cyborg body after death. But, this young artist wants to prove that living forever isn't the same as living a beautiful life. The Three Lives of Sonata James, a Tor.com Original from science fiction author Lettie Prell.
63) Nucleation
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In this riveting debut science-fiction techno thriller, a top-notch pilot experiences a disaster during the highest-profile project of her career. Now Helen must unearth the shocking truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival-or did she encounter something never before seen in the stars?
We are live, we are live, we are live...
Helen Vectorovich holds the unique distinction of failing at first contact.
Only the most elite operators...
64) Visible Unknown
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"Visible Unknown" is an ambitious work of science fiction that poses thoughtful questions about the past, the future, and our own human vulnerability. The story begins as a deadly virus has wreaked havoc for 15 generations – killing trillions and no cure is in sight. Now, a group of teenagers embarks on a dangerous journey to find a cure… and they discover that they face a far more treacherous threat than anyone had ever imagined.
After diving...
65) Ruins: Trilogy
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Ruins are all that's left. The name doesn't matter. A long time ago, alien creatures were brought here but somehow escaped and infested the city, but just because it was left in ruins does not mean that everything is lost.
The Ruins trilogy are three stories that follow the trials and tribulations of three men, set in different points in the city's fall--a scavenger who has to help a tourist find what she lost a long time ago, a father who wants...
67) WTF! The Chase
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Buckle up, people! 13 has disappeared with the doc, and the only sorry sumbitches who can do anything are Stone, Jack, Kate, and Stacy. The gang teams up with Hightower and a cocaine-addicted alien named Frost. Time travel seems all fun and games until shit goes wrong, and like everything with the gang, it does. Time travel, pirates, Nazis, Viking werewolves, giant bears, giant man-eating plants, raptors, more Alien 13 monsters, alien gods, a dark,...
68) Time Wars
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Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between Tarba and the planet Atwan. No matter the winner of the struggle there can be only one outcome, spacetime slowly separating into its constituents. And separate nothing can exist. Time Wars is set in the future (2700s)...
69) The Kepler Code
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After global bee and butterfly populations crash, famines and pandemics divide the world into three rival political and military blocs. Each seek to create deadly viral missiles. Confronted by the malevolent Bounty Inc., a Nobel Prize scientist and a beautiful Brazilian biologist join a radical green underground headed by the mysterious "Jaeger" to prevent this, and devise an antidote which can save both humanity and countless besieged species. The...
70) Body Suit
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A riches to rags adventure of a clever woman in a high-tech suit versus a hostile AI Exiled to the mines of Mars...Silvariah Frandelle, a clever business woman, falls from wealth and success into exile and poverty, indentured-barely one step above slavery-as an off-world laborer to escape prison. Her last calculated risk as a free woman, paid for with years of service, becomes the key to surviving hostile environments.
Space, gravity, and Mars wastelands...
71) Shifting Reality
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They came from the poorest cities on Earth. They were promised free food and housing. They didn't know that they, or their children, would never see Earth again.
A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Space Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him.
But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers...
72) The Listeners
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A classic of science fiction, this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)-the organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. A tale of contact with alien life hailed by leaders of SETI organizations and today's leading science fiction authors as hugely influential, the story appeals to both science fiction readers and the hundreds of thousands of members of various SETI organizations....
73) Search the Sky
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Search the Sky is a satirical science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1954 by Ballantine Books. Halsey's Planet is in decline, and when a generation ship arrives, having failed to contact six other planets, Ross is sent to discover the state of the interstellar colonies. He is given a ship, which can make the trip from colony to colony almost instantaneously. The technology used in the ship...
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Generations have been and gone since Colonel Jeremy McCloud disappeared without trace on the first space mission launched by the United States of America in August 1945.
Those involved in the launch are also gone-or have they?
Present day, twenty-first century
The first indication there might be contact with the 1945 space vessel The Javelin was unknowingly initiated by an archivist, Sophia Aburae, who heard a distinct signal originating...
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Die Erde ist ein sauberer Ort. Umweltverschmutzung, Gewalt, ja sogar unerwünschte Gefühlsregungen—all das gehört einer kaum mehr dokumentierten Vergangenheit an.
Diese aufgeräumte Welt hat unerwünschte Bewohner längst auf dem Mond untergebracht und vergessen.
Doch eine dieser ausgelagerten Strafkolonien erwacht, und mit ihr Aubrine, eine Frau, die ihrer Stimme beraubt wurde, jedoch nicht ihren Vorstellungen einer Rückkehr auf die Erde.
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In the early 2000s in a top-secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history. As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins...
77) The Nostalgist
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With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.
The Nostalgist: A Tor.
Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson.
78) Big Town
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Big Town is a government green facility that invites obese people to lose all of their unwanted pounds in a week's time, painlessly and effortlessly, and at no cost to them. Rose and Bruno, an overweight couple, answer the ad and discover that their energy creates electricity. Their fat is converted into an alternative bio-fuel while they sleep, but things go wrong: people die, and three robots do a cover-up on their own.
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The far-flung imperial frontier is no place for greenhorns.
Two Toes, the renegade Tigerillian war chief, is off the reservation and slaughtering human settlers west of the Bloody Muddy. Only a half-grown boy with a heart full of vengeance and bottled lightning in both hands stands between the outlaw war chief and the rest of the western frontier.
But there are secrets about young Lightning Ryan Taylor that span the known universe. Secrets that...
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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to fail, can Ritter live up to the demands of his father, an engineer the equal of any hero in the Five Great Classical Novels, as they struggle to prevent this civilization from falling like every civilization...
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