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Self-Reference ENGINE eBook Series

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  • Self-Reference ENGINE

    by EnJoe Toh ...
    Series series Self-Reference ENGINE
    This is not a novel.This is not a short story collection.This is Self-Reference ENGINE.Instructions for Use: Read chapters in order. Contemplate the dreams of twenty-two dead Freuds. Note your position in spacetime at all times (and spaces). Keep an eye out for a talking bobby sock named Bobby Socks. Beware the star-man Alpha Centauri. Remember that the chapter entitled “Japanese” is translated ... Read more

    £3.95

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  • Rocket Girls: The Last Planet

    by Housuke Nojiri ...
    Series series Rocket Girls: The Last Planet
    When the Rocket Girls accidentally splash down in the pond of Yukari Morita's old school, it looks as though their experiment is ruined. Luckily, the geeky Akane is there to save the day. Fitting the profile--she's intelligent, enthusiastic, and petite--Akane is soon recruited by the Solomon Space Association. Yukari and Akane are then given the biggest Rocket Girl mission yet: to do what NASA ... Read more

    £3.95

  • The Ouroboros Wave

    by Jyouji Hayashi ...
    Series series The Ouroboros Wave
    Ninety years from now, a satellite detects a nearby black hole scientists dub Kali for the Hindu goddess of destruction. As human society expands to Mars and beyond, the generations-long project to harness the power of the black hole pits the retrograde humans of Earth against the imminently rational men and women of the Artificial Accretion Disk Development association. While conflicts simmer, a ... Read more

    £3.95

  • Throne of the Crescent Moon

    by Saladin Ahmed ...
    Traditional swords & sorcery fantasy with an authentic middle-eastern spin.The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land of djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, Khalifs and killers, is at boiling point. A power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince is reaching its climax. In the midst of this brewing rebellion, a series of brutal supernatural ... Read more

    £2.99

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Down on the Farm

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Charles Stross ...
    Series series Laundry Files
    In Charles Stross's novel The Atrocity Archive and its sequels, the "Laundry" is a secret British agency responsible for keeping dark interdimensional entitities from destroying the cosmos and, not incidentally, the human race. The battles with creatures from beyond time are dangerous; however, it's the subsequent bureaucratic paperwork that actually breaks men's souls. Now, in "Down on the Farm," ... Read more

    £1.13

  • Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

    A Century of Science Fiction

    by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Jules Verne, John W. Campbell, Jr., E.E. Doc Smith, Philip Franics Nowlan, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak0, A. E. van Vogt1, Jack Williamson2, Tom Easton3, Avram Davidson4, Philip Jose Farmer5, C. M. Kornbluth6, Zenna Henderson7, Richard Matheson8, Jack Vance9, Robert Silverberg0, Brian W. Aldiss1, Isaac Asimov2, Ben Bova3, Joe Haldeman4, Ann McCaffrey5, R. A. Lafferty6, Octavia E. Butler7, Jack Dann8, Larry Niven9, Kitt Reed0, Vonda N. MacIntyre1, Joanna Russ2, Keith Roberts3, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.4, Gregory Benford5, H. P. Lovecraft6, Alan Dean Foster7, David Drake8, Pat Cadigan9, Lisa Goldstein0, James Morrow1, James Morrow2, Terry Pratchett3, Lucius Shepard4, Bruce Sterling5, Charles Stross6, Howard Waldrop7, Connie Willis8, Cory Doctorow9 ...
    A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays! ... Read more

    £19.43

  • I Am a Strange Loop

    by Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    **One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.“I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of Magical Thinking for mathematicians.” ―Time**Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a ... Read more

    £9.99

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Application of Impossible Things

    My Near Death Experience in Iraq

    by Natalie Sudman ...
    Natalie’s near death experience when her truck was hit with a roadside bomb in Iraq. She recalls the entire spirit side experience as they repair her body so she could live. ... Read more

    £6.71

  • Summa Technologiae

    Translated by Joanna Zylinska ...
    by Stanis aw Lem ...
    Series Book 40 - Electronic Mediations
    The Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the ... Read more

    £12.05

  • Letters to a Young Mathematician

    by Ian Stewart ...
    The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and young faculty member. Subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical -- what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical ... Read more

    £5.99

  • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

    by William Goldbloom Bloch ...
    "The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's ... Read more

    £15.29

  • Holographic Mind: Thinking The Future

    Unleash Your Original Ideas

    by Eileen E Cooper, PhD ...
    Holographic Mind: Thinking the Future explains how innovative thinkers create original ideas. Based on Eileen E. Cooper’s doctoral research, it compares the hologram to non-verbal creative thinking skills. It produces a model that educates futurists to envision unorthodox realities that solve problems by capturing hints of future realities. In sum, Holographic Mind: -validates both imagery and ... Read more

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