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2019
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In a deluxe collector’s edition, four classic science fiction novels from the genre’s most transformative decade—including the landmark Flowers for AlgernonThis volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson’s immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years’ War....
2010
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Welcome to Toontown where cartoon characters – Toons – live side-by-side with humans. The whole Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is here: Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Baby Herman, and of course Jessica Rabbit, the sultriest woman ever "drawn that way." They're up to their old tricks in a whimsical new mystery by Toontown's original creator, the man who first brought these delightful creatures to life.Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? opens with a call from Roger to hard-boiled private ey...
2019
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In the United States of the bleak and menacing near future, teenagers have taken over the running of the country.The all-powerful young have enacted laws that mandate retirement at the age of fifty five. From that point on, geriatrics, or Gerrys as they're called, lose all access to social services, health care, and medications. They undergo regular, mandatory physical examinations. Any elder found to be the slightest bit infirm undergoes euthanasia.Mobile death vans, the d...
Evaporating Genres
Essays on Fantastic Literature
2012
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In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasin...
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- The Horus Heresy
2022
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A Horus Heresy AnthologyIn the final years of the Horus Heresy, all eyes were on the Siege of Terra. But out in the vast darkness of space, war raged over a thousand other worlds including the home world of the Sons of Horus, Cthonia.READ IT BECAUSEWitness the bitter, spiteful struggle between the Imperial Fists and the Sons of Horus over the Warmaster's home planet of Cthonia, in seven stories from a variety of authors.
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2010
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"Who'd want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?"That's what Eddie Valiant wants to know. He's the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he'll handle anything – if you're human. If you're a Toon, that's another story.Eddie doesn't like Toons – those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will wo...
2012
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The Best Short Stories of award winning Roger Rabbit creator Gary K. Wolf. These stories were all published in well known, prestigious science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies. As you read through them you'll see the Roger Rabbit characters come alive and take shape. Until finally they emerge as the whacko, bizarre, lovable and endearing goofballs who inhabit a unique place in fantasy literature. Wolf's stories experiment with unusual formats, fantastically curious places, and...
The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection
Enriched edition. Whimsical journeys through Oz: magical adventures, quirky characters, and timeless lessons
2022
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In 'The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection,' L. Frank Baum presents an enchanting compilation that captures the heart of his whimsical universe. This collection not only features the iconic tale of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,' but also includes sequels that expand upon the fantastical landscapes of Oz, filled with vibrant characters and moral lessons. Baum's literary style is marked by playful language, rich imagery, and a unique blend of adventure and allegory. Written during the early 20t...
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- All You Need Is Kill
2009
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When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?Now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise!
2010
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In 1947, the U.S. Army left behind a secret when they closed Ft. Miles, Delaware. A threat so deadly, they buried it 1000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, sixty years later, an oil rig drilling off the coast of Delaware has hit something.Now one man holds the key to the survival of the planet.
The Atrocity Archives
Book 1 in The Laundry Files
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- Laundry Files
2010
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'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch on the Laundry Files'Tremendously good, geeky fun' Telegraph on the Laundry FilesNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY . . .Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.Now,...
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- The Hunger Games
2010
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The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!











