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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine …
An old classic, but surprisingly good.
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella …
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure …
Very engaging; a fun and quick read.
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …
Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. …
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he …
When Bean is sent to Battle School, he is constantly compared to the great Ender Wiggin, but Bean knows things …
"A Del Rey book."
It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a …
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe …
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening …
Started up a bit slow, but picked up speed and ended very nicely. I'll have to grab the other books in the series.
God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981, the fourth in his Dune …
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect …
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor …
From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the …