Mathematicians in Love
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| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767827 |
The Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last day of the cosmos. This is the Psychoshop, where you can dump any unwanted aspect of your spirit as long as you exchange it for something else -- arcane knowledge, a change of...
| Author | Paul Melko |
| ISBN | 0765319977 |
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return...
| Author | Minister Faust |
| ISBN | 0345466357 |
Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings' best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university,...
| Author | Jim Munroe |
| ISBN | 1568582404 |
In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time.
Those who don't buy...
| Author | David J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0553385410 |
In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space.
In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0765326663 |
The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise....
Against this background, professional “Close Protection” specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off a disastrous assignment, is offered...
| Author | Arkady Strugatsky |
| ISBN | 5792101280 |
Середина XXII столетия - время, когда произошли события, приведшие к "смене вех" в земной истории. С 2125 по 2148 г. были запущены три крупные серии кораблей с малой...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765320681 |
In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star....
| Author | John L. Casti |
| ISBN | 0738201383 |
In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry—a sort of “My Dinner with” not Andre, but five of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.Imagine, if you will, one stormy summer evening in 1949,...
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801720 |
In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted writers are boldly exploring the mythic past, the paranormal present, and the promises and perils of myriad alternate worlds and futures. There are almost too many new and...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0871239418 |
Like most of George MacDonald's novels and unlike his fairy-tales, this book is not a light read. It is wordy, appears to be full of digressions and overblown character analysis, and is increasingly given to sermonizing as it progresses. However, it is worth persevering for every inch of the way for...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 1597800481 |
A new collection by one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last few years covers a wide range of material, from time travel to cyberpunk to contemporary fantasy. Twenty stories and two poems, originally published in high profile places like SciFi.com and Asimov's.
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| Author | Margaret Morgan |
| ISBN | 0143790234 |
Dark, thrilling and compulsively readable, The Second Cure is a provocative debut novel about control, courage and belief.
A pandemic is racing through our world, changing people subtly but irrevocably. The first sign for some is losing their faith. For others it comes as violent outpourings...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0345397614 |
Created by the bestselling team of Weis & Hickman, Starshield introduces their newest fantastic universe with an unforgettable, magical, grand adventure!
Rebellion threatens to rock the very foundation of civilization. If the wrong side wins, the people will be at the mercy of...
| Author | Persi Diaconis |
| ISBN | 0691151644 |
Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0345460626 |
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is...
| Author | Tony Ballantyne |
| ISBN | 0553589288 |
It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire...
