The Lathe Of Heaven

The Lathe Of Heaven
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781668014967
ISBN-13 : 1668014963
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lathe Of Heaven by : Ursula K. Le Guin

With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

In the Orbit of Sirens

In the Orbit of Sirens
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Publisher : Song of Kamaria
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 1734647000
ISBN-13 : 9781734647006
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Orbit of Sirens by : T. A. Bruno

Nightmarish machines have driven humanity into the depths of space. The survivors are forced to adapt to a planet filled with monsters.

A Country of Ghosts

A Country of Ghosts
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Publisher : AK Press
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9781849354493
ISBN-13 : 1849354499
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis A Country of Ghosts by : Margaret Killjoy

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life. A Country of Ghosts is a novel of utopia besieged and a tale that challenges every premise of contemporary society.

Gifts

Gifts
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780152051235
ISBN-13 : 0152051236
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Gifts by : Ursula K. Le Guin

A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift.

Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307371270
ISBN-13 : 0307371271
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Gods Behaving Badly by : Marie Phillips

A highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century. Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there’s no way out... until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives and turn the world upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.

Thin Air

Thin Air
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Publisher : Del Rey
Total Pages : 578
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ISBN-10 : 9781101885369
ISBN-13 : 110188536X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Thin Air by : Richard K. Morgan

An atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars, from the author of the award-winning science fiction novel Altered Carbon, now an exciting new series from Netflix. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Hakan Veil is an ex–corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that’s made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power amid a homegrown independence movement. But he’s had enough of the red planet, and all he wants is a ticket back home—which is just what he’s offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator. It’s a beyond-easy gig for a heavy hitter like Veil . . . until it isn’t. When Veil’s charge starts looking into the mysterious disappearance of a lottery winner, it stirs up a hornet’s nest of intrigue and murder. And the deeper Veil is drawn into the game, the more long-buried secrets claw their way to the Martian surface. Now it’s the expert assassin poised against powerful enemies hellbent on taking him down—by any means necessary. Praise for Thin Air “Kick-ass . . . Mixed in with the thriller-esque action and cyberpunk backdrop is a hard-boiled noir story complete with a twisting and turning plot that keeps readers on their toes.”—Los Angeles Times “Richard K. Morgan wants to destroy your Mars fantasies. . . . It’s a grim vision, but one that Morgan finds far more plausible than the cheerful visions of plucky Mars colonists common in sci-fi.”—Wired “A robotically enhanced Jack Reacher [in a] dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences.”—The Guardian “If you ever imagined that the core esthetics and themes of cyberpunk—lowlifes and high tech; corporate dominance; future noir; post-human evolution and cyborg adaptations; hardscrabble urban environments—were played out, Thin Air will set you straight, and kick your butt in the process. . . . Both kinematic and cinematic, [Thin Air is] limned by Morgan with balletic precision and smashmouth grace.”—Paul Di Filippo, Locus

Voices

Voices
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780152056780
ISBN-13 : 0152056785
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Voices by : Ursula K. Le Guin

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

The Beginning Place

The Beginning Place
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Publisher : Tor Teen
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9781466824461
ISBN-13 : 1466824468
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beginning Place by : Ursula K. Le Guin

From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place. Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"—a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Always Coming Home

Always Coming Home
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 546
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0520227352
ISBN-13 : 9780520227354
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Always Coming Home by : Ursula K. Le Guin

An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 212
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1604730943
ISBN-13 : 9781604730944
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin by : Carl Howard Freedman

Collected interviews with the renowned science fiction and fantasy writer known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories