The Teleportation Accident

The Teleportation Accident
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781620400241
ISBN-13 : 1620400243
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Teleportation Accident by : Ned Beauman

Long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, The Teleportation Accident is a hilarious sci-fi noir about sex, Satan, and teleportation devices. When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't-just once in a while-get himself laid? Ned Bauman has crafted a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.

The Punch Escrow

The Punch Escrow
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Publisher : Inkshares
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781942645580
ISBN-13 : 1942645589
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Punch Escrow by : Tal M. Klein

When he’s accidentally duplicated while teleporting, Joel Byram must outrun the most powerful corporation on the planet and find a way back to his wife in a world that now has two of him. Dubbed the “next Ready, Player One,” by former Warner Brothers President Greg Silverman, and now in film development at Lionsgate.

Glow

Glow
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780385352611
ISBN-13 : 0385352611
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Glow by : Ned Beauman

South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, and everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed by The Guardian as “playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude and—above all—deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh.” Twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days walking Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves in warehouses and launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace, Raf’s efforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, he’s falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but he’ll soon discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye. Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, Glow is Ned Beauman’s most compelling, virtuosic, and compulsively readable novel yet.

The Teleportation Accident

The Teleportation Accident
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 369
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781620400227
ISBN-13 : 1620400227
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Teleportation Accident by : Ned Beauman

Basing his career on the work of disgraced 17th-century set designer Adriano Lavicini, New Expressionist stage designer Egon Loeser leaves Weimar Republic Berlin to pursue a disinterested woman and arrives in Los Angeles, where a Caltech physicist is trying to develop a teleportation device. By the author of Boxer, Beetle. 25,000 first printing.

The Gone-Away World

The Gone-Away World
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9780307270375
ISBN-13 : 0307270378
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gone-Away World by : Nick Harkaway

A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.

In Another Life

In Another Life
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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781492625216
ISBN-13 : 1492625213
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis In Another Life by : Julie Christine Johnson

"Johnson is clearly striding in the footsteps of authors like Geraldine Brooks and Diana Gabaldon in her juxtaposition of the modern and historical."—New York Journal of Books Three men are trapped in time. One woman could save them all. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. If nothing else, her trip could grant her perspective on the region's traditional reincarnation beliefs and resurrect her dying thesis. But instead of finding solace and insight in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, Lia falls in love. Raoul's very existence challenges everything she knows about life, history, and her husband's death. As Raoul reveals the story of his past to Lia, she's caught up in the echoes of a historic murder, resulting in a haunting and suspenseful journey through the romantic landscape of the Languedoc region. A remarkable and richly-developed novel, in the tradition of time-travel romances by Susanna Kearsley and Diana Gabaldon, In Another Life masterfully blends historical fiction with a love that conquers time.

The Fold

The Fold
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780553447477
ISBN-13 : 0553447475
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fold by : Peter Clines

A page-turning science-fiction thriller from the author of Paradox Bound and the Ex-Heroes series. Step into the fold. It's perfectly safe. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence. That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door. Using a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to “fold” dimensions, it shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step. The invention promises to make mankind’s dreams of teleportation a reality. And, the scientists insist, traveling through the Door is completely safe. Yet evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn’t quite what it seems—and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret. As his investigations draw him deeper into the puzzle, Mike begins to fear there’s only one answer that makes sense. And if he’s right, it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys…everything. A cunningly inventive mystery featuring a hero worthy of Sherlock Holmes and a terrifying final twist you’ll never see coming, The Fold is that rarest of things: a genuinely page-turning science-fiction thriller.

The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination
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Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Total Pages : 244
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0575094192
ISBN-13 : 9780575094192
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stars My Destination by : Alfred Bester

One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.

Montana

Montana
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 686
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3357194
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Montana by :

Physics of the Impossible

Physics of the Impossible
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780385525442
ISBN-13 : 0385525443
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Physics of the Impossible by : Michio Kaku

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, the renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future. Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.