Science fiction

  • The dream catcher

    Creator

    Hughes, Monica.

    Abstract

    In a future world whose people are clustered in domed cities, fifteen-year-old Ruth, who possesses great extrasensory powers and who has received troubling messages in her dreams from another center of civilization, accompanies a group to search for the source of the messages.

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  • Girlfriend In A Coma

    Creator

    Douglas Coupland

    Abstract

    After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides to her boyfriend, Richard, of the dark visions she's been suffering recently. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Saturday night in 1979 that she descends into a coma. Nine months later, she gives birth to a daughter, Megan, her child by Richard. Karen remains comatose for the next eighteen years.

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  • The Hunters

    Creator

    Griffin, W.E.B.

    Abstract

    Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man they seek.

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  • Star Hunter

    Creator

    Norton, Andre.

    Abstract

    On the jungle world of Jumala, a wanted man is in hiding -- a man whose mind has been imprinted with the brain pattern of another. As a deadly game of hide-and-seek begins to unwind, a man who does not know his own powers faces an interstellar safari determined to run him to ground -- dead or alive!

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  • Forgotten planet, [The]

    Creator

    Leinster, Murray, 1896-1975

    Abstract

    The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic sizes. The action of the novel describes the fight for survival by descendants of a crashed spaceship as they battle wolf-sized ants, flies the size of chickens, and gigantic flying wasps.

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  • Thuvia, Maid of Mars

    Creator

    Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

    Abstract

    In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth. Helium and Ptarth are both prominent Barsoomian city state/empires, and both Carthoris and Thuvia were secondary characters in the previous two books.

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  • City at world's end, [The]

    Creator

    Hamilton, Edmond, 1904-1977

    Abstract

    The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight.

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  • Game of the rat and dragon, [The]

    Creator

    Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony, 1913-1966

    Abstract

    In the Space Time flight defence against the dragons, the relationship of mind between Pinlighters and Partner, reveal how little chance a woman has to compete.

    Audience
    Preschool**
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  • People that time forgot, [The]

    Creator

    Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

    Abstract

    The People That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with The People That Time Forgot forming the second installment. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of The Land That Time Forgot (properly speaking the title of the first part) by A. C. McClurg in June 1924.

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  • Star Born

    Creator

    Norton, Andre

    Abstract

    Sequel to The stars are ours.

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