Science fiction

  • All good things : a novel /

    Creator

    Friedman, Michael Jan.

    Abstract

    The novelization of the incredible final episode of the most successful syndicated television program of all time. Star Trek: The Next Generation's continuing mission is coming to an end in a spectacular television event that will springboard Picard and his crew into big-screen motion pictures.

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  • The tears of the singers /

    Creator

    Snodgrass, Melinda M.,

    Abstract

    Composer Guy Maslin joins the crew of the "Enterprise" to investigate the strange continuous song of the inhabitants of Taygeta, source of a dangerous spacewarp, and they discover that the destruction of the Singers is linked to the growing discontinuity.

    Audience
    r
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  • The lost world : a novel /

    Creator

    Crichton, Michael,

    Abstract

    On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.

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  • Fireball

    Creator

    DAVIES, Paul

    Abstract

    In 1990, destruction rains from the sky in the form of deadly fireballs. What are they? Scientist Andrew Benson deduces the incredible truth but can he avert a nuclear war in time?

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  • Code to zero

    Creator

    FOLLETT, Ken

    Abstract

    A man wakes up terrified. He does not know what has happened to scare him, but he feels as if he has been through a dreadful experience.

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  • Death into Life.

    Creator

    Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950

    Abstract

    Death into Life is a 1946 novel by Olaf Stapledon. Not strictly science fiction, the novel is described as "an imaginative treatment of the problem of survival after death".

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  • The Hour of the Dragon.

    Creator

    by Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936

    Abstract

    The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide although not the last to be written. The novel was first published in serial form in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1935 through 1936.

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  • 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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