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Ben Bova - Moonrise - Signed by the Author - USED Book Used Paperback in good condition Former astronaut Paul Stavenger is driven by his vision of colonizing space. His dream becomes a reality with the creation of a viable flourishing nearly self-sufficient community at Moonbase. But Paul has made an implacable enemy; one who will carry his vendetta to the frontiers of space. About the Author Ben Bova Dr. Ben Bova’s first published novel appeared in 1959. Since then he has written 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books and has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past presiden more details.....
Iain Banks

Inversions - Iain M. Banks - USED Book Used Trade Paperback ex-library book in good condition A Culture Novel In the winter palace the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.In another palace across the mountains in the service of the regicidal Protector General the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. He also has at least one person he cares for deeply and who cares for him though neither can risk saying so. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy deceit love and betrayal two stories - linked more closely than even those involved can know - climb to a devastating climax. Abou more here.....
Stephen Stand

The Stand - Stephen King - complete and uncut - Used Get The Stand by Stephen King Uncut NEW click here Other Stephen King Books are here From the Blurb: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile more information.....
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Queen of Angels - Greg Bear - Used Book used Paperback in good condition minor creasing Los Angeles 2047 a city on the eve of the Binary Millennium. Public defender Mary Choy faces her toughest assignment: to bring back Emanuel Goldsmith - acclaimed poet turned mass killer - from the heart of a Caribbean island about to explode in Revolution… But there are others interested in Goldsmith: the sinister Selectors who use hellcrowns to exact ultimate retribution; Goldsmith’s best friend Richard Fettle driven to literary inspiration and the edge of madness by the murders; and psychologist Martin Burke who will journey into Goldsmith’s Country of the Mind to find the origins of more here.....
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Star Wars - Medstar 2 - Jedi Healer- Michael Reaves and Steve Perry - Used Book used Paperback (Library Book) in average condition MedStar I: Battle Surgeons is the first of two novels in the MedStar Duology published by Del Rey on June 29 2004 and written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. It takes place in 20 BBY 2 years after the Battle of Geonosis. The book is part of the Clone Wars multimedia project. As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own…. A surgeon who covers his despair with wisecracks; anoth find out more.....
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Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King - Used Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Low Men in Yellow Coats Hearts in Atlantis Blind Willie Why We're in Vietnam Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are subtle conveyances of the Baby Boomer generation specifically King's view that this generation (to which he self-consciously belongs) failed to live up to their promise and ideals. Significantly the opening epigraph of the find out more.....
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A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge - Used Book used Paperback in good condition minor creasing The Qeng Ho arrive at the On/Off star shortly before the Emergent fleet a few years before the sun turns on at which point the Spider civilization will "wake up" and continue its climb into a technological civilization. A reception held by the Emergents doubles as a vector to infect the Qeng Ho with a timed "mindrot" virus. The Emergents time an ambush to take advantage of the onset of symptoms. During these events a concurrent history of the Spider civilization is developed mainly through the picaresque and then increasingly political and technocratic experiences of a small g find out more.....
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Star Wars - Tyrant's Nest- Michael P. Kube-McDowell- Used Book used Paperback good condition Tyrant's Test the third novel in The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy was written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell In the wake of a shattered alliance the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars saga… Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat—even at the cost of Han's life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship Luke's continuing search for his mother b find out more.....
Star Wars - Heir to the Empire - Tomothy Zahn - Used Book used Paperback good condition -creased cover Heir to the Empire is the Book 1 in the Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn published by Bantam Spectra in June 1991. It takes place in 9 ABY. Heir to the Empire was adapted into a comic in 1995 by Dark Horse comics. The narration for the audio book was provided by Denis Lawson the actor who portrayed Wedge Antilles. It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi t more details.....
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Roving Mars - Steve Squyres - Used Book used hardback in good condition with dustcover ‘Suppose just for a moment that the miracle of genesis really did occur on Mars… then evidence for how it happened may still be there a story in the rocks waiting to be read.’ — Steve Squyres In Roving Mars Steve Squyres principal scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover mission shares his gripping account of life at the centre of one of the great explorations of all time. Since 1977 Squyres had dreamed of exploring Mars and after nearly two decades of planning and preparation he got his chance. With hundreds of other scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and el more information.....
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Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert - USED Book Get more new and used books in the Dune Series click here Used ex-library paperback in average condition Twelve years after the events described in Dune (1965) Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides rules as Emperor following a jihad which conquered most of the human universe[2]. Paul unleashed this jihad by accepting the role of messiah to the Fremen. While Paul is the most powerful Emperor ever known he is ironically powerless to stop the lethal excesses of the religious juggernaut he has created. Although sixty-one billion people have perished Paul's prescient visions indicate that this is far from the worst possible outcome for humanity. Motivated by find out more.....
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Weapons of Choice - John Birmingham - World War 2.1 - USED Book Get more books by John Birmingham click here 2021 The book starts in 2021 outside East Timor as a US-led Multinational Taskforce commanded by Admiral Phillip Kolhammer prepare to liberate the Indonesian islands from a "revolutionary" Islamic government calling itself the Caliphate which is slaughtering Chinese citizens. Prior to the book the Chinese government was planning to send a task force but was warned by the American government not to do so. The flagship is the aircraft carrier USS Hillary Clinton named after "the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States" the task force more information.....
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Star Wars - The Last Command - Tomothy Zahn - Used Book used Paperback good condition The Last Command is the third and final entry in the Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn. It takes place in 9 ABY. Heir to the Empire was a number-one New York Times bestseller and the science fiction publishing event of the year. Dark Force Rising continued the gripping new adventures of Luke Skywalker Princess Leia Han Solo and the other heroes of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now the saga concludes with The Last Command the climactic volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn. It is five years after the events of Return more details.....
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Star Wars - Shield of Lies - Michael P. Kube-McDowell- Used Book used Paperback good condition Shield of Lies is a novel written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell and published by Bantam Spectra in 1996. It is the second novel in the The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy. The New Republic's triumph grows ever more precarious in the face of an arrogant race bent on war as the bestselling Star Wars saga continues…. As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more a more.....
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Star Wars - A New Hope - George Lucas - Used Book used Paperback good condition Other New and Used Star Wars Books click here The galaxy is in a state of civil war. Spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star: a space station capable of annihilating a planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia is in possession of the plans but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of Darth Vader. Before she is captured Leia hides the plans in a droid named R2-D2 along with a holographic recording. The small droid escapes to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with fellow droid C-3PO. The two droids are quickly captured by Jawa traders who sell the pair more here.....
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Volume 1 and 2 - Ursula LeGuin - USED Books used paperback in good condition Other New and Used Ursula LeGuin Books click here Short Story Collection Volume 1 and 2 * "Foreword" * "Semley's Necklace" (standalone prologue to Rocannon's World) * "April in Paris" * "The Masters" * "Darkness Box" * "The Word of Unbinding" * "The Rule of Names" * "Winter's King" * "The Good Trip" * "Nine Lives" * "Things" * "A Trip to the Head" * "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" * "The Stars Below" * "The Field of Vision" * "Dire find out more.....
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Star Wars - Medstar 1 - Battle Surgeons - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry - Used Book used Paperback (Library Book) in fair condition split in spine no missing or loose pages MedStar I: Battle Surgeons is the first of two novels in the MedStar Duology published by Del Rey on June 29 2004 and written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. It takes place in 20 BBY 2 years after the Battle of Geonosis. The book is part of the Clone Wars multimedia project. As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own…. A surgeon wh more.....
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Darwins Children - Greg Bear - Used Book used trade Paperback in good condition minor creasing A human endogenous retrovirus called SHEVA begins to spread attaching to people's chromosomes. As it becomes active it causes the birth of millions of genetically altered children. To the government this represents a deadly threat to public health and safety so they take the mutated children from their parents and place them in concentration camps. The children communicate by using complex verbal tricks enhanced facial expressions psychoactive chemical scents made from their own bodies. They also form stable groups that minimize conflict and maximizes cooperation. Mitch Rafelson and his wife Kaye L find out more.....
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The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin - USED Book used paperback in average condition Other New and Used Ursula LeGuin Books click here The Left Hand of Darkness is the account of the efforts of a man named Genly Ai a representative from a galactic federation of worlds (the Ekumen) who seeks to bring the world of Gethen into that society. The backstory to Le Guin's Hainish cycle is founded in the concept of the expansion of human culture through the galaxy thanks to the development of near-light-speed travel which in turns leads to the rise and eventual collapse of a Galactic Empire. Following the demise of the empire many outlying colonies like Gethen become isolated losing any record o click here.....
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Airframe - Michael Crichton - Used Book used paperback in good condition Get other New and Used Michael Crichton Books click here The novel opens aboard Hong Kong based Transpacific Airlines flight 545 (a Norton Aircraft-manufactured N-22) inbound to Denver. An incident occurs about a half hour off the California coastline and the pilot requests an emergency landing at Los Angeles stating that the plane encountered "severe turbulence" in midflight. The pilot gives air traffic control conflicting information regarding the type and severity of injuries but does inform them that crew members were hurt and "three passengers are dead". The incident seems inexplicable. The N-22 more here.....
Starfish - Peter Watts - Used Book used Paperback in good condition Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts. So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights more details.....
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The Compass Rose - Ursula LeGuin - USED Book used paperback in average condition Other New and Used Ursula LeGuin Books click here The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions though not strictly compass-related as the title implies. It won the Locus Award for Best Single Author Collection in 1983. * Preface Nadir * "'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" (1974 Fellowship of the Stars) * "The New Atlantis" (1975 The New Atlantis) * "Schrödinger's Cat" (1974 Universe 5) North * "Two Delays on the extra info.....
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Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds - Used Book Used Paperback in good condition Other New and Used Alastair Reynolds SF Books click here The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed!Many many millennia ago the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race...and awakened the Inhibitors.On Yellowstone where no one is quite who they appear the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as t click here.....
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Star Wars - Assault at Selonia - Roger MacBride Allen - Used Book used Paperback good condition Assault at Selonia is the second book in the Corellian Trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen Imprisoned on the planet Corellia Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo. Thracken [sic] plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power—no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his Human cousin and join forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia Luke Skywalker and Lan find out more.....
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Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - Used Get other Kym Stanley Robinson Books here The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning several centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances made on Mars while Earth suffered from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The three novels are Red Mars (1992) Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and background information was published click here.....
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Final Impact - John Birmingham - World War 2.3 - USED Book used paperback in good condition Get more books by John Birmingham click here Picking up two years onwards from the end of Designated Targets Final Impact is the last novel in the Axis of Time trilogy. The supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton has been refurbished with more conventional steam catapults which replaced her less reliable fuel air explosive catapults. Her carrier air group is replenished with A-4 Skyhawk jet powered attack aircraft many of which are flown by 'temps contemporary pilots. Admiral Kolhammer returns to sea at the head of a new Task Force with the Clinton at its core after two years of administering the Special Adm click here.....
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Star Wars - X-Wing - Rogue Squadron - Used Book used Paperback good condition X-wing: Rogue Squadron is the first installment in the X-wing series of novels written by Michael A. Stackpole. They are sleek swift and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars! Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron he seeks out only the best-the most skilled more information.....
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Timeline - Michael Crichton - Used Book used hardback in very good condition. dustjacket Get other New and Used Michael Crichton Books click here In 1999 Professor Edward Johnston heads a team of historians and archaeologists studying a site in the Dordogne region of France where the medieval towns of Castelgard and La Roque stood. Suspicious of the detailed knowledge of the site shown by ITC (their funder) Johnston flies to ITC's headquarters in New Mexico to investigate. Soon the archaeologists begin to uncover modern objects in the ruins recognizing among them the lens of Johnston's eyeglasses. Researchers Chris Hughes Kate Erickson André Marek (a medieval enthusiast) and David Ste extra info.....
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Star Wars - DarkSaber - Kevin J Anderson - Used Book used Paperback very good condition Darksaber is a 1995 bestselling novel written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by Bantam Spectra. The novel is set immediately after Children of the Jedi in the Expanded Universe timeline In the Jedi Academy trilogy Admiral Daala was forced to retreat to the Core Worlds where some of the remaining Imperial warlords bicker over the Empire's remaining forces in the region. Immediately thereafter Luke Skywalker encounters Callista a former Jedi who was trapped in the Eye of Palpatine. After being rescued Callista is forced to take the form of one of Luke's former students. Luke and Callista immediately fal more.....
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Star Wars - Dark Force Rising- Tomothy Zahn - Used Book used Paperback good condition Dark Force Rising is the second entry in the Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn. It takes place in 9 ABY. Dark Force Rising was adapted into a comic in 1997. The number-one New York Times bestselling Heir to the Empire was the publishing event of the year the first novel to continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker Princess Leia and Han Solo beyond the events of the most popular trilogy in movie history. Now comes Dark Force Rising the second volume of a three-book cycle authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. and written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn. Five years after the events of Return of the Jedi click here.....
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The Hammer of God - Arthur C. Clarke - USED Book Used Paperback in good condition Get other Arthur C Clarke Books click here The book details the life of spaceship-captain Robert Singh (including his running a marathon race on the Lunar surface and uprooting his life and moving to Mars). When it is discovered that the asteroid Kali is likely to hit Earth Singh's ship Goliath makes an emergency voyage to Kali with a load of thrusters to set up on the asteroid hopefully nudging the rock's orbit just enough to push it clear of Earth. In the meantime a religious sect called Chrislam originally founded by a female veteran of the Persian Gulf War believes that they can convert a human being into a extra info.....
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The Gunslinger - Stephen King - Dark Tower 1 - USED Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In the first book of this brilliant series Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes Roland of Gilead The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world which frighteningly mirrors our own Roland pursues The Man in Black encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerl extra info.....
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Star Wars Omnibus - George Lucas - Used Book used Paperback (ex-Library) in average condition - covered in contact Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Other New and Used Star Wars Books click here This volume contains a reissue of the novelisations of Star Wars: A New Hope written by George Lucas himself The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut and The Return of the Jedi by James Kahn. These were the first Star Wars novels and to a reader familiar with the more recent written adventures they lack the wealth of background detail that has developed over the past 20 years. The plots are simpler each one based around a few big action sequences and the many alien species have ye click here.....
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City of Illusions- Ursula LeGuin - USED Book used paperback in average condition Other New and Used Ursula LeGuin Books click here The story starts as a man is found by a small community (housed in one building) in a forest area in eastern North America. He is naked except for a ring on one finger has no memory except of motor skills at a level equivalent to that of a one-year-old and has bizarre amber cat-like eyes. The villagers choose to welcome and nurture him naming him Falk (Yellow). They teach him to speak educate him about the Earth and teach him from a book they consider holy which seems to be a long translated version of the Tao Te Ching. Also they teach him that the never-seen &qu click here.....
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The Road to the Dark Tower - Bev Vincent - Used Book used Paperback in good condition The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. It has been more than thirty years since Stephen King penned those words on a ream of bright green paper to begin his epic fantasy—and the crowning achievement of his literary career—The Dark Tower. Inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came " as well as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone King's seven-volume saga follows Roland the last gunslinger on his quest to reach the Dark Tower and not only save the world but save every world across cou more details.....

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