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The Arabian Nights is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
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Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction
As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection...
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As the author of this novel, I prefer not to provide biographic data, except to disclose that I currently reside in Florida, having moved there in 2004 after working in the financial district of New York City. While still a rail commuter from New Jersey, my daily morning route included taking the PATH train from Hoboken into the basement of the World Trade Center where, especially when the weather was spring-like, I usually would exit the complex...
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SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR
* Cranky Goblin Cooks
* Unscrupulous Chemists
* Lecherous Space Pirates
* Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes
* Soul-Searching Snot Elementals
The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexander...
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Civilizations of the 2600 continue to expand out into the universe requiring a need for preserving the laws created by many colonizing worlds. A United Universe Service and the help of the Universe Diplomats in combination with a unique judicial system had been created to make this possible. Travel around the universe with a Universe Diplomat and follow the sacrifices and hardships he had to endure caused by one rouge agent. As he begins his retirement...
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Janika is suppressing her pain but reluctantly shares it with a teacher. She shares her trials and thoughts that many young people may have a personal connection to. This story goes into her home and takes your heart to some very real lives of many children today. Janika is not aware of her situation of abuse and seems to have a very low self-image of her gifts and abilities.
Janika shares is a powerful tool for teachers to identify students with...
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James Coleman wanted a simple life. Money, women and booze. Former crewman of the military, a job onboard the colony ship Pytheas fits right in his alley. Ship people from a dying Earth to a terraformed planet named Anden ready for colonization. Couldn't get any simpler than that, he had imagined.
Reality had different ideas when the Pytheas is sabotaged and crash lands onto the planet. Stranded with little food and water, he is forced to find a...
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Nine Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by various authors. Featured stories: The Floating Island Of Madness by Jason Kirby, The Winged Men Of Orcon A Complete Novelette by David R. Sparks, The Metal Moon by Everett C. Smith & Roman Frederick Starzl, Spawn Of The Comet by H. Thompson Rich, Disowned by Victor A. Endersby, Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson, Raiders Of The Universes by Donald A. Wandrei, The Einstein See-Saw by...
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NOVA Storys
Thomas Grüter: Freie Wildbahn
J. A. Hagen: Yuggoth
Anke Hüper: Außerirdische Daten
Karsten Kruschel: Kurz nach dem Einmarsch der Befreiungsarmee
Dieter Rieken: Jonas und der Held Terranovas
Glen Sedi: Kobo, das Wunschkind
Lukas Schneider: Alina
Rafael Torra: Die Spinne
Erik Wunderlich: Unearthing
Álex Souza: Unsichtbare Körper
NOVA Sekundär
Tanine Allison: Woran man einen Kriegsfilm erkennt. Der zeitgenössische Science-Fiction-Blockbuster...
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Once escritores le van a transportar a futuros lejanos y más cercanos, a momentos posibles y creíbles de nuestro destino como seres humanos. Once visiones que harán que también sea capaz de afirmar: "Yo he visto cosas que vosotros no creeríais".
Relatos y autores:
Seiscientas preguntas de Alberto González Ortiz.
Trabajadores en caída libre de Víctor M. Valenzuela.
Global Owen INC de Álvaro López León.
FIYW (Feel If You Want) de Ángel Mirallas...
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AMAZING STORIES, Volume 1. Nine Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by various authors. Featured here: "The Seeder" by Max Williams, "A Matter of Taste" by Joseph Wesley, "Vassi" by Art Lewis, "Murder Beneath the Polar Ice by Hayden Howard, "The Contact Point by Jack Sharkey, "Superjoemulloy" by Scott F. Grenville", "The Non-Electronic Bug" by E. Mittleman", and "Virgin Ground" by Rosel George Brown.
13) Beowulf
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Join the legendary journey with one of literature's most iconic figures!
Our Original Editions, like those for "Beowulf," strive to maintain the epic's authentic language as originally presented, while incorporating markers that make it easier to navigate between different versions. These markers act as a link, connecting students with our Adaptive Versions in both print and digital forms, opening up the rich layers of the original text. This unique...
14) Black Cat Weekly
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #37.
Another hefty issue is in hand, featuring novels and novellas by some of the greats of the mystery and science fiction fields. And, as expected, our acquiring editors have found some true gems. Michael Bracken has selected an original suspense tale from from N. M. Cedeño, Barb Goffman has a mystery from the always-superb Janice Law, and Cynthia Ward has Naomi Kritzer's "Evil Opposite"-a great alternate-universe tale...
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From Washington Irving (1783—1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it.
Irving's culture-defining tales of American life-"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"-offer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In "Bartleby," Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by...
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This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Sandra MacDonald, K.J. Parker, Robert Reed, Peter Watts, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science January 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Dark Side Of Antri" by H.W. Wesso: Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol, "The Sunken Empire" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science October 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Stolen Brains" by Captain S.P. Meek: Dr. Bird, Scientific Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains. "The Invisible Death", by Victor Rousseau: With Night-Rays and Darkness-Antidote America Strikes Back, at the Terrific and Destructive Invisible Empire. (A Complete...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science November 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Wall of Death" by H.W. Wessolowski: Out of the Antarctic It Came-a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered, "The Pirate Planet", by Charles W. Diffin: A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a Mysterious...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Man Who Was Dead" by Thomas H. Knight: As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered-for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive!, "Monsters Of Moyen" by Arthur J. Burks: "The Western World Shall be Next!"...
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