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Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime.
This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself.
But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars...
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Master of 1940s golden-era science fiction A.E. van Vogt created The World of Null-A in 1949, and it has fascinated fans of pulp fiction ever since. In Null-A Continuum, author John C. Wright takes on van Vogt's style and pens further adventures through space, time, and alternate eternities for Gilbert Gosseyn, an immortal, double-brained telepath (who, by the way, will find himself responsible for saving the Universe).
3) Afterparty
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"It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient...
4) Titan
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 12
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Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration. For more than a decade, Bova has been chronicling humanity's struggles to colonize our solar system in a series of interconnected novels known as "The Grand Tour."
Now, with Titan, Ben Bova takes readers to one of the most intriguing destinations in near space: the extraordinary...
5) Saturn
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 11
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Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us:
SATURN
Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks.
Now the governments of Earth...
6) Marrow
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The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.
Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is...a planet. Marrow. But, when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship-or will...
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Meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier-not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations," Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion...
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous...
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes THE LIFE OF CHUCK, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
10) Minority Report
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (433 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen.
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Dungeon crawler Carl volume 4
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"New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure. You failed a quest less than five minutes after you received it. Now that's talent. A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked. Here's the thing. It's never easy. Carl...
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There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it.
Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind.
Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aerobatics were bad enough-but then they started shooting at each other, and at the Navy, with nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a...
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Eliot Lazar fell in love with an android, which is the kind of thing that can get you killed in late 21st century Los Angeles or anywhere else for that matter - anywhere except the man-made island of Atlantis, far out in the Pacific, which is where Eliot and Iris are headed once they get their hands on a boat. But then one night Eliot knocks on Iris's door only to find she was kidnapped, chopped up, sold for parts. Unable to move on and unwilling...
14) Murder by memory
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Dorothy Gentleman volume 1
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""Near the top most deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers--just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fair weather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies, but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot. Dorothy suspects the misfortune...
15) Destiny's way
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Doomed earth volume 2
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"Lieutenant Selene Genji is hurled into the past to try and save a world that doesn't want her. Earth was destroyed on June 12th, 2180. Lieutenant Selene Genji watched it happen. And only she can prevent it. Hurled forty years into the past, into a time before the Universal War began, Genji can only guess what to do to change the events that led to the death of all humanity. She has no way of knowing the long-term impacts of her actions and can only...
16) Shelter
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The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But, in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or, the needs of his own daughter.
Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And, the great...
17) The Assessment
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In the near future, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.
18) Lost in Space
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1998.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (130 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A family of space colonists, their pilot and a diabolical stowaway scientist become hopelessly lost beyond the galaxy when their mission is sabotaged. Marooned in an unknown and hostile region of the cosmos, they must band together to survive in this state-of-the art update of the classic television series.
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Walls of the Universe volume 1
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John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home-the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it.
Meanwhile, his doppelgänger tries to exploit the...
20) Jupiter
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 8
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Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him.
To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system-with implications the New Morality doesn't...





