Needle in a Timestack: And Other Stories
By: Robert Silverberg
3.50
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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1. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
By: Michael Crichton
3.91
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more
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- science fiction
"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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- science fiction
"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
3. You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
By: Ian Fleming
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel. The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy o… read more
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"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
"I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite…"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
"007: Be an angle, Penny, and ring down to Mary and tell her she's got to get out of whatever she's doing tonight. I'm taking her out to dinner. Scotts. Tell her we'll have our first roast grouse of t…"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
"He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out tho…"-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
By: Ian Fleming
3.97
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more
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"The World Is Not Enough"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
5. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
By: Ian Fleming
3.57
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more
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- short stories
6. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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- science fiction
"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
7. The Last Man
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The… read more
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8. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
9. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
10. The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.16
Format: None pages,
Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time in… read more
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- short stories
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11. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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12. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
13. The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)
By: Ian Fleming
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The Man with the Golden Gun is the 13th novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional Briti… read more
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14. The Outward Urge
By: John Wyndham , Lucas Parkes
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking… read more
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- anthologies
15. The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)
By: Ian Fleming
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
'He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very … read more
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16. For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
By: Ian Fleming
3.66
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: this entry relates to the collection of short stories under the title of "For You… read more
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"I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone,…"-Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
17. Double Star
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more
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18. Redshirts
By: John Scalzi
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more
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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
19. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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20. Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
By: Connie Willis
4.03
Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as si… read more
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"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
21. Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, #1)
By: Stephen Baxter , Arthur C. Clarke
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science ficti… read more
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22. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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23. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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24. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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25. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
By: Ian Fleming
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more
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26. Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder (Marion Lane, #1)
By: T.A. Willberg
3.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The letter was short. A name, a time, a place. Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges reade… read more
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"But that was the thing about death, as Marion knew so well. No matter how much the deceased were loved, life does not wait for the grieving. Though on the inside everything will change and what used …"-T.A. Willberg, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder (Marion Lane, #1)
27. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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- anthologies
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
28. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
29. Walking to Aldebaran
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more
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30. C.S. Lewis: Writer, Scholar, Seeker
By: Sorina Higgins
3.54
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Although his career is much richer and more varied than a single series of tales for children, Cliv… read more
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31. Needle in a Timestack: And Other Stories
By: Robert Silverberg
3.50
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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