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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1993, teenage Claire navigates the eerie town of Indianola, Texas, where a fissure in time and space has made nothing is as it seems"--
June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. Indianola is a run-down, shabby, pin-dot on the Gulf Coast. But if you leave Indianola, you forget about it... and if you stay, you have to live with it every day. Because there's a confluence...
82) The void
Author
Publisher
JournalStone
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the deepest reaches of space, on a ship that no longer exists, six travelers stare into the abyss ...and the abyss stares back. Man has finally mastered the art of space travel and in a few hours passengers can travel light years across the galaxy. But, there's a catch-the traveler must be asleep for the journey, and with sleep come the dreams. Only the sleeper can know what his dream entails, for each is tailored to his own mind, built from his...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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It's the Fourth of July in Nick Quinn's sleepy New York village when a cataclysmic terror attack kills his wife, daughter, and hundreds of his fellow townspeople. Devastated and reeling, Nick is approached by one of his oldest friends, gunshot and dying, who hands him an antique pocket watch that he claims can save them all. Nick uses the ancient watch as instructed and is shocked to find himself propelled back one hour before the mass tragedy has...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Isolated in the aftermath of tragedy, Erin Fullarton has felt barely alive since the loss of her young daughter, Korrie. She tries to mark the milestones her therapist suggests - like today, the 500th day without Korri - but moving through grief is like swimming against a dark current.Her estranged husband, Zac, a brilliant astrophysicist, seems to be coping better. Lost in his work, he's perfecting his model of a stunning cosmological phenomenon,...
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Language
English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Series
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"The first novella collection set in the world of Pratt's popular Axiom space opera trilogy. In this collection of previously unpublished novellas, Hugo Award-winner Tim Pratt returns to the acclaimed sci-fi universe of his Axiom trilogy. Each of these three stories takes fans and new readers alike deeper into the rich world of the Axiom than ever before, revisiting the crewmembers of the White Raven as they strike out on new and enthralling adventures....
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have made a shocking discovery out in the unknown reaches of the multiverse. They've stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can figure out what caused this calamity other than it had something to do with reckless time travel. The Kleio speeds back to their home universe of SysGov with this dire report, but an...
Author
Publisher
Random Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
La novela gráfica de Una arruga en el tiempo, un clásico de la literatura fantástica, una obra de culto que ha inspirado películas como Interestellar y series como Lost . Una de las obras clave para entender el juego entre realidad, física cuántica y filosofía. Una joya de la ciencia ficción. Una noche de tormenta, Meg, su madre y su hermano pequeño -- que es un prodigio de las matemáticas -- están sentados a la mesa cuando una extraña...
Author
Publisher
�Aticos de los Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Ninguna estrella arde para siempre. En 1912, Edwin St. Andrew busca una nueva vida en la colonia brit�anica de Columbia al ser exiliado por sus ideas pol�iticas. En 2020, Mirella busca a la responsable de la muerte de su marido. En 2203, Olive Llewelyn, autora de �exito, viaja por la Tierra para promocionar una novela que, aunque ella no lo sabe, ser�a prof�etica. En 2401, el detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts recibe el encargo de investigar...
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange...
92) Zero world
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
How long must I wait for the sequel!?"--Raymond Benson, former James Bond novelist and author of the Black Stiletto series Praise for Jason M. Hough's The Darwin Elevator "A hell of a fun book."--James S. A. Corey, New York Times bestselling author of Abaddon's Gate "Hough's first novel combines the rapid-fire action and memorable characters associated with Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly TV series with the accessibility and scientific acumen of...
93) Knight's castle
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
Four children find a magic way to go back into the time of Ivanhoe and Robin Hood.
94) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
"What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Yen ON
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted former shopkeeper who devoted his waning years to offering thoughtful counsel to his correspondents. Through...
97) Last year
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
98) Ladyhoppers
Author
Publisher
Outland Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure. Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her mentor's orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and get home to do it all over again. But when she gets stuck on an alternate Earth, she has to turn to the most unexpected of allies:...
99) The adventurists
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's the historic house, where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school, and couldn't resist going to see where it led. Sometimes a door will open into a new...
100) In this moment
Author
Series
Timeless (Gabrielle Meyer) volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Hollingsworth inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861 Washington D.C., 1941 Pearl Harbor, and 2001 Washington D.C.. Each night she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives -- and everyone she knows in them -- forever. In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of a senator at the outbreak of the...
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