Baxter, Stephen.
Summary: The second installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: Scientists around the world jump into action when the Earth is infected with a ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus that literally eats rock, transforming into liquid, and then into black holes that devour the fabric of space-time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1998
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Summary: Ten thousand years ago, a vast, fertile plain linked the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. One day Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2011
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Summary: "A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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Summary: The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability tothe Eastern civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: "Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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Summary: During World War II, Germany launches a successful invasion of England. But in secret they are waging a war on an even larger scale. Trapped in the middle of it is Mary Wooler, an American historian caught in the Blitz and tangled up in strands of history; her son Gary, fighting a ruthless invader at civilization's frontier; and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee whose very dreams place him at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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Summary: "A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award-winning novella "A Meeting with Medusa," this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity's first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter;and a combination of human ingenuity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2016
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Summary: It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey-- and the competition for survival can kill human compassion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books/Del Rey 2003
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Summary: A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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Summary: A mysterious prophecy continues to transform the face of Europe as Christianity and Islam battle for supremacy across Spain, agents from the future use horrific weapons of destruction to change history, and in 1492, a bold explorer seeks funding for his western expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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Summary: For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind until they act. In an instant, Earth's timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork of different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. The only clue to the origin of this astonishing transformation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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Summary: The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: 1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Summary: Failing to eliminate life on Earth after their first attack, the Firstborn send a Q-bomb weapon to finish the job. Two cryogenically frozen females and a group of scientists studying the Eye, an artifact of the Firstborn, may be the only hope of finding a way to counter the onslaught.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: A woman stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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Summary: "2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Pratchett 2014Summary: "In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible leap forward: when Apollo 11 became the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Includes CD-ROM: Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen baxter : two SF masters, one SF vision. Contents: Adobe eBook edition of Manifold / Stephen Baxter -- Adobe eBook edition of Evolution / Stephen Baxter -- Adobe eBook edition of Creating Time's eye: two pioneering voices, one epic vision: an in-depth look (Includes: A conversation with Sir Arthur C. Clarke -- An essay on the vision of Arthur C. Clarke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2004