Summary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timescape Books 1983
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Summary: When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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Summary: Discovering an ancient artifact from a technologically superior culture, interstellar archaeologist Lissa and her alien academic partner, Karl, encounter dangerous adversaries who also seek the artifact for mercenary purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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Summary: Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, must join forces with a disaffected teenager calling herself Wednesday Shadowmist as she races to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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Summary: Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: The army of the Clan finds themselves locked in a fortress under siege that coexists in two parallel universes, a situation that is further complicated by Miriam's prospects for succeeding the fallen Duke Angbard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinctleaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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Summary: "The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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Summary: "The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape of human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in "MAXOS," suggests clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland in "Snowball's Chance," and sets the stage for appearances by Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould in "The Colder War."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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Summary: In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. From the crops that don't grow to the terrifying creatures that roam the countryside, Yoly's life in the Valley is brutal and harsh. She dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. But first, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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Summary: A sequel to "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" finds Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and their literary associates confronting a powerful adversary who threatens to tip the balance of power during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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Summary: "In the near future, after the internet grinds to a halt amid a wave of cyber-attacks, a company named Zodiac steps in to replace it with an evolved, augmented-reality version called The Grid. Harrigan, a hard-drinking private detective living as off-Grid as possible, is about to be evicted from his apartment when a stranger shows up asking for his help in finding Anna, an escort who he claims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP, Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001
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Summary: "Will Morgan is a creature of habit--a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past. When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. Dinsdale--curator of the ever so slightly less-than-impressive Curioddity Museum--Will reluctantly accepts the task of finding a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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Summary: A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: A revolutionary leads the overthrow of a repressive government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001