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Space Wolves

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A Great Hunt is over and the Space Wolves gather in the Fang to celebrate their victories and tell tall tales of their exploits. But one company has failed to return: that of the Great Wolf, Logan Grimnar. News of his death sends the Chapter on the hunt for the truth, with Ulrik the Slayer at their head. As they fight their way across the galaxy in search of their lord, the Space Wolves find a threat to the future of the Chapter itself. This novel has been previously available in eight separate installments. The titles of the individual installments were: Feast of Lies, The Caged Wolf, Eye of the Dragon, Dark City, The Darkness of Angels, The Wolf Within, Scent of a Traitor and Wrath of the Wolf. Read it because It's an epic tale that gets to the heart of who the Space Wolves are. See Ulrik the Slayer and Krom Dragongaze in action for the first time in Black Library fiction as the action takes them from tau-held worlds to the fighting pits of Commorragh and into the Eye of Terror itself, where the Space Wolves will once again face their oldest foes...

Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War

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It's Howling Time in Known Space again! Back to the Frontlines of the Top Selling Space War in All of Science Fiction.The first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid invaders called Kzin came and turned it into a hell for humans. Touched on in other accounts of the Man-Kzin wars, here for the first time is the decades-long saga of Wunderland: How the Wunderlanders first learned of the Kzin attacks on Earth by slower-than-light communications, barely in time to prepare to fight back. How valiant human defenders turned to guerilla warfare in the Wunderland jungles and caves after the feline warrior race had destroyed or seized the cities. And what happened after the Kzin suffered an ignominous defeat. Many humans wanted revenge and many Kzin still saw humans as just an annoying food source. Was the war really over. . .At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Short Fiction

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Ray Bradbury is a giant of science fiction and fantasy. His childlike imagination, yearning for Mars, and love of all that is scary, horrible, and mysterious, reverberate throughout modern speculative fiction and our culture as a whole.He has received countless awards including the Sir Arthur Clark Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, an Emmy Award, and a National Medal of Arts. Along with terrestrial honorary street names, there are many extraterrestrial locations named in Bradbury’s honor such as Bradbury Landing, the landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover.Some of his first published stories appear in Futuria Fantasia, a fanzine he created when he was 18 years old. All of his stories published in Futuria Fantasia are included in this collection. This collection also includes stories written well into his career, like “Zero Hour,” a story that was later republished in his famous collection The Illustrated Man.

The Edge of the Knife

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The Science Fiction Novella, the Knife’s Edge, written by H. Beam Piper, formulated truth when truth was a risk to ones social well being. "The Edge of the Knife" takes place just prior to the devastating world war that occurs in 1973, wiping out much of humanity and leading to the ascendance of a new world order. The story focuses on a protagonist who is plagued by brief glimpses of the future.

Zerbrochene Sterne

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Die besten Science-Fiction-Autoren aus China in einem BandEin junger Mann wird dreimal in der Nacht angerufen – und jedes Mal ist er selbst am anderen Ende der Leitung. Genauer gesagt, sein zukünftiges Ich, und dreimal soll er die Welt vor der unausweichlichen Zerstörung retten. »Mondnacht« lautet der Titel dieser Kurzgeschichte von Cixin Liu, die der preisgekrönte Herausgeber und Übersetzer Ken Liu zusammen mit fünfzehn weiteren Erzählungen der besten Science-Fiction-Autoren Chinas in diesem Band versammelt hat. Manche sind bereits in der Literaturszene etabliert und international berühmt wie etwa Cixin Liu, Hao Jingfang und Han Song, manche gehören zur jungen, ehrgeizigen Generation wie Qiufan Chen und Xia Jia, und andere wiederum sind in der wachsenden Zunft der Geisteswissenschaftler verwurzelt, zum Beispiel Regina Kanyu Wang und Fei Dao. Sie alle entwickeln in ihren Erzählungen einen kritischen, von der Gegenwartskultur geprägten Blick auf China, und manche Texte konnten erst in der Übersetzung überhaupt veröffentlicht werden. Abgerundet wird dieser Sammelband durch drei Essays, die das Phänomen der chinesischen Science-Fiction ausführlich beleuchten und verständlich machen.

Fahrenheit 451

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Um clássico da distopia com uma mensagem cada vez mais atual Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Sua profissão é atear fogo nos livros. Em um mundo onde as pessoas vivem em função das telas e a literatura está ameaçada de extinção, os livros são objetos proibidos, e seus portadores são considerados criminosos. Montag nunca questionou seu trabalho; vive uma vida comum, cumpre o expediente e retorna ao final do dia para sua esposa e para a rotina do lar. Até que conhece Clarisse, uma jovem de comportamento suspeito, cheia de imaginação e boas histórias. Quando sua esposa entra em colapso mental e Clarisse desaparece, a vida de Montag não poderá mais ser a mesma. Um clássico da ficção científica e da literatura distópica, Fahrenheit 451 foi escrito originalmente como um conto: "O bombeiro", contido no volume Prazer em Queimar: histórias de Fahrenheit 451. Incentivado pelo seu editor, transformou a ideia inicial em um romance, que se tornou um dos livros mais influentes de sua geração – e também um dos mais censurados e banidos de todos os tempos. Foi adaptado para o cinema duas vezes, a primeira pelas mãos do lendário cineasta francês François Truffaut, e depois para diversos formatos. Escrito durante a era do macartismo – a sistemática censura à arte promovida pelo governo americano nos anos 1950 – Bradbury costumava dizer que a proibição a livros não foi o motivo central que o levou a compor a obra, e sim a percepção de que as pessoas passavam a se interessar cada vez menos pela literatura com o surgimento de novas mídias, como a televisão. Com o passar do tempo, Fahrenheit 451 ganhou muitas camadas de interpretação: a história de um burocrata que questiona a vileza do seu trabalho, o poder libertador da palavra, a estupidez da censura às artes. Embora soubesse estar testemunhando uma transformação social única, Bradbury afirmava não acreditar que o cenário que imaginou se tornaria realidade tão rápido. Lançado em 1953, Fahrenheit 451 é hoje uma obra de leitura indispensável junto com 1984, de George Orwell, e Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley.

The Space Opera Novella MEGAPACK®

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Galactic empires. Mighty heroes blasting their way to victory. Galaxy-spanning quests. They're all essential ingredients for a space opera! Here are 6 classic novellas from the pulps, showcasing galaxy-spanning adventures. Included are: "Thunder to Venus," by Joseph J. Millard "The Last Outpost," by Nelson S. Bond "Martian Adventure," by Robert Moore Williams "A Planet Named Shayol," by Cordwainer Smith "The Superstition Seeders," by Edward Wellen "And We Sailed the Mighty Dark," by Frank Belknap Long If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Sanctus Reach

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The Red Waaagh! sweeps across the Knight world of Alaric Prime, and Guardsmen die by the thousands to the brutality of the orks – but the tide is about to turn. It is the Hour of the Wolf, and the sons of Fenris have arrived to bring the wrath of the Allfather to the savage greenskins. It is war on an apocalyptic scale, and many of the Space Wolves' mightiest heroes lead their Great Companies against the teeming hordes of the Red Waaagh!, each hungry to win glory in the eyes of the Allfather. Yet unbeknownst to all, dark forces stir on Alaric Prime that could spell the doom of the planet and its stalwart defenders. Read it because Waaagh! Ahem, sorry, got carried away. This collection contains tons of tales set during the ork invasion of the Sanctus Reach, including a first from Black Library, a novella told entirely from the point of view of the orks themselves... As well as that, these tales chart the death of a Space Marine Chapter, inquisitors and assassins on secretive missions and the thorny issue of what to do when Ragnar Blackmane gets lost in his rage and endangers his brother Space Wolves.

The Sleeper Awakes

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The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He has been the famous Sleeper for centuries.

Echoes Of Eternity

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Siege of Terra Book 7 With the walls of the Imperial Palace in ruins and the end in sight, Sanguinius prepares one final stand. The loyalists are desperate, and the Warmaster’s hordes are certain of their coming victory. READ IT BECAUSE The myriad battles of the Siege of Terra series are pulling into a taut weave of tension, horror, and certain doom. Just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse. THE STORY The walls have fallen. The defenders are broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement – the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation – now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil. For the Emperor’s beleaguered forces, the end has come. The Khan lies on the edge of death. Rogal Dorn is encircled, fighting his own war at Bhab Bastion. Guilliman will not reach Terra in time. Without his brothers, Sanguinius – the Angel of the Ninth Legion – waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand. Written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The Ultimate Weapon

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Summoned to Pluto by a distress call, a patrol ship stumbles into a brutal attack by alien invaders on the human population that has settled there. The invaders are eventually repelled, but it is clear that they will be back. A team of scientists races against the clock to develop weapons to defeat the aliens when they inevitably return.

Il terminale uomo

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Da gennaio 2018, I cercatori di ossa, uno straordinario inedito di Micheal Crichton che, riscoperto a dieci anni dalla morte dell’autore, costituisce il primo capitolo del successo di Jurassic Park proseguito poi nel Mondo Perduto.«Amo qualsiasi cosa scriva Michael Crichton.»Stephen KingIn questo romanzo teso e documentato, che si legge con il fiato sospeso dall’inizio alla fine, Michael Crichton affronta il tema dei limiti e delle possibilità della scienza, interrogandosi sulla legittimità di un intervento volto a subordinare un essere umano alle macchine inventate dall’uomo. Il «terminale uomo» è Harry Benson, affetto da una strana forma di epilessia che lo induce periodicamente a raptus di violenza omicida. Contro il parere dello psichiatra, una équipe di medici tenta di mettere sotto controllo il suo cervello mediante l’applicazione di una serie di elettrodi. Ma la speranza di poter prevedere e gestire il comportamento di un essere umano si rivela drammaticamente vana.

The Veldt

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The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants.

Doctor Who: Shadows Of Avalon

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The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that's gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor's TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.Originally published in 2000.

Fürchte den Xenos

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Das Imperium der Menschheit hat viele Feinde zwischen den Sternen, doch keiner wird so verachtet wie die Xenos. Gefährliche Rassen versuchen bei jeder Gelegenheit, die Menschheit auszulöschen – die brutalen Orks, die gefräßigen Horden der Tyraniden, die unerbittlichen Necrons und die mysteriösen Streitkräfte der Tau und der Eldar. Überall im Universum versuchen die Menschheit und ihre Verteidiger, die Space Marines, diese Xenosbedrohung auszumerzen. Und doch ist alles, worauf sie hoffen können, nur einen weiteren Tag zu überleben – denn den Xenos gegenüberzutreten, bedeutet, sich auf einen niemals endenden Krieg einzulassen.

A Thousand Sons

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A Horus Heresy Novel Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Legion retreat to their homeworld to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret. READ IT BECAUSE One of the most tragic tales of the entire Horus Heresy unfolds as the Thousand Sons are brought low by their relentless quest for knowledge. Magnus is sure that he knows better than the Emperor – but isn't that what caused Horus to fall as well? THE STORY Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld of Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret. When the ill-fated primarch foresees the treachery of Warmaster Horus and warns the Emperor with the very powers he was forbidden to use, the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself. But Magnus has seen more than the betrayal of Horus – and the witnessed revelations will change the fate of his fallen Legion, and its primarch, forever. Written by Graham McNeill.

The Crack in Space

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The discovery of mysterious gateway leads to a new world full of dangerous possibilities in this science fiction tale from an iconic author. When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?“Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.”—The New York Times Book Review

Islands of Space

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Though better known as the editor for authors such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, John Campbell also wrote science fiction under both his own and various pen names. Islands of Space was the second in his Arcot, Morey, and Wade trilogy. Originally published in the spring 1931 edition of Amazing Stories Quarterly, it was later published in book form in 1957.After the events of The Black Star Passes, Arcot, Morey, Wade, and Fuller look for new challenges. Creating a spaceship that can exceed the speed of light, the four of them set out to explore other galaxies.

Ahriman: The Omnibus

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The name Ahriman has lived in infamy ever since the galactic war of the Horus Heresy. The greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons, and protege to the primarch Magnus the Red, Ahriman’s deepest aw is hubris. His mistaken belief in casting the Rubric to cure his Legion of their curse has seen him exiled. Though spurned by his kin, Ahriman has not given up on his quest to restore his brothers from the eshless husks they have become and will brave the worst horrors of the galaxy, and the Eye of Terror itself to obtain the knowledge to achieve it. For to bring about salvation, Ahriman must risk his own further damnation and the wrath of his primarch Read it Because It’s an epic saga of grand ambition that pits one of Warhammer 40,000’s greatest antiheroes against, well, pretty much the entire galaxy, including Space Marines, the Inquisition and his own brothers. Oh yeah, and the primarch Magnus the Red makes a significant appearance…

Daemon World

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On the daemon world of Torvendis, deep in the heart of the warp storm known as the Malestrom, ancient rivalries threaten to shatter the delicate balance of power, currently held by the Lady Charybdia, daemon princess of Slaanesh. When the warriors of the Word Bearers arrive on the planet, hunting one of their own, the traitor Karnulon, monstrous forces are unleashed that could tear Torvendis apart. Read it because It's a Black Library classic (originally published in 2003, in fact) and provides an unparalleled insight into the madness of the daemon worlds of the Eye of Terror - as you'd expect from master of Chaos Ben Counter.

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