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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
647 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"In this original collection of eight interwoven short stories, an alien virus ravages the world. Those infected either die, receive superpowers, or are bizarrely mutated. Dubbed "The Sleeper," Croyd Crenson undergoes hibernations that span days, weeks, or even months. After each hibernation, he awakens with a new appearance and set of powers until his next sleep shuffles the cards anew. His latest awakening has left him split into six different incarnations....
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An interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors, and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the justice system and seek compensation. A story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. John SaundersOCO brutally honest account brings hope for institutional healing."
3) Moon Hab
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
5) Bone Dance
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Back in print, Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory
Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen-the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between...
6) The Mind
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After leaving the most beautiful planet in the Universe and the man she loves, Dora Dana Dasnan returns to her galaxy only to find that things have drastically changed. Martial law is in effect and the gene-modified, highly trained soldiers patrol the Uni planets with a single directive: to find Dora. Dora needs to disappear once again. She knows how to do it. She has done it before. But an unexpected Vision changes her goals completely and pulls...
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
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Sarah lives a solitary life in her small homestead, surrounded on all sides by a vast forest that seems to go on endlessly. While she finds peace in her daily routines and connection to the natural world, Sarah also feels a deep loneliness as the sole human inhabitant in this isolated place.
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"... A rollicking send-up of Abrahamic origin stories, featuring a tough, sharp-tongued mother of humankind....Lowell's irreverent counter-mythology feels like a sardonic revamp of Paradise Lost, taking a very flawed Eve through a gonzo redemption arc toward responsibility and selflessness.... His prose is punchy and raucous: 'You gotta admit we've had some crazy fun times together,' chortles Serpent to Eve, reminiscing about her time with him in...
10) Eden 2.1
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Eden 2.1 is a modern-day story inspired by Mary Shelly's famous book, "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus". It raises the questions of human efforts to understand the source of life and whether humans can have the technological ability to create life apart from the natural process by human-developed means. Can human wisdom anticipate and account for unintended consequences of using such potential technology?
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En el siglo XXII, la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial gobiernan todos los órdenes de la vida humana, en un contexto social y ecológico jaqueado por las consecuencias del calentamiento global. Eso incluye la producción artística, en todos sus géneros, desarrollada a demanda y para la necesidad de cada individuo, por un módulo creativo denominado la arteficialidad.
Un grupo de artistas mantiene una resistencia en un mundo no digitalizado,...
12) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
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Flying his Harrier, Major Dar Fantin stares into the North Carolina night sky with skepticism. Stopping in mid-flight is impossible at thirty-eight thousand feet, but that's exactly what an orange ball of light was doing. That was one of the last thoughts Dar had as he was sucked aboard the Nanta. Held captive, along with twenty-three other fighter pilots from around the world, he is assigned a guide. Littia educates her charge, imparting the language...
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Zeus, an ET scientist, explores the rational development of certain beliefs on Earth. Assisted by his friend, Professor Henry Hawkins, they discuss the behavior of a Jewish man named Abraham. Abraham is ordered by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but God suspends the sacrifice, sparing Isaac and ending the practice of human sacrifice for Jewish people.
Two thousand years ago, a Jewish man named Jesus collected twelve disciples and many more followers...
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In Ancient Wales, Gwion Bach, a simple woodsman, becomes enchanted by the fey beauty Creirwy during a brush with the Sons of the Long Knives. He earns Creirwy's trust, and tthat of her mother, the goddess Keridwen, and is offered an apprenticeship at their castell in Llyn Tegid.
As Gwion discovers an enchanting new world of magic, the goddess is busy brewing a potion of prophetic insight and esoteric wisdom, destined for her monstrous son. However,...
17) Our Coming World
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The story is set in an Utopia set on a Mars whose long-lived inhabitants, benefiting from a healthy socialist regime much in contrast with the terrible state of post-World War Two Earth, kidnap the crew of a B-29 bomber and teach them things it is good to know.
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This book presents 37 stories. These pieces may be short, but these stories will excite you, challenge you, and even threaten your current way of thinking as they look into the future of humanity, their lives and future problems. Enter this space and let your imagination run wild. For this edition, the author attempts to answer the fundamental questions of cosmology. Technical words have been kept to a minimum, but essential terms are explained in...
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Excerpt: "One day you were young, and you too wanted to write forecasts; and you too found that to envisage the future was arduous, that old ways of thinking and status quo ante judgments of value imposed themselves upon your mind, and made you despair of the true estimate and the adequate phrase. And you found that, however unclouded your own faculty of prognostication, you searched in vain for the magic touch which would interpret the future for...
20) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
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