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Flowers For Algernon
The Best of the SF Masterworks
2022 || Paperback || Daniel Keyes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Classic novel of a daring experiment in human intelligence.
When Gods Play Hide and Seek
2022 || Paperback || M. Lanen- de Vries || Pumbo.nl B.V.
When people play hide and seek, this is a common game and the results are pretty easy to overcome. What happens if the gods in the universe twiddle around with their possible devices? Charlotte, situated in London, and Nora, living in Turin, Italy, are about to find out!
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Roborights
2022 || Paperback || Django Mathijsen || Zilverspoor
The panther braced itself and jumped. It landed right in front of me, its eyes glaring at me as if it were starving.
I turned the laser back on its eyes. It contracted its muscles, jumped up and...
... dove toward me.
I dropped to the floor and felt the beast's claws against my left arm. The sound of breaking glass. The feline roared. Glass shards showered over me.
I rolled against the bed and closed my eyes.
In the near future, robots and other forms of artificial intelligence have progresse...
Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
2022 || Paperback || Beth Revis || Veltman Distributie Import Books
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo.
The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolated. But on the forest moon of Endor, amongst the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.
After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he propo...
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Chokehold of darkness – will of magic
Paperback || Peter Reurings || Novum Publishing
When is information destroyed forever? When its lost? When those who held it have died? When it has fallen into a black hole? No, information can never be destroyed, but it might be impossible to retrieve.
For Kena, information was something she craved, but one obscure piece of information was always kept from her. An answer to a question asked many times but never given, leaving a nagging desire in the forefront of her mind that grew stronger as years passed. Compared to it, nothing else ma...
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The Lost World
2022 || Paperback || Sir Arthur Conan Doyle || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
The Lost World is a sciene fiction by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine during the months of April–November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures
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Until the Last of Me
2022 || Paperback || Sylvain Neuvel || Michael Joseph
The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.
For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way.
And now, in the year of 1968, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake, it's becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an o...
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The Dome Code
2022 || Paperback || Skye Lewis || Brave New Books
Squad comes in, Squad comes out.
All of us.
In a near future, a city in the United Kingdom gets wiped from existence by bombings said to be caused by unnatural species trying to take back what was once theirs. Left alone in the midst of the chaos, Zach gets rescued by an organisation called CRISIS. Warned by them that the species infect humanity, he receives an injection claimed to protect him with only one rule to follow: take it or face the consequences.
Trained to maintain humanity’s sa...
Paul of Dune
2022 || Paperback || Brian Herbert e.a. || Hodder & Stoughton
Between the end of Frank Herbert's DUNE and his next novel DUNE MESSIAH lies a mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. PAUL OF DUNE begins the story of those twelve fateful years and the wars of the jihad of Paul Muad'Dib. It is an epic of battle and betrayal; of love and idealism; of ambition and intrigue. Above all, it is the story of how Paul Atreides - who achieved absolute power when scarcely more than a boy - changes from an idealist into a dictator w...
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The Thousand Earths
2022 || Paperback || Stephen Baxter || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning.
In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close.
Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about th...