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Hospital of the transfiguration
Originally published as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia ?1955 by Stanis?aw Lem."The Hospital of the Transfiguration is a very early novel by Lem. it was written in 1948, but supppressed by Polish censors, and was not published until 1955. The book appeared in an English translation in 1988. The censorship of this early realist novel is partly what drove Lem to write in the vein of scien…
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- 0262357712
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Return from the stars
"Originally published in 1961, Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission of ten years. Due to time dilation 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg returns to a society that he hardly recognizes, one where danger has been eradicated. Children are 'betrizated' to remove all aggression and violence, but this also removes all im…
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The Invincible
A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan…
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- 0262357674
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Twelve Tomorrows
Twelve visions of the future -- by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant -- from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner; Clifford V.…
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The night land
"This edition of The Night Land follows the text of the 1912 edition published by Eveleigh Nash, which is in the public domain."--Title page verso."When the narrator receives a telepathic distress signal from a young woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the uncharted and unfathomable Night Land"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibl…
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- 9780262376051
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More voices from the radium age
"More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the …
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- 9780262376075
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Communications breakdown
"This is a collection of stories about possible future communications platforms -- how those technologies might affect social and political structures, and how they play out differently in various geographies and social strata"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376198
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The inhumans and other stories :a selection of Bengali science fiction
"A collection of Bangla SF stories, including The Inhumans by Hemendrakumar Roy, Voyage to Venus by Jagadananda Ray, The Mystery of the Giant by Nanigopal Majumdar, and the Martian Purana by Manoranjan Bhattacharya"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378048
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Voices from the radium age
"A collection of important science fiction works from the early 20th century"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368681
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Tomorrow's parties :life in the anthropocene
"An anthology of short science fiction stories that present near-future scenarios of living through climate change and in an increasingly technology-dependent human society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371544
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