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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, part 2)
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
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The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars.
Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of, …
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they …
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair …
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second …
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's Ninth. He and his gang rampage …
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given …
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend …
He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over...
He's a …
They open a door and enter a world.
NARNIA... the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to …
Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. …
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. …
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game (Hardcover, 2006, SFBC)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …