Science fiction genre books (349)



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Dissolution by Nicholas Binge EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
Description:
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, GOODREADS AND MORE! A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life. When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Some... continue

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Description:
By 2021, companies have built incredibly realistic androids. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government bans them from Earth, but when androids don't want to be identified, they just blend in. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job is to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But cornered, they tend to fight back, with deadly results.

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Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN

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My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics expecially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Compeche, Mexico. As a genitically engineered Bioform, Rex is a deadly weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactlym, ar the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war crimi... continue

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Dune by Frank Herbert EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Description:
Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person's life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis. Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe. When the Em... continue

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Earth Afire

Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Description:
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.

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Earth Unaware

Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Before Ender Wiggin was born, before the Battle School was built, the aliens brought war to Earth.

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Ecologia : romance by Joana Bértholo PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Numa sociedade que se fundiu com o mercado – tudo se compra, tudo se vende – começamos a pagar pelas palavras. A estranheza inicial dá lugar ao entusiasmo. Afinal, como é que falar podia permanecer gratuito? Há seis mil idiomas no mundo. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «ecologia», e tão pouca ecologia. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «paz», e tão pouca paz. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «juntos», e é cada um por si.

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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN

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In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached ... continue

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Ender's Game

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card EN

Rating: 4.5 (3 votes)
Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valent... continue