De Jan's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:34:36 -0700 60 De Jan's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Fly 29876084
The short story 'The Fly' is included in Langelaan's short story collection: 'Out of Time' (1964).]]> 61 George Langelaan De Jan 5 4.07 1957 The Fly
author: George Langelaan
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1957
rating: 5
read at: 1995/01/01
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: short-stories-novellas, 1930s-50s-sf-f-golden-age
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]]> Golden Fleece 208960 Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret--a secret that could cost him his life.]]> 252 Robert J. Sawyer 0312868650 De Jan 4 1980s-90s-sf-f 3.74 Golden Fleece
author: Robert J. Sawyer
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.74
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2013/09/26
date added: 2025/03/30
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]]> Beyond the Aquila Rift 56328065 This is the audiobook of the short story "Beyond the Aquila Rift" only. For the anthology of the same name, see Beyond the Aquila Rift

Beyond the Aquila Rift: it's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend]]> 25 Alastair Reynolds De Jan 5 4.51 2005 Beyond the Aquila Rift
author: Alastair Reynolds
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2017/04/04
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, reynolds, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)]]> 40094183
Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing is ever that easy. Arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth—or at the very least, an opportunity that can allow them to ascend to power.

While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war, a war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will take place between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, but then so are her enemies. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its widening gyre.]]> 316 John Scalzi 1509835164 De Jan 0 4.11 2018 The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi, currently-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)]]> 31379914
Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars.

Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals -- a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency -- are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.]]> 333 John Scalzi 1509835075 De Jan 5 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi 3.99 2017 The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi
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]]> Someone Like You 16390148
In "Someone Like You", Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of two wartime pilots arguing over the fickle hand of fate (and the airman) . . .

"Someone Like You" is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War.

This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.]]> Roald Dahl 1405911336 De Jan 4 3.60 1953 Someone Like You
author: Roald Dahl
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1953
rating: 4
read at: 2007/01/01
date added: 2025/02/24
shelves: 1930s-50s-sf-f-golden-age, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of the Flow (The Interdependency, #0.5)]]> 48668344
This is one of those pieces. In the book, humans get around space via “The Flow� � a “metacosmological multidimensional space� that’s not of this universe but lets people get around in it at multiples of the speed of light. I decided I needed to give The Flow an origin story, as well as understand how people discovered it, so I wrote this piece for myself, which I am sharing with you now.]]> 5 John Scalzi De Jan 3 3.86 2019 The Origin of the Flow (The Interdependency, #0.5)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/14
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[Slomljeni anđeli (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)]]> 51199041 Takeshi Kovacs, ciničan i brz na okidaču, bivši je Poslanik, specijalno obučeni ratnik i bivši pripadnik jedinica što djeluju u okviru Ujedinjenih naroda. Promijenio je nekoliko poslova, ali i tijela, karijeru plaćenika nastavio je ploveći u privatnim vodama te pomažući vladama različitih planeta da ugase krvave revolucije. No, ako treba birati strane, Kovacs je uvijek samo na jednoj � svojoj. Tako da i nije neobično što će prihvatiti ponudu u potencijalno unosnom poslu te se u njega naglavačke baciti s uskrsnulim plaćenicima. Sve što stoji između njih i drevne izvanzemaljske letjelice masakriran je grad utopljen u smrtonosnoj radijaciji, s lanca otpuštena nanotehnologija s milijun načina da ih ubije i pokoji as u rukavu superiorne rase Marsovaca. Naoružan s genetički poboljšanim instinktima i uvijek odanim Kalašnjikovima, Takeshi je spreman suočiti se sa svime što mu stoji na putu � i pustiti da vrag preuzme koga god ostavi iza sebe.]]> 447 Richard K. Morgan 9538230450 De Jan 3 21st-century-sf-f 3.50 2003 Slomljeni anđeli (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
author: Richard K. Morgan
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/13
date added: 2025/02/13
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> <![CDATA[As A Man Thinketh: The Original First Edition Text]]> 17864891 24 James Allen 1627550593 De Jan 3 3.75 1952 As A Man Thinketh: The Original First Edition Text
author: James Allen
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1952
rating: 3
read at: 1993/11/01
date added: 2025/01/18
shelves: 1930s-50s-sf-f-golden-age, short-stories-novellas
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]]> Automated Customer Service 42867814 32 John Scalzi De Jan 3 3.65 2018 Automated Customer Service
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/27
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]]> An Election 9668280 23 John Scalzi 159606496X De Jan 3 3.61 2010 An Election
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5)]]> 53317443 The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since.

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.

You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.

Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.

�

I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

Drastic action it is, then.]]> 352 Martha Wells 1250229855 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f 4.47 2020 Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/17
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> A Death in the House 13184493
First published in Galaxy Magazine in October 1959.]]> 20 Clifford D. Simak De Jan 3 4.05 A Death in the House
author: Clifford D. Simak
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.05
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rating: 3
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]]> Old Venus 32022170 Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois

From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain� to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life.

But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination.

Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries.


Contents
xi � Introduction: Return to Venusport � (2015) � essay by Gardner Dozois
4 � Frogheads � (2015) � novelette by Allen Steele [as by Allen M. Steele]
38 � The Drowned Celestial � (2015) � novelette by Lavie Tidhar
72 � Planet of Fear � (2015) � novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley]
104 � Greeves and the Evening Star � (2015) � novelette by Matthew Hughes
136 � A Planet Called Desire � (2015) � novelette by Gwyneth Jones
171 � Living Hell � (2015) � short story by Joe Haldeman
192 � Bones of Air, Bones of Stone � (2015) � novelette by Stephen Leigh
224 � Ruins � (2015) � novelette by Eleanor Arnason
266 � The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss � (2015) � novelette by David Brin
310 � By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers � (2015) � novelette by Garth Nix
358 � The Sunset of Time � (2015) � novelette by Michael Cassutt
398 � Pale Blue Memories � (2015) � novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
432 � The Heart's Filthy Lesson � (2015) � novelette by Elizabeth Bear
463 � The Wizard of the Trees � (2015) � novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
504 � The Godstone of Venus � (2015) � novelette by Mike Resnick
544 � Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan � (2015) � novelette by Ian McDonald]]> 642 George R.R. Martin 1785653369 De Jan 3 3.50 2015 Old Venus
author: George R.R. Martin
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/09
date added: 2024/12/09
shelves: 0-anthologies-collections, 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> <![CDATA[Da Vincijev kod (Robert Langdon, #2)]]> 6731580
Pokuavajui rijeiti bizarnu zagonetku, Langdon i sposobna francuska kriptologinja Sophie Neveu polako shvaaju da su tragovi rjeenja skriveni u djelima Leonarda da Vincija. Sve se dodatno zakomplicira kad Langdon otkrije zapanjujuu kariku: pokojni kustos bio je vezan sa Sionskim prioratom, stvarnim tajnim drutvom iji su lanovi bili Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, da Vinci i mnogi drugi. Robert Langdon sumnja da se nalaze u lovu na povijesnu tajnu, i ako ne uspiju deifrirati zagonetku, tajna Sionskog priorata i drevna istina bit e zauvijek izgubljene.

Roman "Da Vincijev kod" eksplozivna je kombinacija rasnog trilera, eseja o povijesti umjetnosti i religijskog simbolizma tajnovita ubojstva, fascinantne ezoterije, nastajale tijekom povijesti Zapada, narav osmijeha Mona Lise, tajne Svetoga grala, ukratko "Da Vincijev kod" podjednako duguje "Imenu rue" Umberta Eca kao i najuzbudljvijim romanima Roberta Ludluma.]]> 448 Dan Brown 9532013377 De Jan 4 3.84 2003 Da Vincijev kod (Robert Langdon, #2)
author: Dan Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2004/08/01
date added: 2024/11/25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.3)]]> 5073782 [Publisher's Note: The Borders of Infinity was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the anthology Free Lancers in September 1987. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short "framing story" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering from bone-replacement surgery. Fictionwise is publishing these novellas separately, but we decided to leave in Ms. Bujold's short framing story for those who may also wish to read the other two novellas (he Mountains of Mourning and Labyrinth).]
Locus Poll Award Nominee]]> 84 Lois McMaster Bujold De Jan 4 4.25 1987 The Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.3)
author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 1995/01/01
date added: 2024/11/21
shelves: short-stories-novellas, 1980s-90s-sf-f
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]]> <![CDATA[Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)]]> 57623348 Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’s Murderbot novel, Network Effect, the fifth entry in the series. The events occur just after the fourth novella, Exit Strategy.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 19 Martha Wells 125083886X De Jan 3 4.03 2020 Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/16
date added: 2024/11/16
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murderbot Diaries #1-4: : All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy]]> 53427947
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid � a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.� Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.]]> Martha Wells 1250784271 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f, 1-omnibus 4.55 2019 The Murderbot Diaries #1-4: : All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/03
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, 1-omnibus
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]]> <![CDATA[Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)]]> 37534905
Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah � its former owner (protector? friend?) � submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.

But who's going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?

And what will become of it when it's caught?

]]> 172 Martha Wells 1250191858 De Jan 3 21st-century-sf-f 4.36 2018 Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/02
date added: 2024/11/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)]]> 35519101
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

]]> 158 Martha Wells 1250191785 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f 4.21 2018 Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/19
date added: 2024/10/19
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> Grad 220531769 Contents:
· City · May 1944
· Huddling Place · Jul 1944
· Census · Sep 1944
· Desertion · Nov 1944
· Paradise · Jun 1946
· Hobbies · Nov 1946
· Aesop · Dec 1947
· The Simple Way [The Trouble with Ants] · Jan 1951.]]> 288 Clifford D. Simak 9532523774 De Jan 0 4.00 1952 Grad
author: Clifford D. Simak
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1952
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/18
shelves: wish-list, 1930s-50s-sf-f-golden-age
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]]> Two-Handed Engine 61413861 Danner was paid to kill but was assured he would get away with it. So he enjoys the luxury life. Until...]]> 23 Henry Kuttner De Jan 4 4.00 2005 Two-Handed Engine
author: Henry Kuttner
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2014/06/28
date added: 2024/10/17
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]]> <![CDATA[Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)]]> 177384680 here

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A� stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks.]]> 159 Martha Wells 1250186927 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f 4.25 2018 Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/05
date added: 2024/10/05
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One]]> 57723754 Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.
Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lewis, and Vitaliy Shushko]]> 312 Tim Miller De Jan 4 4.15 2021 Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One
author: Tim Miller
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/28
date added: 2024/09/30
shelves: 0-anthologies-collections, 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 (Love, Death and Robots)]]> 61133124 Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, Alberto Miego, Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller, John Scalzi, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick.]]> 318 Tim Miller De Jan 4 4.19 Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 (Love, Death and Robots)
author: Tim Miller
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.19
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/30
date added: 2024/09/30
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]]> Julhi 22224310
excerpt
The tale of Smith's scars would make a saga. From head to foot his brown and sunburnt hide was scored with the marks of, battle. The eye of a connoisseur would recognize the distinctive tracks of knife and talon and rayburn, the slash of the Martian drylandercrwg, the clean, thin stab of the Venusian stiletto, the crisscross lacing of Earth's penal whip. But one or two scars that he carried would have baffled the most discerning eye. That curious, convoluted red circlet, for instance, like some bloody rose on the left side of his chest just where the beating of his heart stirred the sun-darkened flesh....

In the starless dark of the thick Venusian night Northwest Smith's pale steel eyes were keen and wary. Save for those restless eyes he did not stir. He crouched against a wall that his searching fingers had told him was stone, and cold; but he could see nothing and he had no faintest idea of where he was or how he had come there. Upon this dark five minutes ago he had opened puzzled eyes, and he was still puzzled. The dark-piercing pallor of his gaze flickered restlessly through the blackness, searching in vain for some point of familiarity. He could find nothing. The dark was blurred and formless around him, and though his keen senses spoke to him of enclosed spaces, yet there was a contradiction even in that, for the air was fresh and blowing.
He crouched motionless in the windy dark, smelling earth and cold stone, and faintly-very faintly-a whiff of something unfamiliar that made him gather his feet under him noiselessly and poise with one hand against the chill stone wall, tense as a steel spring. There was motion in the dark. He could see nothing, hear nothing, but he felt that stirring come cautiously nearer. He stretched out exploring toes, found the ground firm underfoot, and stepped aside a soundless pace or two, holding his breath. Against the stone where he had been leaning an instant before he heard the soft sound of hands fumbling, with a queer, sucking noise, as if they were sticky. Something exhaled with a small, impatient sound. In a lull of the wind he heard quite distinctly the slither over stone of something that was neither feet nor paws nor serpent-coils, but akin to all three.]]> 40 C.L. Moore 1612104118 De Jan 2 3.22 1935 Julhi
author: C.L. Moore
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.22
book published: 1935
rating: 2
read at: 2016/05/25
date added: 2024/09/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Can Long Endure (The End of All Things, #3)]]> 25349323 The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.]]> 73 John Scalzi 076538485X De Jan 5 4.15 2015 Can Long Endure (The End of All Things, #3)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/08
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas, scalzi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)]]> 25349319 The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.]]> 82 John Scalzi 0765384833 De Jan 5 4.29 2015 The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/06
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas, scalzi
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]]> <![CDATA[Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)]]> 195264190
While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot is—again, what is it with humans?—distracted by something that is technically outside its purview. A miner is suddenly in danger following a pointless (to Murderbot’s way of thinking) argument, and the choice is to risk discovery and leap into action, which would require hitting the pause button during a very exciting part of SanctuaryMoon, or to follow orders and stay still.

This is a tougher choice than it seems. But then, when has Murderbot ever been faced with an easy choice?

A shorter version of this story originally appeared in Wired magazine.]]> 8 Martha Wells 1645241726 De Jan 4 4.32 2018 Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/16
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> <![CDATA[To Stand or Fall (The End of All Things, #4)]]> 25361472 Part four of four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things.

Back on Earth, the beginning and end of all things. The nations of humanity's home planet have parted ways with the starfaring Colonial Union, the human interstellar empire originally established to keep the home planet free. The Union needs to regain Earth's trust. The alien races of the Conclave have their own hard choices to face. All of these threads culminate in this fourth part of the full-length novel, The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.]]> 91 John Scalzi 0765384868 De Jan 4 4.30 2015 To Stand or Fall (The End of All Things, #4)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2018/05/10
date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> Sarah's Sister 12970481
Of course, if you are in the mood for a non-snarky, sob-inducing Christmas story: Hey, I have one for you. Enjoy.


Sarah's family had just sat down for dinner when mom said...]]> 32 John Scalzi De Jan 4 3.67 2011 Sarah's Sister
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/24
date added: 2024/09/24
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]]> Alien Animal Encounters 60032001
Some friends and me heard that if you smoked the skin of an aret, you could get monumentally wasted. So we bought one at a pet store and waited a couple of weeks until it shed its skin. Then we crumbled up the dry skin, put it in with some pot, and lit up. We all got these insane mouth blisters that didn’t go away for weeks. We all had to eat soup for a month. Though maybe it wasn’t the skin; the pot could have been bad or something.]]> John Scalzi De Jan 3 3.56 2001 Alien Animal Encounters
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/24
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2007]]> 18190245
Fiction: A Season of Broken Dolls by Caitlin R Kiernan
Review: Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor Volume 2
Review:The Best of the Best Volume 2 20 Years of The Best Short Science Fiction Novels
Fiction: Eating Crow by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Fiction: Deadman’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale
Fiction: The Leopard’s Paw by Jay Lake
Fiction: A Plain Tale from Our Hills by Bruce Sterling
Column: Bears Examine #2 by Elizabeth Bear
Review: Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 edited by Mike Resnick
Review: The Last Mimzy by Henry Kuttner
Audio: Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker
Column: Me and Lucifer by Mike Resnick
Fiction The Lost Continent of Moo: A Lucifer Jones Story by Mike Resnick
Fiction: Missile Gap by Charles Stross
Review: Jack Knife and Map of Dreams
Column: Bears Examine #3 by Elizabeth Bear
Column: HARVESTING THE DARKNESS #2: FULLY STOKE(re)D by Norman Partridge
Fiction: Jude Confronts Global Warming by Joe Hill
Fiction: Pluto Tells All by John Scalzi
Review: White Night by Jim Butcher & Wizards edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Review: On the Road with Harlan Ellison volume 3
Review: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union By Michael Chabon
Review: Softspoken by Lucius Shepard
Audio: Wax by Elizabeth Bear]]> William Schafer De Jan 3 3.13 2007 Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2007
author: William Schafer
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.13
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2013/11/05
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[This Hollow Union (The End of All Things, #2)]]> 25349318 The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.]]> 163 John Scalzi 0765384841 De Jan 5 4.23 2015 This Hollow Union (The End of All Things, #2)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/08
date added: 2024/09/23
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas, scalzi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Worlds Trilogy: Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time]]> 30984891
In Worlds , Worlds Apart , and Worlds Enough and Time , the acclaimed Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth’s surface to live in man-made habitats orbiting the troubled planet.

Haldeman’s science fiction saga follows Marianne O’Hara, a young inhabitant of the World known as New New York, from her arrival on Earth as a student who becomes seduced by radical politics, through her coming of age amid the Worlds� war and the habitats� devastation, and ultimately to Marianne’s emergence as a leader—and possibly the last hope of the human race as it heads toward the stars.

Stephen King said of the first book in Haldeman’s trilogy, “There are scenes in Worlds I will remember forever.� These gripping novels will enthrall anyone interested in the future—that of our planet and of the human race.
]]> 262 Joe Haldeman 1504038916 De Jan 4 4.24 2016 The Worlds Trilogy: Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time
author: Joe Haldeman
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2018/10/10
date added: 2024/09/23
shelves: 1-omnibus, 1980s-90s-sf-f, haldeman
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]]> <![CDATA[All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)]]> 40653269 "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.� Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.]]> 176 Martha Wells 1250214718 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f 4.14 2017 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
author: Martha Wells
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/21
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> If the Stars Are Gods 21322548
In this expanded novel length version of "If The Stars Are Gods," which appeared in 1976, the rest of the life of Bradley Reynolds fell into place—meeting strange aliens, forging out into the realms of the solar system, always questing. This 2013 edition includes a new introduction by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund � the story of how their two science fiction writing careers grew out of this work, "If The Stars Are Gods."]]> 261 Gregory Benford 1939051479 De Jan 4 4.00 1974 If the Stars Are Gods
author: Gregory Benford
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at: 2016/03/22
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: 1960s-70s-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> Exhalation 48588075 For your 2009 Hugo Award
"Best Short Story" consideration
Ted Chiang’s "Exhalation"

As Published in

Eclipse Two:
New Science Fiction and Fantasy

Edited by Jonathan Strahan]]> 32 Ted Chiang De Jan 4 4.24 Exhalation
author: Ted Chiang
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.24
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/08/16
date added: 2024/09/10
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]]> Sirius B - broj 49 215985969 007 - Regina Kanyu Wang: Zhurong na Marsu (Zhurong on Mars; 2023.)
027 - Ursula K. Le Guin: Smjer ceste (Direction of the Road; 1973.)
037 - Ursula K. Le Guin: Oni koji odlaze iz Omelasa (The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas; 1973.)
047 - Goran Gluščić: Rušenje hramova; 2024.
065 - Lawrence M. Schoen: Bizon-psi (Buffalo Dogs; 2001.)
089 - C. S. E. Cooney: Koštani labudovi Amandalea (The Bone Swans of Amandale; 2015.)
190 - Sirius books (46)
199 - Velesove kronike
204 - Jugoslav Hoćulić: Alisina želja; 2024.]]> 204 Davorin Horak De Jan 3 sf-f-magazines 3.50 2024 Sirius B - broj 49
author: Davorin Horak
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/28
date added: 2024/08/28
shelves: sf-f-magazines
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]]> The Bone Swans of Amandale 29409985 97 C.S.E. Cooney De Jan 4 4.40 2015 The Bone Swans of Amandale
author: C.S.E. Cooney
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/27
date added: 2024/08/27
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]]> State of the Art 1291491
This trade first edition only includes the novella and no extra collections.]]> 148 Iain M. Banks 0929480066 De Jan 4 3.62 1991 State of the Art
author: Iain M. Banks
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1991
rating: 4
read at: 2015/02/12
date added: 2024/08/26
shelves: 1980s-90s-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[Tarzan 3: Tarzan i njegove životinje]]> 17926117 171 Edgar Rice Burroughs De Jan 3 4.46 1914 Tarzan 3: Tarzan i njegove životinje
author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1914
rating: 3
read at: 1975/01/01
date added: 2024/08/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Tarzan, gospodar džungle (Tarzan, #11)]]> 28450737 199 Edgar Rice Burroughs De Jan 4 3.75 1928 Tarzan, gospodar džungle (Tarzan, #11)
author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1928
rating: 4
read at: 1975/01/01
date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> Judgment Night 1974539 Judgment Night.

Which of these aliens and humans would survive?

Juille: a beautiful Amazon, heiress to the ruling galaxy, risks the destruction of the universe to outwit the arrogant masculinity of the man who could be her lover—or her killer.

Egide: The godlike warrior from an alien, savage world torn between his love for Juille and his vow to obliterate her people from the galaxy.

Jair: Brutal, incredibly cunning, with a sinister power no mere human could subdue.

The Envoy From Dunnar: A mysterious being shadowed by the weird intelligent creature called Ilar. Does he already know the decision of Judgment Night?]]> 156 C.L. Moore De Jan 0 3.50 1943 Judgment Night
author: C.L. Moore
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1943
rating: 0
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 8718597 The Call of Cthulhu is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928.
In the text, narrator Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died suddenly in "the winter of 1926�27" after being "jostled by a nautical-looking negro".
The story initially revolves around a small bas-relief sculpture found among these papers, which the narrator describes as follows: "My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings". The sculpture is the work of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design who based the work on his delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror". Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in papers authored by Wilcox. Angell also discovers reports of "outre mental illnesses and outbreaks of group folly or mania" around the world (in New York City, "hysterical Levantines" mob police; in California, a Theosophist colony dons white robes to await a "glorious fulfillment")...]]> 34 H.P. Lovecraft 1926801059 De Jan 3 short-stories-novellas 3.75 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1928
rating: 3
read at: 2012/11/23
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Thorns, Children of Water (Dominion of the Fallen, #1.5)]]> 34851372
Once each year, the House of Hawthorn tests the Houseless: for those chosen, success means the difference between a safe life and the devastation of the streets. However, for Thuan and his friend Kim Cuc, � dragons in human shapes and envoys from the dying underwater kingdom of the Seine � the stakes are entirely different. Charged with infiltrating a House that keeps encroaching on the Seine, if they are caught, they face a painful death.

Worse, mysterious children of thorns stalk the candidates through Hawthorn’s corridors. Will Thuan and Kim Cuc survive and succeed?

Children of Thorns, Children of Water was a preorder reward for The House of Binding Thorns (ebook, audiobook or physical book). Currently reprinted in Uncanny Magazine issue 17.]]> 37 Aliette de Bodard 1473212626 De Jan 2 3.81 2017 Children of Thorns, Children of Water (Dominion of the Fallen, #1.5)
author: Aliette de Bodard
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/22
date added: 2024/08/06
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]]> The Golden Man (novelette) 22897513
The Golden Man;
Return Match;
The King of the Elves;
The Mold of Yancy;
Not By Its Cover;
The Little Black Box;
The Unreconstructed M;
The War with the Fnools;
The Last of the Masters;
Meddler;
A Game of Unchance;
Sales Pitch;
Precious Artifact;
Small Town;
The Pre-Persons.]]> 26 Philip K. Dick De Jan 4 3.91 1980 The Golden Man (novelette)
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/25
date added: 2024/07/26
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]]> Buffalo Dogs 20984593
People come to this planet for one reason: it's the only place where Terrans can buy buffalo dogs. These cute creatures resemble a miniature bison, can eat quite literally anything, and fart oxygen. And they cost ten million bucks each, no more than one to a customer, and they can only be transported by a licensed courier.

Any attempts to smuggle, steal, or otherwise make off with an illegal buffalo dog is punishable by death, and the Arconi have a quirky telepathic ability to know when someone is telling them something that's not true.

In the midst of performing his stage act, Conroy runs afoul of an Arconi cop and loses his job. But just one things are looking their worst, an opportunity for a courier's license lands in his lap. Will he leave the stage behind and pursue an effortless and lucrative career, or will he pit his hypnotic skills against alien telepathy and find a way to beat the Arconi at their own game?

* This is the first story in the Conroyverse series *]]> 25 Lawrence M. Schoen De Jan 3 4.29 2001 Buffalo Dogs
author: Lawrence M. Schoen
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/26
date added: 2024/07/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]> 92625 Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

The story 'Omelas" was first published in 'New Dimensions 3' (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.

The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters' (1975).

Ursula K Le Guin (1929�2018) was an American writer who published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry & four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and more. She was known for her treatment of gender ('The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), 'The Matter of Seggri' (1994)), political systems ('The Telling' (2000), 'The Dispossessed' (1974)) and difference/otherness in any other form.]]> 32 Ursula K. Le Guin 0886825016 De Jan 4 4.38 1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1973
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/22
date added: 2024/07/24
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]]> Uncanny Valley 35450877
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 54 Greg Egan 1250163358 De Jan 3 3.45 2017 Uncanny Valley
author: Greg Egan
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2019/01/24
date added: 2024/07/24
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]]> If at First . . . 11820585 32 Peter F. Hamilton 0345529081 De Jan 3 3.70 2007 If at First . . .
author: Peter F. Hamilton
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2019/02/28
date added: 2024/07/24
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War #2.5)]]> 12993968 100 John Scalzi 1596064676 De Jan 3 3.63 2007 The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War #2.5)
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2011/10/01
date added: 2024/07/18
shelves: short-stories-novellas, 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi
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]]> All the Myriad Ways 6037557 14 Larry Niven De Jan 4 3.80 All the Myriad Ways
author: Larry Niven
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.80
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2012/09/01
date added: 2024/07/13
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]]> Direction of the Road 22174641 "Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind." - Cincinnati Enquirer

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. Direction of the Road is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.]]> Ursula K. Le Guin De Jan 2 3.61 1973 Direction of the Road
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1973
rating: 2
read at: 2024/07/10
date added: 2024/07/10
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]]> Binary/System 32927243
After surviving a catastrophic starship blow-out, Delia Kemp finds herself stranded on the inhospitable, ice-bound world of Valinda, populated by the Skelt, a race of hostile aliens who will stop at nothing to obtain Delia’s scientific knowledge. Escaping from the Skelt � assisted by a friendly chimpanzee-like alien and a giant spider-crab � she travels south through a phantasmagorical landscape as the long winter comes to an end and the short, blistering summer approaches. Pursued by the Skelt, she and her companions make a death-defying dash across the planet’s inimical equator to meet up with fellow survivors from the starship, and a final journey to the valley of Mahkanda � where salvation just might be awaiting.]]> 336 Eric Brown 178108551X De Jan 4 3.39 2017 Binary/System
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/07
date added: 2024/07/07
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, 1-omnibus, brown-eric
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]]> System (Binary System Book 2) 35890301 Having escaped from the Skelt and made her way halfway across the planet to meet up with other survivors from Earth, now she and her companions � accompanied by a friendly chimpanzee-like alien and a giant spider-crab � face a death-defying dash across the planet’s inimical equator to the valley of Mahkanda... where salvation just might be waiting.]]> 193 Eric Brown 184997991X De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f, brown-eric 3.71 2017 System (Binary System Book 2)
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/06
date added: 2024/07/06
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, brown-eric
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]]> Zlikovac početnik 214955760
Upoznajte novoga gazdu

Upoznajte Charlieja. On je razvedeni učitelj s cimericom mačkom. Žive u kući koju njegova obitelj čezne prodati. Ali njegova je jedina želja otvoriti pub u središtu grada. Kad bi mu banka samo odobrila kredit.

Uto mu otuđeni ujak Jake oporučno ostavi zlikovačku kompaniju (sa sjedištem na pravom pravcatom vulkanskom otoku), što Charliejev život okreće naglavačke.

Ali zlikovstvo uključuje više od smrtonosnih lasera i jame prepune lave.

Charlijev je ujak možda i bio pošteni, tradicionalni zlikovac, ali njegovi su konkurenti potpuno nova vrsta. Oni su bogati, beskrupulozni grabežljivci koje podržavaju megakorporacije i ulagači u startupe. I sad su se namjerili na Jakeova nećaka.

Charlie će morati pobijediti u ratu koji je Jake pokrenuo. Ali uz pomoć dupinskog sindikata i hiperinteligentnih špijunskih mačaka i opakih pomoćnika, Charlie će otkriti da zlikovstvo i nije tako loše kako se čini.]]> 278 John Scalzi 9531437386 De Jan 0 3.93 2023 Zlikovac početnik
author: John Scalzi
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/03
shelves: wish-list, 21st-century-sf-f, scalzi
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]]> Binary 31866160
As the long winter comes to an end and the short, blistering summer approaches, the Skelt will stop at nothing to obtain Delia’s technical knowledge � but what Delia wants is impossible: to leave Valinda and return to Earth.]]> 139 Eric Brown 1849979901 De Jan 3 21st-century-sf-f, brown-eric 3.68 2016 Binary
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/28
date added: 2024/06/28
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, brown-eric
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]]> Last Year 33517575
In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year , the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened.

A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the "natives" become more sophisticated, their version of the "past" grows less attractive as a destination.

Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back--no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it.]]> 352 Robert Charles Wilson 0765393301 De Jan 0 to-read, 21st-century-sf-f 3.67 2016 Last Year
author: Robert Charles Wilson
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/24
shelves: to-read, 21st-century-sf-f
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]]> Life-Line 10305493
"Life-Line" is a short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein. Published in the August 1939 edition of Astounding , it was Heinlein's first published short story.]]> 13 Robert A. Heinlein De Jan 3 3.61 1939 Life-Line
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1939
rating: 3
read at: 2011/10/01
date added: 2024/06/22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss]]> 52951102 32 David Brin De Jan 2 4.00 2015 The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss
author: David Brin
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2024/06/06
date added: 2024/06/06
shelves: 21st-century-sf-f, short-stories-novellas
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]]> Projekt Spasitelj 63924193 Samo... Ryland se toga ne sjeća. Upravo se budi iz umjetno izazvane kome na svemirskome brodu s dva mrtva člana posade i potpunom amnezijom.
Sjećanja mu se s vremenom polako vraćaju... Projekt Spasitelj... do guše je upetljan u sve to... i nije samo obični Zemljanin koji će umrijeti sa svima ostalima... čovječanstvo od njega očekuje � nemoguće. Mora spriječiti da Sunce umre. I to kako god zna i umije.
Dok juri svemirom u svojemu svemirskom brodu, pokušava uz pomoć znanosti razotkriti taj misterij i smisliti kakvo-takvo rješenje. Vrijeme neumitno teče. Od najbližeg ljudskog bića dijele ga svjetlosne godine. Civilizaciju će morati spasiti sam samcat.
Ili možda... ipak?]]> 479 Andy Weir 9533421878 De Jan 3 21st-century-sf-f 4.41 2021 Projekt Spasitelj
author: Andy Weir
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/28
date added: 2024/05/28
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing]]> 16299438 alternate cover for ISBN 0586207678

Contents:
- Introduction (October 1986) by John Brunner
- Fair Game (1959)
- The Hanging Stranger (1953)
- The Eyes Have It (1953)
- The Golden Man (1954)
- The Turning Wheel (1954)
- The Last of the Masters (1954)
- The Father-Thing (1954)
- Strange Eden (1954)
- Tony and the Beetles (1953)
- Null-O (1958)
- To Serve the Master (1956)
- Exhibit Piece (1954)
- The Crawlers (1954)
- Sales Pitch (1954)
- Shell Game (1954)
- Upon the Dull Earth (1954)
- Foster, You're Dead (1955)
- Pay for the Printer (1956)
- War Veteran (1955)
- The Chromium Fence (1955)
- Misadjustment (1957)
- A World of Talent (1954)
- Psi-Man Heal My Child! (1955, variant of Psi-Man)
- Notes

Front cover illustration by Chris Moore

Other editions of this volume were published under these titles:
- Second Variety (1991, plus Second Variety)
- Upon the Dull Earth (2012)

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]]> Psi-Man Heal My Child! 22884973 19 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.31 1955 Psi-Man Heal My Child!
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.31
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> Misadjustment 22884971 15 Philip K. Dick De Jan 2 3.37 1957 Misadjustment
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.37
book published: 1957
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Digitalni ugljik (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)]]> 6334285 491 Richard K. Morgan 9532204229 De Jan 5 21st-century-sf-f 3.92 2002 Digitalni ugljik (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
author: Richard K. Morgan
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth]]> 7764041 46 Roger Zelazny 1561465135 De Jan 5 3.82 1964 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
author: Roger Zelazny
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1964
rating: 5
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]]> Safeguard 3154771 31 Nancy Kress De Jan 0 3.90 2007 Safeguard
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name: De Jan
average rating: 3.90
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rating: 0
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]]> The Chromium Fence 22488161 purists are pitted against the naturalists.]]> 15 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.95 1955 The Chromium Fence
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> The Coming 21615 The Arrival Is Imminent

Joe Haldeman's novel The Comingis a tightly constructed near future thriller which begins by recapitulating a classic science fictional motif: the moment of first contact with an alien intelligence.

The story begins on October 1, 2054. Aurora (Rory) Bell, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Florida, has just made the discovery of the century. A sophisticated sensing device called a gamma ray burst detector has picked up a message from somewhere beyond the solar system. The easily decrypted message contains two unambiguous words: We're coming. Subsequent analysis reveals that the source of the message is heading directly toward Earth and is scheduled to arrive on the first day of January 2055. A media circus inevitably ensues, as the citizens of Earth attempt to prepare for a wholly unprecedented event.

From this point forward, Haldeman focuses not on the alien spaceship but on the social, political, and environmental conditions of a rapidly deteriorating planet. He envisions a 21st century marked by unpredictable weather patterns and geopolitical chaos, a world in which corruption is an endemic element both of private enterprises and governmental institutions. Controversial -- i.e., gay -- sexual practices have been outlawed. The electoral process has become a joke, ushering in a new generation of leaders who are incompetent and uninformed but intensely photogenic. Most significantly, the nations of Europe are flexing their muscles once again, marshaling their forces for an inevitable -- and catastrophic -- global conflict.

Haldeman's portrait of the century to come is at once familiar and strange, enlivened by a steady flow of imaginative details: automated traffic control systems, virtual reality pornography, designer drugs tailored to the individual DNA. Haldeman shows us this world from the constantly shifting perspective of a variety of characters. Included among them are Rory Bell, whose initial discovery jump-starts the narrative; Norman Bell, a middle-aged composer with a history of "illegal" sexual behavior; Willie Joe Capra, a sadistic bagman with delusions of grandeur; and a nameless "historian," whose ruminations illuminate the cyclical patterns of violence present throughout recorded history.

As always, Haldeman writes with clarity, economy, and wit, skillfully moving his extensive cast toward a climactic moment of revelation in which "hope and caution" predominate. The Coming is both a provocative, cleverly conceived entertainment and a compelling meditation on the eternal human propensity for violent solutions. It is speculative fiction of the highest order and reaffirms its author's position as a modern master of the form.

--Bill Sheehan

Bill Sheehan reviews horror, suspense, and science fiction for Cemetery Dance, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. His book-length critical study of the fiction of , , has just been published by Subterranean Press ().]]> 278 Joe Haldeman 0441008763 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f, haldeman 3.03 2000 The Coming
author: Joe Haldeman
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.03
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> Salvage 18170431
What follows, as the spider-drones and the Hayakawa Organisation chase Ed, Ella and engineer Karrie light-years across space, is a fast-paced adventure with Ed learning more about Ella � and about himself � than he ever expected.

The Salvageman Ed series of linked stories � four of which appear here for the first time � combine action, humour and pathos, from the master of character-based adventure science fiction.

“Eric Brown’s modest, slightly retro, extremely charming and very human voice has been a distinctive, indeed unique, presence in British SF for many years. Here he offers another interlinked selection of stories which, as is typical of Eric Brown, manage to be small scale, close-up, and completely free of heroic posturing, in spite of the galactic scale of their setting. There is something restful about them, something comforting. Yet while they gently entertain, they also, very quietly, deal with big questions about identity, love, and the relationship between body and soul.� Chris Beckett, Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Dark Eden

“These stories demonstrate everything that Eric Brown excels at: intelligent high adventure in space featuring fully-rounded characters that the reader can instantly relate to, revelling in their evolving relationship as Ed and his crew are forced to contend with all that the author’s vivid imagination throws at them. Wonderful stuff!� Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within]]> 244 Eric Brown 1490339051 De Jan 0 3.93 2013 Salvage
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> Chivalry 6578055
Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide."]]> 1 Neil Gaiman De Jan 3 4.12 2022 Chivalry
author: Neil Gaiman
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2015/01/18
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]]> Rollback 1800853 320 Robert J. Sawyer 0765349744 De Jan 4 21st-century-sf-f 3.73 2007 Rollback
author: Robert J. Sawyer
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Nightfall 18297094 40 Isaac Asimov De Jan 4 4.16 1941 Nightfall
author: Isaac Asimov
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1941
rating: 4
read at: 1996/01/01
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]]> Wormhole 60255193 An eighty year old cold case murder investigation that stretches across light years and risks the future of mankind's new home. A hard SF/crime crossover from two respected and well-liked names in SF.

2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of climate change is peaking, with much of the planet's equatorial regions turned to lifeless desert and populations displaced. Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, but these cannot hope to sustain any more than a scant population of hundreds of citizens.

Attention has turned to the need to discover an extra-solar colony world.

European scientists, using discoveries made at CERN, have identified the means of creating a wormhole in the space-time continuum, which would allow interstellar travel. However, to do so they must first physically transport one end of the wormhole to where they want it to be, so setting up a wormhole will always rely on physical travel first of all.

A ship is sent to Mu Arae, earth-like planet discovered 10 years before. It is a journey that will take 80 years, the crew, who will eventually set up the wormhole on the planet, kept in suspended animation. But only a few years into the trip, catastrophe strikes and the ship blows up en route, killing all aboard.

2190, eighty years after the starship set out.

Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London. Usually he works on cases closed ten, twenty-five years earlier. Now, however, he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What he unearths will change history and threatens everything we know about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The tragedy that befell the ship 80 years before is not what it seems and the past and the present are radically different to what everyone on Earth believes. We made the journey. Why has it been kept a secret?

File Under: Science Fiction [ Who wants to live forever? Old caps New Worlds Believe no one ]]]> 381 Eric Brown 0857669966 De Jan 0 3.74 2022 Wormhole
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> War Veteran 139904767 0 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.77 1955 War Veteran
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale]]> 1118429 - Introduction (October 1986) by Thomas M. Disch
- The Little Black Box (1964)
- The War With the Fnools (1964)
- A Game of Unchance (1964)
- Precious Artifact (1964)
- Retreat Syndrome (1965)
- A Terran Odyssey (1987)
- Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday (1966)
- Holy Quarrel (1966)
- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966)
- Not by Its Cover (1968)
- Return Match (1967)
- Faith of Our Fathers (1967)
- The Story to End All Stories (1968)
- The Electric Ant (1969)
- Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked (1987)
- A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (1974)
- The Pre-Persons (1974)
- The Eye of the Sibyl (1987)
- The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree (1987)
- The Exit Door Leads In (1979)
- Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980)
- Strange Memories of Death (1984)
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, variant of Frozen Journey)
- Rautavaara's Case (1980)
- The Alien Mind (1981)
- Notes

Front cover illustration by Chris Moore

Other editions of this volume were published under these titles:
- The Little Black Box (1987)
- The Eye of the Sibyl (1992)
- Total Recall (2012)
- The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories (2016)
The 1992 and 2016 editions omit We can remember it for You Wholesale

]]> 495 Philip K. Dick 0586207694 De Jan 5 4.23 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.23
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 4: Minority Report]]> 226470 A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas - The Independent

The fourth volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest sf author covers a wide span, from late 1954 through to 1963. Those were the years during which Dick began writing novels prolifically and his short story output lessened. The title story of this collection is being made into a Steven Spielberg movie of the same name, while "The Days of Perky Pat" inspired one of Dick's greatest works, the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge; The Penultimate Truth grew from "The Mold of Yancy". Philip K. Dick is shown at his incomparable prime in this stunning collection.

An elusive and incomparable artist - Ursula K. Le Guin

He stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations - Brian Aldiss

Cover Illustration: Chris Moore.

Volume 4/5 contains:
- Autofac (1955)
- Service Call (1955)
- Captive Market (1955)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- The Minority Report (1956)
- Recall Mechanism (1959)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- Explorers We (1959)
- War Game (1959)
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
- Novelty Act (1964)
- Waterspider (1964)
- What the Dead Men Say (1964)
- Orpheus with Clay Feet (1987)
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
- Stand-By (1963)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)

Other editions of this volume have the same stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Days of Perky Pat,
- The Minority Report,
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories.

]]> 380 Philip K. Dick 1857989473 De Jan 4 3.91 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 4: Minority Report
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]]> Pay for the Printer 22094995 17 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.34 1956 Pay for the Printer
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.34
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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]]> The Angels of Life and Death 18822539 9 � Introduction (The Angels of Life and Death) � (2010) � essay by Eric Brown
11 � Venus Macabre � (1998) � short story by Eric Brown
25 � The Frankenberg Process � (2001) � novelette by Eric Brown
59 � Skyball � (1997) � short story by Eric Brown
79 � Bengal Blues � [Bengal Station] � (2009) � short fiction by Eric Brown
99 � The Nilakantha Scream � (1991) � short story by Eric Brown
121 � The Thallian Intervention � (1996) � short story by Eric Brown
135 � The Tapestry of Time � (2006) � short story by Eric Brown
151 � The Frozen Woman � (2003) � short story by Eric Brown
165 � Crystals � (1992) � short story by Eric Brown
183 � Saleema and the Spheretrix � short story by Eric Brown
203 � The Angels of Life and Death � (2001) � novelette by Eric Brown

"The Angels of Life and Death" collects eleven science fiction stories from two times winner of the BSFA short story award, including one never before published. From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter and time travel, what connects these tales are Brown's storytelling ability and his concern for the human element. Whether he's writing about telepaths fleeing alien assassins on a vast spaceport city in the Bay of Bengal, or a woman reporter finding true love in the far, far future, Brown imbues his fictions with a concern for character and headlong narrative pace.
"SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility"-Paul McAuley
"He is a masterful storyteller"-"Strange Horizons"
"Eric Brown joins the ranks of Graham Joyce, Christopher Priest and Robert Holdstock as a master fabulist"-Paul di Filippo]]> 220 Eric Brown 1479242047 De Jan 4 4.00 2010 The Angels of Life and Death
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]]> Starship Seasons 18689541
In this wonderful series, Eric Brown gives us aliens, fabulous works of art, starships and teleportation... plus some of the most delightful characters ever to grace the printed page.

Content:
Starship Summer
Starship Fall
Starship Wnter
Starship Spring ]]> 320 Eric Brown 1848636024 De Jan 0 4.07 2013 Starship Seasons
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #3)]]> 75593499
Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.

Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization?

As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench's attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?

The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
Aurora Rising
Elysium Fire
Machine Vendetta
]]> 416 Alastair Reynolds 0316462845 De Jan 0 wish-list 4.12 2024 Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #3)
author: Alastair Reynolds
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Second Variety]]> 816495 The second volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story, with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Impostor" where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twenty-seven stories, written and published while America was in the grip of McCarthyism, Philip K. Dick speaks up for ordinary people and against militarism, paranoia and xenophobia - and always in his marvellously varied, quirky and entertainingly idiosyncratic style.

Volume 2/5. Includes stories from 1953-1955:
- The Cookie Lady
- Beyond the Door
- Second Variety
- Jon's World
- The Cosmic Poachers
- Progeny
- Some Kinds of Life
- Martians Come in Clouds
- The Commuter
- The World She Wanted
- A Surface Raid
- Project: Earth
- The Trouble with Bubbles
- Breakfast at Twilight
- A Present for Pat
- The Hood Maker
- Of Withered Apples
- Human Is
- Adjustment Team
- The Impossible Planet
- Imposter
- James P. Crow
- Planet for Transients
- Small Town
- Souvenir
- Survey Team
- Prominent Author.

Other editions of this volume are titled:
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale [by Citadel],
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories [by Citadel],
- Adjustment Team.
Editions published by Citadel include "We can remember..." instead of "Second Variety" into Volume 2.

]]> 395 Philip K. Dick 1857988809 De Jan 4 4.20 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Second Variety
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> The Minority Report 6499444 Philip K. Dick 1435509994 De Jan 4 4.43 1956 The Minority Report
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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]]> The Crawlers 22877797
Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including "The Minority Report," "Paycheck," "Second Variety" (adapted into the film Screamers) and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (adapted into the film Total Recall).

HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.]]> 7 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.51 1954 The Crawlers
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.51
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rating: 3
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]]> Stepski vuk 15853797 Stepski vuk je romanizirana kritika moderne civilizacije, iz koje Harry stalno traži izlaz, bilo na koji način, makar i samoubojstvom. No, ovaj izlaz osjeća nelegalnim i suviše jednostavnim, pa nastoji naučiti živjeti.]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 9536234203 De Jan 4 4.26 1927 Stepski vuk
author: Hermann Hesse
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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]]> To Serve The Master 22851244 12 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.82 1956 To Serve The Master
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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]]> Null-O 22851243 10 Philip K. Dick De Jan 2 2.87 1958 Null-O
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 2.87
book published: 1958
rating: 2
read at: 2024/01/09
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]]> Strange Eden 22851237 11 Philip K. Dick De Jan 3 3.19 1954 Strange Eden
author: Philip K. Dick
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.19
book published: 1954
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/07
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]]> 1984. 28668990 Tisuću devetsto osamdeset četvrta govori o životu režimskog službenika u Ministarstvu istine koji radi na lažiranju povijesnih činjenica, na svakodnevnom usklađivanju službene povijesti sa službenom politikom. Nezadovoljan poslom i životom u kojem mu Misaona policija danonoćno preko telekrana nadzire svaki pokret, svaku riječ koju je izrekao ili namjeravao izreći, on pokušava nešto poduzeti, oduprijeti se totalitarnom sustavu, premda je svjestan posvemašnje kontrole i smrtne opasnosti.
Roman se obično opisuje kao antiutopijski i futuristički, no čitatelji koji su, za razliku od autora, preživjeli 1984., itekako su svjesni njegove 1984. Ono što se u Orwellovo doba činilo nedokučivim, pretjeranim ili neprovedivim, većim se dijelom ostvarilo i prije 1984. godine. Zbog snažne mračne vizije budućnosti, 1984. postala je ne samo kronološki termin već i opis stanja duha ljudske zajednice obilježene otuđenošću, nepravdom, nasiljem, diktaturom, strahom... a termini iz knjige kao što su: Veliki Brat, svijet trajnog rata, novogovor, hladni rat, soba 101, orvelovski... odavno su prešli granice literarnoga svijeta.
Nevjerojatna, genijalna, jedinstvena i neponovljiva � nezaobilazna knjiga! Hrvatskim novogovorom: must read!]]> 350 George Orwell 9533200901 De Jan 0 4.51 1949 1984.
author: George Orwell
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.51
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate]]> 223379 60 Ted Chiang 1596061006 De Jan 5 4.39 2007 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
author: Ted Chiang
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/01/02
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]]> Izdisaj 63889047
Nakon zbirke Kako si došla na svijet i drugih priča Ted Chiang oduševljava nas u još devet izazovnih pripovijedaka koje se hvataju ukoštac s vječnim pitanjima ljudskog roda, posve originalnim mozgalicama koje su na pamet mogle pasti samo ovom suvremenom klasiku spekulativne fikcije. Fantastične parabole Teda Chianga bave se temeljnim problemima prirode univerzuma i ljudskosti. Svaka na svoj način dokazuje da kompleksna, promišljena i proćućena znanstvena fantastika dandanas osvaja nove vrhunce ljepote, smisla i suosjećajnosti.]]> 310 Ted Chiang 9532863168 De Jan 4 4.40 2019 Izdisaj
author: Ted Chiang
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2024/01/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling (Exhalation)]]> 57479738 46 Ted Chiang De Jan 4 4.16 The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling (Exhalation)
author: Ted Chiang
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)]]> 48926978 The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.

The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems—and billions of people—are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction . . . and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.

Emperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. But “control� is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people form impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power, by any means necessary. Grayland and her thinning list of allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves, and all of humanity. And yet it may not be enough.

Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to wear the crown?

The Interdependency Series
1. The Collapsing Empire
2. The Consuming Fire
3. The Last Emperox


At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ice Garden and Other Stories]]> 50528286
Contents:
The Trees of Terpsichore Three � (2002) � novelette by Eric Brown and Michael G. Coney [as by Eric Brown and Michael Coney]
In Pursuit of Chuchunaa � (2011) � short fiction by Eric Brown
Ten Sisters � (2016) � short story by Eric Brown
Targets � (2017) � short story by Eric Brown
The Ice Garden � (2017) � short fiction by Eric Brown
Introduction (The Ice Garden & Other Stories) � essay by Eric Brown
Dimensions of Deceit � short fiction by Eric Brown
Running the Asylum � short fiction by Eric Brown
Going � short fiction by Eric Brown
Conway and the Almarans � short fiction by Eric Brown]]> 153 Eric Brown 1786363720 De Jan 0 4.50 2019 The Ice Garden and Other Stories
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> The Telemass Quartet 52040995 •Fomalhaut IV . . . What he finds on the easy going backwater world is a bizarre religion and a race of aliens whose rituals promise to bring to dead back to life...
•Spica III . . . where Hendrick stumbles across a cult whose charismatic leader demands nothing less form his adherents as the ultimate sacrifice: suicide...
•Alpha Reticuli II . . . On this world Hendrick meets an alien Effectuator who claims that he can bring Matt's dead daughter, Sam, back to life... but is the alien all he claims to be?
•And finally to Bellatrix I . . . Maatje and Dr Hovarth have fled to the planet of Beltran, home of the advanced but reclusive alien race known as the Vhey. But on this sultry jungle world, at the end of his quest, a moving and horrific denouement awaits Matt Hendrick . . .

Thrilling and exotic, the TELEMASS QUARTET showcases four of Eric Brown's finest novellas.]]> 349 Eric Brown 1786364492 De Jan 0 4.00 2019 The Telemass Quartet
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.00
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In a bid to distract Hendrick, Samantha persuades him to make the journey anyway, and they embark on a fateful recapitulation of the original voyage. But unbeknownst to Hendrick, Samantha has an agenda of her own—which just might bring about Mercury's salvation.

Telemass Coda is the moving finale to the Telemass Quartet.]]> 43 Eric Brown De Jan 0 3.33 2019 Telemass Coda
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Cosmopath (Bengal Station #3) 7197080 414 Eric Brown 1844168328 De Jan 0 3.87 2009 Cosmopath (Bengal Station #3)
author: Eric Brown
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Xenopath (Bengal Station, #2) 6415567 414 Eric Brown 1844167429 De Jan 0 3.73 2009 Xenopath (Bengal Station, #2)
author: Eric Brown
name: De Jan
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> Again, Dangerous Visions 1 600351 Contents:

 Again, Dangerous Visions � (1972) � interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller
ix � An Assault of New Dreamers � (1972) � essay by Harlan Ellison
1 � The Counterpoint of View � (1972) � shortstory by John Heidenry
7 � Ching Witch! � (1972) � shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
31 � The Word for World Is Forest � [Hainish] � (1972) � novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
127 � For Value Received � (1972) � shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
145 � Mathoms from the Time Closet � (1972) � shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
157 � Time Travel for Pedestrians � (1972) � shortstory by Ray Nelson
188 � Christ, Old Student in a New School � (1972) � poem by Ray Bradbury
197 � King of the Hill � (1972) � shortstory by Chad Oliver
217 � The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ... � (1972) � shortstory by Edward Bryant
233 � The Funeral � (1972) � novelette by Kate Wilhelm
261 � Harry the Hare � (1972) � shortstory by James B. Hemesath
266 � When It Changed � (1972) � shortstory by Joanna Russ
282 � The Big Space Fuck � (1972) � shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
293 � Bounty � (1972) � shortstory by T. L. Sherred
300 � Still-Life � (1972) � shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell ]
315 � Stoned Counsel � (1972) � shortstory by H. H. Hollis
331 � Monitored Dreams and Strategic Cremations � (1972) � shortfiction by Bernard Wolfe
398 � With a Finger in My I � (1972) � shortstory by David Gerrold
413 � In the Barn � (1972) � novelette by Piers Anthony]]> 450 Harlan Ellison 0451075803 De Jan 3 4.05 1972 Again, Dangerous Visions 1
author: Harlan Ellison
name: De Jan
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1972
rating: 3
read at: 1997/04/01
date added: 2023/12/25
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