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A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man! Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes' body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery. Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective . . . to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake . . . the fate of the entire world.
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION, NOW STREAMING - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best--and worst--that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.
What would you do if you possessed the most powerful weapon in the galaxy and every race in the quadrant wanted it? Would you bring it to your superiors? Would you share it with the other races? This is the dilemma that Captain Dinema Atany and the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Heaven have to contend with. The captain and crew are minutes away from arriving back in their quadrant where six Rillian warships are waiting. The other races have ships on the way. What is Captain Atany planning to do? Will the rest of her crew follow along? This science fiction, action-packed adventure with erotic under-tones is the sequel to Advances Of The Ancients, picking up where that story ends.
The first book of the Heechee saga. Gateway opens on all the wealth of the Universe--and on reaches of unimaginable horror. The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldn't know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses!
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that "blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache"(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling series has captured readers' wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city's most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear--her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... "What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel."--USA Today
Julietta Royalle Delladora is a Gypsy, but not just any ordinary Gypsy such as exists in your world. No, she is a Dream Gypsy of the hidden realm Vilda - a place where dreams don't even exist among the common people. Upon the arrival of her eighteenth birthday, Julietta begins to discover her true purpose. Learning that she lives in a much more enchanted world than she had thought, she must be trained to protect it from the earth sleepers and much worse threats.Finally uncovering what really happened to her parents who disappeared when she was a child, she decides to embrace her destiny and let herself become a Dream Gypsy -a Gypsy of Vilda.
The stories of H. P. Lovecraft have been a source of fascination for readers since they were published in the early twentieth century, and legions of fans continue to reinvent his dark and fantastical world to this day. This collection of short stories by the master of the macabre contains more than twenty of his most popular works, including The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Dunwich Horror. Each story will leave the reader feeling unsettled and uncertain, but also appreciative of the unique elements that Lovecraft introduced to the literary world.