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Project Argus has for years has listened to the universe, waiting for a message from some intelligent life form. A last, it has been received. Life for Eleanor Arroway, director of Argus, will never be the same, as she decodes the message and plans how to respond. This is the book on which the film starring Jodie Foster was based.
Contact
Sagan, Carl
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
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Four professors travel from New Mexico to the Sahara Desert to look for a Stonehenge-like structure buried beneath it. While there, they discover that it's a portal to another planet which may have had something to do with the origins of earth. Jack Williamson has won the Hugo, Nebula, and other awards for his science fiction writings;
The Stonehenge Gate
Williamson, Jack
New York: tor, 2005.
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A collection of 19 short stories by the award-winning Swanwick, including the 1999 Hugo Award-winning story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine." Other stories include, "The Dead," "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," "Ancient Engines," "North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy," The Mask," "Mother Grasshopper," "Riding the Gigantosaur," "Wild Minds," "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O," "Microcosmic Dog," "In Concert," "Radiant Doors," "Ice Age," "Walking Out," "The Changeling's Tale," "Midnight Express," "The Wisdom of Old Earth," and "Radio Waves."
Tales of the Old Earth
Swanwick, Michael
Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 2000.
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DAW Books Collectors No. 1300.
Fitzpatrick's War
Judson, Theodore
New York: DAW Books, 2004.
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A new Robot novel. Sequel to Caliban.
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
Allen, Roger MacBride
New York: Ace Books, 1994.
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Wilder writes science fiction and fantasy. In Signs of Life, she again writes of the planet, Rhomary Land. A group of people escaped from a space ship just before it was destroyed, and land in scattered places on Rhomary Land. What will their lives be like now, on the planet?
Signs of Life
Wilder, Cherry
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1996.
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What do Edinburgh, Scotland, orcs, virtual reality and banks have in common? Charles Stross' Halting State. It's 2018, and a cop with the very ordinary name of Sue Smith is assigned to investigate a bank robbery from a virtual bank. The suspects? A band of orcs who bring along an unusual weapon--a dragon. Copper Sue may just be in over her head.
Halting State
Stross, Charles
New York: Ace Books, 2007.
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Teenager Joss is a time-traveling, harminica-playing free spirit. At first she's not happy about being chosen as the study partner and Earth guide to Mavkel, the first alien to attend the Centre for Neo-Classical Studies. When Mavkel becomes ill, however, Joss realizes that going back in time and interceding in past events is the only way to save Mavkel's life. Winner of the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Shortlisted for the 1999 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. The author's first novel.
Singing the Dogstar Blues
Goodman, Alison
New York: Viking Press, 1998.
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Third book in the Dragon series, after The Dragon and the George and The Dragon Knight. In this sequel, Sir James, the Dragon Knight, battles the Hollow Men, empty suits of armor on invisible steeds, but who weild immense power.
The Dragon on the Border
Dickson, Gordon R.
New York: Ace Books, 1982.
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Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas. This is the beginning of the Star Wars Saga.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Brooks, Terry
New York: Del Rey, 1991.
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A flying saucer more than 140,000 years old is discovered buried in the sands of the Sahara Desert. The U.S. military wants it, as does a billionaire entrepreneur. But Rip Cantrell, the man who actually discovered the saucer, hijacks it and flies it away.
Saucer
Coonts, Stephen
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002.
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Late 21st century earth is plagued by disasters of such magnitude that it needs a new world in which it can start over. Two planets, dubbed Blue and Green, are chosen for the new civilizations. But is the damage on earth too much? Will the new world succeed?
Hurricane Moon
Latner, Alexis Glynn
Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007.
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Pandora's Star
Hamilton, Peter F.
New York: Del Rey, 2004.
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Set in 2020, former bounty hunter Joanna Dark has had a traumatic conflict with hypercorporation dataDyne, and she's set on vengeance. Joanna is not the only one who is at war with dataDyne. But will she join forces with them, or carry the battle by herself? This novel is based on the XBOX game, Perfect Dark Zero.
Perect Dark: Initial Vector
Rucka, Greg
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2005.
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