Queen Demon
Martha Wells
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy / Science Fiction
From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose.Dahin, a beloved member of the Witch King's coterie, believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch?And can he trust his companions to do what's right?Follow Kai to the end of the world in this thrilling sequel to the USA Today-bestselling Witch King.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM)...
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Fenrir
Eric Flint
Eric Flint
When astronomer Stephanie Bronson uncovers a massive alien vessel named Fenrir racing toward the Sun, she must lead a desperate mission to rescue its crew before a catastrophic failure dooms them both to fiery destruction.
It was just a dot of light . . .. . . a dot of light that appeared out of nowhere. Stephanie Bronson thought she might have found a distant supernova. Instead, what she’d found was something more than a thousand miles across, moving towards the Sun at almost a third the speed of light from the constellation of Lupus, the Wolf. Even more frightening, the object—called Fenrir, after the Norse Wolf of the World’s End—was slowing down. It was not a comet or even a rogue planet.
It was an alien vessel.
And despite the increasingly detailed and insistent messages of greeting from Earth, it showed no sign of responding. As the world braced itself for the arrival of the immense, frighteningly silent alien visitor, Stephanie held hope that they still might communicate with Fenrir—until something happened that no one had imagined: Fenrir flared and its drive died, leaving the huge ship careening out of control to a fiery death inside the orbit of Venus.
There was—just possibly—a chance for Earth to act—to rescue the now-shipwrecked “Fens.” But even Stephanie—or those trying to stop her and the rescue ship Carpathia—could not imagine that not merely the fate of the aliens, but that of Earth itself, would be decided by Fenrir.
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Legacy
David Aquinas
David Aquinas
He's An Orphan Who Believes He Can Change the GalaxyKiryan Toragni has no father, no mother, and no one who believes in him. But he believes. Believes he can become an elite starship pilot and change the galaxy. But a mysterious artifact, passed down from his parents make things ... complicated. The artifact points to a power forbidden for untold years. And the enigmatic dragon tattoo on Kiryan's heel doesn't help matters. Plus, humans are the newest and least trusted members of the multiple species galactic Commonwealth of Stars.Then Kiryan becomes the only human ever to survive forbidden contact with the Mirror of Flame and he finds himself pitted against an existential threat as well as the resentment of the nobles; both fixed on destroying his dreams and his life. What do you do with a family secret when revealing the gift others need to live may get you killed?Legacy is the first book in the astounding nine volume series, Expanding...
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Vuonna 1984
George Orwell
Fiction / Politics / Journalism
"Ajatusrikos oli asia jota ei voinut salata iäti. Sen voi pitää piilossa jonkin aikaa, jopa vuosikaudet, mutta ennemmin tai myöhemmin siitä takuulla jäi kiinni."
Totuusministeriön virkamies Winston Smith elää totalitaristisessa valtiossa. Mystinen Isoveli valvoo kaikkialla: joka huoneistossa teleruutu lähettää puolueen propagandaa ja toisaalta tarkkailee kansalaisten liikkeitä, jopa heidän ajatuksiaan. Puolue on luonut myös uuskielen, jonka tarkoituksena on tehdä puolueen vastustaminen eli ajatusrikos mahdottomaksi.
Romaanin päähenkilö Winston Smith väärentää työkseen historiaa mutta on samalla alkanut epäillä totalitaristista järjestelmää. Seuraukset ovat kohtalokkaat.
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