Plutoshine
Plutoshine

Author: Lucy Kissick

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1473233178

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Terraforming - the megascale-engineering of a planet's surface to one more Earth-like - is now commonplace across the Solar System, and Pluto's is set to be the most ambitious transformation yet. Four billion miles from the Sun and two hundred degrees below zero, what this worldlet needs is light and heat. Through captured asteroids and solar mirrors, humanity's finest scientists and engineers are set to deliver them. What nobody factored in was a saboteur - but who, and why? From the start, terraformer Lucian is intrigued by nine-year-old Nou, silent since a horrifying incident that shook the base and upended her family into chaos. If he could reach her, perhaps he could understand what happened that day - and what she knows about the secrets of Pluto. Nou possesses unspoken knowledge that could put a stop to the terraforming. Gripped by her fears, unable to trust her family, there is no one she can talk to. Only through Lucian's gentle friendship will she start to rediscover her voice - and what she has to say could transform our understanding of the Universe.

Blood Mercy
Blood Mercy

Author: Vela Roth

Publisher: Vela Roth

Published: 2022-01-26

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 9781957040028

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In this kingdom, love is treason... Lio is an immortal Hesperine with fangs and dangerous magic, but he brings comfort into Cassia's cruel world. If she gives her heart to the enemy, will she and Lio survive the king's retribution?

How to Get Your PhD
How to Get Your PhD

Author: Gavin Brown

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0198866925

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A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides. Compiled by a leading UK researcher, and written in a highly personal one-to-one manner, How to Get Your PhD showcases the thoughts of diverse and distinguished minds hailing from the UK, EU, and beyond, spanning both academia and industry. With over 150 bitesize nuggets of actionable advice, it offers more detailed contributions covering topics such as career planning, professional development, diversity and inclusion in science, and the nature of risk in research. How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey is as readable for people considering a PhD as it is for those in the middle of one: aiming to clarify the highs and lows that come when training in the profession of research, while providing tips & tricks for the journey. This concise yet complete guide allows students to "dip in" and read just what they need, rather than adding to the mountain of reading material they already have.

Metronome
Metronome

Author: Tom Watson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-03-30

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1526639564

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'Unputdownable ... An extraordinary book ... as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell's 1984' Litro'With echoes of Emily St John Mandel and Megan Hunter' Elizabeth Macneal'Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review___________________________________________________Not all that is hidden is lost...For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. They've kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.Shipwrecks have begun washing up, supply drops have stopped and on the day their punishment is meant to end, the Warden does not come. Instead a sheep appears; but sheep can't swim. Aina becomes convinced that they've been abandoned, and that Whitney has been keeping secrets. As she starts testing the limits of their prison, investigating ways she might escape, she is confronted by decisions that haunt her past. Little does she realise that her biggest choice is yet to come...'Taut, unsettling and so completely charged with both tension and emotion' Naomi Ishiguro'As moving as it is chilling' Emma StonexReader Reviews 'An original and gripping read''Addictive and atmospheric''A haunting and original dystopian story''Compelling and absorbing''A refreshing change from the norm'

Polar City Red - a Novel
Polar City Red - a Novel

Author: Jim Laughter

Publisher: Deadly Niche Press

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781620160060

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Set in an imagined Alaska in 2075 where climate refugees trek north to escape from the devasting impacts of climate chaos.

Agent of Chaos
Agent of Chaos

Author: Norman Spinrad

Publisher: Norman Spinrad

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13:

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The Hegemonic Council has scanner eyes everywhere. If anyone is caught doing a forbidden act by the scanner eyes, they are vaporized. Scanner eyes are in every public place, and soon to be in private residences. The populace doesn't seem to mind too much, as their government has gotten rid of disease, hunger, unemployment, war, and other problems. Boris Johnson is part of an underground rebellion, the rather unorganized Democratic League. Plot after plot to unseat or assassinate the Hegmonic leader is squashed by a secretive group called the Brotherhood of Assassins, who has spies everywhere. The Hegemonic government is on the side of control and order, the Democratic League is on the side of personal freedoms, and the Brotherhood of Assassins are on the side of Chaos.

Skyward Inn
Skyward Inn

Author: Aliya Whiteley

Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1786183331

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ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FINALIST 2022 Drink down the brew and dream of a better Earth. Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded; Innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars. Their peace is disturbed when a visitor known to Isley comes to the Inn asking for help, bringing reminders of an unnerving past and triggering an uncertain future. Did humanity really win the war?

Provenance
Provenance

Author: Ann Leckie

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0316388637

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An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy. Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact. But Ingray and her charge return to her home to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

Wonder
Wonder

Author: R. J. Palacio

Publisher: Puffin Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241397893

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Penguin Readers introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Wonder, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. August "Auggie" Pullman has been home-schooled all his life. Now he is starting fifth grade at a school in New York City. He doesn't want other students to look at him, but that isn't easy when he looks like he does.

A Time of Courage
A Time of Courage

Author: John Gwynne

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0316502294

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Heroes shall rise and fall, the earth shall be stained red, and the fate of the Banished Lands will be decided once and for all in A Time of Courage, the gripping conclusion to the Of Blood and Bone trilogy. Now is the time of reckoning... The demon-king Asroth is free of his iron prison, and thewhole of the Banished Lands stands on the brink of domination. With the Ben-Elim broken and routed, half-breed Riv and asmall band of comrades must try to find a way to strike at the demon forces. Meanwhile, Drem is with the Order of the Bright Star on a desperate march south to join the battle. He fears what they will find along the way, even as he knows it is better to fight and fall than to live without hope. Of Blood and BoneA Time of DreadA Time of BloodA Time of Courage The Faithful and the FallenMaliceValorRuinWrath