The Totally Gnarly Adventures of the Galactically Bitchin' Comet Sweat!
The Totally Gnarly Adventures of the Galactically Bitchin' Comet Sweat!

Author: Edward Beekman-Myers

Publisher: Edward Beekman-Myers

Published: 2009-01-30

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1434859266

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Anarchy. Dissent. Love, happiness, and health for every living creature in the galaxy. These are the ideals that Declan Slocomb and his mates promote as the Milky Way's most popular rock band, Comet Sweat. Onstage, they jam out with lyrics of hope and fairness timed to a thrashing punk rock beat. Offstage, they find themselves unwitting saviors as they stumble into one misadventure after another. From forging a connection with the aurally challenged Volox to restoring communal harmony to the oppressed worker drones of Beeveetee, Comet Sweat spreads its influence to every corner of the galaxy...which is what makes them so incredibly bitchin'! However, in the cosmic shadows lurks Vee'vee'n Klaar'ynn, a vile, manipulative, and self-serving corporate viper willing to do whatever it takes to gain full control of the entire galaxy...even if it leads to Comet Sweat's total humiliation and destruction.

City at the End of Time
City at the End of Time

Author: Greg Bear

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0345507134

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Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a mind-bendingly epic novel that may well be his masterpiece. Do you dream of a city at the end of time? In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people–Ginny, Jack, and Daniel–dream of a doomed, decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny’s and Jack’s dreams overtake them without warning, leaving their bodies behind while carrying their consciousnesses forward, into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa–a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba–who have been genetically retro-engineered to possess qualities of ancient humanity. As for Daniel: He dreams of an empty darkness–all that his future holds. But more than dreams link Ginny, Jack, and Daniel. They are fate-shifters, born with the ability to skip like stones across the surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum-runners that persist unchanged through all versions of time. Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum-runners on behalf of a terrifying, goddess-like entity known as the Chalk Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn, despite themselves, into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the future–and complete the greatest achievement in human history.

A Princess of Landover
A Princess of Landover

Author: Terry Brooks

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2010-07-27

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0345458532

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweet, charming and skillful . . . an enjoyable journey, a helluva ride.”—January magazine Ben Holiday, mere mortal turned monarch of the magic kingdom of Landover, has grappled with numerous contenders for his throne, but nothing could have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers: his headstrong teenage daughter, Mistaya. After getting suspended from an exclusive private school in our world, Mistaya is determined to resume her real education—learning sorcery from court wizard Questor Thews—whether her parents like it or not. Then, horrified that a repulsive Landover nobleman seeks to marry her, Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home. So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant Gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landover’s intrepid princess into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test—and possibly bring the kingdom to its knees. “Fans of Brooks’s magic kingdom of Landover will welcome this title. . . . There are plenty of treats.”—Publishers Weekly “Fun and engaging.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Last Theorem
The Last Theorem

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2008-12-07

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 0007308140

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The final work from the brightest star in science fiction’s galaxy. Arthur C Clarke, who predicted the advent of communication satellites and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey completes a lifetime career in science fiction with a masterwork.

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-11-08

Total Pages: 1215

ISBN-13: 0393076873

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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. Includes the story "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala Dress code.

Amygdalatropolis
Amygdalatropolis

Author: B. Yeager

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781537789118

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From Schism[2] Press Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal pornutopia voided of all bedeutung other than the residual, electronic prickling of sexual fear and auto-autistic aggression where software and synapse flicker in an endless algorithmic loop. Norburt Wiener's apocalyptic steersman leads directly here: a psychopathological cyberutopia heading straight into the lake of fire. Scott Wilson, author of Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism Yeager's haphephobic protagonist /1404er/ has got over reality, family or the social and moved on - to a somewhat more tenable amnion of snuff porn, clickbait and casual online scapegoating. Amygdalatropolis inhabits our post-truth heterotopia like some virulent new literary life form, perfectly tooled for the death of worlds. David Roden, author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human

Antifascisms
Antifascisms

Author: David Ward

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780838636763

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This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.

Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc

Publisher: Merriam-Webster

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780877796329

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New edition! Convenient listing of words arranged alphabetically by rhyming sounds. More than 55,000 entries. Includes one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes. Fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Based on best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.