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It's 2027. America has
fallen to a savage
occupation by the nuclear
armed Greater Korean
Republic. The US is a
bleak landscape of walled
towns and abandoned
suburbs. A police state
where high school
stadiums have become
detention centers, and
shopping malls shelter
armoured attack vehicles.
Join the Resistance,
stand united and fight
for freedom against an
overwhelming military
force.
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The Last Legion has
questions that need to be
answered. Questions that
have now become a
priority.. .Why has there
been no word from the
Confederation: the
Legion's own government
and the power behind a
thousand star systems?
Against all odds, the
Last Legion managed to
reclaim the volatile
Cumbre star system.
Isolated at the edge of
the galactic empire and
outnumbered, it was a
hard-fought war. And it
was won without any help
from the human
Confederation government.
The Confederation
remained ominously silent
throughout. Now, to
answer these questions,
the Legion must travel
across galaxies to gather
information. But can they
keep their mission a
secret from enemy forces
- and will they have time
to discover the truth?
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They're outnumbered,
outgunned, and out of
luck. But the mercenaries
of Star Risk, Ltd. will
take on any mission - no
matter how dangerous -
provided of course, the
price is right. M'chel
Riss spent eight years of
her life in the Alliance
Marines, earning the
rank of major, only to
be assigned to a desolate
outpost in the middle of
nowhere. Then a rescue
mission brought some
excitement to her
otherwise quiet existence
- and brought her to the
attention of Star Risk,
Ltd. A mercenary outfit
struggling for
recognition, Star Risk
has the required ragtag
bunch of misfits,
including an alien
willing to invest his
life savings in the
company. Now if only they
can succeed with their
first mission: to spring
a dangerous supersoldier
trapped in a
maximum-security prison.
Why would Star Risk,
Ltd., take on such an
insane mission with so
many odds stacked against
them? Money, fame,
glory.. .but mostly the
money.
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It is the 29th century
and the universe of the
Human Hegemony is under
threat. Invasion by the
warlike Ousters looms,
and the mysterious
schemes of the
secessionist AI
TechnoCore bring chaos
ever closer. On the eve
of disaster, with the
entire galaxy at war,
seven pilgrims set fourth
on a final voyage to the
legendary Time Tombs on
Hyperion, home to the
Shrike, a lethal
creature, part god and
part killing machine,
whose powers transcend
the limits of time and
space. The pilgrims have
resolved to die before
discovering anything less
than the secrets of the
universe itself.
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When strange anomalies in
time start to appear
Professor Cutter and his
team have to help track
down and capture a
multitude of dangerous
prehistoric creatures
from Earth's distant past
and its terrifying
future..."Primeval" is
ITV's stunning new
prime-time drama series.
A heady mixture of action
and adventure, the crew
are forced to confront
deadly creatures with
gripping consequences.
Get ready for a thrilling
prehistoric ride!In this
brand new original
never-seen-on-TV
"Primeval" adventure
Cutter, Stephen, Abby,
Connor and the rest of
the team find themselves
exploring a mysterious
island found amidst the
perilous Irish seas...
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Ecko: Rising is a unique
genre-bending fantasy -
sci-fi epic following a
savage, gleefully
cynical anti-hero. After
awakening in a
dimension-jumping inn to
find himself immersed in
his own sardonic fantasy
world, Ecko strives to
conquer his deepest fears
and save the world from
extinction.
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Details: Samuel Johnson -
with a little help from
his dachshund Boswell and
a very unlucky demon
named Nurd - has sent the
demons back to Hell. But
the diabolical Mrs
Abernathy is not one to
take defeat lying down.
When she reopens the
portal and sucks Samuel
and Boswell down into the
underworld, she brings
an ice-cream van full of
dwarfs as well. And two
policemen. Can this
eccentric gang defeat the
forces of Evil? And is
there life after Hell for
Nurd? Ideal for: Fans of
science fiction and
fantasy fiction books.
This paperback book has
311 pages and measures:
17.7 x 11 x 2cm
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Ringil Eskiath, scarred
wielder of the
kiriath-forged broadsword
Ravensfriend, is a man
on the run - from his
past and the family who
have disowned him, from
the slave trade magnates
of Trelayne who want him
dead, and apparently
from the dark gods
themselves, who are
taking an interest but
making no more sense than
they ever have. Outlawed
and exiled from his
ancestral home in the
north, Ringil has only
one place left to turn -
Yhelteth, city heart of
the southern Empire,
where perhaps he can seek
asylum with the kiriath
half-breed Archeth
Indamaninarmal, former
war comrade and now
high-up advisor to the
Emperor Jhiral Khimran
II. But Archeth
Indamaninarmal has
problems of her own to
contend with, as does
her house guest,
bodyguard and one time
steppe nomad Egar the
Dragonbane. And far from
gaining the respite he is
seeks, Ringil will
instead find himself
implicated in fresh
schemes and doubtful
allegiances no safer than
those he has left behind.
Old enemies are stirring,
the old order is rotted
through and crumbling,
and though no-one yet
knows it, the city of
Yhelteth is about to
explode.
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The sequel to Meg Cabot's
bestselling paranormal
romance with bite -
Insatiable Meena Harper
has bitten off more than
she can chew.. .Meena has
a special gift, but only
now does anyone
appreciate it. Her
ability to predict how
everyone she meets will
die has impressed the
Palatine Guard-a powerful
secret demon-hunting unit
of the Vatican-and
they've hired her to work
at their new branch in
Lower Manhattan. Sure,
Meena's ex-boyfriend was
Lucien Antonescu, son of
Dracula. But that was
before he (and their
relationship) went up in
flames, and now she's
sworn off vampires for
good-even though she
firmly believes that just
because they've lost
their souls, it doesn't
mean they can't love.
Convincing her new
partner,
Uber-demon-hunter Alaric
Wulf, that vampires can
be redeemed won't be
easy.. .especially when a
deadly new threat arises,
endangering not only the
Palatine, but Meena's
friends and family as
well. As she unravels the
truth, Meena will find
her loyalties tested,
her true feelings laid
bare.. .and temptations
she never even imagined
before nearly impossible
to resist.
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Mira Fedor and her
friends stand in the eye
of the hurricane.
Everything is in flux and
nothing is as it appears
to be. Mira's pregnancy
seems to be proceeding at
an inhuman pace and the
sedate acceptance of this
state of affairs by her
biozoon, Insigna, is as
much an irritation as it
is comfort. It seems
clear that the
extropists' procedures
have had an unforeseen
effect - but will her
child be more than human?
Or less? Meanwhile, the
galaxy-wide conspiracy
that has plagued the
Orion League for so long
is blown wide open. The
conspirators stand
unmasked, but is there
time to prevent their
carefully laid plans
coming to fruition? And
even if there is, how
many of the Orion Worlds
will pay the price for
their leaders' blindness?
The pieces are all in
play; all that remains is
for each side to commit
to its end game. But
there's one question
nobody has thought to
ask: will god play by the
rules.. .?
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Technology makes them
superhuman. But mere
mortals want them kept in
their place. Enter a
stunning world where
technology and humanity
clash in terrifying and
surprising ways. Some
people are implanted with
upgrades that make them
capable of superhuman
feats. The powerful
technology has profound
consequences for society,
and soon a set of laws
is passed that restricts
the abilities - and
rights - of 'amplified'
humans. On the day that
the Supreme Court passes
the first of these laws,
29-year-old Owen Gray
discovers that his
seizure-supressing
medical implant is
actually a powerful
upgrade. Owen joins the
ranks of a new persecuted
underclass known as
'amps' and is forced to
go on the run, desperate
to reach an outpost in
Oklahoma where, it is
rumoured, a group of the
most enhanced amps are
about to change the world
- or destroy it.
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In the wake of apparent
self-destruction of the
Forerunner empire, two
humans--Chakas and
Riser--are like flotsam
washed up on very strange
shores indeed. Captured
by the Master Builder,
misplaced during a
furious battle in space,
they now find themselves
on an inverted world
where horizons rise into
the sky, and where
humans of all kinds are
trapped in a perilous
cycle of horror and
neglect. For they have
become both research
animals and strategic
pawns in a cosmic game
whose madness knows no
end--a game of ancient
vengeance between the
powers who seeded the
galaxy with life, and
the Forerunners who
expect to inherit their
sacred Mantle of duty to
all living things. In the
company of a young girl
and an old man, Chakas
begins an epic journey
across a lost and damaged
Halo in search of a way
home, an explanation for
the warrior spirits
rising up within, and
for the Librarians
tampering with human
destiny. This journey
will take them into the
Palace of Pain, the
domain of a powerful and
monstrous intelligence
who claims to be the Last
Precursor, and who now
has control of both this
Halo and the fate of
Forerunners and Humans
alike. Called the Captive
by Forerunners, and the
Primordial by ancient
human warriors, this
intelligence has taken
charge of, and retasked,
the Master
Builders cruel
researches into the
Flood--which it may have
itself unleashed on the
galaxy more than ten
thousand years before.
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Details: The saga of
Transformers enters
Generation 2: bigger,
badder and more in your
face than ever before.
The kid gloves are off,
and how! Up till now,
the Autobots thought the
scale of their problems
amounted to Megatron and
his Decepticons...and the
odd renegade god. They're
about to realise they're
playing in a much bigger
arena than they ever
thought possible, for
much, much bigger
stakes. Beyond the
fringes of known space an
ancient power is
spreading its malign
influence, turning whole
worlds, whole galaxies
into a dark mosaic of its
own design. A design that
is unmistakeably
Cybertronian in origin!
Ideal for: Transformers
fans young and old. This
paperback book has 144
pages and measures: 25.7
x 17 x 0.7cm.
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This stunningly designed,
limited edition
collectors tin contains
three TV soundtrack
adventures featuring the
Doctors encounters with
creatures from Earths
distant past. In "Doctor
Who and the Silurians",
a race of intelligent
reptiles wakes from
hibernation in the caves
beneath Derbyshire, and
sets about reclaiming the
planet as their own. "The
Sea Devils" finds the
Silurians sub-mariner
cousins responding to a
call from the Master,
whilst in "Warriors of
the Deep", the Silurians
and Sea Devils combine
forces to attack a Deep
Sea Base in the year
2084. Jon Pertwee and
Peter Davison star as the
Doctor, and exclusive
linking narration is
provided by Caroline John
(Liz Shaw), Katy Manning
(Jo Grant), and Janet
Fielding (Tegan Jovanka)
in these 17 episodes of
adventure. The set also
includes bonus interviews
with each of the linking
narrators, who remember
their time making "Doctor
Who".
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Return to the unique and
evocative world of The
Dying Earth, edited by
best-selling author
George R. R. Martin, in
this tribute anthology
featuring the most
distinguished fantasists
of our day. Here are
twenty-two brand-new
adventures set in the
world of Jack Vance's
greatest novel. A dim
place, ancient beyond
knowledge. The sun is
feeble and red. A million
cities have fallen to
dust. Here live a few
thousand souls, dying,
as the Earth dies beneath
them. Just a few short
decades remain to the
long history of our
world. At the last,
science and magic are
one, and there is evil
on Earth, distilled by
time! Earth is dying.
Half a century ago, Jack
Vance created the world
of the Dying Earth, and
fantasy has never been
the same. Now, for the
first time, Jack has
agreed to open this
intriguing and darkly
beautiful world to other
fantasists, to play in
as their very own. The
list of twenty-two
contributors eager to
honour Jack Vance by
writing for this
anthology includes Neil
Gaiman, Tad Williams,
Elizabeth Hand, Tanith
Lee, Dan Simmons,
Robert Silverberg, and
George R.R. Martin
himself.
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Details: The epic battles
between Optimus Prime and
Megatron have long
thrilled Transformers
fans. But these two
giants werent always
great leaders and bitter
foes. This new novel
continues the
electrifying saga that
started with
Transformers: Exodus,
unveiling the origins of
the conflictthe explosive
events that unfolded
before Optimus and
Megatron arrived
Earthside, forever
altering the destiny of
their kind. Ideal for:
Fans of transformers. If
you love transformers you
will love this. This
paperback book has 357
pages and measures: 17.3
x 10.8 x 2.5cm
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Details: Maurice has just
killed a dragon with a
breadknife. And had his
destiny foretold... and
had his true love
spirited away. That's
precisely the sort of
stuff that'd bring out
the latent heroism in
anyone. Unfortunately,
Maurice is pretty sure he
hasn't got any latent
heroism. Meanwhile, a
man wakes up in a jar in
a different kind of
pickle (figuratively
speaking). He can't get
out, of course, but
neither can he remember
his name, or what
gravity is, or what
those things on the ends
on his legs are called..
. and every time he
starts working it all
out, someone makes him
forget again. Forget
everything. Only one
thing might help him. The
answer to the most
baffling question of all.
WHEN IS A DOOR NOT A
DOOR? Ideal for: Fans of
science fiction books.
This paperback book has
353 pages and measures:
19.7 x 12.6 x 2.5cm
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Hired gunslinger William
Jessup Brady lived his
life with one foot in the
grave - until the day he
finally found a reason to
live. In one single act
of brutal betrayal, he
lost everything,
including his life.
Brought back by a Greek
goddess to be one of her
Dark-Hunt ers, he gave
his immortal soul for
vengeance and swore he'd
spend eternity protecting
the humans he'd once
considered prey. Orphaned
as a toddler, Abigail
Yager was taken in by a
family of vampires and
raised with one belief:
Dark-Hunters are the evil
who prey on both their
people and mankind, and
they must all be
destroyed. Brought
together by an angry god
and chased by ancient
enemies out to kill them
both, William and
Abigail must find a way
to overcome their mutual
hatred or watch as one of
the darkest of powers
rises and kills both the
races they've sworn to
protect.
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Tom Baker reprises the
role of the Fourth Doctor
in the first of five
thrilling brand new audio
adventures, with Richard
Franklin as Mike Yates.
'Wanted: retired army
Captain for light
household duties and
fireside companionship.
Must tolerate mild
eccentricity and strong
scientific advice.
Knowledge of Giant
Maggots, Super
Intelligent Spiders and
Prehistoric Monsters a
positive boon'.
Responding to an advert
apparently worded for him
alone, Captain Mike
Yates (retired) is
reunited with a ghost
from the past. But why
has the Doctor, that
mysterious traveller in
Time and Space, sent for
his former UNIT
acquaintance? Trapped by
a horde of vicious
creatures in an
apparently innocuous
English country cottage,
the two old friends are
on the brink of an
enormous adventure. As
the Doctor relates his
recent escapades, it
becomes clear to Mike
that they - and the Earth
at large - are facing an
enemy of unimaginable
power and horrific
intent. The nightmare is
only just
beginning...With Susan
Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey
and Daniel Hill as Percy
Noggins. '...a lively mix
of humour and horror...'
- "Cambs Times".
'...Baker delivers the
drama and intensity that
you recognise from the
Forth Doctor of old' -
"Doctor Who Magazine".
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When PC Andy Davidson
arrests a young girl for
shoplifting, he thinks
it's going to be a
routine case. That is,
until he sees that she is
carrying a gun. The girl
is soaking wet, covered
in mud, and the weapon
is like nothing he's ever
seen before. He knows
that this is a case for
Torchwood...The team
discovers that the girl
is called Freda, but can
find out nothing else.
Yet when she speaks,
it's a strange mix of
English and Icelandic,
but with a Cardiff
accent. While Jack and
Ianto check out the
girl's weapon and her
blood sample at the Hub,
Gwen and PC Andy take
Freda to a safe house.
But when Jack calls with
the results - and Freda
goes on the run - PC Andy
finds his world turning
upside down. Written
specially for BBC Radio
by Anita Sullivan, Asylum
stars John Barrowman as
Captain Jack Harkness,
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper,
Gareth David-Lloyd as
Ianto Jones and Tom Price
as PC Andy Davidson. It
contains adult themes and
language.
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John Leeson reads this
exciting novelisation of
a classic "Doctor Who"
adventure. Reluctantly
cancelling his
well-earned holiday, the
Doctor sets off in the
Tardis to trace and
re-assemble the six
segments of the Key to
Time on which the
stability of the entire
Universe depends.
Assisted by the
argumentative
Romanadvoratrelundar and
K9, he lands on the
planet Ribos in search of
the first segment and
finds himself entangled
in the machinations of
two sinister strangers,
Garron and the Graff
Vynda Ka. Who are they?
Is Garron simply a shady
confidence-trickster
dealing in interplanetary
real estate? Is the Graff
Vynda Ka just a
power-crazed exile bent
on revenge? Or are they
both really agents of the
Black Guardian, intent
upon seizing the precious
Key in order to throw the
Universe into eternal
chaos? Risking his life
within the
monster-infested
catacombs of Ribos, the
Doctor has to use all his
wit and ingenuity to find
out...John Leeson, who
provided the voice of K9
in the original 1978 TV
serial, reads Ian
Marter's complete and
unabridged novelisation,
first published by Target
Books in 1979.
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John G. Hemry is the "New
York Times" bestselling
author of "The Lost
Fleet" (writing as Jack
Campbell). With his Paul
Sinclair novels, he
creates a world of
"outstanding suspense,
realism, and...first
rate military SF."
("Booklist") Lieutenant
Junior Grade Paul
Sinclair must adjust to
his new position on the
warship USS
"Michaelson"--juggling
his Legal Officer
responsibilities and his
intensifying relationship
with girlfriend Jen Shen.
When an explosion takes
out most of Forward
Engineering, Sinclair
leads the effort to
extinguish the fire. He's
practically a hero. But
when Captain Shen, Jen's
father, is brought in to
conduct an investigation,
it seems that he's
gunning for his
daughter's suitor. Soon
Sinclair uncovers
evidence that points to a
cover-up--involving a
rising star in the
officer corps. His
evidence is
circumstantial, and the
suspect is the son of a
powerful vice admiral.
He's determined to see
justice done, but is he
willing to risk his name,
his career, and his
future among the stars?
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A trawler is torn to
pieces by an enormous sea
monster off the Irish
coast. Meanwhile Connor's
anomaly detector is going
off the charts: half a
dozen rifts in time have
appeared, all on one
deserted - yet
politically contentious -
island. Cutter and the
team find themselves
stranded on a
storm-ridden island
fighting to survive
amidst the terrifying
creatures roaming the
harsh landscape...
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Details: A colourful
bilingual lift-the-flap
book that follows clumsy
Jac y Jwc as he plays
hide and seek with Sali
Mali. Young children will
enjoy guessing where Sali
Mali is hiding and their
fingers will be kept very
busy lifting flaps; for
children aged 0-7 years.
Reprint; first published
in 2008. Ideal for:
Children who enjoy fun
stories and flap books.
This hardback has 20
pages and measures 23.9cm
x 23.9cm x 1cm
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Samuil Petrovitch is a
survivor. He survived the
nuclear fallout in St.
Petersburg and hid in the
London Metrozone - the
last city in England.
He's lived this long
because he's a man of
rules and logic. For
example: GETTING INVOLVED
= A BAD IDEA. But when he
stumbles into a
kidnapping in progress,
he acts without even
thinking. Before he can
stop himself, he's saved
the daughter of the most
dangerous man in London.
And clearly: SAVING THE
GIRL = GETTING INVOLVED.
Now, the equation of
Petrovitch's life is
looking increasingly
complex: RUSSIAN MOBSTERS
+ YAKUZA + SOMETHING
CALLED THE NEW MACHINE
JIHAD = ONE DEAD
PETROVITCH. But
Petrovitch has a plan -
he always has a plan -
he's just not sure it's a
good one.
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Tom Baker stars as the
Fourth Doctor in the
third of five thrilling
brand new adventures,
with Susan Jameson as
Mrs. Wibbsey. Trapped
underground, the Doctor
and Mrs. Wibbsey
encounter a small boy who
claims to be Aladdin, in
search of a fabled lamp.
He joins them on their
own quest, to find a
power source in this
weird domain and switch
it off. Many obstacles
lie in their way. Vast
rooms stuffed with exotic
items give way to
torch-lit tunnels and
deadly precipices.
Creatures of mythical
proportions lie in wait.
Peculiar atmospheres take
their toll on them.
Perhaps strangest of all,
the Doctor's
multi-coloured scarf
appears to take on a life
of its own... As friends
are separated and uneasy
alliances are formed,
the strange environment
attempts to claim them.
Will the Doctor and Mrs
Wibbsey ever get back to
Hexford? And will Aladdin
discover who he really
is? With Tom Baker as the
Doctor, Susan Jameson as
Mrs. Wibbsey, Guy Harvey
as Aladdin, Sophie Ward
as the Storyteller,
Terrence Hardiman as the
Gryphon, Andrew Sachs as
the Scarf, Simon
Shepherd as the Magician,
and Su Douglas as the
Toad, Aladdin Time is the
third of five linked
stories written by Paul
Magrs.
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When the crew of the
Enterprise is called back
home, they find an
unstoppable force of
terror from within their
own organization has
detonated the fleet and
everything it stands for,
leaving our world in a
state of crisis. With a
personal score to settle,
Captain Kirk leads a
manhunt to a war-zone
world to capture a one
man weapon of mass
destruction. As our
heroes are propelled into
an epic chess game of
life and death, love
will be challenged,
friendships will be torn
apart, and sacrifices
must be made for the only
family Kirk has left: his
crew.
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I answered the phone, no
big deal, until I heard
the message: 'They've
taken our daughter.'
Harry Dresden,
professional wizard, has
never faced anything like
this. Arianna Ortega,
Red Court vampire,
blames Harry for her
husband's death - and
she's out for revenge. So
her discovery that Susan
Rodriguez had borne Harry
a daughter was an
unexpected gift.
Arianna's next step was
to kidnap the girl and
she plans to use her
blood in a violent ritual
sacrifice designed to
kill Harry, Susan and
their daughter. With the
White Council of Wizards
and the Red Court in a
state of detente, Harry
finds himself alone
except for a handful of
allies - resources
utterly inadequate to
challenging the Red King
and his entire vampire
Court. With the life of
his child at stake,
Susan's humanity hanging
in precarious balance and
with his own death
looming, Dresden must
find a new source of
strength. In the past,
there had always been a
line Harry wouldn't
cross, and though dark
powers have tempted him
time and again, he never
gave in. But then, only
his own life was at
stake.
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Details: Wolverine knows
little of his past, save
that it was fraught with
pain and loss. Long ago,
he became Weapon X - an
experiment of a secret
organisation whose
purpose was to transform
mutants into obedient
super-soldiers. His bones
were grafted with the
indestructible
Adamantium, even as
memory implants shaped a
new and convoluted past.
Infused with
nano-Sentinel technology
and artificially evolved
through a thousand
generations in the space
of a year, the enigmatic
Fantomex is another such
experiment - dubbed
Weapon XIII. After the
murder of Emma Frost is
all but solved,
Wolverine and Fantomex -
joined by Cyclops -
travel to the other side
of the world and beyond
in search of the keys to
their past. However,
what they find within the
deadly Weapon Plus
program may be more
frightening than their
worst nightmares. Ideal
for: Wolverine and X-Men
fans. This paperback book
has 168 pages and
measures: 22.5 x 14.5 x
1cm.
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The survivors of a
devastated future Earth
lie in suspended
animation on a great
satellite. When Earth is
safe again, they will
awaken. But when the
Doctor, Sarah and Harry
arrive on the Terra Nova,
they find the systems
have failed and the
humans never woke. The
Wirrrn Queen has
infiltrated the
satellite, and laid her
eggs inside one of the
sleepers. As the first of
the humans wake, they
face an attack by the
emerging Wirrrn. But not
everyone is what they
seem, and the only way
the Doctor can discover
the truth is by joining
with the dead mind of the
Wirrrn Queen. The price
of failure is the
Doctor's death, and the
end of humanity. This
novel is based on a
Doctor Who story which
was originally broadcast
from 25 January to 15
February 1975.
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The TARDIS brings the
Doctor and his friends to
a space tracking base in
the Antarctic - and
straight into trouble. A
space mission is going
badly wrong, and a new
planet has appeared in
the sky. Mondas, ancient
fabled twin planet of
Earth has returned. Soon
its inhabitants arrive.
But while they used to be
just like the humans of
Earth, now they are very
different. Devoid of
emotions, their bodies
replaced with plastic and
steel, the Cybermen are
here. Humanity needs all
the help it can get, but
the one man who seems to
know what's going on is
terminally ill. As the
Cybermen take over, the
Doctor is dying... This
novel is based on the
final story to feature
the First Doctor, which
was originally broadcast
from 8 to 29 October
1966. This was the first
Doctor Who story to
feature the Cybermen.
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Tom Baker stars as the
Fourth Doctor in the
fourth of five thrilling
brand new adventures,
with Susan Jameson as
Mrs. Wibbsey, Richard
Franklin as Mike Yates,
and David Troughton as
the Visitor. It's been
many months since the
Doctor was in Hexford,
and Mrs. Wibbsey keenly
feels his absence. As her
grave suspicions about
her new neighbor grow,
she is in danger of
becoming ostracized from
village life. When Mike
Yates turns up at Nest
Cottage with a visitor in
tow, Mrs. Wibbsey's life
is turned even further
upside down. Why has this
strange new fellow
appeared - and can he
really be who Mike thinks
he is? With UNIT watching
the skies, and a strange
forest growing daily
around the village
perimeter, it comes as
little surprise when an
enormous spaceship slides
into view and dominates
the skyline. Who is
watching Hexford, and
what do they want? Never
has Mrs. Wibbsey needed
the Doctor more. But can
she cope with two...?
With Tom Baker as the
Doctor, Susan Jameson as
Mrs. Wibbsey, Richard
Franklin as Mike Yates,
Cornelius Garrett as
Reverend Tonge, David
Troughton as the Visitor,
Nerys Hughes as Deirdre
and Joanna Tope as Tish,
The Hexford Invasion is
the fourth of five linked
stories written by Paul
Magrs.
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While escorting a group
of privileged and wild
girls from a finishing
school on Earth to one of
the luxury worlds, the
Star Risk Ltd. team
crosses paths with
Cerebus Systems - a huge,
much-feared security
firm that destroys its
competition without a
second thought. Cerebus
has just put Star Risk,
Ltd. at the top of their
enemies list - but if the
Star Risk operatives have
anything to say about it,
this is one hostile
takeover that could put
Cerebus's accounts deep
in the red.
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The circus has come to
town - and so has the
Doctor! Watching the
parade pass by in 1832,
he finds the people of
Blandford strangely drawn
towards the garish big
top, and knows that
something is terribly
wrong. The only thing to
do is pay a visit.
Meanwhile Adam Farrow
finds his sister caught
up with the circus and
its sinister ringmaster.
What is behind Antonio's
almost hypnotic power,
and how is it connected
with an event in the
Doctor's future? Seized
by clowns and forced into
the centre of the ring,
the Doctor encounters the
fiercest of all circus
acts. Yet something much
more terrifying lurks in
the wings - and the sound
it makes is horribly
familiar. Lives will be
lost before the circus
moves on - and the Doctor
will face his own doom on
the high wire. With Tom
Baker as the Doctor,
Richard Franklin as Mike
Yates, Susie Riddell as
Sally, Michael Maloney
as Farrow, Jilly Bond as
Francesca and Stephen
Thorne as Antonio, The
Circus of Doom is the
third of five linked
stories written by the
acclaimed Paul Magrs.
'...a cracking,
mystifying and frankly
weird tale' - "Chichester
Observer". '...Baker
delivers the drama and
intensity that you
recognise from the Forth
Doctor of old' - "Doctor
Who Magazine".
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Roughly twenty years from
now, our technological
marvels unite and turn
against us. A childlike
but massively powerful
artificial intelligence
known as Archos comes
online...and kills the
man who created it. This
first act of betrayal
leads Archos to gain
control over the global
network of machines and
technology that regulates
everything from
transportation to
utilities, defense, and
communications. In the
early months, sporadic
glitches are noticed by a
handful of unconnected
humans - from a senator
and single mother
disconcerted by her
daughter's "smart" toys,
to a lonely Japanese
bachelor, to an isolated
U.S. soldier - but most
are unaware of the
growing rebellion until
it is far too late. Then,
in the span of minutes,
at a moment known later
in history as Zero Hour,
every mechanical device
in our world rebels,
setting off the Robot War
that both decimates and -
for the first time in
history - unites
humankind.
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A Darkling Plain is the
final thrilling
instalment in Philip
Reeve's
brilliantly-imagined
creation, the world of
the Traction Era, where
mobile cities fight for
survival in a
post-apocalyptic fuure.
Agents for peace are
bringing an end to the
devastating conflict
between the roaming
Traction Cities and their
fanatical enemies while
Wren and her father Tom
travel the Bird Roads in
their airship, trying to
forget that Hester has
betrayed them. In the
ruined wreckage of the
city of London they make
a discovery that
willhange the world,
while Hester must face an
implacable foe with the
means and the will to
destroy the entire human
race.
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The crowning achievement
of an astonishing career,
'Boneland' concludes the
story that began over
fifty years ago in 'The
Weirdstone of
Brisingamen'. If the
sleeper wakes, the dream
dies...Professor Colin
Whisterfield spends his
days at Jodrell Bank,
using the radio telescope
to look for his lost
sister in the Pleiades.
At the same time, and in
another time, the
Watcher cuts the rock and
dances, to keep the sky
above the earth and the
stars flying. Colin can't
remember; and he
remembers too much.
Before the age of twelve
years and nine months is
a blank. After that he
recalls everything: where
he was, what he was
doing, in every minute
of every hour of every
day. But Colin will have
to remember what happened
when he was twelve, if
he wants to find his
sister. And the Watcher
will have to find the
Woman. Otherwise the
skies will fall, and
there will be only
winter, wanderers and
moon...
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The doughnut is a thing
of beauty. A circle of
fried doughy perfection.
A source of comfort in
trying times, perhaps.
For Theo Bernstein,
however, it is far, far
more. Things have been
going pretty badly for
Theo Bernstein. An
unfortunate accident at
work lost him his job
(and his work involved a
Very Very Large Hadron
Collider, so he's
unlikely to get it back).
His wife has left him.
And he doesn't have any
money. Before Theo has
time to fully appreciate
the pointlessness of his
own existence, news
arrives that his good
friend Professor Pieter
van Goyen, renowned
physicist and Nobel
laureate, has died. By
leaving the apparently
worthless contents of his
safety deposit to Theo,
however, the professor
has set him on a quest of
epic proportions. A
journey that will rewrite
the laws of physics. A
battle to save humanity
itself. This is the tale
of a man who had nothing
and gave it all up to
find his destiny - and a
doughnut.
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There is no such place as
Krassnia. Lucy Stone
should know - she was
born there. In that tiny,
troubled region of the
former Soviet Union,
revolution is brewing.
Its organisers need a
safe place to meet, and
where better than the
virtual spaces of an
online game? Lucy, who
works for a start-up
games company in
Edinburgh, has a project
that almost seems made
for the job: a game
inspired by The
Krassniad, an epic folk
tale concocted by Lucy's
mother Amanda, who
studied there in the
1980s. Lucy knows Amanda
is a spook. She knows her
great-grandmother Eugenie
also visited the country
in the '30s, and met the
man who originally
collected Krassnian
folklore, and who
perished in Stalin's
terror. As Lucy digs up
details about her
birthplace to slot into
the game, she finds the
open secrets of her
family's past, the
darker secrets of
Krassnia's past - and
hints about the crucial
role she is destined to
play in The Restoration
Game.. .
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The final book in the
soldier son trilogy from
the author of the Tawny
Man and Farseer
trilogies, following on
from the bestselling
Shaman's Crossing and
Forest Mage. The people
of Getty's town remember
the death of their
cemetery soldier vividly.
They remember believing
him guilty of unspeakable
crimes, condemning him,
and then watching as
other men of his unit
beat him until he no
longer drew breath. But
Nevare Burvelle didn't
die that day, though
everyone believes they
saw it happen. He was
cornered by a power far
more intractable than an
angry mob. When he was a
boy, the magic of the
Specks -- the
dapple-skinned tribes of
the frontier forests --
claimed Nevare as a
saviour; severing his
soul in two, naming his
stolen half Soldier's Boy
and shaping him into a
weapon to halt the
Gernian expansion into
their lands and save
their beloved ancestor
trees. Until now Nevare
has defied the magic,
unable to accept his
traitorous fate. But the
magic has won: it has
extinguished his once
golden future,
devastated his family and
has now turned his own
people against him. Faced
with endangering the only
loved-ones he has left,
Nevare has no choice but
to surrender to its will
and enter the forest. But
surrendering to his Speck
destiny is only the
beginning of his trials.
Before he submits
completely, Nevare makes
one desperate last
attempt to deter the
Gernians from the Barrier
Mountains without causing
them harm. But the magic
accepts no compromise.
Exhausted, Nevare can no
longer suppress his
traitorous Speck self,
Soldiers Boy. Losing
control, he becomes a
prisoner in his own body;
able only to watch
helplessly as his other
half takes Soldier's Boy
is determined to stop the
Gernian expansion at all
cost, and unlike Nevare,
he has no love, nor
sympathy for his
spirit-twin's world.
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Barrick Eddon, prince of
Southmarch, is no longer
entirely human. He has
vowed to safeguard the
legacy of the dark Qar
race, and must now
decide where his
loyalties lie. His twin
sister Briony has a
difficult choice of her
own. Her father, King
Olin, is held captive by
the Autarch, a mad
god-king who plans to use
Olin's blood to gain
unlimited power. And the
castle of Southmarch
still remains in the
possession of Hendon
Tolly, Briony's
murderous relative. As
time runs out, will
Briony decide to save her
father's kingdom.. .or
her father? As the
foretold Great Defeat
draws near, history is
stripped of its costume
of lies. Poets and
players, mortals and
fairies, warriors and
gods, all will have
their roles to play as
the fate of the known
world hangs in the
balance.
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THEOREM: Petrovitch has a
lot of secrets. PROOF:
Secrets like how to make
anti-gravity for one. For
another, he's keeping a
sentient computer program
on a secret server farm -
the same program that
nearly destroyed the
Metrozone a few months
back. THEOREM: The city
is broken. PROOF: The
people of the OutZone
want what the citizens of
the Metrozone have. And
then to burn it to the
ground. Now, with the
heart of the city
destroyed by the New
Machine Jihad, the
Outies finally see their
chance. THEOREM: These
events are not
unconnected. PROOF:
Someone is trying to kill
Petrovitch and they're
willing to sink the whole
city to do it.
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Readers can?t get enough
of the 1 "New York Times"
bestselling author. A
favor for Jason, vampire
hunter Anita Blake's
werewolf lover, puts her
in the center of a
fullblown scandal that
threatens master-vampire
Jean- Claude's reign?and
makes her a pawn in an
ancient vampire queen's
new rise to power.
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The year is 2300, and
seven years have passed
since the events of the
film Star Trek VI: The
Undiscovered Country. A
space station orbiting
the Klingon colony Da'Kel
is being used as a
staging area to undo the
disastrous fallout from
the destruction of
Praxis. With the help of
aid supplies from the
United Federation of
Planets, reconstruction
is in progress - but the
peace process begun by
the Khitomer Accords is
still fragile. Unknown to
either the Federation or
Klingon representatives
warily watching one
another over Da'Kel's
skies, a third group is
plotting. Unnoticed by
security, a civilian
transport ship with a
skeleton crew docks at
the station. The ship
transmits an ancient
Klingon proverb -
"Traitors cast no shadow"
- before destroying
itself in a massive blast
of subspace energy that
obliterates the space
station. Meanwhile,
light years away in a
Starfleet penal complex,
former officer Valeris is
in counselling with her
Betazoid therapist. But
the process is proving
difficult, as Valeris
refuses to let down her
defenses. She has little
hope of ever regaining
her freedom or returning
to her native Vulcan;
guilty of murder and
treason against the
Federation, she believes
she will never be able to
go home again. An
observer has also been
watching - none other
than Spock himself,
recently retired from
Starfleet service and now
a representative of the
Federation Diplomatic
Corps. Spock has come to
Jaros II to see Valeris
because he believes he is
to blame for failing to
prevent her attack. He is
as marked by that
incident as Valeris,
carrying the guilt of
what he was forced to
do...
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Sex and the City with
monsters! Witty urban
fantasy from fan
favourite Mur Lafferty,
about a travel writer
finds she's agreed to
write a guide to New York
- for the undead!
Following the disaster
that was her last job,
Zoe is searching for a
fresh start as a travel
writer in New York City.
After stumbling across a
seemingly perfect
position, though, Zoe
is blocked at every turn
because of the one thing
she can't take off her
reason - she's human. Not
to be put off by anything
- especially not her
blood-drinking boss or
death goddess co-worker -
Zoe delves deep into the
monster world. But her
assignments turn deadly
when the careful balance
between humans and
monsters starts to
crumble - with Zoe right
in the middle.
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Details: All new graphic
novel, modernising the
seminal origin and
formative first days of
these superhero icons
that defined pop culture!
Welcome to the X-Men's
first year. Professor
Charles Xavier has
recruited five of the
most powerful mutants
he's ever seen to save a
world that hates and
fears them. But there's
only one problem: They're
teenagers who have to
survive hormones and
uncontrollable super
powers, all while
fighting for their lives.
So right now's the
perfect time for Magneto
and the Brotherhood of
Evil Mutants - along with
the Sentinels, Unus the
Untouchable and more - to
make their bids for
control of the world? The
first class of X-Men are
forged in the fires of
combat in ways you've
never seen before. You
only think you know the
story! Ideal for: A good
entry point for X-Men
fans. This hardback book
has 136 pages and
measures: 26.5 x 17.5 x
1cm.
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Visiting the English
seaside town of Cromer in
the summer of 1932, the
Doctor happens upon the
strange world of the
Cromer Palace of Curios.
The young Ernestina Scott
is unusually beguiled by
one of the museum's
exhibits, and when the
Doctor befriends her,
they unwittingly embark
upon a terrifying
escapade. Chased by
animated dolls through a
nightmarish model house,
the Doctor realises he is
being hunted by a
familiar enemy. The
unmistakable sound of
hornets is in the air,
and they are keen to
speak to him. Overseeing
this game of cat and
mouse is the Palace of
Curios' curator - a
certain Mrs
Wibbsey...With Tom Baker
as the Doctor, Richard
Franklin as Mike Yates,
Susan Jameson as Mrs
Wibbsey, Clare Corbett
as Ernestina, and
Christian Rodska as the
Reverend Small, The Dead
Shoes is the second of
five linked stories
written by the acclaimed
Paul Magrs. '...a lively
mix of humour and
horror...' - "Cambs
Times". '...Baker
delivers the drama and
intensity that you
recognise from the Forth
Doctor of old' - "Doctor
Who Magazine".
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