Dream Thief
 X files from the future's standpoint.: Mankind is on the verge of a Martian terraforming project a few hundred years from the present day. In a state-of-the-art satellite station Gotham (orbiting Earth) scientists prepare and research while special teams [... more]
CDN$9.95
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Ringworld
What the heck was this?: I heard all kinds of good things about this book, so I decided to give it a try. Wow. The characters are somewhat thinner than cardboard, the writing is childlike, and very, very bizarre. English grammar was not a prerequisite [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Metamorphosis (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
Great work, hard to swallow !: Backdrop - This was my first Kafka story. I only picked it up because (a) There's a lot of mystique surrounding the very sound "Kafka" (b) He's one of the few whose name has been immortalised as a word in the [... more]
CDN$4.95
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Midshipman Hope
Horation Hornblower in Space: If you put Horatio in space then this would be it. This is an honest military science fiction book without any nonsensical dialog or 'fantasy' type bs Just good straight action and adventure with an 18th century british [... more]
CDN$13.61
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Hominids: Volume One Of The Neanderthal Parallax
Amazon.ca: Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids introduces a new world, a parallel historical universe in which Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens, survived to explore the world and build a civilization. It also tells the story of a man from his own world and the [... more]
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Heartlight
umm...a title for this review: This book was great. It captivates you and you won't want to but it down. I don't think this should be age level 9-12, it seems to me to fit more under young adult. Not Spectacular.: If you look up a list for the top ten [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Moving Mars
From Amazon.com: In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific [... more]
CDN$18.50
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Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
From Amazon.com: Bucking the received wisdom of the wired elite, the authors collected in Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture suggest that when we log on, we take our genders with us. Editors Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth balance penetrating [... more]
CDN$80.27
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Blindsight
A Major Innovation: This novel breaks new ground in the area of science fiction writing about "First Contact" between humans and an alien species. That is a very bold statement, given how many authors have written on this topic before. This one [... more]
CDN$16.95
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An Acceptable Time
The same wonder and excitement as A WRINKLE IN TIME: Polly O'Keefe, daughter of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe from L'Engle's beloved A Wrinkle In Time, moves in with her maternal grandparents when the schools on remote Benne Seed Island prove inadequate [... more]
CDN$8.50
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Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
From Amazon.com: Bucking the received wisdom of the wired elite, the authors collected in Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture suggest that when we log on, we take our genders with us. Editors Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth balance penetrating [... more]
CDN$32.11
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This Time of Darkness
Tales from the Underground!: In a far-flung future, the people are told the air above is too polluted to breathe-there is nothing left on the surface anymore. All that exists is the crowded underground city. Eleven-year-old Amy has always been the [... more]
CDN$8.99
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