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1) Chocky
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English
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This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister...
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Wildside Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are: OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy Kress THE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. Dick WALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal Asher THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by Hannes Bok THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD, by Arthur...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Simon Jones stars as Arthur Dent in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast series based on And Another Thing ?by Eoin Colfer, the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker?s Guide ?trilogy? Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return in six brand new episodes, in which they are thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Five seminal SF masterpieces are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, Francis de Wolff, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Hugely influential on first publication, these five landmark science fiction classics continue to enthral today, and these thrilling radio adaptations are full of surprise, suspense and excitement. Frankenstein, first broadcast in 1994, is adapted from Mary...
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The Three-Body Problem volume 1
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during the Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal that styles itself the Frontiers of...
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Jon Culshaw reads this novelisation of a unique adventure featuring the Doctor in each of his first five incarnations. Each of the first five Doctors has been removed from his time-stream and - with one unfortunate exception - brought to the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, along with several of their loyal former companions, they encounter an array of deadly obstacles. Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti, the Master, and a lethal set of puzzles are among the challenges...
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Star Boy volume 2
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Bolinda/Little Tiger Group
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Life isn?t easy, especially if you?re from another planet ? With his space-pod destroyed, the Star Boy is adapting to life on Earth with help from his friends Kiki and Wes, but Kiki?s long list of don?ts is a constant reminder of how hard it is to pass for a convincing human. But more troubling for the Star Boy is the strange pings and pangs he?s experiencing, and the hard-to-hide electrical surges that are worrying his human rescuers. And when the...
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Star Boy volume 1
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Bolinda/Little Tiger Group
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Who said friends have to match to matter? When the Star Boy?s space-pod crashes in the grounds of Fairfield Academy he knows he must seek shelter. Taking refuge in the school?s boiler room to await rescue he discovers that the room?s small window is the perfect place to watch humans go by. The Star Boy knows about humans from his Earth lessons but no one from his planet has ever studied them up close. Now he has the perfect opportunity. There are...
9) Spaceboy
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Go back to the Space Race with No.1 bestselling author David Walliams for a breathless cinematic adventure full of mystery, action, laughs and surprises - and a secret that could change the course of history... America. The 1960s. Stuck on a remote farm with her awful aunt, twelve-year-old orphan Ruth spends every night gazing at the stars, dreaming of adventure. One night she spots a flying saucer blazing across the sky... before crash-landing in...
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