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Peri Jean Mace knows ghosts create chaos in her life. She also knows the Mace Treasure spawns blood, death, and sorrow. They’re both trouble, and she wants nothing to do with either one. When a ghost steals secrets about the cursed fortune, Peri Jean is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous world of the treasure and the people who hunt it. Now she’s stuck between a vengeful ghost and treasure hunters willing to do anything—even murder—to...

" The war enters its final phase . . .The Queen may have defeated the rebels, but most of them do not know it yet. Waverly's Raiders are still fully engaged as they return one world after another to the fold.It's time to take the war to the Chessori, but how? Where are they? The Chessori domain is as large as the Empire, and the Empire knows almost nothing about it. Ellie's Knights will, as always, be called to give everything that they are, but this...

"The Empire has collapsed. Aided by the Chessori, who wield an unbeatable mind weapon, Rebel domination of the sectors strengthens daily. Against such formidable opponents, hope for the future of Empire dims.The people of Earth are the only ones in the galaxy immune to the terrible mind weapon. The Chessori have been studying Earth for many years, trying to discover the reason for this immunity.The Empire asks for help, but if Earth agrees, the Chessori...

"El proceso" narra la historia de un hombre, Joseph K., detenido el día de su 30 cumpleaños bajo una acusación que ignora. Es más, ni sus captores ni su abogado, ni siquiera los jueces que llevan su caso, conocen cuál es la causa. K. se convierte desde ese mismo instante en objeto de una maraña legal y jurídica que nadie parece controlar realmente, pero que todos respetan y a la que todos se someten. Todos excepto K., incapaz de aceptar un...

""Ryan Britt is the Virgil you want to guide you through the inferno of geekery." --Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling Magician's trilogy Pop Culture and sci-fi guru Ryan Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard, or superhero that didn't need further analysis. Essayist Ryan Britt got a sex education from dirty pictures of dinosaurs, made out with Jar-Jar Binks at midnight, and figured out how to kick depression with a Doctor Who Netflix-binge....

"Geek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time"--Provided by publisher. Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of Dune out into the light for the very first time. With original interviews with the...

The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel… C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis's "Space Trilogy"-is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. The first group of essays considers...

A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas. There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America. David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along...

A fines del siglo XIX, la ciencia no era todavía como la conocemos hoy. Lejos de ser sólo un saber de especialistas, formaba parte también del universo cotidiano de las personas. Presente en todas las formas de difusión destinadas al gran público, fascinaba a quienes se dejaban encantar por sus promesas de cambio y por los potenciales mundos que permitía imaginar. En este original libro, Soledad Quereilhac reconstruye ese clima de época que...

The 13 essays in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth foreground processes of making and constructing Arda– either within the Secondary world or for readers/viewers– and thus continually assert that the habitations form a vital part of the tales within that world. Because they assume a complex arrangement complete with social, familial, artistic, and political relations, cities and strongholds often define their inhabitants as crafting boundaries...