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Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest...

"KALIAN GAINES HAS A SECRET. He looks like us. He lives like us. But he is not one of us... Lightyears away, a human hand print, embedded into a rock, has been discovered on a moon; yet mankind has never set foot on it. This discovery holds a secret which will sweep Kalian into the heart of a conspiracy that has corrupted the galaxy for two hundred thousand years. Dive into the first volume in Philip C. Quaintrell's Terran Cycle quadrilogy, exploring...

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

Flint Dugdale, blunt Yorkshireman and reality TV show winner, has used his large frame and 'persuasive personality' to take charge of Britain's first mission to Mars. Little does he know that the base - built by an advance party of incompetent robots - is not quite finished and has no food, water or doors. Worse, the ship's scanners are picking up strange signals from the surface. There is life down there. But will it be pleased to see him?