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The Engines of Dawn
Paul Cook - 1999
As part of this alliance, the Enamorati jealously guard the secrets of their Engines' power. And a complacent humanity becomes dependent on their alien benefactors for survival.But when an Engine fails on a university ship--stranding it in space--physics lecturer Ben Bennet and a small group of students and professors rise up to fight the status quo. Theirs is first shot in a growing rebellion against the aliens. And their probes into the inner reaches of the Enamorati culture and mind will uncover the shocking secret of the aliens' technology--and set the stage for revolution
There Are Doors
Gene Wolfe - 1988
She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die.
A Matter of Time
Glen Cook - 1985
St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret. As past, present, and future collide, one man holds the key to the puzzle. And if he doesn't fit it together, the world he knows will fall to pieces. It's just A Matter of Time!
Works of Jules Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Round the Moon; Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne - 1929
They have been the subject of films, radio dramatizations and have even been presented on ice Read the originals now and one of the world's greatest ever story tellers will give you hours of pleasure and enjoyment.Stories included are: "Around the World in 80 Days, The Clipper of the Clouds, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
A Trace of Memory
Keith Laumer - 1962
For "Foster" has a strange story to tell. Part of his story is contained in his diary, which not only describes things in the very recent past, but goes back for centuries. . .Foster has hired Legion to help him regain his lost memory. Then both men are suddenly attacked by alien powers. They flee to Stonehenge in England where they discover a strange control chamber deep in the ruins. They succeed in bringing down to earth an alien space ship which has been in orbit for thousands of years. Eventually they both become captives. . . on another planet.First Book Publication, 1963