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Invasion of the Junkyard Hog
by Bill Doyle Scott AltmanFollowing Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie and Stampede of the Supermarket Slugs is Bill Doyle's third tale of monsters and magic. Mr. Cigam has a new job for Keats and Henry--a job working for his mixed-up stepsisters, Lillian and Beatrice. The sisters have lost a magical compass at the Tophat Junkyard, and ever since then, they've lost their sense of direction as well. Now they need pleh! (That's help spelled backward.) But for Keats and Henry, finding the compass isn't going to be easy. Something else is searching for it, too--a magic-sniffing junkyard hog with wings, long sharp tusks, and an appetite for destruction!
Invasion of the Overworld: Book One in the Gameknight999 Series: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure (Gameknight999 Series #Vol. 1)
by Mark ChevertonThe world of Minecraft comes to life in this thrilling adventure!Gameknight999 loved Minecraft, but above all else, he loved to grief-to intentionally ruin the gaming experience for other users.When one of his father's inventions teleports him into the game, Gameknight is forced to live out a real-life adventure inside a digital world. What will happen if he's killed? Will he respawn? Die in real life? Stuck in the game, Gameknight discovers Minecraft's best-kept secret, something not even the game's programmers realize: the creatures within the game are alive! He will have to stay one step ahead of the sharp claws of zombies and pointed fangs of spiders, but he'll also have to learn to make friends and work as a team if he has any chance of surviving the Minecraft war his arrival has started.This action-packed tribute to the worldwide computer game phenomenon is a runaway publishing smash and the perfect companion for Minecraft fans of all ages.eatures within the game are alive!His emergence into the game triggers a war that threatens to consume all of Minecraft and possibly the physical world as well. With his new NPC friend, Crafter, and his only user friend, Shawny, Gameknight will need to fight epic battles against the mobs on the server who want to destroy everything. One thing is for certain: Gameknight is either the key to salvation for all the electronic lives in Minecraft and possibly in the physical world as well, or he's the fuse to destruction.This action-packed homage to the worldwide computer game phenomenon is a runaway publishing smash and the perfect companion for Minecraft fans of all ages.
Invasion of the Unicorns
by David BiedrzyckiHe's just a cute little unicorn who wants to take over the world.Special Agent Bubble07 is undercover on planet Earth. His mission: to decide whether his team of alien unicorns should invade Earth. Posing as a stuffed animal, he infiltrates the home of Earthling Daughter, where he puts up with dog slobber, tea parties, and show and tell. Will the unicorn blow his cover and call for backup? Or will his alien heart be won over by storytime, snow days, and snuggles?
Invasion: Earth
by Harry HarrisonThe object appeared over the Pacific, moving so fast that it was over Arizona before the supersonic shock of its passing was felt. It slowed perceptibly somewhere over New Jersey, and took only a small chunk out of the World Trade Center on its way between the two towers. Earth would never be the same again'The Oinn and the Blettr are in league against us. They do not war with each other. The ship that crashed was a plant to make us believe.' They came from beyond the galaxy, bent on world domination.the alien terror that endangered mankind. They deceived men into believing they sought only peace. And as their battle fleets threatened earth with extinction, only one man could save the human race.
Invasion: The Alternative History of the German Invasion of England, July 1940 (Greenhill Military Paperback Ser.)
by Kenneth MackseyThe WWII historian&’s bracingly accurate analysis of what might have happened if Hitler ordered Operation Sea Lion to breech the shores of England. In June 1940, German troops gathered just across the English Channel, poised for the invasion of Britain. With France defeated and Britain cowed, Hitler seemed ready for his greatest gamble. In this compelling alternative history, the Germans launch the invasion that, in reality, was never more than a plan. Landing between Dover and Hythe, German troops push inland supported by the Luftwaffe and the impregnable panzers, and strike out towards London. The British, desperate to defeat the invaders, rally and prepare for a crucial confrontation at Maidstone. Realistic, carefully researched and superbly written, Invasion is a classic of alternate history and a thought-provoking look at how Britain&’s war might have been.&“Macksey&’s blend of what actually happened and what might have been makes for a piece of writing comparable to Frederick Forsyth at his best.&” —Jack Higgins&“Convincingly described and excellently illustrated.&” —The Daily Telegraph, UK
Invasive: A Novel
by Chuck WendigA gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Wanderers.Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. “I’ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,” he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn’t say.What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who—and why—will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted—a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.“Enthralling . . . Wendig does an impeccable job blending fact and fiction as he describes invasive species and insects being used as biological weapons.” —The Washington Post“Think Thomas Harris’ Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife’s edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Invasión
by Robin CookLo que inicialmente parece un resfriado común es algo mucho más grave, tan grave que si no se consigue detener podría acabar con la civilización. Todo comenzó hace milones de años, mucho antes de la aparición del ser humano, con la visita de unos misteriosos extraterrestres. Ahora, sólo unos pocos hombres y mujeres serán capaces de investigar y comprender en toda su magnitud la pavorosa pesadilla que se cierne sobre el planeta. ¿Serán capaces también de evitar sus nefastas consecuencias?
Invasión
by Robin CookLa ciencia médica se ve desbordada por una enfermedad desconocida, una enfermedad cuyos orígenes no son de este planeta... El estudiante universitario Beau Stark fue el primero en recoger uno de los extraños discos negros que había por toda la ciudad. Al principio dolía como la picadura de una abeja. Más tarde tomó los síntomas de un resfriado común. Poco a poco fue convirtiéndose en una virulenta infección. Todo comenzó hace millones de años, mucho antes de la aparición del ser humano, con la visita de unos misteriosos extraterrestres. Ahora solo unos pocos hombres y mujeres serán capaces de investigar y comprender en toda su magnitud la pavorosa pesadilla que se cierne sobre el planeta. ¿Serán capaces de evitar sus nefastas consecuencias?
Invasión del mundo principal: Una aventura Minecraft (Gameknight999 #Volumen 1)
by Mark ChevertonA Gameknight999 le mola Minecraft, pero por encima de todo le gusta grifear y arruinar la partida a otros jugadores. -Novela extraoficial- Cuando uno de los inventos creados por su padre le teletransporta dentro de Minecraft, Gameknight se encuentra con una aventura real en medio de un mundo digital. ¿Qué pasaría si le mataran? ¿Moriría en la vida real?Metido en el juego, Gameknight descubre el secreto mejor guardado de Minecraft, algo de lo que aún no se han dado cuenta ni los programadores del juego: ¡las criaturas que allí habitan están verdaderamente vivas! Evitando ser atrapado por las garras afiladas de los zombis y los puntiagudos colmillos de las arañas, Gameknight deberá aprender a hacer amigos y a entender la importancia del trabajo en equipo para poder sobrevivir a la guerra Minecraft que acaba de comenzar. La crítica ha dicho...«Estas aventuras adictivas encantarán a los fans Minecraft y les llenará de valor y coraje al igual que cuando juegan delante de la pantalla.»Parents in Touch«Este libro nos enseña un mensaje muy claro, que hay libros que pueden leer tanto niños como adultos de todo el mundo. Muy recomendable y entretenido.»Midwest Book Review
Invasão
by William Meikle André NardiniEles vieram em milhares. Nós lutamos contra eles juntos. Tudo começou durante uma tempestade de inverno no litoral norte-oriental que trouxe consigo uma estranha chuva verde. Onde ela caiu, tudo desapareceu, morreu e foi consumido. Os moradores dos lugares remotos no Marítimo do Canadá escaparam do pior dos danos iniciais, mas essa foi uma benção disfarçada, pois eles tiveram que assistir primeiro a América do Norte, depois o mundo, sendo subsumidos no arrepiante tapete verde do terror. E isso foi apenas o começo.
Inventing Memory
by Anne HarrisA one-of-a-kind novel, like nothing you've ever read, Inventing Memory is a stunning blend of fantasy and reality, exposing the secret links between the mythic, the mundane, and the timeless mysteries of the human heart.Shula is a slave in fabled Sumer---until Inanna, Queen of Heaven, appears before her. Chosen by the Goddess for reasons she cannot begin to fathom, Shula is freed from bondage and set upon an uncertain path toward a new and mysterious destiny. But the attention of the gods is a dangerous thing, and Shula may have cause to regret the day she first laid eyes on the Holy Inanna.Wendy Chrenko, former high school misfit, is now an overworked graduate student, researching her dissertation "Remnants of Matriarchy in the Ancient Sumerian Inanna Cycle." Still smarting from the painful wounds of a failed love affair, Wendy is bound and determined to prove that men and women once lived together in perfect equality, even if it means volunteering for a bizarre and dangerous scientific experiment.Separated by millennia, Shula and Wendy appear to be two very different women, leading completely separate lives.Or maybe not.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
by Sarah ColeH. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as “time machine,” “war of the worlds,” and “atomic bomb,” exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity’s place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity.In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells’s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells’s limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literature’s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
Inventos infernales (Mortal Engines #Volumen 3)
by Philip ReeveTercera entrega de la tetralogía «Máquinas mortales», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Las novelas en las que se basa la superproducción cinematográfica de Peter Jackson. La hija de Tom y Hester, Wren, anhela huir de la monotonía de Anchorage. Está sedienta de aventura. Cuando un pirata submarino peligrosamente encantador le ofrece una oportunidad para escapar, Wren no lo duda ni un instante. Pero el pirata quiere algo a cambio: Wren debe robar el misterioso Libro de Hojalata, y hacerlo acarreará consecuencias que podrían destruir la paz... Inventos infernales es la tercera parte de una saga de cuatro novelas fantásticas escritas por Philip Reeve y que forma parte de la tetralogía de «Máquinas mortales». La historia se sitúa en un mundo postapocalíptico donde las ciudades de la Tierra deambulan por el mundo sobre ruedas gigantescas, arrasándose entre sí, y en el que los recursos cada vez son más escasos. El protagonista de la novela es Tom Natsworthy, un huérfano londinense de 15 años del Gremio de Historiadores, que tratará de revelar un misterio que podría cambiar el orden del mundo.
Inverse Sovereign: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Long ChengDiPiA broken pagoda actually contained a world within it. Heaven's Mandate, what was Heaven's Mandate? Was it fate, or fate? Could it be that abandonment of one's Dantian was the so-called destiny? If this were fate, then I would definitely defy the will of the Heavens. If the great Dao did not exist, then I would definitely cause it to awaken, step upon the Heavens, defy the Heavens, and open up ten thousand lives ….
Inverse Sovereign: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Long ChengDiPiA broken pagoda actually contained a world within it. Heaven's Mandate, what was Heaven's Mandate? Was it fate, or fate? Could it be that abandonment of one's Dantian was the so-called destiny? If this were fate, then I would definitely defy the will of the Heavens. If the great Dao did not exist, then I would definitely cause it to awaken, step upon the Heavens, defy the Heavens, and open up ten thousand lives ….
Inverse Sovereign: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Long ChengDiPiA broken pagoda actually contained a world within it. Heaven's Mandate, what was Heaven's Mandate? Was it fate, or fate? Could it be that abandonment of one's Dantian was the so-called destiny? If this were fate, then I would definitely defy the will of the Heavens. If the great Dao did not exist, then I would definitely cause it to awaken, step upon the Heavens, defy the Heavens, and open up ten thousand lives ….
Inverse Sovereign: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Long ChengDiPiA broken pagoda actually contained a world within it. Heaven's Mandate, what was Heaven's Mandate? Was it fate, or fate? Could it be that abandonment of one's Dantian was the so-called destiny? If this were fate, then I would definitely defy the will of the Heavens. If the great Dao did not exist, then I would definitely cause it to awaken, step upon the Heavens, defy the Heavens, and open up ten thousand lives ….
Inverse Sovereign: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Long ChengDiPiA broken pagoda actually contained a world within it. Heaven's Mandate, what was Heaven's Mandate? Was it fate, or fate? Could it be that abandonment of one's Dantian was the so-called destiny? If this were fate, then I would definitely defy the will of the Heavens. If the great Dao did not exist, then I would definitely cause it to awaken, step upon the Heavens, defy the Heavens, and open up ten thousand lives ….
Inversion Point
by Kelly Jensen Jenn BurkeZander and Felix's relationship has been to the brink and back: the Human-Stin War, imprisonment and an actual death/resurrection. Zander's death, to be specific, and the experience has left him...changed. The mysterious race known as the Guardians chose to revive him and appointed him as their emissary. A high honor, but he could do without the group of would-be cultists following him around the galaxy.When a recently discovered species destroys a stin probe, Zander's new role soon commands all of his time and focus. The human ambassador-Felix's ex-lover, much to Zander's annoyance-pulls them into strategy talks aimed at preserving galactic peace. Soon everyone is relying on Zander's Guardian tech to telepathically communicate with the strange aliens.Only Felix seems concerned with the strain piling up on Zander, but he has his own resolve tested when the very stin that imprisoned him show up to a summit. Zander and Felix will both have to find a way to face their doubts and preserve their love-while preventing another galaxy-wide war.Book four of Chaos Station70,000 words
Inversions
by Iain M. BanksIain Banks writes some of the very best space opera ever penned and this novel is no exception.
Inversions
by Iain M. BanksThe sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, INVERSIONS is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
Inversions (Culture)
by Iain M. BanksThe sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, INVERSIONS is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
Inversions (Culture)
by Iain M. BanksIn the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. He also has at least one person he cares for deeply and who cares for him, though neither can risk saying so. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, two stories - linked more closely than even those involved can know - climb to a devastating climax.INVERSIONS is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative. It is destined to become a classic of the genre.
Inverted World
by Christopher Priest John CluteThe city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the "optimum" into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death.The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum.Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city's continued existence. But the world--he is about to discover--is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Inverted World (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Christopher PriestA uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.The society within toils under an oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they get there.The ending of the novel provides one of the most profound twists in SF.Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1974.Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).