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Featuring favorite characters from the original Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and from the hit TV series from BBC America! Plagued by nightmares of a life he never had, Dirk Gently discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and they're about to catch up with him!
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Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management), how America chose copyright and Happy...
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The Galactic Delivery Company will delivery anything, to anywhere in the galaxy...
Gus Valentino is finally moving up the ranks within the company. So the last thing he wants to do is fail now.
But the package to-be-delivered is within a highly secured bank vault...
The second of the misadventures of Gus Valentino, The Heirloom in Vault Y-723 is another fun and humorous sci-fi adventure for fans of books like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
44) Thud!
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Discworld volume 31
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Start with Douglas Adams's comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien's alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy's gritty realism and Jonathan Swift's unflinching satire and, if you're lucky, you'll get something like Terry Pratchett's Thud!" —Wall Street Journal
City Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the murder of a prominent dwarf or watch as Discworld is plunged into
...45) Science Fiction
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This title examines the genre of science fiction in Kindred, A Wrinkle in Time, 1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and The 5th Wave. It features four analysis papers that consider science fiction, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the genre. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the...
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After the many and conflicting versions of the legendary Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently: a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, a troubled relationship with the laws of probability and quantum physics, and a love of cats and pizza. After the events of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time, but prior to the detective's relocation to California...
48) Epoch
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As the end of the world approaches, fourteen-year-old Vincent breaks away from his parents' religion and forms an odd alliance with a few other humans who have the ability to see the elves, pixies, and demons that are engaged in a battle to bring about a new epoch.
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God becomes addicted to Peruvian ceviche and brings chef Miguel to heaven. Miguel doesn't want the eternal ceviche job and steals God's girlfriend, Shota.What happens when Shota gets trapped in a human body by the rapture of the female orgasm? When they hijack a visiting Mortician spacecraft and study the reproductive habits of intelligent species on other planets, can she and Miguel find a solution for eternal love before they're caught ? With scorching...
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After writing all the many and conflicting versions of the legendary Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, beloved author Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently: a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, a unique relationship with the laws of probability and physics, and a love of cats and pizza. In his first-ever comic series, Dirk has been forced to leave his beloved England behind, coming to the too-sunny, too-cheery,...
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The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation tools-computer programs capable of automatically translating a text from a source language to a target language. This has become one of the most fundamental tasks of artificial...
53) The Wrath of Bob
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Three years ago, the Legendarium, a metaphysical library at the nexus of the multiverse in which is stored every book ever written in the history of the world, was threatened with utter destruction, but two unlikely and unqualified heroes stood up to save it. Or… maybe they saved it on accident. In any case, they were given credit for saving it. Now, a new old enemy rises and threatens reality itself, and, as improbable as it sounds, only Bombo...
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Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures
Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures is the exciting new videogame adaptation from the producers of Elite: Escape Velocity. Featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace) and Samantha Béart (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and based on Julian Gollop's game of Wizard battles.
Episode One - A Unicorn Murder
The wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master....
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Iain M. Banks' Culture meets Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in this funny romp through the cosmos.An immovable object stands in the way of the Galactic Emperor Jarrl. He has waged siege against his arch-nemesis for a thousand years, but the barrier still stands. Now, he has come up with a plan to put the immovable object's name to the test, and lay waste to his enemies. Will his plan work? Will he manage to obliterate his foes? Will he press the...
56) Legendarium
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In every generation, certain writers are chosen to be protectors of The Legendarium, a metaphysical library that exists at the nexus of the multiverse. Inside this library are doorways that lead to every world ever created in literature. There are forces of evil constantly at work to destroy the library and send the world back into an age of darkness. Now, in a time of growing illiteracy, two heroes are chosen to defend The Legendarium. Bombo Dawson,...
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Essays on morality, mortality, and much more from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays, Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote...
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Get the Captain Quasar boxset, featuring all three hilarious books in this romp through space and time. Perfect for fans of Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Captain Quasar is out of time.
Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm's...
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Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.
People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered.
A Curious Invitation is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable...
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WINNER OF THE 'BLKDOG BOOK THE YEAR 2020' AWARDIt's September 2019, and the United States are embroiled in a second Cold War with Russia.Eminent British professor, and professional miser, Harold Dunn, has spent the last six years building the Allies' nuclear deterrent; a bomb nine thousand times more powerful than the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.When Dunn is invited to the missile's new home, and one of the most infamous military facilities in...