Five Gold Bands by Jack Vance

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Other Worlds, Other Seas
Darko Suvin
1970 · 217 pages · 2 reviews
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Barcelona. 20 cm. 267 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Indice. Suvin, Darko .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8474422213
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The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
2005 · 832 pages · 19 reviews
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In een gefantaseerde wereld maakt een ieder zich op voor de laatste strijd tussen Goed en Kwaad.
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Starfish
Peter Watts
1999 · 320 pages · 4 reviews
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Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts. So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going, back on shore. But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what they have in them―and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole damn planet...
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Black Easter
James Blish
1968 · 165 pages · 5 reviews
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Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not even the efforts of the white magicians of Monte Albano will stop them.
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Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
1987 · 248 pages · 5 reviews
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aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26
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Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars
Leigh Brackett
1982 · 208 pages · 3 reviews
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"Mars was old, tired, and steeped in every evil of a dying world. There, to the sinful cities of the Low Canals, came Eric John Stark, adventurer, roisterer, and outlaw from Earth. But there were evils more ancient and fearsome than could be found in the decadence and vices of the tribes and cities. Far to the north, amid the wastes of bitter snows lay the Gates of Death. And among the wasted ruins of the deserts, the tribes were losing something beyond their utmost dreams of loot and ravage. To such peril, inevitably, Stark was drawn. Who else could bear the Talisman? What other war leader could the false messiah of the tribes summon? But Eric John Stark was more than he seemed--more, in fact, than he knew." (Contains the stories The Secret of Sinharat and People of the Talisman)
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