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A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
Altered States : The Library of Julio Santo Domingo by Peter Watts
Category: Culture
Julio Mario Santo Domingo was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll: a library of more than 50,000 items featuring works by Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, the ...Show more
Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and ...Show more
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Firefall Ser.
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath.Now some ha ...Show more
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us.Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien does ...Show more
CrysisLegion by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
NYC 2023. Terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city's myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city's systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. The battle is on against the lethal, armoured, bipedal war machine ...Show more
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Firefall Ser.
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues ...Show more
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Firefall Ser.
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues ...Show more
Edna Walling And Her Gardens by WATTS Peter
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Was $50.00. EDNA WALLING AND HER GARDENS by Peter Watts. This is a book about a remarkable woman and of the gardens she designed. Though Edna Walling died in 1973, and some of her most notable work was done forty years earlier, the gardens photographed here still bear witness to her creative genius. ...Show more
Firefall by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
After an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence no further contact has been made for twenty-five years. But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-tw ...Show more
Firefall by Peter Watts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
FIRST CONTACT: 13 FEBRUARY 2082. The day sixty-five thousand objects burned briefly around Earth: an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence. We called it Firefall. Two months later, we sent the Theseus reconnaisance mission into deep space. Somewhere past Jupiter, we lost contact. F ...Show more
Made to Order - Robots and Revolution by Jonathan Strahan (Editor); Suzanne Palmer; Vina Jie-Min Prasad; Alastair Reynolds; Sofia Samatar; Peter Watts; John Chu; Brooke Bolander; Daryl Gregory; Peter F. Hamilton; Saad Z. Hossain; Tochi Onyebuchi; Sarah Pinsker; Rich Larson; Ken Liu; Ian R. Macleod; Annalee Newitz
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word "Robot", exploring the impact it has had on the world, the possibilities and place of robots in society going forwards. 100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, "robots" are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless s ...Show more