Robert Silverberg
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The Entities have arrived on Earth, fifteen feet tall with impenetrable defenses and inscrutable motives. As conquerors, they have no demands, no explanations, simply harsh consequences should they be challenged. Releasing a plague and plunging the world into a new Dark Age, the Entities seem unbeatable. But, one family at least-the Carmichael clan led by Colonel Anson Carmichael-will never give up the resistance. THE ALIEN YEARS is an epic story...
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The plot centers around four college students who, after finding and reading a dusty volume "The Book of Skulls", set out to find a secretive group of monks whose religous practice includes the key to immortality. We get brief sketches of Timothy, Oliver, Ned and Eli in the beginning, but as the boys find the monks and enter the monastery as postulants in this mysterious religion, we learn their most inner and dark secrets. When four come together...
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"This is hard sci-fi done right." -Publishers Weekly (starred review). "One of the enduring classics of science fiction." -George R.R. Martin
Deep in the future, natives of the planet Hydros, an ocean planet whose inhabitants live on artificial floating islands, force the entire human population of the island of Sorve into exile, leaving the outcasts to ponder their fate, their past, and the true purpose of humanity.
After a human offense against...
17) Roma eterna
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A tale of an Imperial Rome that never fell follows the great city as it continues to expand its civilization, from the conquest of the Mayans of Mexico to the attempt of the Hebrews to flee Rome's tyranny by escaping to another planet.
19) Nightfall
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Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific rationalism. Their civilization is threatened by Nightfall, the first sunset in over two thousand years