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To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last

1997
Time-travel researcher Ned Henry shuttles back and forth between the 21st century and the 1940s in order to correct an incongruity brought forward from the past.

Wildside

1997
Charlie's uncle leaves him a ranch that holds a secret door that leads into another world untouched by civilization where saber-toothed tigers and mammoths still roam, but when Charlie sells some extinct birds to finance his exploration of the wilderness, he raises questions that some people will kill to have answered.

So long, and thanks for all the fish

1985
Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.".

3001

the final odyssey
1997
The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.

Richter 10

1996
Lewis Crane, a man who as a child lost his parents in the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994, is now thirty-seven years old and has developed a theory for earthquake prediction, but there are people who do not want him to succeed and soon the country is divided between those who believe Crane and those who do not.

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

a novel
1995
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Barlowe's guide to extraterrestrials

1979
A guide to 150 extraterrestrial creatures conceived by science fiction authors, with a color drawing and details of the physical characteristics and behavior of each.

Pegasus in flight

1990
"A Del Rey book." Telepath Rhyssa Owen, Director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, realizes the necessity of reassesing the potential of the gifted talents in her group.

Foundation's edge

1982
The First Foundation on Terminus and the Second Foundation on Trantor suspect each other of manipulating the restoration of Galactic to its own advantage.

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