Eragon – Christopher Paolini – New Get other Christopher Paolini books here Eragon is a 2003 fantasy novel written by Christopher Paolini and the first book in the Inheritance Cycle set in the mythical world of Alagaësia. Eragon tells the story of a young farm boy named Eragon and his dragon Saphira. In the beginning Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the spine a mountain chain near his home. A few days later Eragon discovers that his stone is really a dragon egg when it hatches suddenly in the night. Eragon names his dragon Saphira a name he learns from Brom the village storyteller. After Saphira hatches for Eragon in the opening chapters King Galbatorix sends his servants (including the Ra’zac Urgals and the shade Durza) after Eragon and Saphira in an effort to capture or kill them. Eragon and Saphira flee their hometown of Carvahall and embark on a number of adventures. Eragon was the third-best-selling children’s hardback book of 2003 the second-best-selling paperback of 2005 and has placed on the New York Times Best Seller List for 121 weeks. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name released on December 15 2006. Eragon lives with his uncle Garrow and cousin Roran on a farm on the outskirts of a small village called Carvahall. While hunting in the Spine a l CLICK HERE -Eragon – Christopher Paolini NEW at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Weapons of Choice – John Birmingham – World War 2.1 – USED Book Get more books by John Birmingham click here 2021 The book starts in 2021 outside East Timor as a US-led Multinational Taskforce commanded by Admiral Phillip Kolhammer prepare to liberate the Indonesian islands from a "revolutionary" Islamic government calling itself the Caliphate which is slaughtering Chinese citizens. Prior to the book the Chinese government was planning to send a task force but was warned by the American government not to do so. The flagship is the aircraft carrier USS Hillary Clinton named after "the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States" the task force is mainly made up of American and British units alongside French Australian Japanese and Free Indonesians a few other units like Spetsnaz from Russia and Kommando Spezialkräfte from Germany are also with the task force. Along side the navy taskforce is the JRV Nagoya a scientific ship which is experimenting with wormholes; the navy ship protecting it was ordered to join the taskforce. A new ship from the Royal New Zealand Navy is sent as escort prior to its arrival project director Manning Pope decided to make a trial run. The task force is constantly watched by a Caliphate spy on the ma CLICK HERE -Weapons of Choice – World War 2.1 John Birmingham USED Axis of Time series at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Children of Dune – Frank Herbert – New Book Get more books in the Dune Series click here Muad’Dib has become an old man damaged by forced overdoses of spice essence and dependent on an assistant; he is rousing the populace against the priestly apparatus and its ruler — his sister Alia who has since lost the battle with the memory personalities she contains and is possessed by the persona of her grandfather and Atreides enemy Baron Harkonnen. Despite numerous enemies Muad’Dib’s children Leto and Ghanima survive concerted attempts to eliminate them. Leto undertakes a transformation by allowing sandtrout to bond to the surface of his body making him immensely strong and fast and beginning his transformation into a human-sandworm hybrid. The subsequent deaths of Paul and Alia lead to the virtually immortal Leto grasping control of the Known Universe. Over and over Herbert shows how his characters’ triumphs contain the seeds of their own destruction and how their personalities and ideals keep them on the track of destruction even if prescient vision proves to them how they are doomed. The Dune Universe The original series Frank Herbert wrote six novels in the Dune series before his death in 1986. * Dune (1965) * Dune Messiah (1969) * Children of Dune (1976) * God Emperor o CLICK HERE -Children of Dune – Frank Herbert – NEW Book at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Star Wars: Invincible – Troy Denning – NEW Book Legacy of the Force – paperback Other Star Wars Books click here No war can last forever. Now in the long and punishing battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lost–and nothing less than the course of the future still at stake–there can be no turning back. No matter the consequences. The rebel cause is losing ground under the twin blows of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon’s assassination and the death of Mara Jade Skywalker. At the same time having gained the support of the Imperial Remnant and its ruthlessly efficient forces the Galactic Alliance with the extraordinary power and dark brilliance of newly ascendant Sith Lord Darth Caedus at its helm may be unstoppable. Tormented and torn between the call of duty and the thirst for vengeance Luke has searched the Force and beheld an unspeakable vision of the galaxy enslaved under tyranny more monstrous than even Palpatine’s. Now it seems that the last best hope lies in mobilizing the scattered Jedi for one decisive search-and-destroy mission. The objective: eliminate Darth Caedus. It’s a plan that will be as difficult and dangerous to execute as it is da CLICK HERE -Star Wars: Invincible – Troy Denning at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451 – The 50th Anniversary Edition – NEW Novel Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of censorship and defiance as resonant today as it was when it was first published over 50 years ago. Description First published in 1953 Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero a book burner suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch. Synopsis Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires.The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning. Along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames… never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do. About the Author Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American mainstream fantasy horror science fiction and mystery wr CLICK HERE -Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 NEW at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan – New Book 11 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here This volume of The Wheel of Time ties up a number of loose ends exposed during the course of the series. Elayne gains the throne of Andor and also manages to root out the Black Ajah sisters in Caemlyn. Egwene captured by the Tower Aes Sedai and reduced to novice white begins undermining Elaida’s control of the White Tower from within. Rand escapes a trap by the Forsaken Semirhage while at the same time capturing her and losing his left hand. Mat and Tuon get married after their party reaches the edge of Seanchan controlled territory. Tuon then returns to Ebou Dar where she learns about a civil war in the Seanchan empire and the deaths of all of the Imperial family except her which will make her the new Empress of Seanchan. Perrin defeats the Shaido in Malden with the help of the Seanchan and rescues his wife Faile. Unusual Trolloc attacks the dead walking ripples in the fabric of the world and other events seem to indicate that the last battle is drawing near; several characters using different "evidence" confidently state that Tarmon Gai’don is close at hand * a confrontation between Galad Damodred half-brother of Elayne Trakand and Rand al’Thor CLICK HERE -Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan NEW – Book 11 of the Wheel of Time at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson – New Paperback Get other Classic Science Fiction books here Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Mr. Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other.The novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevenson’s best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances. Stevenson had long been interested in the idea of the duality of human nature and how to incorporate the interplay of good and evil into a story. While still a teenager he developed a script for a play on CLICK HERE -The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson NEW at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke – NEW Book New Paperback Get other Arthur C Clarke Books click here In the background to the story in the book an ancient and unseen alien race uses a mechanism with the appearance of a large crystalline monolith to investigate worlds all across the galaxy and if possible to encourage the development of intelligent life. The book shows one such monolith appearing in ancient Africa three million years B.C. where it inspires a starving group of the hominid ancestors of human beings to conceive of tools. The ape-men use their tools to kill animals and eat meat ending their starvation. They then use the tools to kill a leopard that had been preying on them; the next day the main ape character Moon-Watcher uses a club to kill the leader of a rival tribe. Moon-Watcher reflects that though he is now master of the world he is unsure of what to do next—but he will think of something. The book suggests that the monolith was instrumental in awakening intelligence and enabling the transition of the ape-men to a higher order with the ability to fashion crude tools and thereby be able to hunt and forage for food in a much more efficient fashion. The book then leaps eons to the year 1999 detailing Dr. Heywood Floyd’s travel to Clavius Base on the Mo CLICK HERE -2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke NEW Book at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

The Dreaming Void – Peter F. Hamilton – NEW Novel Part One of the Void Saga Get other Peter F. Hamilton Books click here Description At the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is a massive artificial construct called the Void. Inside there is a strange universe where the laws of physics are very different from those we know. It is slowly consuming the other stars of the galactic core – one day it will have devoured the entire galaxy. It’s AD 3589 and a human has started to dream of the wonderful existence of the Void. He has a following of billions of believers. They now wish to Pilgrimage to the Void to live the life they have been shown. Other starfaring species fear their migration will cause the Void to expand again. They are prepared to stop the Pilgrimage fleet no matter the cost. About the Author Peter F Hamilton Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British science fiction author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004 his works had sold over two million copies worldwide making him Britain’s biggest-selling science fiction author. Hamilton was born in Rutland England on 2 March 1960. He didn’t attend university. He said in an interview “I did science at school up to age eighteen I stopped doing English English literature CLICK HERE -The Dreaming Void – Peter F Hamilton NEW Novel at www.science-fiction-books.com.au

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes – NEW Novel The ideas for Flowers for Algernon developed over a period of 14 years and were inspired by numerous different events in Keyes’ life starting in 1945 with Keyes’ personal conflict between his parents pushing him through a pre-medical education and his own desire to write. Keyes felt that his education was driving a wedge between him and his parents and this led him to wonder what would happen if it were possible to increase a person’s intelligence. Another key moment came in 1957 while Keyes was teaching English to students with special needs; one student asked him if it would be possible to be put into a regular class if he worked hard and became smart. Different characters in the book were also based on events and people in Keyes’ life. The character of Algernon was inspired by a university dissection class while the name came from the poet Algernon Swinburne which Keyes thought was an unusual name. Nemur and Strauss the scientists who develop the intelligence enhancing surgery in the story were based on professors Keyes met while studying psychoanalysis in graduate school. In 1958 Keyes was approached by Galaxy Science Fiction magazine to write a story at which point the different elements of Flowers for Algernon fell into CLICK HERE -Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes – NEW at www.science-fiction-books.com.au