(1971 Hugo for Best Novel, 1970 Nebula for Best Novel)
In the first book of this award-winning series, a huge architectural ring is constructed in outer space. In time it will house the inhabitants of the dying Earth. A whole new world is emerging, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing an area three million times the area of the Earth. Ringworld has a gravitational field and high walls to preserve its atmosphere. Its proximity to the sun maintains the new planet's climate. With those kinds of resources at its disposal, humankind can begin anew -- but not without meeting the disquieting challenges of a brave new world. Breath- taking ingenious from start to finish, RINGWORLD is fast becoming a science fiction classic.
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Book Description
Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn
Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot
dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the
money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more
men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the
carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss
and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction
hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a
mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to
spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and
across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what
one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his
life?
A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on
itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and
duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
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The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
Book Description
The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos
transforms thetrue story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a
thriller worthy ofStephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's
insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmenof The Terror
trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But thereal threat
to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white,the
provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or theship
slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat
iswhatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship,
snatching oneseaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled
horribly or missingforever. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition
after the creature kills itsoriginal leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing
equally on his own strengths asa seaman and the mystical beliefs of the
Eskimo woman he's rescued, Croziersets a course on foot out of the
Arctic and away from the insatiable beast.But every day the dwindling
crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, untilCrozier begins to fear
there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivablenightmare. Pdf Created Especially For EnglishTips.Org
Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid's Tale, the book is often categorized as science fiction novel, but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year.
Annie Proulx’s second novel, The Shipping News, was published in 1994,
and it remains her best known and most highly acclaimed novel to date.
It won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Irish Times
International Fiction Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it
was also made into a film.
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood
