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Dziewczynka z Przyszłości
by Kir Bułyczow
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 66,330.
Language:
Polish.
Originally Published: May 13, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Kolejna powieść z cyklu opowieści o Alicji, dziewczynce z XXI wieku. Przeżywamy z Alicją wiele niezwykłych przygód na Ziemi i w Kosmosie, w fantastycznym świecie dwudziestego pierwszego wieku.
Milion Przygód
by Kir Bułyczow
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 72,630.
Language:
Polish.
Originally Published: May 13, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Jest to już trzecie spotkanie polskiego czytelnika z Alicją z XXI wieku (dwa poprzednie - w książkach K. Bułyczowa "Przygody Alicji" i "Było to za sto lat"). Tym razem Alicji towarzyszy jej kolega Paweł, ktory z zapałem poszukuje mocnych wrażeń, sensacji i niebezpieczeństw. Oboje przenoszą się w mroczne średniowiecze, odkrywają tajemnicę nieznanej planety, walczą z piratami kosmicznymi, słowem...
Alissa jagt die Piraten
by Kir Bulytschow
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 62,650.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: May 10, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Julka ist ja gern bereit zu glauben, daß diese Alissa da im Bett neben ihr tatsächlich aus dem 21. Jahrhundert kommt, wie sie sagt, und auch die Sache mit Kolja, der sich mittels Zeitmaschine in die Zukunft geschmuggelt und dort Alissas Myelophon geklaut haben soll, mag stimmen. Schließlich ist den Jungen aus der Klasse alles zuzutrauen. Doch die Geschichte von den Kosmospiraten klingt...
Podróże Alicji
by Kirył Bułyczow
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 50,470.
Language:
Polish.
Originally Published: May 12, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Pierwszy tom z cyklu "Przygody Alicji", serii science fiction dla młodzieży. Akcja oscyluje wokół tytułowej Alicji Sielezniewej, jej ojca - kosmobiologa oraz legendy o Trzech Kapitanach.
Alice: The Girl From Earth
by Kir Bulychev
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 129,480.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 11, 2024
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Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
It's the late 21st Century, and little Alice lives next door to the Space Zoo, where everything is soooo interesting... Really, there's no way she can help herself... Whether it's raising a newly-hatched Brontosaur... Discovering an ancient civilization on Mars... Traveling into the past... Joining her father on a short jaunt around the Galaxy to collect rare animals... Fighting off walking...
Wakacje w Kosmosie
by igo gor & Kir Bułyczow
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 42,270.
Language:
Polish.
Originally Published: May 11, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Alicja wraz z przyjaciółmi znowu wikła się w niebezpieczną przygodę. A zaczęło się tak niewinnie: mieli wziąć jedynie udział w wyścigu. Odkrywszy jednak ponurą tajemnicę Planety Pięć-Cztery... Alicja ma zaledwie dwanaście lat, lecz przeżyła już całą masę przygód. Kto nie zna dziewczynki z XXI w. imieniem Alicja, bohaterki popularnego cyklu opowieści fantastycznych, niech czym prędzej pozna ją...
Una chiquilla a la que nunca le sucede nada
by Kirill Bulychev
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 9,990.
Language:
Spanish.
Originally Published: May 10, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
La pequeña Alice aún no va a la escuela, pero constantemente se las arregla para encontrarse en el meollo de las cosas: encuentra rastros de la misteriosa civilización Tutex, se hace amiga de un brontosaurio que acaba de salir del cascarón de un huevo, encuentra extraterrestres desaparecidos y establece contacto con Shusha, el misterioso habitante de Sirius. Alice sabe que el castigo corporal...
Das Mädchen von der Erde
by Kir Bulytschow
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 70,940.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: May 9, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Keine Abenteuer, bitte! stellt Professor Selesnjow Alissa zur Bedingung, bevor sie an Bord des guten alten "Pegasus" zu einer Tierfangexpedition in den Kosmos aufbrechen. Doch er sollte seine Tochter kennen! Konnte sie etwa Augen und Ohren vor den rätselhaften Vorgängen auf dem Leeren Planeten verschließen oder sich in der Kajüte verkriechen, wenn die Büsche vom Aldebaran plötzlich aus dem...
Das Mädchen aus der Zukunft
by Kir Bulytschow
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 47,400.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: May 9, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Manche Leser kennen Alissa schon aus anderen Büchern; sie lebt im 21. Jahrhundert und stammt aus Moskau, häufig aber ist sie unterwegs im Kosmos. Kaum auszudenken, was sie dabei alles erlebt! Dieses Buch berichtet von ihren neuen Abenteuern. Einmal wird sie auf den Planeten Koléida geschickt und übernimmt einen riskanten Auftrag: eine Katastrophe zu verhindern, die sich bereits hundert Jahre...
Menschen Wie Götter
by Sergej Snegow
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$4.99 USD.
Words: 207,250.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: May 8, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Die ferne Zukunft: Die Menschheit durchpflügt das Weltall, erforscht fremde Planeten, schließt Freundschaft mit außerirdischen Zivilisationen. Kurz: Sie verfügt dank ihrer fortgeschrittenen Technologie über all jene Fähigkeiten, die früher den Göttern zugeschrieben wurden. Eines Tages jedoch stößt der Raumschiffkapitän Eli bei einem Erkundungsflug auf einen Planeten, auf dem Spuren einer noch...
Der Amphibienmensch
by Alexander Beljajew
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 45,350.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: March 3, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Der berühmte Chirurg Doktor Salvator hat sich aus dem öffentlichen Leben zurückgezogen und geht auf einem einsamen Anwesen in der Nähe von Buenos Aires seinen Forschungsarbeiten nach. Salvator experimentiert mit Organverpflanzungen; dem indianischen Waisenjungen Ichthyander hat er Kiemen eines Haifisches implantiert, also einen Amphibienmenschen geschaffen. Davon ahnen jedoch die Perlenfischer...
Fandango and Other Stories
by Alexander Grin
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 100,380.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 2, 2024
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Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
The stories in this volume together represent the greater portion of Grin's literary career and convey a sense of how his concerns and technique evolved over the years. The first two, "Quarantine" and "'She,'" are from the pre-Grinlandia period. The former is based on an episode in Grin's own life. When he joined the Socialist Revolutionaries, he was considered a suitable candidate for...
The White Guard
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 105,780.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 1, 2024
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Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General
Set in Ukraine, beginning in late 1918, the novel concerns the fate of the Turbin family as the various armies of the Ukrainian War of Independence – the Whites, the Reds, the Imperial German Army, and Ukrainian nationalists – fight over the city (presumably Kyiv). Historical figures such as Pyotr Wrangel, Symon Petliura and Pavlo Skoropadsky appear as the Turbin family is caught up in the...
The Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 36,460.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 1, 2024
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Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
The writing of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is a fascinating and potent mixture of wit, fantasy and satire which cannot fail to engage the reader. This book contains some of his most important early prose. The novellas Diabotiad, The Fateful Eggs and The Heart of a Dog show a masterly blending of the real and the fantastic and contain in embryo many of the themes developed in his later work...
Die funkelnde Welt
by Alexander Grin
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 57,060.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 2, 2024
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Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Der Roman erzählt von Drood, einem Mann, der mit der wundersamen Gabe des Fliegens ausgestattet ist, ähnlich der Flucht in einem Traum, und von seiner Verfolgung durch die seelenlosen Reichen, die die Welt beherrschen. In einer bestimmten Stadt erschien die Ankündigung, dass der Zirkus die einzige Aufführung des "Double Star Man" geben würde, der ohne jegliche Geräte in der Luft fliegen würde...
Purpursegel
by Alexander Grin
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 28,520.
Language:
German.
Originally Published: March 1, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General
Wie eine fremdartige Blume wächst das Mädchen Assol an einer rauen Meeresküste unter Fischern auf. Eines Tages verkündet ihr ein wandernder Märchenerzähler: »Ein weißes Schiff unter riesigen, leuchtenden Purpursegeln wird die Wellen durchschneiden und geradewegs auf dich zukommen.« An Bord sei ein Prinz, der sie durch seine große Liebe aus ihrem bescheidenen Leben erlöse. Seitdem wartet sie auf...
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 152,190.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 29, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The devil, manifested as one Professor Woland, challenges the Soviet citizens' beliefs towards religion and condemns their behavior throughout the book. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a...
Crimson Sails
by Alexander Grin
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 27,440.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 28, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General
The simple story has two protagonists: Assol and Gray. The dreamer Assol, a poor girl in the fishing village of Kaperna, doesn't fit among her dull, hardworking neighbors, and they wouldn't forgive her for that. Suspecting that her inner world is much more beautiful than theirs, they react in a thoroughly human way: they mock and scorn her. But her dreams are her refuge. One of them is about a...
The Faetians (The Destruction of Faena)
by Alexander Kazantsev
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 63,500.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 28, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Cosmogony is no less full of riddles than the history of Earth. And where there are riddles, there is room for fantasy. However, if it is divorced from reality and rejects verisimilitude and authenticity, fantasy is empty, it leaves no trace in the heart; the best it can do is to titillate the reader's senses. But I have always wanted to achieve "authenticity in the incredible", to write...
The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends
by Nikolai Nosov
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 40,470.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 27, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Fairy tales
Description (1073 / 2500) Once upon a time, in a town in fairyland, lived some people called the Mites. They were called the Mites because they were very tiny. The biggest of them was no bigger than a pine cone. Their town was very pretty. Around every house grew daisies, dandelions, and honeysuckle, and the streets were all named after flowers: Blue-bell Street, Daisy Lane, and Primrose Avenue...
The Twelve Chairs
by Ilya Ilf & Yevgeny Petrov
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 105,490.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 22, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
The plot of The Twelve Chairs is very simple. The mother-in-law of a former nobleman named Vorobyaninov discloses on her deathbed a secret: she hid her diamonds in one of the family's chairs that subsequently was appropriated by the Soviet authorities. Vorobyaninov is joined by a young crook named Ostap Bender with whom he forms a partnership, and together they proceed to locate these chairs...
Electronic Boy from the Portmanteau
by Yevgeny Veltistov
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$3.99 USD.
Words: 48,380.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 16, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
You've probably guessed what Electronic is? Right, he's a boy-robot! But the cream of the joke is that, by sheer chance, he turns out to be the live double of a schoolboy, Sergei Cheesekov. They meet and make friends - and immediately fantastic and funny adventures happen to them both. Sergei quickly gains fame as a World Champion runner, an animal-trainer, and an honor pupil at school - but...
Golden Pearls of Soviet Science Fiction
by Victor Kolupaev, Dmitri Bilenkin, Sever Gansovsky, & Anatoly Dneprov
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 45,120.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 14, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
A time jump on the planet that led to catastrophic consequences. An intelligent wolf and a girl are looking for dangerous spores of extraterrestrial life. Mathematical geniuses, devoid of soul, are opposed to ordinary people. Resurrected suicides are subjected to experiments in the laboratory of a soulless doctor. . These are brief descriptions of the works in this collection.
Utenfra
by Arkadij Strugatskij & Boris Strugatskij
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 21,990.
Language:
Norwegian.
Originally Published: February 8, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
1960-versjonen av historien «Fra utsiden» består av tre historier, hvorfra helhetsbildet av det som skjer etter hvert trer frem. I den første historien møter offiserer fra Kamchatka-garnisonen, som klatrer Adair-fjellet (prototypen var Avacha-fjellet), «svarte helikoptre» som slapp av en fryktelig avmagret mann i en netting-T-skjorte. I den andre historien møter arkeologer som jobber i...
Los Cisnes Feos
by Arkadi Strugatski & Boris Strugatski
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 71,930.
Language:
Spanish.
Originally Published: February 3, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
La acción tiene lugar en un país incierto y ligeramente autoritario, en una ciudad sin nombre. El famoso escritor Victor Banev, empedernido de mediana edad, viene de la capital a la ciudad de su infancia donde la lluvia nunca para. Banev se encuentra en medio de extraños sucesos relacionados con babosos o cuatro ojos : extraños leprosos que sufren de una "lepra amarilla" desfiguradora que se...
Piknik Ved Veikanten
by Arkadij Strugackij & Boris Strougatski
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 61,710.
Language:
Norwegian.
Originally Published: February 2, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Arkadij (født 28. august 1925, død 12. oktober 1991) og Boris Natanovitsj Strugatskij (født 14. april 1933, død 19. november 2012) var to russiske brødre som av mange anses som de beste sovjetiske sciencefictionforfatterne noensinne. Arkadij Strugatskij (Арка́дий Струга́цкий) var filolog og ekspert i engelsk og japansk. Hans yngre bror Boris Strugatskij (Бори́с Струга́цкий) var astronom...
Småen
by Arkadij Strugackij & Boris Strougatski
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 53,290.
Language:
Norwegian.
Originally Published: February 2, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Historien om Baby - "space Mowgli" - et menneskebarn oppdratt av en mystisk romvesen rase... Historien om astronauter som prøver å komme i kontakt med "lærerne" hans gjennom Kid ... En av de mest poetiske - og mest fascinerende historiene til Strugatsky-brødrene ... En historie som fortsatt kan leses i ett åndedrag!
Midi, 22ème Siècle
by Arcadi Strougatski & Boris Strougatski
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 34,600.
Language:
French.
Originally Published: January 30, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Sur les écrans du Central Dispatching cosmique, une forme insolite apparaît. Celle d'une fusée périmée à réacteur nucléaire qui va s'abattre sur un cosmodrome désaffecté. - Salut à vous tous, mes descendants ! dit l'un de ses deux occupants blessés, avant de s'évanouir. La fusée ZT 3 "Taymir" était partie en 2017. Mais au 434ème jour de son envol, elle avait brusquement disparu en tentant de...
Brutti Cigni
by Arkadij Strugackij & Boris Strugackij
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 79,580.
Language:
Italian.
Originally Published: January 25, 2024
by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
Il protagonista di quel romanzo è uno scrittore, Viktor Banev, che fa ritorno nella sua città natale, ora sferzata da una pioggia incessante; lì conoscerà i mokrecy, inquietanti esseri dai poteri soprannaturali che si mostrano con la faccia bendata e vivono in un lebbrosario al di là del filo spinato. Invisi alla popolazione adulta, sembrano invece esercitare un'incredibile attrazione sui bambini…