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Series
Language
English
Description
"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
518 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic...
3) Death's end
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
623 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting people's private dreams with President Xi's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, three properties and a bevy of mistresses texting him night and day. But just as Ma Daode is putting the finishing touches to his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, things take an uneasy...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, Published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Tor paperback edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...
6) Jumpnauts
Author
Series
Folding universe volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 353 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of Nations and the Atlantic Division of Nations, tensions are high as each side waits for the other to make a move. But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years, and just might be making a reappearance very soon. With the realization that a highly intelligent alien race has...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family's village, a poor and desolate place. With his parents gone, his sisters married, mad, or dead, there is nothing left for him there....
Author
Publisher
Immedium
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The adventures and misadventures of Daniel the puppy as he tries to learn how to be a loyal and dependable friend to the little girl who lives next door.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E. T. C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of the Chinese people long before the revolutions of the 20th century.
Offering...
12) Six Yuan plays
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
285, [3] p. ; 19 cm
Language
English
13) Ghostbusters
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
14) 2046
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories.
Series
Game of Thrones volume Season 4
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 545 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling fourth season based on George R. R. Martin's bestselling books, the Lannisters' control over the Iron Throne remains intact, but can they survive their own egos as well as the ongoing threats around them? While an unshaken Stannis Baratheon continues to rebuild his army on Dragonstone, a more immediate danger somes from the south, as Oberyn Martell, the Lannister loathing "Red Viper of Dorne", arrives at King's Landing to attend...
16) Ne Zha
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"A young boy, Nezha, is birthed from a heavenly pearl by the Primeval Lord of Heaven. Born with unique powers, Nezha finds himself as an outcast who is hated and feared. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, the young boy must choose between good and evil in order to break the shackles of fate and become the hero."--
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c1963
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This time, Bond squares off agains the evil SPECTRE organization in a race to seize the Soviet Lektor decoding machine, thrusting him into a thrilling boat chase, a brutal helicopter attack and a deadly brawl aboard the Orient Express.
Series
Publisher
EOne Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
19) Nina Wu
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
An aspiring actress gets a big break to play a lead character in a spy thriller set in the 1960s, but the required nudity, explicit sex scenes, and belittlements from the director take a psychological toll and she begins to suffer paranoid fantasies about a mysterious woman.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they've never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. They'll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills, and danger or be stuck in game forever!
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