Uppläsare Stefan Rudnicki

This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely sw...

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"e;I can't kill you. If I do, Mac will send out the executioners, the termination squads ..."e;When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top-secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a nee...

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Matt Helm is unexpectedly rich, and he doesn't like it. Twenty thousand mysterious dollars appear in his bank account, but this is no time for celebration. Another secret agent with an unexplained surplus is murdered, and Helm figures he better wo...

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Artificial intelligence/robotics: Have we opened a Pandora's Box? As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels-under...

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One of the most important and popular American poets of the twentieth century, E. E. Cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter...

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Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol's (1809-1852) mid-nineteenth-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the ...

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In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers ...

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As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years "e;rover of the outer seas,"e; comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge ...

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Early futuristic "e;adventure"e; tale written in 1897, depicting the-then-far-flung world of the year of 1947. A double adventure written at the end of the nineteenth century, somewhat in the theme of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues ...

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Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and SurvivalA wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything...

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The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer and her fiance. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling h...

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction, retelling the story of the Passion from the point of view of Lazarus. According to the New Testament, Jesus resurrected hi...

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In less than a day, everything they've ever known vanished and the world fell into chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize i...

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In less than a day, everything they've ever known vanished and the world fell into chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize i...

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Warlocks Augum, Bridget, and Leera are finally able to relax after a grueling ordeal in Bahbell. But their fugitive mentor, the legendary Anna Atticus Stone, tasks them with a dangerous new quest-sneak into an ancient library and research an artif...

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Imagine a spell that can age you a lifetime in heartbeats, turn loved ones into enemies, and set demons upon your soul ... and imagine having to use it to save the kingdom.Battle-tested Augum, Bridget, and Leera prepare for a final confrontation w...

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Quarry, star of thirteen previous novels, a comic book, a collection of short stories, and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series, returns in an all-new assignment that takes the hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that-for the fi...

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He was the most dangerous fugitive, but didn't exist!Nickie Haflinger had lived several lifetimes...but technically never existed. He was originally a fugitive from Tarnover, the incredibly powerful government think tank that educated him. First h...

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Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summe...

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It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus's Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning ...

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Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hardboiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder.Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected ...

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Professor Craig Kennedy, known as the "e;American Sherlock Holmes,"e; and Elaine try to track down the ruthless villain who murdered her father and has more sinister plans in mind ...Professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspape...

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"e;Can it be true,"e; she continued, "e;that scoundrels exist in our country who are viler than the most cowardly murderers-men who trade in the shameful secrets that they have learned, and batten upon the money they earn by their odio...

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"e;You have yet to discover that you are dealing with one who can hold her own against the world!"e;Murder on an omnibus? Marriage in a prison? Mysterious disappearances? William Le Queux's The Temptress is chock full of sensational circum...

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Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "e;the American Sherlock Holmes,"e; will need all of his scientific expertise to solve these mysteriesA railroad vice president and his chauffeur are struck with sudden and mysterious seizures on t...

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It is time to start colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out troubleshooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen.And what better way than to return to America's glory by returning to th...

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*The fourth and final novella from Radicalized* Masque of the Red Death harkens back to Doctorow's Walkaway, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. Listen to Radicalized's other novellas:Unauthorized BreadModel MinortyRadicalized

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Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of...

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In Bones of the Dragon, Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras, an undefeated champion of the Torgun clan, and eventually the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, t...

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Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile.At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin - called Ender by everyone - is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth...

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