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Ben Marcus
Explores a chilling world in which the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end…
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A rare, genius-struck achievement … filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows. Kirkus Reviews
In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of…
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Marcus Carter, Ben Egliston
Virtual Reality is the next new frontier for Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg, who has overseen Meta's investment of billions into VR, pitches it as the next dominant computing paradigm. More…
Ben Robinson, Marcus Reily
Explore the design process behind the creation of more than 30 of the most iconic ships in Star Trek's history!
This is the story of how some of the most…
Explore the behind the scenes process to reveal the thinking - and the artwork - behind the creation of the most iconic ships in Star Trek's history!
This book, which…
The latest volume in the Shipyards series features ships of the United Federation of Planets, including Vulcan, Andorian, Tellarite, Bajoran, Trill, and Earth Civilian ships.
Each vessel is illustrated in…
Featuring the ships of the Klingon fleet from their first appearance in the original TV series through the hit new series Star Trek: Discovery!
THIRTY KLINGON SHIPS INCLUDING FOURTEEN SHIPS…
Ben Robinson, Marcus Reily, Matt McAllister
Featuring ships from the first season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY! The story of how the creative teams reimagined STAR TREK for the 21st Century with previously unseen production art and…
Ben Robinson, Marcus Reily, Simon Hugo
Captain James T. Kirk's Original Starship Enterprise! Everything you want to know about this iconic starship in the FIRST full color volume ever published. Featuring details from both TV series…
The acclaimed author of The Age of Wire and String writes an allegory of the power and impotence of modern women. On a farm in Ohio, a mother and father…
A collection of the best short fiction being written in America, selected and introduced by Ben Marcus
This revised edition covers all aspects of stand up paddling, from buying a board and getting started on your local lake to surfing waves in Hawaii, including a brand new…
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows…
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This is a Borzoi Book –Title page verso.
Originally published in hardcover in 2018 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Ben Marcus’s highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String.
Jason Schwartz,Ben Marcus
Portions of this book first appeared in ‘Conjunctions,’ Exact change yearbook,‘ 'The quarterly,’ and ‘StoryQuarterly’ –Colopho
For the first time ever! The definitive illustrated guide of Captain Picard's Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation!
The Galaxy-class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, presented in more detail than ever…
Ben Marcus (Columbia University),Marc Wanamaker
Malibu offers the best in Southern California living. This smalltown is situated close to Los Angeles and Hollywood, but farenough away from the traffic and stress of big-city…
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Joanna Ruocco
Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call ‘human’.
Emily Fridlund
Evocative and thrillingly strange, Catapult’s stories excavate the psyches of characters caught in the murky borderland between desire and action.
Ben Marcus,Lucia Griggi
A collection of the world's top female surfers Mavericks and more, a celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill when the surf is bombing--Women Who Surf profiles some of…
Hailed by Robert Coover as ‘the most audacious literary debut in decades’, The Age of Wire and String is unlike anything you’ve read before –now appearing for the first time…
Diane Williams
An extensive compendium of Diane Williams’ works.
Ben Marcus,Marc Wanamaker
Malibu offers the best in Southern California living. This small
town is situated close to Los Angeles and Hollywood, but far
enough away from the traffic and stress of big-city…
Stanley G Crawford
A captivating short work almost beyond description. The New Yorker
J. G. Ballard
A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth century’s most renowned writers - J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Empire of the Sun’ and ‘Crash’.
Marcus Emerson
Ben Braver is selected to go to a school for children with super powers even though he doesn’t actually have a super power… A hilarious adventure series about super powers…
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Ben Braver has one day to save the world. The students of Kepler Academy are under threat…again. And, this time, so is the rest of the world. Ben Braver might…
An extra ordinary boy ends up at an extraordinary school for children with super powers in the first book in a new series from the author of Diary of a…
An ordinary kid like Ben Braver is no match for a band of super villains, but he may be humanity’s only hope in Marcus Emerson’s Ben Braver and the Vortex…
Ben has to be even braver if he wants to survive another year as an ordinary kid at an extraordinary school in the latest book by the author behind the…
With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world-cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.
Raul Guisado,Jeff Klaas,Ben Marcus
A complete guide to 200 of the best surf spots (100 major, 100 minor) along the California coast, from the Oregon border to the Baja Peninsula.
Ben Robinson,Marcus Riley
Star Trek Shipyards is a series of lavishly illustrated books that provide in-universe profiles of Star Trekships, building into the ultimate illustrated encyclopedia of Star Trek vessels. Each ship is…
Ben Riley Robinson (MARCUS),Marcus Riley
This long-awaited new Star Trek technical manual–nearly two years in the making–presented in the world-renowned Haynes Manual format details the intricacies of the Enterprise.
Wilhelm Bacher,Marcus Brann,David Simonsen
Und Jacob Guttmann. This Book Is In German.
George Gartling,Marcus, Ben Frank Richard
Ben Kissel,Marcus Parks,Henry Zebrowski
Exorcism made easy? The team behind The Last Podcast on the Left unleash an all-new sci-fi horror story-with the fate of mankind at stake!
An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left
Since its first…
An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left.
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Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski
After attending a seminar hosted in…