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Steven Gould
1) Exo
Author
Series
Jumper volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cent can teleport. So can her parents, but they are the only people in the world who can. This is not as great as you might think it would be--sure, you can go shopping in Japan and then have tea in London, but it's hard to keep a secret like that. And there are people, dangerous people, who work for governments and have guns, who want to make you do just this one thing for them. And when you're a teenage girl things get even more complicated. High...
Author
Language
English
Description
The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone, unless you crush one, and then they'll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she's been stuck on a rock in a river of bugs for two days, no food, no water, and no way back.
4) Shade
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Steven Gould's classic SF novel Jumper is the story of a young man with a single mysterious superpower: he can teleport anywhere, in the blink of an eye. Now, in a story set after Jumper's sequel Reflex, we see that a single mysterious superpower can add up to a lot of different kinds of miracle...
In 2008 Jumper was brought to the screen as a big-budget SF adventure of the same name, directed by Doug Liman and starring Hayden Christiansen and Samuel...
5) Jumper
Author
Series
Jumper volume 1
Language
English
Description
Davy can teleport. He first discovers his talent during a savage beating delivered by his abusive father, when Davy jumps instantaneously to the safest place he knows, his small-town public library. As his mother did so many years before, Davy vows never to go home again. Instead, he sets off, young and inexperienced, for New York City. Davy gradually learns to use and control his powers, first for sheer survival in an environment more violent and...
6) Wildside
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A gateway to an alternate world is discovered on a farm by 18-year-old Charlie Noewell. That world is full of gold deposits, but empty of men. Charlie enrolls his friends to mine the gold and they bring it to this world. Which is when their problems begin. By the author of Jumper.
8) 7th sigma
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the desert Southwest, Kimble Monroe and others fight for their lives against the "bugs," self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines.
11) Helm
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
On a planet which descended into the dark ages because of a nuclear war, Leland de Laal, the son of a great lord discovers a knowledge-helmet and uses it to restore civilization. The helmet was standard equipment of colonists from Earth eons ago. By the author of Wildside.
13) Jumper
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
14) Jumper
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
