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“eugene burdick”

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  • Fail-Safe

    by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling authors, this "chilling and engrossing" nuclear-showdown thriller packs "a multi-megaton wallop" ( Chicago Tribune).Originally published during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this suspenseful novel takes off as a group of American bombers—armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons—heads towards Moscow, their motives unknown. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE Ugly American

    by WILLIAM J. LEDERER, EUGENE BURDICK ...
    The Ugly American, novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, published in 1958. A fictionalized account of Americans working in Southeast Asia, the book was notable chiefly for exposing many of the deficiencies in U.S. foreign-aid policy and for causing a furor in government circles. Eventually the uproar led to a congressional review of foreign aid. Although some of the novelís characters ... Read more

    $1.50 USD

  • The Ninth Wave

    by Eugene Burdick ...
    The Ninth Wave, published in 1956, follows a political campaign complete with then cutting-edge innovations of opinion polling, computers and the use of campaign consultants. Though we now know – even in a world of Facebook and Obama – that data and numbers can't quite predict and control political outcomes in the way the book lays out, the world has turned out close enough to Burdick's picture of ... Read more

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    The 480

    by Eugene Burdick ...
    Narrated by Jim Moore ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    Released not long after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, in the run-up to the 1964 national election, Eugene Burdick’s blockbuster political novel, The 480, foresaw the rise of social media and twenty-first century analytical data manipulation, the use of computer-generated voter profiles to shape—for better or for worse—the outcome of a major national election. Burdick—coauthor of The ... Read more

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  • Red Alert

    The Novel that Inspired Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Peter Bryant ...
    The basis for Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove: A chilling Cold War thriller in which unchecked power unleashes total nuclear disaster.Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Receiving word of the attack already underway, the president ... Read more

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  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

    by Philip K. Dick ...
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    From the acclaimed author of VALIS, the world of an Episcopal bishop is shaken up by death and the discovery of ancient scrolls in Israel.The final book in Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author's search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient ... Read more

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  • Excession

    by Iain M. Banks ...
    The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre."Banks is a phenomenon." –– William GibsonTwo and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old ... Read more

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  • The Unforsaken Hiero

    by Sterling E. Lanier ...
    Series series S.F. MASTERWORKS
    This is the story of the world after it ended . . .Five thousand years after the apocalyptic event known as The Death, Per Hiero Desteen - priest, telepath, assassin - has been working to find ancient information to save his people.The Brotherhood of the Unclean, a roving band of feral raiders, stage an unprecedented attack. They manage to nullify Hiero's telepathic powers, and leave him ... Read more

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    by Robert Silverberg ...
    Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered to my surprise and chagrin that there's more than that going on around here, that I write as much out of karmic necessity and some inescapable inner need to rededicate my own skills constantly to my—what? My craft? My art? My profession? I wrote these ... Read more

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  • Multiples: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Six

    by Robert Silverberg ...
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  • Something Wild is Loose: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Three

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    The world that these stories sprang from was the troubled, bewildering, dangerous, and very exciting world of those weird years when the barriers were down and the future was rushing into the present with the force of a river unleashed. But of course I think these stories speak to our times, too, and that most of them will remain valid as we go staggering onward through the brave new world of the ... Read more

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