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2) Red tide
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Loosely based on "Flash crowd," Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences instantly traveling long distances in milliseconds can have on human relationships, and how it can reshape a world that once had uncharted places and unobtainable goals that are now within everyone's reach. Larry Niven has helped a number of younger writers in the beginning of their careers. Two of these writers, Brad R. Torgersen and Matthew J. Harrington, join...
3) Timeline
Author
Language
English
Description
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly creamated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When Emma and Noah find a mysterious box of toys on the beach, strange things start happening. The kids develop special powers and with their parents and teachers, they realize that their mission is far more important than they had ever dreamed.
"Wholesome, eager entertainment."--New York Times
"...this pleasing, teasing, intelligent family flick can vastly improve a day."--Denver Post
"...fun visual effects and an appealing tone reminiscent of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren't just hypotheticals--they're real. They're also the very real reason her scientist parents left her behind six years ago. Now she is about to be reunited with them, forced to leave behind everyone she knows and loves, to join their research assignment on Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth. Teleportation is safe and routine...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The turtles from one dimension meet the turtles from another dimension when a teleporting mishap occurs. Together, the turtles must locate the Technodrome to fix this mess! Meanwhile, Shredder tracks down his counterpart, Ch'rell, who devises a master plan to travel back to the Prime Universe to get rid of the turtles once and for all!
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell,...
8) Jumper
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.
9) Stargate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra. At stake, the freedom of an ancient civilization from slavery and any chance of ever getting home.
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