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1) Rift
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Jumper, based on Steven Gould's earlier novel of the same name, Griffin has a secret. It's a secret that he's sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell. Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been. The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret. The most important time was when he was nine. That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents. Griffin...
3) Stargate
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Ultimate edition, extended cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We've genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport--the world's most powerful corporation, in a world controlled by corporations. Joel Byram spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Professor Reese moves in next door, eleven-year-old Jordie enjoys helping her new neighbor take care of her dog and assisting in her laboratory, but she is not sure what to do when the professor goes missing.
7) Jumper
Author
Series
Jumper volume 1
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blessed with the ability to "jump"--to teleport himself to any place on Earth that he has been to before--Davy is determined to locate others like himself, but interference from the government could prevent him from doing so.
8) Exo
Author
Series
Jumper volume 4
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
460 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
9) Reflex
Author
Series
Jumper volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
"Davy thinks he's alone...what if he isn't? When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of teleportation. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible danger. Later, he learned to control his ability, and went to work for a secret government agency. Now, a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is...
10) The last Mimzy
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (260 min.: 94, 80, 86 min. + Bonus disc) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fly: Experimental scientist Andre Delambre attempts to transfer matter through space, using himself as the test subject. But things go horrifically wrong when a common housefly buzzes into the machine, resulting in two grotesque man-fly hybrids. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, Andre desperately hopes that he, his wife Helene and his brother Francois can capture the other mutant - the human-headed, one-armed...
12) Thunderbird
Author
Series
Ancient shores volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
McDevitt returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. The gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations. The race to claim the stargate quickly escalates, the involved view the teleportation technology either as an opportunity for scientific research or a threat to security. In the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
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,...
Publisher
Scream Factory/Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Despite warnings from his uncle Francois, young scientist Philippe Delambre is determined to reattempt his late father's teleportation experiments with the help of his assisstant Ronald. But Ronald schemes against Philippe and turns him into the same horrifying man-fly creature that his father had become. Once again, it is up to Francois to try and make things right again. The second film in the Fly trilogy.
15) Timeline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive.
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley is rescued by scientist Martin Delambre, the grandson of the doomed teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but Patricia quickly realizes her new husband's science experiments are as horrific as his family's past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them before she becomes...
17) The fly
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth Brundle is a brilliant but eccentric scientist who attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly...
18) Impulse
Author
Series
Jumper volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cent, the daughter of a man brutally pursued by the government and other dangerous adversaries for his ability to teleport, triggers an avalanche while illegally snowboarding and discovers her own teleporting abilities.
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