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"Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth's most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago... The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld's...
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"From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation. JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a...
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After a few weeks trapped on board a spaceship with Ada (and, oh look, there's only one bed), Rian has to admit that maybe Ada's rebels have a point. The nanobots poised to be unleashed on Earth are infected with malware that will ultimately leave the residents of Earth in a worse position than they're in now. But is it too late? Ada and Rian arrive on Earth with little time to spare. Together, they have to break into a high-security facility and...
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"Thirteen-year-old Teddy Habib dreams of being a pro gamer. He just never expected he'd end up in the big leagues. And no, not the big esports competitions, like NickEh30. Big leagues as in if he doesn't win this game, the world as we know it is doomed."-- From publisher's description.
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Die young, or become the eternal incarnation of Justice. What would you choose?
Bethany Anne Reynolds is a government cold case investigator who wouldn't back down even if she knew how. Her temper is short, her command of creative cursing is enough to make the battle-hardened blush, and her devotion to getting justice borders on the obsessive.
Even her impending death doesn't slow her down.
Bethany Anne has the rare blood disorder that killed her...
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JUPITER RISING – THE CELESTIAL CHRONICLES
Book 2 of 6 The Centaur's Prophecy
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In The Centaur's Prophecy, Dr. Minerva Voss deciphers a star-map leading to Enceladus, where the last Sagittari centaur, Chiron, reveals a dire truth: Jove imprisons Nyx, a void entity now breaking free. The Syndicate, led by Darius Kane, attacks, seeking to weaponize this power. Chiron imprints Minerva with celestial runes, showing...
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Nochevieja de 1879. En Menlo Park, el centro de investigación y desarrollo creado por Thomas Edison en New Jersey, todo el personal se prepara para el gran acontecimiento que cambiará el curso de la historia: la inauguración de la primera calle del mundo iluminada por bombillas eléctricas.
Sin embargo, nada de lo que sucederá allí esa noche tendrá las consecuencias previstas. Lo que está a punto de ocurrir en Menlo Park cambiará por completo...
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Las fuerzas extrañas reúnen doce relatos y una teoría del cosmos que constituyen los cuentos fantásticos más perfectos de la literatura castellana. Perfectos por la prosa excepcional que los narra, por los argumentos asombrosos que abordan y por los hallazgos narrativos que Leopoldo Lugones ensaya para dar verosimilitud a estas fantasías. La temática oscila entre la ficción científica (Yzur), la recreación de ambientes mitológicos (Los...
10) Shroud
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"They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back ... New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists--and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud's...
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Parking Unlimited by Noel Loomis - It was a wonderful plan, a boon to humanity. And solving the parking problem would make a fortune for Slim and me. But when the secret got out ...
Noel Loomis was born in Wakita, Oklahoma Territory in 1905, two years before Oklahoma became a state. And if Wakita Oklahoma rings a bell it might be because it was one of the filming locations for the motion picture blockbuster Twister. This tiny town near the Oklahoma...
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"Miracles of the Apocalypse" is a series of six loosely connected Hard Science Fiction novels. Four of them are dystopic, the other two are space operas.
A vegetable species communicates only through emotions. Colonists are desperately searching for water on a planet without an atmosphere. An unknown modification of water suddenly appears. An old man is thrown back to his youth and a reporter discovers a deeply bizarre story.
The author evolves...
13) Slip Runner
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Cole Riker is a Slip Runner.
A contractor tasked with finding alien salvage in exchange for credits. For an ex-smuggler like Cole, theres a catch: Dont break the terms of parole. That means doing things by the book.
Find salvage, turn it in, get paid.
But everything changes when a retrieval mission lands him in a previously unknown sector. There, he finds the material hes been sent to recover, along with something more....
A brand-new form of...
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Die vage Hoffnung, Überlebende der globalen Katastrophe zu finden, hat sich erfüllt. Auf der ehemaligen Militärbasis von Mildenhall laufen die Drähte der Ortungsgeräte heiß. In aller Eile formiert sich aus der Mannschaft der ''Kopernikus'' ein Rettungsteam, das die errechneten Zielkoordinaten ansteuert. Doch bei der Ankunft bietet sich der Crew ein grausiges Bild: Menschen, die gejagt und getötet werden. Alles, was für die Hoffnung auf einen...
16) Way of Light
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Home at last.
Cole and his crew have finally made it back to the Sol System, but that doesn't mean their work is done. The key to stopping Noth lies somewhere in human space, and the former Renegade aims to find it.
Unfortunately, dissension is brewing.
Fueled by greed and the desire to expand their territories once again through open conflict, a group calling themselves the Separatists are plotting an insurrection. They threaten to destroy humanitys...
18) Lost Sci-Fi Books 331 Thru 335 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories From the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 331 thru 335- Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s
• The Elf-Trap by Francis Stevens
• Cosmic Striptease by Harlan Ellison
• Come Home From Earth by Edmond Hamilton
• Spawning Ground by Lester Del Rey
• Membership Drive by Murray F. Yaco
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Das Grauen menschlicher Degeneration lauert in den Schächten von Station 9. Als das Team um Ragnar Kaurismäki die Zusammenhänge erkennt, ist es bereits zu spät. Eine Flucht scheint nicht mehr möglich und das Ende der Mission unausweichlich. Die einzige Hoffnung, dem Tode noch entrinnen zu können, fokussiert sich auf Helix 19, der in den Tiefen der Anlage zurückgeblieben ist. Doch der Mutant ist schwer verletzt und kaum mehr in der Lage, den...
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An Adventure of a Professional Corpse - The Artificial Honeymoon by H. Bedford–Jones - A Certain Young Man Finds Dying a Profitable Business. The secret of one of the strangest professions in the world.
H. Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was one of the most prolific and versatile writers of the pulp fiction era. Born in Napanee, Ontario, Canada, he moved to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1908. By 1914, just six years later,...