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461) Empress: Book one
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"Imagine you're married to the worst bad guy from your favorite sci-fi movie. An alien dictator feared throughout the universe, who will kill you if you leave, but you need to escape for the sake of your three children. All you have are your wits, your bodyguard, and three guns. Welcome to EMPRESS, your new favorite comic." --Amazon.com.
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"The daredevil Republic pilots of Alphabet return in this exciting new entry in the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy. After their narrow victory over Shadow Wing, Alphabet Squadron is on the attack, hunting their adversaries within the Imperial Remnant. Shadow Wing is desperate for direction and leadership--and they find both in the iron will of Major Keize, their former commander and Yrica Quell's one-time mentor. As battle lines blur, Alphabet...
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"Taylor is Thomas and Ape City isn't a crude, primitive grouping of huts; instead, it's a bustling and urbane metropolis filled with cars and skyscrapers and a vibrant Ape culture. In a world where Apes wear modern clothes, drive modern cars, and rule the late night talk show scene, the arrival of one man will forever change how Apes--and Humans--view themselves."--Page 4 of cover
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The regenerated Doctor (David Tennant) travels through time and space with his companion Rose Tyler encountering strange lifeforms and protecting the Earth from alien invaders. This season is filled with more thrills, more laughs, more heartbreak and some terrifying new aliens and old acquaintances.
466) Frozen orbit
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"When a tiny space probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, no one could know that its most amazing discovery would remain hidden for years. Only when a long-lost Soyuz is destroyed in the skies above Siberia does the truth begin to emerge. About to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission...
468) Stars beyond
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"The crew of Another Road is back, closer than ever to the biggest score in the galaxy...if they can stay a step ahead of the Justice Department agents and Company men tracking them. An engineer with a fondness for weapons. A captain with no memory. An obsessive gene modder who loves to tinker. Meet the crew of Another Road. Josune, Roystan, and Nika have escaped the company thugs trying to kill them. They've gotten a new spaceship to replace The...
469) S.W.O.R.D: Vol. 1
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One giant leap for mutantkind! The new nation of Krakoa has quickly become a major force on the world stage...but why stop there? The X-Men have relaunched the Sentient World Observation & Response Directorate -- a fully independent organization dealing with all things extraterrestrial on behalf of Earth. And S.W.O.R.D. is thrown right into the deep end of a planetary crisis as Krakoa battles the invading King in Black! Meanwhile, Abigail Brand prepares...
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Not only do all his past companions reunite with the Tenth Doctor in this thrilling set of episodes, Captain Jack Harkness also returns and we meet River Song for the first time. The second half of Series Four is a seminal set of stories which no Doctor Who collection is complete without.
472) The autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard: the story of one of Starfleet's most inspirational captains
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"The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history. His extraordinary life and career makes for dramatic reading: court martials, unrequited love, his capture and torture at the hand of the Cardassians, his assimilation with the Borg and countless other encounters as captain of the celebrated Starship Enterprise"--Amazon.com.
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"The only thing harder than vanquishing intergalactic evil? Divorce, an overbearing mother, and the shame of having drunkenly sent a pic of your genitals across the galaxy. Join Triton, the universe's greatest hero, as he tries to get his life back together while everything around him falls apart"--
474) Primos: Volume 1
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"Centuries ago, two Mayan brothers constructed a spacecraft that sent them hurtling into outer space. Returned to Earth only to find their culture and civilization destroyed, one of the brothers vows revenge and seeks to decimate the planet with intergalactic technology gathered on his travels. To prevent this, his sibling creates a contingency plan that activates the world's protectors - descendants of their own family. Now, the fate of the planet...
475) Cold space
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When Mulberry, a wisecracking, butt-kicking, on-the-run outlaw, crash lands on a hostile planet that's on the brink of civil war, he finds himself in the crossfire of two warring factions. But in chaos, lies opportunity-- and where there's war, there's a deal to be had and money to be made. And no matter how cold a world it is, there's one man who knows how to heat things up!--P. [4] of cover.
477) Transcendental
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"Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, he is not journeying to achieve transcendence, a vague mystical concept that has drawn everyone else on the ship to this journey into the unknown at the far edge of the galaxy. His mission is to find and kill the prophet who is reputed to help others 'transcend'"--
480) Earth
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"A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that...