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Human by Choice [MultiFormat]
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Best-selling science fiction print author Travis S. "Doc Travis" Taylor and best-selling eBook author Darrell Bain have combined talents to produce a new science fiction thriller. Several alien lifeboats make it to earth in widely separated spots after their interstellar spaceship malfunctions. One of the aliens comes down near the home of Kyle Leverson, a former army intelligence officer and now a widowed science journalist. The aliens think they can never go home but they are able to convert t... more info>>
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Second Chance: God Killer [MultiFormat]
by R. Richard
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A 71-year-old man is living out the tag end of a rotten life in poverty. Glarney Fered is a systems analyst and a blackbelt in the self defense art of Loro. He is a very good systems analyst and can defeat men half his age in hand combat. However neither skill is much use to a 71-year-old man. However, Glarney is hired as a bodyguard for a religious figure. They search the West coast city of Alvero, just two old men seeking a mysterious scroll. As the search goes on, Glarney thinks and fights hi... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Borne On Wings of Steel [MultiFormat]
by Tony Chandler
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The much anticipated sequel to MotherShip! Traveling to the farthest known worlds of the universe, Mother, Jaric and Kyle continue their search for other survivors of the human race. They soon find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception and danger--orchestrated by the mysterious and powerful Paum. As they fight back, Mother comes face-to-face with the Paum--a life-altering encounter that shakes the foundation of her existence as an AI. As her enemies reveal themselves and attack, both... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Gabriel's Horn [Rogue Angel] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Alex Archer
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The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation. Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen. When Annja's mentor and friend Roux goes missing, she quickly realizes there may be something to the stra... more info>>
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The Ashes of Worlds [Saga of Seven Suns Series Book 7] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Kevin J. Anderson
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The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale. Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making. The Saga of Seven Suns is one of the most colorful and spectacular science fiction epics of the last decade.
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Orphanage [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Robert Buettner
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Mankind's first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, vaporize whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soldiers like eighteen-year-old Jason Wander-orphans that no one will miss-must dare man's first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.They have one chance to attack, one ship to attack with. Their failure is our extinction.
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MotherShip [MultiFormat]
by Tony Chandler
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In the midst of Galactic War a new life-form is born--an AI starship. But with all its weapons and sophisticated programming, the sentient starship is not equipped for its greatest challenge--that of becoming the mother to the last three children of humanity. The deadly T'kaan soon begin the hunt again after they discover that the human race is not quite extinct. As Mother faces these impossible odds, she discovers that deep inside her massive memory systems she holds another treasure--a knowled... more info>> (Published: 2002) EPPIE Award Winner, Clara Award Winner
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Beyond Infinity [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Gregory Benford
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Voyagers cross a living universe in a gripping new novel of the far future by Greg Benford, multiple award-winning author of The Martian Race and Timescape. BEYOND INFINITY takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast wise beyond recognition. But there are mysterious forces afoot among the plan... more info>>
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Second Chance: Sky Pirate [MultiFormat]
by R. Richard
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The adventure continues.. Glarney Fered is growing younger with each life force that he consumes from those he's forced to kill in pursuit of his dreams, and is now almost half his original age.. He has managed to assume a new identity as Jahn Loght. He has, under contract to the Primitive Culture Police, killed a dangerous criminal alien. Now, the PCP wants to execute Jahn, because they know that he is a Kivosh who will try to acquire life force. As Jahn, he escapes the PCP and recruits Risha t... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Dire Planet [Dire Planet Series #1] [MultiFormat]
by Joel Jenkins
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Thrust into the savage Martian past, Garvey Dire must solve the mystery of time in a world of alien monsters and brutal violence, or see his own world destroyed by war.
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CodeSpell [Secure Mobipocket]
by Kelly McCullough
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In the twenty-first century magic has gone digital, and Ravirn, a direct descendant of one of the three Fates, is a talented sorcerer and computer hacker extraordinaire. So when Necessity, the sentient computer that runs the universe, catches a virus that crashes most of the magical Internet, Ravirn is tasked with fixing it. Whoever repairs Necessity will, for that moment, run the universe. Unfortunately for the sorcerer, some very dangerous beings have figured that out too.
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Semper Mars [Heritage Trilogy #1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Ian Douglas
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The Year is 2040. The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves. Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC--a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete--has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditio... more info>>
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Orphan's Destiny [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Robert Buettner
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At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he's coming home...but to what? Earth's desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets. There's just one problem with this new worldwide policy-the first alien invasion was merely Plan A. Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attacked by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviv... more info>>
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Scorpio Triumph [Dray Prescot #43] [MultiFormat]
by Alan Burt Akers
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The picture we have of Dray Prescot, as painted by himself in his narrative and by one who has seen him on Earth, is at once enigmatic and intriguing. He is a compelling figure, dynamic, dominating, demanding, yet there is in him that odd vulnerability. He is a man over middle height, with brown hair and level brown eyes, with enormously broad shoulders and powerful physique. There is an aura about him of abrasive honesty and indomitable courage. He moves like a savage hunting cat, quiet and let... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2008 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Our two annual double issues always offer plenty of "extras," and this year's July/August issue features something especially extraordinary. Back in the early 1980s a completely unknown writer named David R. Palmer made a huge splash here with his very first story, "Emergence," featuring Candy Smith-Foster, one of the most memorable people many of our readers had ever met on or off the printed page. But she's much more than just a remarkably talented little girl emerging from the ashes of a worl... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2008 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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One of science fiction's greatest hidden treasures, Neal Barrett, Jr., returns with the lead story of our August issue. In "Radio Station St. Jack" Barrett directs his sights, as in many of his best stories, to yet another post-apocalypse, one in which Father Mac must somehow protect his radio station, his faithful flock, and the nun he loves, from Bob the Destroyer's rampaging raiders, (and hopefully preserve his own tender posterior in the process). This is a wild and witty tale of a down-to-e... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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The Eilithia Project [MultiFormat]
by Marjorie Danser
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During a routine file conversion job, a hologram of beautiful, charismatic Dr. Isabella Castillo captures the attention of Benjamin O'Rourke, data-tier specialist for the Committee for Off-World Settlement (COS). Originally established to help the Committee gain a foothold in the uncharted quadrant, the Eilithian colony Isabella and her team founded ceased transmissions--leading COS to classify it as defunct. But the shadowy O'Rourke discovers the colonists have doctored their data files. This, ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Exiles of the Dire Planet [Dire Planet Series #2] [MultiFormat]
by Joel Jenkins
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In the savage Martian past, Garvey Dire discovers an old nemesis gathering vicious killers beneath his banner to conquer, crush and build a new empire on the blood and bones of the innocent. (Book #2 of the Dire Planet series)
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Death's Head [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by David Gunn
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Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death's Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year. David Gunn is loaded--and he shoots to kill. At the top of the galactic pecking order is the United Free, a civilization of awe-inspiring technological prowess so far in advance of other space-faring powers as to seem untouchable gods. Most of the known universe has... more info>>
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Julian [MultiFormat]
by Kate Wilhelm
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A 12 year old boy peeping through windows with a telescope sees something that turns his entire life into an obsessive quest.
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The Last Protector [MultiFormat]
by Daniel C. Starr
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Who cleans up the mess left by two centuries of careless recreational time travel? In The Last Protector, Daniel C. Starr's new novel from Twilight Times Books, the task falls to a Ranger from the future, a bodyguard from the past, and a serving wench who doesn't believe she has the power to save the world--but is willing to pretend she does, as long as the price is right. With two weeks to reconcile the present of one world and the past of another before the streams of time cross and both world... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Orphan's Journey [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Robert Buettner
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In the years since the last Slug War, Jason's command style hasn't made him any friends in the Army.� Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon.� At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war.When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not onl... more info>>
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Other Voices [MultiFormat]
by Andrew Humphrey
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Moving through the genres of urban horror, science fiction, crime and slipstream, these thirteen stories examine the effects of the fantastic upon the personal, whether through future dystopias, a missing child, climatic change, or repeated infidelity. Featuring an introduction by Eric Brown. (Published: 2008)
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Into the Dire Planet [Dire Planet Series #3] [MultiFormat]
by Joel Jenkins
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To defeat his bloody nemesis and free an enslaved people, Garvey Dire explores the depths of the Martian planet to uncover the hideous secrets of the lost city of Caladrex.
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Death's Head: Maximum Offense [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Gunn
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With Death's Head, David Gunn rocketed onto the scene in the most explosive and entertaining science fiction debut since Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon. Now Gunn is back--and so is Sven Tveskoeg: antisocial, antihero, anti-you-name-it, a one-man killing spree whose best friend is an intelligent handgun with a bad attitude and whose worst enemy is, well, just about everybody else. And if Sven weren't dangerous enough already, add in the lethal alien parasite that resides in his throat ... and is... more info>>
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