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Elysium cycle volume 3
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Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggles to survive, and finds the planet hides strange secrets.The Prokaryan landscape is ordered, as if by unseen gardeners, hidden "masters" no human has ever found. The weather behaves as though designed to meet the planet's needs. When fire threatens a forest, a rainstorm appears, only to dissipate when...
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"Edward M. Lerner has produced the best-ever guide to putting the science in science fiction, and he's done it with clarity, wit, and panache." --Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night
The essential resource for anyone who reads, writes, watches, or studies science fiction.
Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage -- at least often enough to be helpful -- to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded...
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Nancy Kress is famous for creating realistic near-future societies based on technological advances and then studying the impact those technological changes have on our society.
Here is a collection of three outstanding stories that deal with innovations in medical science and how they affect our lives.
4) AI Unbound
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Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-two novels and numerous short stories. She is perhaps best known for the "Sleepless" trilogy that began with BEGGARS IN SPAIN. Her fiction has won four Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE).
These two outstanding stories give us a fascinating look into the evolution of artificial intelligence and the impact it has on human society.
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THE MARS GIRL (Joe Haldeman)
Carmen Dula was just like any other girl. Or she used to be, before she spent six months on the spacecraft, John Carter, as part of the first nine families to settle on Mars. )
Just like any other teenager she was curious about her new home-who wouldn't be?-but she did her schoolwork, enjoyed time with her friends, and she started to explore the red planet with the supervision of her guide and friend, Paul Santos; always...
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Best known for his SF novels — including the InterstellarNet series and (with Larry Niven) the epic Fleet of Worlds series — Edward M. Lerner is also a prolific author of short fiction. This collection showcases many of his finest stories, featuring works selected from over a decade's output.
Alternate history. Parallel worlds. Rogue artificial intelligences. Alien invasion. Biting satire as to where the Internet is leading us. A Sherlock Holmes...
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***Winner of The Prometheus Award***
Who is Richard Jarrow?
Is he the unassuming, mild-mannered teacher he thinks himself to be or something much more?
And how does the brilliant scientist named Ashling fit into the picture?
The Multiplex Man (winner of The Prometheus Award) is an intriguing thriller set in a future where every aspect of life on Earth is micromanaged by authorities who consider any deviation from the proscribed path as dangerous.
Off-world...
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Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec's Crystal Empire, led by a living God.
Little is known about the Crystal Empire, which spans most of western America. But it is the most powerful force surviving on Earth and its might is unchallenged.
One man, however, will change that. Sedrich Sedrichsohn,...
9) The Ice Owl
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Set in the same universe as Arkfall (although a totally independent story), The Ice Owl tells a tale capturing that moment when we start to lose our childhood...when we start to realize that our parents and the "grown-ups" are just as flawed as we are...everyone struggling to deal with their own demons.
It is also a story about past crimes and the haunting echo of ghosts long dead, of a life-long quest for redemption and, for some, the final revenge...
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Originally Published as 'Thunder Rift.' *** "Replete with adventure, mystery, and sociological conflict."-Publishers Weekly *** First contact was never supposed to be like this. * A sudden rift appears in near-earth space, causing electronic components to permanently fail and cause total chaos. As Earth's fragile technological society disintegrates, no one can answer the obvious question-what is the rift, and who or what has created it. * A new generation...
11) Project Barrier
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FIRST US PUBLICATION
"If you haven't read Galouye, Project Barrier is a fine place to start."-Mike Resnick
Here is a unique collection from a distinctive author whose works include such classic titles as Dark Universe and Similacron-3. Project Barrier showcases five loosely-connected stories, never before published in the U.S.
In "Rub-a-Dub" Galouye helps us explore what it is that makes us human, in a future were advanced technologies can copy...
12) Shaka II
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Robert ole Buthelezi is a man of destiny.
He is the one the Zulu nation has waited for.
He is the ancient one the prophesies talk about.
He is the reincarnation of the great leader Shaka.
He will unite his people, he will lead massive forces of spaceships to conquer whole worlds, and he will establish an empire among the stars.
He is the leader of the Zulus: their savior, their king, their ruthless tyrant.
But who will save Robert ole Buthelezi...
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A Nebula-nominated classic by a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg, The Masks of Time tells the story of Vornan-19…a naked man who suddenly appears on the Spanish Stairs.
Vornon-19 claims to have come from the far future and has access to technological marvels that support his claim. But is he really what he claims to be?
Leo Garfield and his fellow scientists must unravel the truth about Vornon-19, but are they up to the job, or...
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Edward Davis, a rookie of the Time Service, has already made several successful jumps to the past. Now he is given his most important mission.Two members of the Service have disappeared in ancient Egypt and Edward Davis's assignment is to locate and rescue them.But is he ready for all that Egypt has to offer and for the surprising truths he discovers as he explores this ancient land of myths and mysteries-truths that jeopardize his own mission and...
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Elysium cycle volume 2
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In the sequel to A Door into Ocean, the Sharers welcome to their world a race of extremely long-lived humans, the Elysians, through whose eyes is glimpsed the rich culture of the bubble city of Helicon. 15,000 first printing.
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The great engines of the Enamorati have enabled humanity to travel the stars, but at what cost? Little is known of the jealously guarded engines, while a complacent humanity slowly loses its edge and becomes increasingly dependent on mysterious alien technologies.
However, when an engine failure strands a university ship, Professor Benjamin Bennett and a group of students challenge the status quo and start discovering hidden secrets that threaten...
17) Tau Ceti
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Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally approaching Sarbras, the planet circling Tau Ceti they hope to make humanity's new home. But Earth has recovered from its near-death experience and is now under the control of a ruthless dictator whose sights are set on Tau Ceti as well. President Jurudu knows how to get what he...
18) Mutant Legacy
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This box set contains the complete contents of the following four books:
The Mutant Season by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg
The Mutant Prime by Karen Haber
Mutant Star by Karen Haber
Mutant Legacy by Karen Haber
Book 1. The Mutant Season by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg
There are mutants living among us. People with golden yellow eyes, extraordinary powers and strange abilities. For centuries they have hidden themselves, fearing persecution....
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Two Complete Stellar Guild Books:
The Aethers of Mars by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon
Tau Ceti by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Sevile
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THE AETHERS OF MARS
Welcome to Mars…circa 1900. Cecil Rhodes rules Mars and is on his way to transforming the British Empire into his vision of a powerful force, managed by the "right" type...
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"An unbelievably wonderful book" -Isaac Asimov
"This IS the history of science fiction...My only real complaint is that it ended too soon"-Science Fiction Chronicle
"Painstaking research and wealth of fascinating detail."-The Washington Post
The World Beyond the Hill is a unique book-a story about stories. It tells not only where science fiction came from and how it got that way, but what science fiction means.
Science fiction has been the myth...
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