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Tara and Gahan are each Barsoomian royalty, residing in two prominent cities, Helium, and Gathol. Hoping to align the cities and enjoy the advantages of a romantic union, Gahan wishes to marry Tara. However, Tara does not reciprocate this love. After rejecting the engagement, Tara sets out in her flying ship. When she flies into a turbulent storm, Tara crashes her ship in an unknown territory. Unharmed but still in danger, Tara is forced to run from...
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Ten years after John Carter was transported back to Earth against his will, he returns to Mars. Having been sent back to Earth before the birth of his child, Carter is desperate to reunite with his wife, Dejah, and meet their child. However, the reunion is forced to be postponed when Carter realizes that he materialized in an unfamiliar part of the planet. Known as the Valley Dor, Carter has landed in the Barsoomian afterlife, where no one is allowed...
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When John Carter discovers that his beloved wife, Dejah, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, he is desperate to rescue her. However, the prison, which slowly rotates, is only opened once a Barsoomian year. As Dejah's prison sentence drags on for over a hundred days, the window of opportunity is narrowing for Carter to save her. Amid social and political unrest from the last war, the Thern had appointed a new leader, but many still believed...
4) E.V.A.IN.E
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A World Exists where the Incomparable Beauty of an Alien Technology Meets Its Ultimate Challenge: To Remain Protector of Their Secret Trancendent Yet to Be Born.
A remote planet's inhabitants' coexistence with ghost colonization from another world. The Denevans are the only explorers known toride their expanse wave of their galaxy's five spiral arms. They bring a concept all their own. They seek to fulfill the wish for the procreation of a future...
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Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.
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Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's storytelling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the unexplored parts of the universe, even today. Enslaved by a triangular powered despotism - one lone man sets his sights to the Six Bright Stars and eventual freedom of his world.
9) Youth
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. The principal characters are Carthoris (the son of John Carter of Mars) and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.
While typical in many ways of Burrough's Barsoom novels, it also includes some inventive elements.
Carthoris is madly in love with Thuvia. This love was foreshadowed at the end of the previous novel....
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En este apasionante libro, el autor narra como un periodista freelance, llamado Pablo Martín, tras una lluvia de meteoritos que comienza el 30 de octubre, y que dura varias días, es contratado por un periódico para escribir un artículo sobre el tema. En sus investigaciones descubrirá que los meteoritos que han impactado en la tierra, esconden una sorpresa,... ¡un virus alienígena que infecta a toda la población de la tierra!
A los pocos días...
12) Alien Murders
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Deborah Raboinowitz is a literary broker. She travels to alien worlds via virtual reality and sells the rights to publish Earth books on other planets. But when an alien is murdered right before her eyes, there's no way she can keep from being involved and solving the murder herself. Then, when an old friend is accused of a murder on a different world, Deborah has to solve that one, too.
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This stunning sequel to Who knew the storm whisks the characters from the previous book, loosely based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel for children, The Secret Garden, and their offspring, off on some new and quite surprising adventures.
It is a rip-roaring romp through a wacky world of pseudo-sci-fi fantasy, combining classic works of literature with film, music and art; all of which are close to the author's heart.
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The Axenite warrior is a germ-free-axenic, gnotobiotic-human being. He is superior in most ways to ordinary men. But he cannot live in a normal, contaminated world. To him a drop of rain may reek with pestilence, the scent of evening may be a lethal gas. On the planet Kansannamura, the Axenites lived in a sanitized barracks and fraternization with Indigenous Hominids was an offense punishable by General Court-Martial.
Piancelli left the security...
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University student David Asbury trusts no one and wants nothing more than to be left alone to study alien languages. For three years, he has managed just that as an undergraduate at Shel Matkei Academy. But, his scholarship, which is his only means of support as an orphan, requires him to become a diplomat in the InterStellar Commonwealth.
Now he's on a team of aliens learning how to broker peace treaties and trade deals. Some of them hate him. Some...
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This is the second and final installment in the Lightning Touch Series.
Against the odds, Lennina managed to save Daniel from a tunnel collapse on Kronos. But recovering from their injuries is just the start of their problems. In revealing her ability t o communicate telepathically with Daniel, Lennina has drawn the attention of The Company. They want to know all about this Talent, and to use it for their own ends.
Trapped within Katoa Labs for an...
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Humankind is in danger. The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mind wiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafés with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive? Polack describes her novel as Bleak....
18) Penumbra
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Life on the desert planet Penumbra is cruel and unforgiving, but Jonathan Crowe is more than familiar with it. He and his teenage son, William, brave the desolate terrain day and night with their jobs as rover wranglers. For them, a brush with danger is all in a day work from the scorching heat to the screamers that prowl the sands. They risk it all for the greater good of the colony they live in. However, nothing strikes fear more than Penumbra's...
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Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie has no idea that what lies ahead is much more intriguing than what the radar techs call Santa's Ghost or Santa's Sleigh.
After Harpie inadvertently discovers the landing site of a spaceship,...
20) Trust
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The most important event in human history takes place in the middle of nowhere. Perspectives are altered. Perceptions are changed. Nothing will ever be the same again. Is this a moment of deliverance for the human race, or the beginning of its end? Tom Winter thinks he knows, but if he's right, then seven billion other people are wrong.
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