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A representative of space faring ETs recruits a 60-ish retired gentleman farmer to start up an agriculture enterprise. This group of ETs love food. Food has become their art and reason to be. They forage the stars of heaven to find delectable morsels.While entertaining his very tall ET visitor, the retired gentleman farmer (Jonus) prepares a simple snack which uses lots of garlic, sesame and chick pea paste. The ET (T'Lanette Traos) goes nuts over...
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About the Book The Good Listener is a bold, new, fiction book about a plan among the animal leaders of the world, who meet at a barn in Los Angeles and develop a plan to end to the world-wide destruction and suffering caused by human beings: the animals have realized that the devastation is almost irreversible and that the animals have one last chance to stop the humans before a mass extinction of the animal kingdom begins. The animals agree to infect...
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A #1 international bestselling author offers up sixteen science fiction tales featuring aliens, magic, robots, time travelers, cyborgs, nanotech, and more.
These sixteen stories, ranging from flash fiction to novella length, extend from the far corners of space to the edge of time and back to cutting-edge explorations inspired by today's headlines. Read about clones and combat cyborgs, nanotechnology experiments and giant robots, super-sentient...
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The Voitrix was doomed. A derelict caught in the grip of some strange power. Faster...Faster...flashing beyond unguessed-at Systems to cosmic annihilation! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton...
86) New Olympus
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This startlingly beautiful and exotic story has to do with one of the most wondrous and frightening things in the world: growing up. Such simple words for such a complex, weighty, never-ending process. It carries with it the realization of responsibilities, the maddening loss of one kind of security and the sometimes-reluctant gain of another, and so much isolation. "New Olympus" is undoubtedly about a good deal more than the loss of one's childhood....
87) Fat Man
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Embark on a Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Journey! Are you ready to delve into a futuristic world where secrets, identities, and the battle against weight collide in a thrilling, mind-bending tale? Step into the pages of "Fat Man," where personal trainer Luca Pairetti doesn't just solve weight problems; he becomes them. **The Ultimate Transformation:** Luca Pairetti is no ordinary personal trainer. He possesses a unique and unorthodox ability: he uploads his...
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A man is hypnotized into gruesomely murdering another man's wife, hurling her body into the chasm at the foot of Coniston Crag, for which he is sentenced to death. But after his execution he exerts vengeance from beyond the grave…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name,...
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Zeus, an ET scientist, explores the rational development of certain beliefs on Earth. Assisted by his friend, Professor Henry Hawkins, they discuss the behavior of a Jewish man named Abraham. Abraham is ordered by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but God suspends the sacrifice, sparing Isaac and ending the practice of human sacrifice for Jewish people.
Two thousand years ago, a Jewish man named Jesus collected twelve disciples and many more followers...
90) Valor
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Veronica Korix's life was never ordinary. She has faced abandonment and betrayal, grown up in the wilds of Mount Vilgroth, and hunted down the worst thieves and criminals in the world. But nothing has prepared her for THIS. A great evil seeks her out and nearly succeeded in capturing her until she was rescued by - of all things - a massive, talking tree. Now, she and her allies must band together to withstand this new threat before it consumes them....
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Braving countless dangers, across hundreds of centuries and through a myriad past lives, Drath Gofal seeks knowledge! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton,...
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In Ancient Wales, Gwion Bach, a simple woodsman, becomes enchanted by the fey beauty Creirwy during a brush with the Sons of the Long Knives. He earns Creirwy's trust, and tthat of her mother, the goddess Keridwen, and is offered an apprenticeship at their castell in Llyn Tegid.
As Gwion discovers an enchanting new world of magic, the goddess is busy brewing a potion of prophetic insight and esoteric wisdom, destined for her monstrous son. However,...
93) A Titanium Smile
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Planet XimoX, in the time of the novel, has recovered from an almost life extincting event -- the Cataclysm. A terrible accident brings two unlikely people together. They tear open the veil of illusion which has hidden the true cost of surviving the Cataclysm.The couple rebel at their dark destinies and attempt to escape the design. In the process the couple set in motion events which could lead to the extinction of all citizens of the 13 remaining...
94) Martian Avenger
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A baby born of two worlds was this Martian, but even after thousands of years he remembered that revenge was his mission on Earth!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong,...
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Just as ruthless invaders from a far-off cosmic frontier are poised to invade the Earth, out of a curious experimental machine darts the perfect mathematical equation, loaded with potential destruction! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and...
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Traumatized by the forces of biblical persuasion, a professor finally reaches his breaking point and then writes his own bible in the name of defending himself from those forces. Then, to his surprise, after completing his bible, he effectively healed his trauma and transformed into a person of strong moral character. But little did he know, his transformation instantly compelled the ultimate artificial intelligence program in the universe to bestow...
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Un homme mourant dit à son arrière-petite-fille qu'il a signé un document de ne pas réanimer, donnant des instructions au personnel médical pour le laisser mourir s'il est déterminé qu'il est en état de mort cérébrale. Il est invité à un long voyage qui, selon lui, se déroule dans son subconscient alors que son corps est maintenu en vie contre sa volonté. Ce qui se déroule devant lui peut être une hallucination élaborée causée par...
98) Lack
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As Earth's biome crumbles, humanity fails to develop the technologies necessary to stop an impending climate disaster. Faced with widespread starvation and environmental ruin, a radical faction seeks to preserve a segment of humankind by unleashing a deadly virus, targeting the vast heterosexual majority in a drastic attempt to reduce the population and save the planet.
However, this extreme measure falls short of halting the escalating environmental...
99) Zero Zero Zero
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
100) Sentience Hazard
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In 2053, a tense global standoff looms as China's superior AI technology threatens to tip the scales of power. Amidst the chaos, a renegade Chinese scientist unveils vital intel, sparking a race against time. As the US scrambles for a solution, a maverick French genius and a Scottish-African professor offer controversial expertise. Love, sacrifice, and ingenuity converge in a battle for humanity's future.
The US and Chinese artificial beings, developed...
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