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The alien threat is real. They fly across our skies, under our oceans, and have disrupted our lives and our safety. At first, man looked upon the aliens with curiosity and a hope that they would be benevolent and improve life on Earth. While this optimistic view was embraced by many, just the opposite was the new reality. After capturing two passenger aircraft out of the sky, their real purpose was revealed. The horrific acts of desecration wrought...
2) Chron
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An explosion rocks Sam's world, causing her to lose her memories, and she finds herself lost in a forest with a stranger. There, she and the stranger meet an older man named Albin, who provides them with only enough information for them to begin a mission he is suddenly sending them on. Through a magical portal he creates, they are transported to another world to search for a mystical key. Completely lost and confused, they find shelter in a cave...
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This novel is a sequel to The Zombie Philosopher. Edward and his valet, Brent, take a space liner tour on the SS Brizo from the Lunar Gateway to New Troy at Earth-Sun L4, on to Mars, and back to Earth. Brent's less-than-masterfully-coordinated enemies take a new tack in their efforts to destroy him but are foiled once again. Edward's new friend Cindy investigates an archaeological find of artifacts on Mars and interrupts a plot to perpetrate fraud...
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Ruins are all that's left. The name doesn't matter. A long time ago, alien creatures were brought here but somehow escaped and infested the city, but just because it was left in ruins does not mean that everything is lost.
The Ruins trilogy are three stories that follow the trials and tribulations of three men, set in different points in the city's fall--a scavenger who has to help a tourist find what she lost a long time ago, a father who wants...
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Buckle up, people! 13 has disappeared with the doc, and the only sorry sumbitches who can do anything are Stone, Jack, Kate, and Stacy. The gang teams up with Hightower and a cocaine-addicted alien named Frost. Time travel seems all fun and games until shit goes wrong, and like everything with the gang, it does. Time travel, pirates, Nazis, Viking werewolves, giant bears, giant man-eating plants, raptors, more Alien 13 monsters, alien gods, a dark,...
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This story is about love, divine here on Earth. In the twenty-first century, humans have advanced very far in technology, to the point where the entire human genome has been mapped and patient. With all the pollution, waste, and destruction that have been observed beneath the heavens, humans still seem to be on a self-destructive path. So in the year 1999, scientists cloned a prehistoric mammoth that was found in Antarctica two years prior. The mistake...
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The far-flung imperial frontier is no place for greenhorns.
Two Toes, the renegade Tigerillian war chief, is off the reservation and slaughtering human settlers west of the Bloody Muddy. Only a half-grown boy with a heart full of vengeance and bottled lightning in both hands stands between the outlaw war chief and the rest of the western frontier.
But there are secrets about young Lightning Ryan Taylor that span the known universe. Secrets that...
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Generations have been and gone since Colonel Jeremy McCloud disappeared without trace on the first space mission launched by the United States of America in August 1945.
Those involved in the launch are also gone-or have they?
Present day, twenty-first century
The first indication there might be contact with the 1945 space vessel The Javelin was unknowingly initiated by an archivist, Sophia Aburae, who heard a distinct signal originating...
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Their planet had been ravaged by years of warfare. All life, apart from the many male species on their planet, have been eradicated. It has become vital to journey throughout many galaxies to gather much needed wildlife, plant life, and compatible females to replenish their world. In their travels, they discover Earth and its massive abundance of life. They decide to visit Earth to add to their collections. The supreme commander's personal bodyguard,...
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Isaac is a teenager who's been unhappy most of his young life. When his father died tragically while time traveling through history, his only child, Isaac, inherited his property and his time machine. As Isaac quickly sold the property to acquire IPO stocks from the mid-1970s, suddenly, the young man became a multimillionaire in today's timeline. The youth also inherited his father's addictive personality. Isaac overindulged to the extreme, which...
11) The Oracle
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Evan Stewart, a twenty-first-century student of history, travels back in time to the Los Angeles of the 1930s. His original objective was to interview individuals who were significant in the events surrounding World War II, and write scientific papers on his findings. His course was altered, however, when his hobby of horse racing trivia and a blossoming romance intervened to sidetrack his intent.
His knowledge of the winners of horse races permitted...
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This is a science fiction book set in the far future, taking takes place on many worlds and in a multitude of varying landscapes.
Most humans have left Earth, which is now a plastic wasteland, well over a millennia ago, and humans have moved out into the universe with the advent of the faster-than-light slip-drive technology, encountering the Planetary Organization in the process.
Osborne lives with his retired father in a world with no name. Osborne...
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Pluto has been known as a planet up until now. Now it is not known as a planet but as a dwarf ice moon. It has been a mystery, but soon that mystery will be solved. Something monstrously sinister that is too dark and evil had moved about on the planet's surface. Once again, the ancient door had opened up, and it would close once it was time. The creature had left something behind so it could come back and destroy all life. Somehow, something-an artifact...
14) Mind of McDavid
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When McDavid gets left behind on Earth, he and a group of unlikely allies must work together to get back to their families, who are traveling to a new world, and to stop those who want to keep everyone on Earth.
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Since he was a boy, Julius Stetson dreamt of what life would be like on another planet. After a tragic work accident, he gets an unprecedented chance to make his dream a reality. However, fate plays a cruel trick. As his Martian dream descends into nightmare, the man from Pontiac must make an impossible choice. No matter what he does, his decision will change both worlds.
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Prince Catair, the youngest son of the king of the elves, finds himself sent on a mission to destroy an ancient evil necklace discovered to be in his possession. The mission goes wrong from the start. The group made up of Prince Catair's best friend, William Starling, fiancée, Annalee, and new and old friends faced monsters, weather, and evil sorcerers.
Tragedy strikes on Prince Catair's soul when he and Annalee are, washed overboard into an unforgiving...
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The year is 3024. Humanity has gained alien allies, expanded tens of trillions of our population beyond the solar system, developed heavily advanced technology once thought to be the realm of science fiction in the twenty-first century, and so much more.
But now the solar system is in danger from a merciless, bloodthirsty alien empire known as Lagorians and a lethal criminal bent on something wicked. Everyone, military and civilian alike, are in...
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The prophecy of the chosen one begins with the conspiracy of the Order of Truth to release their god Lucifer from his underground prison on Mars. Who is the chosen one, and can the chosen one defeat Lucifer? Or, will Lucifer sacrifice the chosen one to reign over the universe and destroy mankind?
AJ Snyder is thrown into trying to figure things out with the death of his friend Zack. The only person he can trust to help him uncover the truth behind...
20) The Great Cure
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Set in the first half of the twenty-first century, George Fillmore, a Texas-born, New York—based medical researcher, and Adam El Del Rio, a Dominican medical researcher, are experimenting on an advanced treatment for a rare form of cancer. The experiment would transform into multiple, natural cures in one. It soon becomes a historic mission in eliminating the majority of common and deadly diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer's, and HIV/AIDS worldwide...
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