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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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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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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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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.
6) 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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Whitey O'Thraight, the Ship's Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by the local Baron, they are freed by a group of monks who are much more than they initially appear to be. Their new benefactors and friends have something special in mind for the two survivors, but going along with these plans might mean the destruction of Vespucci...
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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...
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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When former Air Force officer and NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned for special duty in charge of security for a nuclear power plant, he has no idea that the plant is only a cover for a top-secret project involving time travel.The government has discovered a way to travel back in time and is sending secret observers to different periods. But there are serious limitations with the time travelling process. All travelers are automatically "re-born" into...
11) Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 18, January 2016 - Featuring Leigh Bracket (Scriptwriter for Star W
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 18: January 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Robert J. Sawyer, Lou J Berger, Rene Sears, Janis Ian, Robert T. Jeschonek, Jack Skillingstead, Dantzel Cherry, Effie Seiberg, Todd McCaffrey, Laurie Tom
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Jody Lynn...
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In this spectacular sequel to the acclaimed Code of the Lifemaker, James Hogan returns to the strange world of Titan, inhabited by bizarre self-conscious robots.
Little is known about the civilization that gave birth to these machine intelligences, until scientists discover blocks of embedded computer code that appear to be strangely out of place.
Reactivating the computer codes results in the re-awakening of ancient beings, creators of the...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
16) 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...
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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.
19) 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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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...
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