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21) Warped State
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Star Trek meets Leverage in Warped State, a space opera that's "refreshingly hopeful and heaps of fun" (Megan E. O'Keefe). Jasper Wilder is an activist, not a spy, but he'll become one if that's what it takes to stop Ravel Corporation from reviving the research project that devastated his home planet. His plan is simple enough: break into the secure facility. Steal the research data. Find a weakness and sabotage the project. But all that goes out...
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In this fourth and final Righteous Reign episode, Admiral Kurt Brubacher gives us an inside peek at the planning, deception, and obfuscation that's involved in planning the recovery of vast regions lost in previous battles.The rich detail of tense covert missions - the anxiety of approaching battles - and the graphic horror of the battlefields' blinding explosions, crushed ships and thousands of casualties paint a frightening picture of what it's...
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As the architect of IGMC's AI VELMA, CeCe Pain stumbled onto a secret so dangerous, she knew she had to act, even though it would trigger rippling consequences throughout the universe. Plagued by guilt over the lives her decisions have affected, she yearns for freedom, only to be overtaken by an incomprehensible horror that could break her forever. Now her life hangs by the thinnest thread--one woven with both love and hatred. If she makes it out...
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When Commander Tauran's young son, Lausus, is diagnosed as one of the despised changeling mutants, Tauran believes the government assurances that his boy will be treated well. His less trusting wife, Beatra, however, flees with Lausus to a changeling planet.
After years of leading troops into battles against the mutants, while tirelessly searching for signs of Beatra and Lausus, Tauran seizes on an offer from a trusted, yet rogue, scientist with...
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"Somewhere beyond the stars, well past the scattered light of the unknown universe, in a realm so distant that no life of any kind has ever ventured there, and where the fundamental rules of time and space have never applied, there's nothing. If you find yourself in such a place, you know you've gone too far." Introducing the madcap adventures of Ernst Vossoff and Karl Nimmitz, a couple of interstellar rogues whose adventures often veer in unexpected...
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En la vastedad del universo, donde la oscuridad cósmica se mezcla con la danza de las estrellas, existe un rincón misterioso que desafía la lógica y estira los límites de nuestra comprensión: el agujero negro. Este fenómeno gravitacional, donde la gravedad se vuelve implacable y la luz se desvanece en la insondable negrura, ha sido el tema de especulación, asombro y fascinación a lo largo de la historia de la astronomía.En este viaje intergaláctico,...
27) Diaspora
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Joshua Gray, an explorer forced to become a soldier, may be the only person who can save the human race from utter destruction at the hands of an intractable alien enemy that claims a right of return to Earth. Gray forms a friendship with a leader of the long-dispersed q-Chek - a bond forged through suffering and painful choices. Together, the two blur the lines of loyalty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for peace . . . peace at a price.
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Bk 3 in The Protectorit Series: Newly married, Dr. Kathleen O'Donnell finds herself abandoned on the Protectorit's home world. Duty forces Tammaru to leave her there in order find Lady Deso's renegade fleet. Alone, Kathy must to survive the hostile Great Lady Ki and the implanted Healer's stone festering in her forehead that's determined to kill her. Her friends, Tammaru's sister, the High Lady Mirimu, and the Socitariat, High Lord Pimmnidiat Tau,...
30) Dissonant State
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A unique, compelling, and hopeful space opera, Dissonant State is sure to delight fans of Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, and Martha Wells. Kay Wilder despises Ravel Corporation, whose occupation of her home planet left Kay with a useful but debilitating power to hear others' emotions. Unlike her brother Jasper, an activist who fights corporate injustice, Kay has always stayed as far away from the corporate states as possible. Until now. Because Ravel...
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Mankind will eventually travel around the universe at speeds exceeding the speed of light. When will that happen? Who will build the first ship? How will it operate? And what will we find once we are able to travel beyond our solar system?L.S. 1, The Quest for Light Speed, is a lighthearted fictional look into the future often filled with edge of your seat situations and heart-warming emotions. The story centers around a loose knit family most of...
32) Naughty & Nice
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A zombie detective must save Christmas after someone steals Santa's list in this humorous mystery short story by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself tackling a bizarre Christmas case when Santa Claus himself becomes a client, hiring Dan to recover some very precious stolen North Pole property. If you like werewolves, vampires, evil elves, zombies, as well as a lot of belly laughs, curl up with this story...
33) Climbing Olympus
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A group of surgically altered exiles plot to destroy a corrupt plot to colonize Mars in this science fiction adventure by a New York Times bestseller.
In order to terraform Mars, Earth first had to transform people . . .
The Red Planet is a harsh place, and normal humans cannot survive there during the many years of taming the planet. But a group of humans-called "volunteers," even though they were taken from prison gulags-have been surgically...
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This story is intended for mature readers. Dark content and mature themes: Occasional, brief moments of graphic violence; Occasional, brief moments of implied sexuality [no erotica]; Rampant classism; Slavery; Brief mention and moments of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
It's a story of an Earth, just beyond the horizon. Scientists and business people work to preserve human civilization. Great strides made in genetics engineering technologies...
35) Planet 15.8
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Embarking on a space journey can be dangerous, no matter how short the trip is supposed to be. Going to inspect a new planet with unknown life can be exciting, and well paid. Being thrown onto the planet surface without a way to contact home base or protect oneself from the unknown can be deadly. Follow along with two men who were sent on such a journey with disastrous results, will they manage to survive until home base can send a rescue party or...
36) Alien Checkmate
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Alien Checkmate parallels Alien Backlash as Terrans, Zeobani and two Cats fly to Petislay for Contact and help minus an instruction manual or lessons. Problems resulting include life support wasn't switched on. On arrival, individuals welcome them but authorities don't; they are not granted citizenship. Az, Kaz, Kelly, Li and Stella, now a tight knit group, become embroiled in a sinister mystery and have to flee. Helene, Mayling and Nanelle go back...
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune, a novella about a woman who suspects her neighbor is a spy about to reveal her long concealed past.
Mrs. Ross is an expatriate American who has found a quiet life in the small Mexican village of San Juan, a place where she can be content, a place where no one knows the secrets of her shadowy past life. Until an ambitious American painter takes up residence in San Juan, attempting to depict-and...
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In the distant Heracles system, at the edge of explored space, the last remaining crew of the infamous Crimson Star pirates have found themselves trapped. Civil war has broken out, and the jumpgates that supply interstellar travel have been shut down to all but official traffic. Their leader, ex-math professor TYBALT, is desperate to escape the system and attempt an experimental cure for the degenerative nervous condition that got him fired in the...
39) Escape Velocity
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Picking up where PaxCorpus left us, Escape Velocity shoves you face-first into the abyss, grabs hold and never lets go.Follow Dante, Meryl and a ragtag squad of survivalists, who call themselves, Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team, from the depths of the devastated state of New Jersey to the bowels of post-apocalyptic Manhattan.With less than a day's worth of supplies and their underground shelter lying in ruins, thanks to the terrorist cell, ZeroFactor,...
40) Star Track
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A gap is filled in the 'Star Track' world, as to why the Clingons made peace with the Federated. All thanks to James T. Quirk, coming out of retirement, once again, to deal with the new weapon, the 'Death Wave', that threatens Star Feet and the entire Cosmos.Attended by his Yowoman, Ms. Rynd, his doctor-therapist, MacBoy, and his First Overseer, Mr. Spook, Jim must remain the center between emotion and logic, playing a game of 4-dimensional chess,...
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