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In the prequel to the Saga of Shadows trilogy and Hugo Award nominee The Dark Between the Stars, humanity recovers from war as new threats loom.
Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the human race is still picking up the pieces. The Terran Hanseatic League has become the Confederation, and King Peter and Queen Estarra work to heal wounds among the factions of humanity, as well as with the alien Ildiran Empire.
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2) Triploidy
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When their baby is born with a genetic defect caused by an extraterrestrial intelligence, new parents must fight to save their child-and humanity.
A medical mystery . . . and a threat from beyond the stars.
For Jon and Marianna Knox, the birth of their daughter Persephone marks the happiest day of their lives. Until they learn that Persey is suffering from a rare but fatal condition called "triploidy."
Her doctors are baffled, and with...
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On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the liberating sounds of music.
Hiley OIV is one of Ut's most conscientious inhabitants, a man so afraid of losing his head (utpeople have very precarious necks) that a Bad Thought almost never enters his...
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The riveting third installment of the Clash of the Aliens series, an epic post-apocalyptic science fiction space opera. The Clan mobilizes and conquers Ohio to get C-17 planes to rescue the Qu'uda survivors on Andros. The Clan flies to the west coast and builds spacecraft using alien fusion drives in submarines. A Hoo-Lii craft emerges from a warp in space-time and is attacked by the Qu'uda. The humans uses nuke missiles to overwhelm the Qu'uda ship....
5) That Summer
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In That Summer, Allen Drury turns from the world of international politics to the private politics of Greenmont, an exclusive vacation colony high in the California Sierras where an intense love story is played out against tribal country-club mores and tragic social pressures.
Greenmont is a millionaire's hideaway, a super-civilized encampment for the privileged few, but dangerous currents run beneath its affluent exterior. Major Bill Steele arrives...
6) Decision
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"Crudely effective melodrama-as two [Supreme Court] Justices . . . consider the death penalty . . . of the man who killed/maimed their daughters." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Advise and Consent, a gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core-the Supreme Court of the United States.
Earle Holgren-murderer, terrorist, lost...
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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...
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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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In an alternate 1980s, a Mars colony bureaucrat finds himself battling corruption, conspiracy, and undercover androids in this sci-fi thriller.
Few people believe Dave Shuster's stories about the red planet. But now government agents are eager to discuss a photo showing a graveyard on its surface, complete with crosses. Shuster claims that he once lived on Mars . . . in an alternate timeline. According to his story, he was a low-level bureaucrat...
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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...
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2091-The Year the Earth Changed
As Yellowstone erupts, sending humankind into an extinction-level event, countries, cities, and enclaves of the elites create desperate, innovative ways to survive the coming ice age.
Some scientists uplift entire cities into the sky above the disaster, others build undersea colonies, while some look to space. A few delve into the darkness of genetic modification and try to evolve a new species of humanity.
Now,...
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In 1906 London, Lady Natasha Dorrington is drawn into a mystery involving an ancient pagan curse and a diabolical plan to plunge the world into war . . .
An Admiralty courier has been murdered, and plans for the Dreadnought-a new battleship that will upset the balance of naval power-are stolen. All evidence implicates Great Britain's international rival: Germany. Tasha is summoned to help solve the crime-bringing her to the attention of Dierdre,...
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On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the liberating sounds of music. Hiley OIV is one of Ut's most conscientious inhabitants, a man so afraid of losing his head (utpeople have very precarious necks) that a Bad Thought almost never enters his...
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The Universe is nursing a morning-after hangover.
That's how ex-freedom-fighter Lem Benzaran feels. Exiled after going AWOL to save her world, she lives in a changed galaxy in the aftermath of a purge that wiped entire planets clean of people like herself. A vague prophecy plagues her isolation: she's destined to cause the Universe's heat death.
Jei Bereens is one of Lem's only contacts with her old life. Once his command team's golden...
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"This final collaboration between the late Herbert (Dune) and Ransom is a worthy sequel to their novel The Lazarus Effect." -Publishers Weekly
Pandora's humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora's wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight,...
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When the ruthless aliens attack the outer reaches of the Federation, Humankind is forced to retreat haphazardly from dozens of conquered systems. The only chance to delay the advance of the enemy is to create hundreds of fake colonies. If that doesn't work, the Fleet will be forced to face the ma'lahn in a series of open battles, which can lead to its annihilation. Politicians, however, do not care about the consequences. Their goal is to preserve...
18) An Alien Light
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In this epic science fiction tale by an award-winning author, two warring tribes are the subjects of a strange alien experiment.
Epic in scope, peopled by characters from every strata of profoundly different societies, An Alien Light is an unflinching look at the strengths and weaknesses of the genetic, evolutionary, and historical inheritance that all of us share.
Arys, a glassblower and outcast.
Jehane, a skilled female warrior.
Dahar,...
19) A World Adrift
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Venus has become a world of Zeppelin cities where merchants fly carbon-fiber airships. Whalers harpoon tin behemoths that rise from the murky depths. And the only woman who can save it all from ruin is being hunted by a man willing to do anything to seize her father's empire. Privilege is a double-edged sword. As a young noblewoman, Willamette Lolofi has an education and the freedom to indulge her curiosities. But the political marriage she faces...
20) Walpurgis III
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Evil versus evil
Conrad Bland has slaughtered tens of millions, a butcher vastly worse than Hitler. He has never considered not killing anyone who stood in his way.
He takes refuge on Walpurgis III, a planet settled by various cults of devil worshippers. He is the manifestation of the evil they revere, but now that they have come face-to-face with their beliefs, the cults desperately want Bland to be removed from their lives, their world, and entirely...
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