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Marcellus: The Mantle is a science-fiction superhero novel with an abundance of alien personalities and powers, and serves as an introduction to the Marcellus series.The ultimate legendary hero and galactic warrior, Marcellus bears the Mantle; a cloak that endows him with immense foresight and strength. He commands the Marcellans; masterful soldiers that fight for justice.Marcellus leaves the implosion of his home galaxy in a warship to scour the...
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You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...
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Rocket Summer: A Short Story Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded. Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer? Rocket Summer is the first short story...
4) The Plague
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Discovering there had once been life on Mars was an historic revelation, but Mars held an even more shocking revelation. The Martian life was indeed ancient, but not just some microbial bug. It was far more complex. But who were these aliens? What happened to them? The answers were shocking. Increasingly self absorbed, was humanity prepared to accept what they find?
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"When Robots Learn to Cry" - A Captivating Journey of Self-Awareness and Respect for Sentient Life"When Robots Learn to Cry" is a thought-provoking and captivating tale that follows the journey of Chance-bot, a robot on the brink of being recycled, who is rescued by Ziggy, a homeless artist living on the fringes of a futuristic, high desert city. This unlikely duo embarks on a transformative adventure, where Ziggy imparts his wisdom on astrology,...
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Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he secretly loves-and perhaps save the ship. A deranged professor, an Amazon warrior, hordes of zombie crew and a sex-starved big beautiful Princess...
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The World Court or the most powerful government of the universe initiates an unprecedented and controversial trial against Pontius Pilate, for authorizing and ordering the execution of Jesus.Using the technology to travel throughout time, the rulers of the universe bring Pontius Pilate to their world, before he dies. However, this trial is a political weapon of the conspirators to delegitimize the Universal Justice System. In this regard, the prefect...
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El Tribunal Mundial o el gobierno más poderoso del universo inicia un juicio inédito y controversial contra Poncio Pilato, por haber autorizado y ordenado la ejecución de Jesús.Utilizando la tecnología para viajar a través del tiempo, lo traen a su mundo, antes que él fallezca. Sin embargo, este juicio es un arma política de los conspiradores para deslegitimar al Sistema de Justicia Universal. En un ambiente en el cual prevalecen los conflictos...
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Segunda parte de El Juicio a Poncio Pilato:Acorralados políticamente, los magistrados autoritarios enfrentan protestas y amenazas por la detención arbitraria de los gobernantes y la ausencia de información en otros casos delicados. El Tribunal Mundial ejecuta varias medidas extraordinarias, cruzando definitivamente la línea roja entre democracia y dictadura. Sin reconocer la existencia de la Alianza Global, le declara la guerra al gobierno de...
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Second part of The Trial of Pontius Pilate:The authoritarian magistrates are politically cornered. They face protests and threats due to the arbitrary detention of rulers and the absence of information in other serious cases. The World Court executes several extraordinary measures, crossing definitively the red line between democracy and dictatorship. Without recognizing the existence of the Global Alliance, the magistrates declare the war to Hagmog's...
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The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill natural humans on sight. In this future, the last remnants of mankind survive in orbital space aboard their ultra-secure technological habitats. Even with their superior science and hard won experience, mysterious...
13) Madness
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Still affected by betrayal and deceit, Alexander Marcase feels his life has lost all connection to truth. Unable to come to terms with his own past, he's determined to discover the reality behind Evan's. What they learn along the way re-shapes their understanding of Keepers and Sha'erah, but nothing can prepare them for what they find.Book 2 in the KEEPER Series
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About the Book A December trail ride in the mysterious Superstition Mountains of Apache Junction, Arizona becomes one of terror and death when uninvited guests appear. Gina McHenry and her group of teacher friends, innocently decide to extend the ride through Massacre Ground, home to a harbor of Ghosts, foot soldiers in the 1860's indicated an abundance of death and terror. Ghost weary wranglers, hired to lead, abandon the group of thirty riders when...
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An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...
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The Singularity is the hypothetical future creation of a superhuman artificially intelligent entity, in the form of a humanoid robot or cyborg, that possesses greater technological, problem-solving and inventive skills than normal humans and, through continuing self-replication, has the potential to attain human consciousness. These superhuman AI entities will have a greater intellect than humans, but will they be wiser? Will they feel pain or love...
17) The Black Hours
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The Black Hours explores the wondrous and mysterious world of dreams as one man, unknown to us and sleeping somewhere in some time, is taken back through his memorable and even disturbing life experiences through his dreams. And in between his vivid dreams there is just utter darkness and he also must experience these black hours.
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The story concerns Ardath, the last member of a dying race from a doomed planet, his ship downed on Earth millions of years in our past, his mission to wait until intelligent life develops, then select the brightest of the race in various time periods, breed them into a super race, and recreate the splendour of his own long-lost civilisation. Classic pulp fiction.
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Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.
20) Earth's Last Day
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Earth's Last Day is a dramatic, end-of-times story describing a species extinction event when a comet from the Kuiper Belt collides with Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the resulting collision sends thousands of tiny meteorites and five planet ending asteroids hurtling toward Earth with no hope of escape for mankind.
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