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81) Desert Stars
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A tale from the fringes of an interstellar empire that has forgotten its holiest legend: the story of Earth.
He was the sole heir to the Najmi camp, a young man raised by tribesmen after falling to the desert from his home among the stars. She was the sheikh's most beautiful daughter, promised his hand in marriage-if she can convince him to stay.
Together, they must travel to a land where glass covers the sky and men traverse the stars as easily...
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Im Jahr 2030 ist das öffentliche Leben in der Union durch zahlreiche Restriktionen eingeschränkt und die Städte gleichen streng kontrollierten Sicherheitszonen. Als der Schriftsteller Fabian Grünberg von einem libertären Projekt erfährt, das sich auf der Mittelmeerinsel Kalanos etabliert hat, beschließt er, diese vielleicht letzte Chance zu nutzen und auszuwandern.
Nach einer abenteuerlichen Überfahrt erreicht Fabian zusammen mit einer Handvoll...
83) Fellow Travelers
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Moonhawk is a priestess of the Goddess, traveling on quest. Lute is an itinerant magician, specializing in sleight-of-hand and ventriloquism. The two of them meet on the road, and continue on together, down the road, and across lifetimes."Where the Goddess Sends," is the story of Moonhawk and Lute's first meeting. "A Spell for the Lost" sees them working, each in their different ways, to solve the mystery of their host's missing daughter. "Moonphase"...
84) The Black Map
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On the outer edge of the galaxy, some salvage jobs are easy and some you don't come back from. Working for the mob can be like that. For Booker Ward and the crew of the salvage ship Kristi, this new job they've just been handed will end up being more than they bargained for.
The crew's employer found what it thinks is a Centurion class battleship from the fall of the Realm. Nothing like the ship has been seen in the galaxy for centuries. Images...
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Enchanted Canyon is a tale of adventure, love and the amazing ability to carry you from today through the past and into the future and comingle with distant, long deceased relatives as well as human space aliens at the turn of a page. The smooth transmission back and forth in time travel is astounding in belief as much as the wonderful interactions of the people and time frames involved. Another great read by Truman Rock you wont want to miss! West...
86) Alien Minds
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The ability to read minds isn't an unmixed blessing, so learns George Hanlon, Secret Operative of the Inter-Stellar Corps. His unique gift helps him with his assignments, of course - except that he has a lot of trouble with alien minds. He encounters a whole planet full of alien minds on Estrella when the semi-human inhabitants of this Earth-like world of another sun decide that they want nothing to do with the Federation Planets. Hanlon's investigation's...
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Taking place in the UNU Universe, the events of Ikaeu Princess takes place around the founding of the UNU nation and the dying Olim Ikaeu Imperium in the first half of the 8900s. Victima Politica Tragic CCCI, the princess of the ikaeu species, lives in a traditional outdated society, as her nation comes to terms with human annexation. Unlike most nobility she likes humans, in particular the son of the human president she met when she was six. Augusto...
88) Anamnesis
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Every cycle, leaders of the four Colonies gather to reflect on history's shortcomings. But when the Nexus uses the Anamnesis to announce the formation of a new space fleet, some see it as an opportunity to seize power for themselves. Malicious sabotage sends the Matias 1 Space Station hurtling towards the Lunar surface, threatening the lives of billions. Unlikely allies must put aside their differences and work together to prevent catastrophic destruction....
89) Galaxy's Way
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Anna Drayek and her brother accidentally crossed the Federation and got themselves branded pirates. Now they and their crew work on the sketchy fringes of the civilized galaxy.Spearheading their latest job delivering goods to a mysterious buyer on a little backwater planet, Anna finds herself betrayed and stranded.Flirty, handsome Captain Colin Dupree arrived for the same reason and also gets betrayed and stranded.A pirate and an honest businessman....
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When Chet, Toreni, and Jirra rescue Marisa, mistress of Shar Burk's brutal governor Soldar, from certain death they think they're just helping a fellow woman to a new life. But what did Marisa do to earn a death sentence? Is it just a couple of dictators flexing their muscles? Or something much more dangerous? They set off to follow a tenuous trail where Marisa discovers there's a whole new world off Shar Burk space station and men much nicer than...
91) Infinity
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In the second installment of the award-winning Horizon series, Dr. Caeli Crys returns to her war-torn world to fight for those she left behind.Almagest, Caeli's home, stands on the brink of revolution. Long hidden from the rest of the galaxy, the once-peaceful planet suffers under a regime that grows more violent and oppressive by the day. Marcus, Almagest's dictator, is building an arsenal of alien weaponry by selling empathic children into slavery....
92) Kuralon Rescue
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Follow your dreams. You never know where they might take you.
Jirra's on the run, Siena's rescuing her lover, Toreni wants Master Chef status and Chet wants her reputation back. Four women, four goals, and one very small ship. Add a fleet request to free a rebel, the promise of little to no help and a caste-defined society simmering with discontent on the edge of explosion.
Now, on their own, they're staging an escape from a backwater prison planet...
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A distant star has exploded. The ripples of its passing will rock the Empire.
When fate throws Brent Walker and Tian Axmar together, it's strictly a business arrangement. She's an Imperial agent with a problem to solve, he's a space jockey with an empty bank balance and a tramp freighter for hire.
Somebody's murdering Yrmaks and Humans, and leaving a mysterious calling card. Somebody wants interspecies war. Tian hires Brent to help her investigate,...
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After seven years of enforced isolation, Quinten Tamlan is back on his game and he wants the head of Faks Somen, now leader of the Mitres Raygun pirate cartel, on a platter. There's only one problem: he only has one ship and two other crewmembers, and that's not good enough to go up against a well-protected gang of cutthroats.Knowing he needs allies, Quinten attempts to track down the old members of the ST Alliance, but they're all dead. The only...
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Life at Descansar - Heart-warming science fiction!Ever since Maya's parents died in a freak accident, she lives alone with her little sister, Sophie.Most of the time, Maya acts like a responsible adult despite being only fifteen.But on her sister's birthday, a prank gets out of hand.Sophie disappears in the belly of space station Descansar.Can Maya find Sophie before it's too late?A story about two grieving sisters and their struggle in the Descansar...
96) The Tomorrow Log
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Meanwhile, on another side of the Universe. . .Meet Gem ser'Edreth, a wizard with electronics and a freelance thief. Deliberately solitary, unencumbered by family or friends, he immerses himself in his profession, rising to a pinnacle of skill so exalted that the planetary crime boss seeks him out with a commission to steal. Refusing the commission, of course, is his first mistake.Gem's hidden past proves an unexpected liability and his plants to...
97) Feral Planet
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GRAND CLASSIC SCIENCE-FICTION SPACE ADVENTURE IN THE TRADITION OF ROBERT A. HEINLEINSTRANDED AND SURROUNDED!--First In Bryan Smith's Colonel Landry Space Adventure SeriesIt is the 25th Century. The space cruiser Beagle, under the command of Colonel Kendrick Landry, explores a planet ravaged by war millennia ago, now inhabited by hostile savage humanoids.
The Beagle is shot down and grounded by an ancient, mechanized planetary defense network created...
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The settlers of Splendor raised their families in peace for hundreds of years, living a pastoral life on a new world. This all changed when a steam-driven spaceship appeared above the Planet Splendor, carrying with it the hate of a queen from their old world, Earth. The settlers of Splendor had unintentionally released a technological plague upon Earth hundreds of years earlier that had destroyed its civilization and its people. Now a new Earth civilization...
99) Child of the Sun
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Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon...Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game.
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.
100) Spaceberg
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This berg has balls and they bite.
Spaceberg arrives without warning. The size of Jupiter, it hits with deadly consequences, taking out ships and colonies in the outer solar system.
Orbital Rescue Squad 51 is first on the scene with the most decorated first responder in the Sol. Nikili Echols battles the mega disaster to save her family, everyone in trouble, and entire worlds. With time running short, she's forced to team up with her ex-husband...
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