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2541) Ambush
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They were kidnapped and forced to fight in an alien space fleet . . .
Cal, Letty, Tony, Opi, and Sasha were thrust together when they were kidnapped by the alien Molethan civilization and forced to become a fighting unit against The Horde, the most vicious, predatory enemy in the galaxy. At first, only Letty could get along with her fellow trainees, and largely due to her efforts, they became not only the top fighting crew in the Shadow Warriors,...
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This third collection of quirky short stories goes to strange places just beyond the here and now. Come travelling to these peculiar worlds where mermaids can ride bicycles on their birthdays, and drive-movies still exist but not everyone gets to leave the drive-in when the movie finishes. Visit the school where something very weird and dangerous has happen to the baby duck. Help Amelia discover who's lurking under her Christmas tree in the middle...
2543) Loophole
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Two universes joined by a wormhole pair that forms a 'loophole', with an icemoon orbiting through the loophole, shared between two different planetary systems in the two universes.
A civilisation with uploaded minds in virtual reality served by artificial humans.
A ravening Horde of replicating machines that kill stars.
Real humans from a decrepit system of colony worlds.
A race of hyperintelligent but somewhat vague aliens.
Who will close the loophole......
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John Spark is a tour guide in the caves of Mars. He's a jack-of-all-trades, a climber, a freelance writer, highly resourceful. He has to be, because on Mars there's no 'roadside assist'. Whether it's a vehicle, a suit, or a body, you fix it, or you face death.Luck lands him a plush job with an exploration team. The cashed-up researchers seek clues to the origins of life, 97 light years from Mars. Or so they say. What exactly is a middling university...
2545) Invaded
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Alienated volume 2
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Cara always knew life on planet L'eihr would be an adjustment. With Aelyx, her L'eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. Even the weird dorm pet hates her.
Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L'eihr. A society melding their two cultures is a...
2546) God's Prison
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What will a smartphone-style Assistant be able to do 250,000 years from now? Engineering postdoc Jacob Carrington is about to wrestle with this question as he figures out his new, unanticipated role on Earth. Jacob's newfound Friend is a loyal yet artificial entity with nearly unlimited power within a few meters of its master. Jacob is just a human with passion and reason, thrust onto a path of transformation from a baby-like 20-something into a post-evolutionary...
2547) Vincent
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Jim Thompson is broke, homeless, and alone. One year ago he lived a comfortable life, with twenty-five years married to a woman he loved, twenty-three years at a good job, and a country home he built for retirement. He is now fifty-four years old, lives in his truck, showers occasionally at a cheap gym, and eats the bargain meals at fast food places-if he is lucky. Unknown to him, his luck is about to change for the better. Jim is being watched and...
2548) The Lost Aria
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After more than five centuries of isolation on Bellatrix, war has come once again. Minu Alma distinguished herself during the Rasa Vendetta, and she has created a combined army of human and Rasa soldiers to defend her world. Though the soldiers are untried, her enemies haven't given up, and she must lead them into battle against one of the premier species of the Concordia in what will be the greatest test of her life. Not only must Minu win, but she...
2549) Requiem
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Twenty-five years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard conducted breakthrough negotiations with an aggressive race called the Gorn. Now, on the anniversary of that achievement, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are headed for the Gorn Homeworld to continue that important work.
But when the ship stops to investigate a mysterious alien artifact, Captain Picard is suddenly hurled through time and space. Just as Commander Riker and the Starship Enterprise...
2550) Rama Revealed
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Rama series volume 4
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In the New York Times-bestselling conclusion to the award-winning Rama series, a human colony aboard Rama III approaches the ultimate confrontation.
Two thousand humans have been trapped on the enormous spaceship Rama III, bound for the Raman Node orbiting Sirius. As they hurtle through interstellar space, the human population has formed a violent authoritarian society-one that has imprisoned astronaut Nicole Wakefield. After a daring escape with...
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Oprah Winfrey Network TV show host and #1 New York Times bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant calls Awake, "A visionary page-turner!" Akara is home to a civilization far more evolved than our own... Long ago, on Akara-a planet in the Pleiades cluster-the Ravaging Era raged. It was a time of toxic greed, rampant warfare, and environmental devastation. Akarans were on the brink of extinction. Out of the turmoil, a critical mass of beings experienced an...
2552) The Fall of Zrados
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THE FINAL BOOK of THE EDEN PROJECT -- THE FALL of ZRADOSHis crew was down to three, but Commander Thirdborn exhaled a shiver of relief. They were still in the game. The Homo sapien sapiens from the diseased planet Earth were still here in the cosmos of the living, still fighting for breath.Read the thrilling final book of The Eden Project as Adam and Gen fight for survival on the savage planet of Zrados.
2553) Tooth and Claw
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Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun, until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the Starship Enterprise has just one chance to evacuate the þeeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species known as the Tsorans. To assist in that effort, Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different...
2554) Ant World of the Dragon
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Life was lived on a grand scale during the Age of the Dinosaurs. There were giant pterosaurs in the air and great beasts on the land and in the sea. There were also oversized insects. What if there were ants as big as your arm? What if their brains were linked together by radio waves to form one vast, thinking colony organism? What if these ants with their networked insect brains were like the cells of a larger organism, each one working toward...
2555) The Enemy Stars
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Four disparate human explorers, marooned in deep space by a terrifying failure of technology, must work together to achieve the impossible and escape a floating prison in this classic of hard science fiction In the twenty-third century, when humankind has spread itself throughout the cosmos, with many intergalactic colonies teetering on the brink of open revolt against the hated ruling Protectorate, a team of four is transported by a miraculous technology...
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Kathleen parviendra-t-elle à concilier ses aspirations de médiatrice et son intérêt pour les sciences des mutations ?
Déchirée entre son travail de médiatrice et d'ambassadrice, et son intérêt pour les sciences des mutations, Kathleen Mârychl est en lutte ouverte contre les représentants officiels de la Confédération des Trois Marches qui s'évertuent à saper ses tractations diplomatiques, mais aussi contre le prince Louan Kearinh dont...
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In the year 2050, a flying saucer crashes into an aged & forgotten Roswell, New Mexico. As word spreads across the country, washed-up UFOlogist Dim Debo is recruited by eccentric multitrillionaire Fred Melon in a scheme to retrieve the evidence before the government covers it up. But the further they dig, the deeper they go - danger and madness consume the Truthers - they've gone too far.
2558) Sneerchomper
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A malevolent creature mysteriously begins lurking in the tranquil waters of a creek that travels through a public park. Soon after, the park's ranger discovers the creature is more intelligent, resilient, and dangerous than expected.
2559) Symphony
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Aurora Award Finalist. The colony ship, The Last Chance, has fled a plague-poisoned Earth with the remnants of the human race. Launched before completion of its biosphere, the ship is only partly self-sustaining. Humanity has to find a new home-and time is running out. It isn't called The Last Chance for nothing. When they find the planet, it seems a dream come true. Earth-like, breathable atmosphere, unpopulated. They name it Aurora, for the beauty...
2560) The Death of Princes
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Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds in this thrilling Star Trek: The Next Generation novel.
On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Federation, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the USS Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating...
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