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Markos is an officer on a ship sent from Earth to investigate probe reports of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Markos is killed by the commander of this mission, and is then resurrected in an alien body by a race of aliens who need him to stop an interstellar war. But will he ever become human again?
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Extraterrestrial Encounters A Collection of Sci-Fi Stories Are you ready to step into the unknown?
In these 18 sci-fi stories, you'll encounter aliens of all shapes and sizes, curious (and sometimes unlucky) space explorers, and ordinary Earthlings having otherworldly experiences.
Some of the out-of-this-world tales in this short fiction anthology include: "The Hoax" - A reporter learns that a creature from another planet is a dangerous thing to...
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Unlike any adventure you've ever experienced in Star Trek, Star Wars, or any of your other favorite Sci-Fi sagas, in The Blood of Balnakin, Tribe Renbourn travels to a new continent, where even stranger adventures await. A vengeful island ruler captures them at sea; the revered Mother-Icealt of All-Domes shares prophecies and secrets that will change the planet; three of these prophecies are fulfilled, as the tribe is forced to reconcile with the...
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Fast-paced, action-packed, suspenseful and steamy!"No other females awoke my passion until her!"Xander runs a fighting dome for his uncle on the colonized Planet Desra.His fighters are all female and all prisoners. They draw in vast crowds and his paying customers find them visually pleasing. But he doesn't feel the same way about them.The purchased prison females have two choices. Either go to Planet Prismn, or fight.Most take their chances fighting...
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You heard nothing happened on December 21, 2012, right?
Not exactly. Here's where the cosmic shift began:
As election year 2008 unfolds, Tess Vaughn's deepest desire is to give up romance and live a quiet life in rural Arizona. But when the former investigative journalist jogs into the arms of married presidential candidate Senator Harris Cantrell Henry, she finds trouble galore.
Not only does Henry tell her things she doesn't want to hear about...
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What happens to the earth when we're attacked by aliens from outer space? Independence Day? But what if they don't come in space ships, ray guns blazing? What if they are much smaller than the millions of mibrobial creatures we breath in every day? And what if they're deadly on contact?
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When the crew of Earth Fleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest is sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating Earth Fleet's first conquest of another star system.
Starship Conquest (formerly First Conquest) is Book 1 of the Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest series, which carries the Plague Wars series forward...
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This book is about a man who discovers a real grey alien in his garage, of all places.
Strangely, the man and the alien become friends.
In this book, Barclay Sinclair interviews his alien chum, and asks him all sorts of questions.
Learn the viewpoints of a real life alien grey- how they view our planet, where they come from and more.
An interview with a real alien is as funny as it is scary- don't say you haven't been warned.
This book is one...
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As the chicken pox crisis passes, suspicion remains. Saida's high temperature left her confused, paranoid, and unable to command. Daig, who had chicken pox as a child, is exhausted from running things for the last two weeks, but many of the Baili and Hiberni feel that he should remain in power. Then Livy discovers the fortress is running very low on food supplies. As she and Daig try to figure out how to get more food, Saida is attacked by two Hiberni...
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On her last cruise, HMS Vanguard - the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy - barely survived her encounter with a deadly new enemy. Now, with her commanding officer accused of everything from mutiny to dereliction of duty and her crew under a cloud, the Royal Navy doesn't quite know what to do with her.
But there's still a war on. And Vanguard must return to the front lines.
Assigned to a task force heading to assist humanity's alien allies,...
92) Blood of the Sun
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A spacecraft crashed an unknown planet. One pilot remains alive and miraculously manages to descend on this planet. It turned out that there is a civilization on this planet, but it significantly behind the one in which our hero lived. There are still Middle Ages. What is waiting for him there? Will the inhabitants of this planet take him? Will he survive there? Can he get back home?
93) Tourists
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His grandma is just your average sweet, supportive, lipstick-wearing, enchilada-loving Christian Scientist. Yeah, and the aliens are just tourists...
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The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado's science fiction novelette of how humans cope with alien contact.
After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker's store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres, while neo-Nazis draw a violent line between alien and human.
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Jillian doesn't think things can get any worse. She ran away from home and has survived on the streets for over a year, but when a man shows up promising her a better future, she ignores her instincts and goes with him. Now she finds herself on an alien world in a last-man-standing competition that she has no hope of winning, unless she can find an ally.
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She looks down at Earth through the front portal of her space craft, excited that she will soon be arriving home. She wants her last days to be spent on Earth even though she has never been there before. She does not have a human body and she has never seen a complete human being. The most human thing about her is her brain. It is very frustrating to her that she cannot communicate in a spoken or written language.
What if her spaceships are being...
97) Fade to Gold
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Aliens have landed in midtown Manhattan. They claim to seek out planets on the verge of deep space travel and prepare them to join the galactic community.
For Charlie Evans — the star blogger known as Evansessence — the alien arrival means canceling his big job interview. Because the aliens will only help Earth if a panel of six humans can pass their tests. A panel of five international celebrities... and Charlie.
And the hardest dilemmas facing...
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Being a teenager is tough. Being part of the first generation of teenagers to share their body and soul with one of the aliens who just barely destroyed the earth: way tougher.
This compact but powerful short story from Ben Burgis, a relative newcomer to the speculative fiction world, places everyday teen angst on a landscape of intergalactic and interspecies conflict, to chilling effect.
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The Primm, an alien race from the other side of the galaxy. Both the males and females of the species are beautiful, erotic, and physically irresistible to any one in their presence. Their civilization is a hive-mind culture of queens and drones that thrive and procreate by consuming life in all its forms. Taralorians are ancient enemies of the Primm Empire. They are a coalition of various species working together as planet builders and creators of...
100) We Lead
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The conclusion to the third Ark Royal trilogy!
The Second Interstellar War - pitting humans and their Tadpole allies against an enigmatic alien empire - appears to have stalemated. Neither side can push through to the other's core systems without risking substantial losses, neither side can gain a decisive advantage. But when a brilliant human scientist invents a way to jump across the stars without a gravity tramline, an opportunity arises to strike...
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