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In AD 2125, humanity fell short of achieving the United Nations' sustainable development goals. Technological advancements in the past century led to the creation of nuclear defense systems and new types of nuclear weapons, including meteorological weapons. However, this technological competition and exploitation resulted in the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of the environment. A 180-year period of relative peace came to an end...

Paxton and the neighbor's kid are inseparable-sweethearts, even, and Paxton barely six. He doesn't mind her antennae and clicking mandibles at all.

A strange people have appeared out of nowhere. Their speech is impossible to understand for most human beings; their agenda, they say, is to colonize the "right place". The interpreter Mika accompanies one of their ambassadors to the little moon Kiruna. Here, celestial bodies play havoc with sound, and reality may not be what it appears. (A sequel to SING) "Expertly crafted and features psychologically complex characters."-Locus At the Publisher's...

Sixteen-year-old Lily is battling the difficulties of high school as well as navigating the new life-altering journey she is forced to embark on. She discovers a world of magic and mystery full of secrets and hidden truths. Revealing a price on her head and the remnants of an age-old civil war, along the way, she meets powerful allies, faces treacherous adversaries, and discovers the strength to confront her destiny--all while crushing on the new...

Return to Kherishdar in this second volume of "backstage" interactions between the author and her creations! In the first volume, we got to know the principal characters that made the setting clearer to the audience... this time, we ease deeper into the worldbuilding, covering language and locations, culture and customs, biology, psychology, and history. Further Conversations with the Ai-Naidar gathers the next six years of "meta-conversations" between...

Can you be in love with someone you've never met? On the mining colony, Perseus Station, Navigational Computer Operators like Lennina are supposed to be cool and collected, guiding their Diggers through the difficult and dangerous task of mining in Krono

A shifter caught on film. A cop with unwanted fame. Will she embrace her new identity, or become a monstrous beast? McKenna Largo loves police work and hates being in the spotlight. But when the California cop transforms into a cougar in the middle of a bank raid, she knows there's no dodging the publicity. Now a viral video sensation, she's the reluctant public face of a newly created race of shifters…As the police department uses her for "PR"...

His grandma is just your average sweet, supportive, lipstick-wearing, enchilada-loving Christian Scientist. Yeah, and the aliens are just tourists...

The nuclear pulses led to the fall of civilization and the survivors ran for their guns and cover. For twenty years, Taylor MacPherson led a group of survivors through the post-apocalyptic world looking for answers. Then Taylor sees a strange light in the sky. Who or what is behind it? Into this devastated, post-apocalyptic world comes a lone alien from a race called the Qu'uda. One survivor, one stranger-and he tells of the threat his race may pose...

Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic battles, space action-adventure and alien contact in this Gardner F. Fox collection of selected SF stories: When Kohonnes Screamed The Warlock of Sharrador Werwile of the Crystal Crypt Sword of the Seven Suns Vassals of the Lode-Star Engines of the Gods by Gardner Tonight the Stars Revolt! The Last Monster Man nth The Man the Sun-Gods Made.