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Blast off with "From the Earth to the Moon," a visionary science fiction masterpiece from the iconic Jules Verne. This groundbreaking novel spins an extraordinary tale of the daring Baltimore Gun Club, a post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, who devise an audacious plan to catapult a spaceship to the moon. In the era before actual lunar expeditions, Verne astonishingly predicts technological advancements and the thrill of space exploration,...
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Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has ten stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they...
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Severely abused as a child, Dr. Grant Chapman is a multi-phobic computer genius who believes in NASA's mission to far space, but is too afraid to make the trip. His best friend-NASA rogue, con artist, and trouble-shooter, Billy Jepler-drugs Grant and launches him into space.
When Grant emerges from stasis, he finds the other nauts dead, a section of the ship battered shut, and the ecological balance of the Galileo threatened. His only companions...
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A strange planet holds a dark secretCarina Lin and her family of mages are trying to get to Earth aboard the colony ship, the Bathsheba, but they have one small problem: The ship's out of fuel.Carina travels to a planet in an unfamiliar region of the galaxy, hoping to exchange one or more of the precious ember gems for enough fuel to fill the starship's tanks.A shocking revelation awaits her, which could allow her to abandon her dangerous quest.But...
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Ray Bradbury's "The Monster Maker" unravels a chilling narrative that delves into the darker realms of human ambition and the consequences of playing god. Set in a world where science blurs the line between creation and destruction, the story follows the protagonist as they grapple with the moral implications of their scientific pursuits. Bradbury weaves a tale that explores the fragile balance between innovation and hubris, raising poignant questions...
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Jerry Morgan, is a man with no future on Earth, he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it. He starts out his new life on Mars on the wrong foot by meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian he wrongly believes is menacing her. Which in actuality is the princess's beloved pet.
From there Morgan becomes, entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court, spurns the advances of a would-be lover, and escapes, his...
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A Deadly Adversary. A Clash of Interests. A Colony at Stake.
Bound by a vow of vengeance against the murderous and psychopathic Dr. Hayashibara, a fortuitous message from his cousin on her whereabouts takes Xerx and his crew to the distant orbital colony of Tophanavar. A charity Gestalt tournament becomes the cover for his crew's investigation into the colony's seedy dives to find his prey, who has left a trail of occupied hospital beds in her...
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Fifty thousand years ago, a meteorite hit the planet Asto, giving its Aghyrian inhabitants mere days of notice. Three ships escaped the Armageddon. Two went to the neighbouring planet. The third, a massive generation ship, refused to take on refugees, and then vanished without a trace.
It's coming back.
Its initial burst of communication caused the outage of the Exchange, the FTL network for transport and communication, but since then the ship has...
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A spectacular space opera from the golden age of science fiction. The inhabitants of Earth are invaded from outer space whom then they attempt to conquer from within. Stellar Downing, the precise and calculating flight commander of mars is a bitter rival of Clifford Lane, quick and impulsive flight commander of Venus and their rivalry is known to all three worlds of the solar combine. A classic from one of the best writers of the genre.
11) Lovelock
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Bestselling author Orson Scott Card teams up with the talented Kathyrn H. Kidd to create a startling look at the ethics of bioengineering
Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend his days and nights observing the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists through digital recording devices behind his eyes. In his heart is the...
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Get ready to go on a twisted space adventure as destiny catches up with a reluctant hero.Expect fast paced action, aliens and more aliens, planet hopping, a mysterious quest and a bossy spaceship who likes to meddle.Includes all four books in the Space Gypsy Chronicles:Pirate: Destiny might be calling, but he's not answering…yet.Sinner: All he remembers is how to survive.Rebel: Rafe never wanted to lead until he doesn't have a choice.King: After...
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The fifth book in the exhilarating treasure-hunting adventure series, the Atlantis Legacy.Still reeling from a heartbreaking loss, Cora embarks on a desperate mission to reclaim the shattered pieces of her heart. She is rage. She is vengeance. She is death. And she is out for blood. Blood of the Broken is the fifth book in the captivating sci-fi adventure series, the Atlantis Legacy. If you like ancient mysteries, Greek mythology, treasure-hunting...
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A groundbreaking science fiction novelette from the early days of Galaxy magazine-plus a new foreword by Paul Di Filippo.
Appearing in the second issue of Galaxy dated November 1950, Honeymoon in Hell showcased the magazine's distinctive identity as opposed to other publications of its time-darker, more socially aware, sometimes sexually frank in ways that were shocking for the era. Dealing with copulation and its desired consequences, Honeymoon...
15) A rover's story
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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars is a dangerous place filled with dust storms...
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The Immortals of the Interstellar Colony is a book about a man rising from the ashes of his life to create a new Space Habitat, and that Habitat journeying to the nearest star to establish a new settlement.In Part I we learn the story of a young man who lost hope-then found it again.He learned how to change his life and found a new mission and goals which excited him.This led him to a career in space manufacturing which evolved into a project building...
17) Plains of Utopia
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Xenon Hybrid, the Red Planet's ceremonial head-of-state, has not been seen for many years after withdrawing to an isolated enclave in the far north where he steadily built up a following of citizens seeking out an alternative lifestyle. They bother no one, and no one bothers them.
But when an Earth-bound ship explodes on the launchpad in Jezero City, and the DNA from two bodies recovered at the site are found to be an exact match, Dr. Jann Malbec...
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This story begins with a message from the past by the last two human hybrids who bring the beginning of the Paradox. These two humans are following orders from an advance alien race in hopes to send a message to a far-off world in another timeline. The scientists of Alpha Prime have used all their technology to reach the Ring Galaxy which promises to bring prosperity to the hungry worlds of Alpha Prime. They set out with three ships from different...
19) Worlds Away
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Two worlds. Two adventures for the ages...
Taming a new world isn't easy. But making a new world?
Well, only the bravest would even try...
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TERRADOX REBORN
Six years in the making. Six seconds from disaster…
At long last, the dream of a functioning research colony on Terradox has become reality.
Thousands of colonists call the distant romosphere home, recruited from Earth to spearhead the most ambitious research projects ever devised.
All eyes...
20) Empty Nesters
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When a group of prize-winning high school students blasted off on a mission to space, their parents beamed with pride.
When news of the disaster came in, a nation mourned.
But nothing is truly as it seems.
Now, when one couple spots a hole in the official story, their grief morphs into a determination to find out what has really happened to their son.
No matter what, they will stop at nothing in their hopeful bid to see him again.
And the truth they...