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Captain Kaquina Bempin is growing tired of her years of solitude stranded in deep space. But when the ghosts of her former crewmates begin to emerge, is she simply losing her mind or is there something far more sinister afoot?

Amazing Stories Volume 108 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are two short stories by Henry Hasse: "Final Glory", and "Eternal Zemmd Must Die!", and two stories by Dorothy De Courcy & John De Curcy, "Foundling on Venus", and "Goma's Follicles".

Five Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Man Who Saw The Future", "The Legion Of Lazarus", "The Door Into Infinity", "The Sargasso Of Space", and "The Cosmic Looters", all by Edmond Hamilton.

Celebrate New Writers New Winners New Worlds This is your window into incredible worlds of wizardry, warfare and wonder. This is your escape into fantastic realms of the human mind lurking just beyond your imagination…and reaching deep into your wildest dreams. This is your ticket to tomorrow. Celebrate the future of science fiction and fantasy…now. "Keep the Writers of the Future going. It's what keeps sci-fi alive." -Orson Scott Card

"Stunning finale of an epic series!" In the fight for survival, there is no right and wrong, only life or death. Twenty Earth-years have passed since the first child was born on Mars-humanity's survival outpost after evacuating amidst the destruction of the planet they called home. Life has settled into idyllic predictability...until an alien artificial intelligence merges with Col. Zune Adamini, revealing a glimpse of the darkness to come. Zune struggles...

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Alan Edward Nourse: "An Ounce of Cure", "Meeting of the Board", "The Dark Door", "Circus", "The Link", "My Friend Bobby", "Image of the Gods", and "Second Sight".

April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on man's boldest space voyage yet-a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the...

In 2070, Ben Dawson was on the cusp of changing mankind, until mankind intervened. And then, instead of celebrating his crowning achievement of launching the world's first airborne city, he was fighting for its survival. Threatened with imminent personal and financial ruin, Ben assembles a team that will embark on a mission across Earth and space to save Sky City. Racing against the takeover of Sky City by The Department of Space, his team finds...

Alien university professor and author, Yol Rummy Blin Breganin, continues his research on the planet Earth. He introduces, into this final volume, some stories from the distant past of the Federation, which provide a greater insight into the vast alien empire. In the only free and independent part of the planet Earth — the United States of America — the populace is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the growing authoritarianism. With California...

Revolution in the outer fringes of the vast Solar Empire blossomed into a full collapse toward its inner core, leaving the scattered fringes isolated and disorganized. A powerful new rival to the old empire's ancient glory eventually arose from those ashes, a fringe empire growing far beyond the first few local star systems to crush all challengers in a series of brutal campaigns. Now the New Empire launches yet another campaign, and this one will...