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21) Colony Ship
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This book shows how people tend to accept what they have been taught is the truth about things when the reality may actually be very different if they only try to explore the unknown
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The Boyars have spent the past sixty years terraforming the planet Flamme, clearing jungle, descumming the seas, irrigating deserts and establishing forests. Now the Aga Kaga have decided to move in and claim it as their own. The Under-secretary of the CDT refuses to support the Boyars with anything more than a diplomatic note.
It's up to Retief to deliver it and convince the Aga Kaga to abandon their claim. "Don't worry. I'll keep the peace, if...
23) First
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"First" is an electrifying tale penned by Randy Brown, where our hero, Lewis, aspires to be the inaugural human to voyage to another star system and return unscathed. His journey, however, is fraught with unexpected obstacles - ruthless competition, treachery, personal loss, and a tumultuous relationship that threatens to derail his mission.
When he finds himself in a race against time, the stakes skyrocket. Uncovering his true adversary propels...
24) Dimity's Dragons
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This is a future earth novel. Humanity begins to move out from a dying earth. On a particular planet, colonists are, attacked by monsters, looking like an ancient Egyptian God. On another planet, a young explorer finds a race of Dragons through a transit portal. Befriending them, she discovers how to use powerful space ships left behind by another race, long gone. Using these craft, twice she fights off the monsters. A time traveler gives enigmatic...
26) Shadow of Ruin
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On Neb-6, only the strong survive.When a band of inhuman assassins comes after Colt and his bounty- hunting femme-fatales, Jenna and Brem, they set in motion events that will shape Colt's destiny for years to come, if he lives long enough, anyway.Forced to leave the warm desert sands of his home, the Crow's Nest, Colt must brave the brutal, arctic conditions of Geleira, Neb-6's southern polar continent. Only there can he learn who the assassins are...
27) Water: A History
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"Water: A History" is a Tor.com Original short story by science fiction and fantasy author KJ Kabza
The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn't stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.
28) Future Sphere
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Træ's privileged life in the Dyson Sphere's epic, tumbling waterfall city of Rijeka is upended with the actioning of a Smart Contract woven by xyr ancestors directly into xyr DNA. An unfulfilled contract will internally dismantle Træ's body & mind but xe have spent decades avoiding all familial responsibility and have no intention of being involved with activists campaigning to prevent the 'Sphere from harvesting the solar system's energy, sinking...
29) Desert Streams
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A spacer, Leodhas, is wanted throughout the known galaxy for a lifelong series of petty crimes. In order to clear his name, he takes a job from the seedy leader of a backwater independent planet to kidnap and deliver a regal ambassador, Eilidh, who represents a powerful galactic confederacy. Sneaking his way on board her personal ship, Leodhas finds that he is not the only one interested in stealing away the confederate ambassador.
The Conglomerate,...
30) Calimba
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En el intento de llevar electricidad a otro planeta, astronautas no se percatan que en su nave llevaban un huésped que cambió la vida de los habitantes del planeta Borealis, convirtiéndose en una rara aventura.
31) The Tourist
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In Alex Sherman's novella of space exploration The Tourist, a young academic travels to a mining outpost on a small planetoid, far from their sun
There he studies the culture and music of a small squatter population that lives in total darkness. This is the first time any student has been allowed to travel there. Chocky agrees to show the student around, although he has more pressing things on his mind. Maybe this tour will provide the resources...
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When an alien entity sneaks aboard a corporate spaceship, with no motive besides sabotaging the mission and murdering those aboard, commander Uzoma Ifiok launches an investigation-despite knowing that the real danger isn't the one picking off her crew.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
33) Starship-101
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Starship-101 successfully landed on Proxima Centauri-b about twenty years ago, marking humanity's first interstellar settlement. But with radio messages taking over four years to traverse the vast darkness of space, this fledgling colony has been isolated from Earth. Enter the Clason twins – Tarvin and Harden – the galaxy's preeminent Superposition Navigators. These brothers can bend the quantum space-time continuum to their will, instantaneously...
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Sherwood was a man who did not want to be found. He secretly left the last space station. Now he was marooned on a remote planet with a spaceship that was going nowhere and surrounded by diamonds. Half of him wanted to remain safely castaway until he died. The other half longed for a miraculous rescue. Could that miracle be the black, unmarked craft that was gliding toward him?
The Shipshape Miracle, a Science Fiction Classic, was written by Clifford...
35) Flare
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Grumble.
Jennifer died three years ago. Mark Campbell blames himself. Mark is in debt. His brother, Kyle, thinks he is irresponsible. Kyle's wife, Risa, thinks Mark is crazy. Only Bear believes there is another side to Mark, but Bear is an enigma. Three feet tall...white fur...slightly chubby from too many sodas and chocolates...and very few people can see him.
Kyle and Risa find Mark in the debtor's prison on Pueblo Station. Mark has a cellmate's...
36) Segunda
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The year is 2233, and humanity has finally found a viable new home. Named for a second chance in the discoverer's native tongue, the opportunity could not have come at a better time. Earth has too many people, too much conflict and not enough resources for either. However, the Colony I, Earth's new Ark, disappears after the last wormhole jump to Segunda. Power hungry politicians, predatory nations, and those who have nothing to lose-all have an angle...
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Galaxy 101 is the story of the events that take place at the end of the twenty-first century, when an inexperienced Earth is dabbling in interplanetary travel for the first time with a newly discovered thermonuclear power source in a spaceship called Friend.
Stumbling upon the truth that some of the other planets were bullies bent on galactic dominance, the unschooled Earthlings befriend their only ally, a young and brazen Martian pilot of half-earthen...
39) Europa
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The year is 2068. The United States already has several colonies on the moon, Mars, and Jupiter's beautiful moon, Europa. A vast saltwater ocean has been discovered below the frozen surface of Europa. The president of the United States has approved a special mission to drill through the frozen surface of Europa and deploy a submarine to explore and search for life in Europa's vast subterranean ocean. A team of highly successful business leaders and...
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The starship Blue Goose was the first transplanetary/multiversal patrol starship, it's primary mission was toe patrol the frontier worlds. The ship's captain, Rachel Strong, leads a compliment of seasoned crewmembers and soldier on a mission to protect the men and women seeking a new life beyond the stars.