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1541) Goodnight Moon Base
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What if we could grant the wish of our children to travel among the moon and stars? With "Goodnight Moon Base," this wish becomes a reality every night for bedtime. Inspired by the popular classic bedtime book, two aerospace industry veterans have collaborated to make the vision of a thriving moon settlement so vivid and compelling, you and your little one will be convinced that this future destiny must come true.Your child's bedroom will be transported...
1542) Of Gods and Globes III
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OF GODS AND GLOBES, the award-winning anthology, returns with over 20 speculative stories based on the world's astronomical myths.
We know that the moon holds sway over the ocean tide and the almost universal testimony of the effect of a full moon on people. Are planetary effects more mysterious than we have discovered?
Science has a very different view of energy than when astrology was rejected. Can we study our relationship to the cosmos while...
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"Voyage at the end of Time": The universe is collapsing back onto itself. A daughter, an historian, awaits to hear from her father, an astrophysicist, who has gone on an intergalactic pilgrimage to Earth at the end of time. "Sounds of Life": Aliens visit a planet. "Love": Phineas wants to give his true love the perfect gift. "The Game": A football coach is put to the test by space Aliens. "Last World": A single flower is all that is left. "CLO[w]N[e]":...
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Argosy is considered the very first pulp fiction magazine. It was launched in 1882 as a children's magazine, but quickly changed its target audience as it realized children were not in charge of their reading money and could not be counted on to renew subscriptions.
Argosy started publishing science fiction and fantasy almost immediately upon making this change. One cannot overstate Argosy's place in the history of science fiction. Without this reliable...
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Planet Stories was one of the better known Golden Age science fiction magazines. It was in its pages that Philip K. Dick first appeared. Planet Stories specialized in Space Opera and Sword and Sorcery fiction. Collected here in this massive edition are 19 stories from its pages totaling more than five hundred pages. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs!
Included here are:
Phantom...
1546) The Spinning Wheel
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How do you go to sleep, if you're not sure you're going to wake up? While most of the population of the Spinning Wheel, a Chapter colonization ship, sleeps in their cryo bays, Zellendine and Troylus go through the motions of their shift awake, keeping the ship going. But the first tendrils of the Grimm star, the star that will be their sun on their new planet, are shining in the windows, and with the light comes more changes than they are prepared...
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La exploración del espacio, la colonización del sistema solar, el viaje a estrellas lejanas y el gran tema de la existencia de vida en otros planetas a
través del cine, los cómics, la literatura o las series de televisión.
¿Qué es una película de ciencia-ficción espacial sino, al fin y al cabo, una historia de exploración de territorios desconocidos como las de toda la vida? Antaño fueron los libros sobre valientes marineros que se...
1548) The Spindle
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They've been waiting their entire lives to land on their new planet, they have to survive two months in space first. But it isn't just strange space phenomenon that want them dead this time. Zellendine and Troylus have to navigate the uncomfortable new reality of having the entire ship awake at once, and more people's eyes are turning silver. Every pair of silver eyes poses a new threat and a new source of rage toward Zellendine. Two months stretches...
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La trilogía cósmica
Esta magnífica edición marca el 85º aniversario de la clásica recopilación de ciencia ficción de C. S. Lewis que presenta los viajes del Dr. Ransom en Marte, Venus y la Tierra. Con un prólogo exclusivo de cartas recopiladas de J.R.R. Tolkien, que inspiró a Lewis a escribir el primer volumen y en quien se basó en gran medida el personaje principal de Ransom, La trilogía cósmica es una notable obra de fantasía que demuestra...
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• Here is the Robert F. Young collection you've been waiting for; over 200,000 words and more than 600 pages long making it the largest collection of Young's work ever released. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction. Included...
1551) Algis Budrys Super Pack
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Fourteen exciting stories by Hugo and Nebula nominated author Algis Budys, one of science fiction's most influential authors. More than 250 pages of unforgettable adventure! If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs!
• The Barbarians
• The Stoker and the Stars
• Citadel
• Riya's Foundling
• The Rag and Bone Men
• Desire No More
• Wall of...
1552) Habitat
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Seve Brigham's dream opportunity just about falls in his lap. A cadetship aboard the new huge orbiting Habitat.What he discovers forces some rethinking. Unfinished, rushed and even dangerous, the station needs more than just cosmetic work.Add to that an alien voice in his head and Seve's new life turns a whole lot more complicated.With his very survival at stake, he needs to think fast and look sharp.A deep space young adult thriller from the author...
1553) The Unreasoning Mask
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A novel of alien gods, monsters, and galactic destruction from the New York Times—bestselling author of the Riverworld series.
Captain Ramstan commands the crew of one of the only alaraf-drive vessels capable of instantaneous travel between two points of space. While on an official scientific surveillance expedition, he revises their mission to join the search for a missing ship. But instead of the spacecraft, they discover a planet in its death...
1554) Under Shadows
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The third instalment in the wondrous sci-fi Dome Trilogy by Jason LaPier Once a dome operator, then a fugitive, Jax Jackson is now ready to go home. But he is stopped when, from out of the shadows his greatest nightmare ambushes him, and drags him back to a deep-space lair. Now a public relations officer for the profitable Modern Policing and Peacekeeping, Stanford Runstom still thinks like the detective he longed to be during his years of service...
1555) Boarding Party
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The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile-and avaricious-one-man. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
1556) The 28th Gate, Volume 1
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With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, Hunter isn't an average bounty hunter. "A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!" When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she's fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told....
1557) Esa horrible fortaleza
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Esa horrible fortaleza es la tercera novela de la trilogía de ciencia ficción de Lewis. Ambientada en la Tierra, narra una terrorífica conspiración contra la humanidad. La historia rodea a Mark y Jane Studdock, una pareja recién casada. Mark es un sociólogo que se siente atraído por una organización llamada N.I.C.E., que pretende controlar toda la vida humana. Jane, por su parte, tiene extraños sueños proféticos sobre un científico decapitado,...
1558) Perelandra
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Perelandra, la segunda novela de la trilogía de ciencia ficción de Lewis, narra el viaje del Dr. Ransom al planeta paradisíaco de Perelandra, o Venus, que resulta ser un hermoso mundo parecido al Edén. Se horroriza al descubrir que su viejo enemigo, el Dr. Weston, también ha llegado y lo pone en grave peligro una vez más. Mientras el cuerpo del loco Weston es tomado por las fuerzas del mal, Ransom emprende una lucha desesperada para salvar la...
1559) Ad Astra
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From the author of the New York Times—bestselling Lost Fleet series comes 11 action-packed stories of space exploration.
In Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series, Campbell's hero Captain "Black Jack" Geary explores the furthest reaches of space. Here, Campbell explores what kinds of problems mankind might face as our horizons expand. The third in a series of collections of Campbell's short stories includes some of Campbell's favorite stories, and...
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Más allá del planeta silencioso es la primera novela de la clásica trilogía de ciencia ficción de C. S. Lewis. Cuenta la aventura del Dr. Ransom, un académico de Cambridge, que es secuestrado y llevado en una nave espacial al planeta rojo de Malacandra, que él conoce como Marte. Sus captores planean saquear los tesoros del planeta y ofrecer a Ransom como sacrificio a las criaturas que viven allí. Ransom descubre que viene del «planeta silencioso»,...
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