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1561) The aftermath
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath.
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor...
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"The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking...
1563) Murder in Black Letter
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This is a Cock Robin Mystery introducing Trygve Yamamura--judo expert, Samurai sword connoisseur and private detective--triple threat to San Francisco crime. These combined skills enable him to keep his own head attached while finding out who removed someone else's with honorable Japaneses weapon. This is a good old-fashioned detective story, a genuine whodunit, with a good deal of suspense thrown in. (Goodreads)
1564) Rolling thunder
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Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
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The third book in the Thunder and Lightning Series
Navy lieutenant Podkayne, daughter of Ray Garcia-Strickland, is tired of her job as Martian consul in California-and Earth's oppressive gravity. So she's OK with getting called back to Mars even if it's because her great-grandmother is sick and being put into suspended animation.
After a family reunion, Podkayne's next port of call is Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, where she can finally realize...
1565) The rock rats
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Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
Brimming...
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How well do you know our closest neighbor? The moon has fascinated humankind since the beginning of history. But far from being just a big rock out in space, the moon has a phenomenal power over the earth, with it's ability to create great waves, dictate the length of the day and summon the seasons. It is a key player in the story of our planet. In this unique celebration of the moon, lunar expert and space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes...
1568) Enemies from the deep
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Four young friends must use their special powers to compete against the water-dwelling natives of planet Terranu, in a contest that will decide if their families may stay or must leave forever.
1569) Red lightning
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Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 2
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It doesn't matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland's father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels-like the one Ray's father manages-overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet. Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure, when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray heads back to Florida to help family and friends...
1570) Originator
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After having escaped from Kelso Station, Tina and her crew run low on supplies.
Both stations they can visit are in pirate hands. They have to make a toss-up which would be the safest. They choose the bigger station.
But while they're in the dock, trying very hard not to be noticed until they can negotiate the ridiculous supply wait times before they leave again, Tina finds out that her daughter Evelle is a prisoner at the station.
Trying to free...
1571) BadAsstronauts
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From New York Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix takes a break from horror and goes all-in on sci-fi in this novella about backyard rocket jockeys trying to get into low earth orbit.
Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin...
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A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world's writers have been recording the future as it might exist-and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes "The Land Iron Clads" by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903-long before it...
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Ian is a determined Sloth!
Ian is a handsome young two toed sloth. He has big ambitions' about going to space. Will he get there? Read Ian's adventure and see if he makes it.
Each of the First Class Press children's stories has their own individual adventure and life lesson. They are packed with trials, mayhem, suspense, mystery, action, and adventure. With everyday situations that kids must face in the real world. Now throw in a little magic...
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Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978. Assembled here in this 200,000 word collection are fifteen of Brackett's most memorable stories. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on Positronic Publishing Super Pack to see...
1575) Station Six
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A hard science-fiction space opera with a queer protagonist. Sixty million miles from Earth, in the orbiting city of Station Six, work still sucks. Max is a dockyard worker (with an illegal sideline in hacking and cybersurgery) in the company town of the future. When the LMC Corporation announces its Automated Future Plan, which will turn Station Six into a vacation destination with as few human personnel as needed to stay functional, Max has had...
1576) A Solar System Chat
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Our planet, Earth, is worried. She has some problems to solve. She turns to her fellow planets and the Sun for advice. Read what they say and what Earth decides to do. What can we do to help her?
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An alien race makes a chilling first impression in this story that "evokes difficult moral issues" from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (SF Site).
A corporate ship's complicated business venture involves the experimental use of new technology to scoop a sample from the core of a neutron star. The discovery of a dead civilization on a nearby solar system serves as a fascinating distraction. The same can't be said for the alien spaceship...
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Dannie Tate is a young dinosaur explorer that has always wondered what lay beyond the confines of her universe. With help from her parents and brave friends, she captains the Infinity, a grand ship capable of taking them beyond the confines of their system. This adventure finds them under the control of Queen Kenley. She wants to know about the Planet of Knowledge, too. The crew goes in search of answers and the lost knowledge of their ancestors....
1579) Portal Hacia Otro Lugar
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Esta novela de ciencia ficción es como "Las Mil y Una Noches" con el toque propio de Leinster. Si ha disfrutado de esas maravillosas aventuras; del color y el glamour de esas historias fabulosas, desconecte el teléfono, siéntese cómodamente con alguna bebida y ¡reencuéntrese con el puro placer de la lectura! Tony Gregg era un estadounidense normal y corriente hasta que se encuentra con una vieja moneda de Barkut. Supo que era algo más que una...
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Eric Frank Russell (6 de enero de 1905 - 28 de febrero de 1978) fue un autor británico conocido por sus novelas y relatos de ciencia ficción. Gran parte de su obra se publicó por primera vez en Estados Unidos, en la revista Astounding Science Fiction de John W. Campbell y en otras revistas.
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