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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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A second collection of ten short stories from the future history of Machine Civilization. From the midst of the Breakup of the US – and 100 million dead – to three generations later, in a place of Demi-humans, Thinking Machines, and interplanetary travel, come and see the men and women, and boys and girls, who are making a future and new worlds!The Old South, to the Oregon coast; the surface of Asteroid Ceres to the warring states of China, these...
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Woestynn Prison is the most desolate prison planet of the Ruben System, a desert wasteland meant for the worst of prisoners.Ford is a new recruit from the Academy, hoping to make a name for himself in this notorious place.When arriving he finds more than he expects, and grows more than he could have imagined.
4) I am AI
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"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence ★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Shortlisted – Best Shorter Fiction – British Science Fiction Association If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you? Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program,...
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In the near future, multinat conglomerates plunder the solar system for raw materials to sell to increasingly hostile governments. The intense competition for resources further out into the solar system results in the establishment of an asteroid-ore processing plant on the dwarf planet of Ceres, run by robots and clones, controlled by humans. Most asteroids are mined from inside the solar system, but any asteroids tracked from outside the solar system...
6) Regent
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With Canada now on the Ohio River, the imperium needs allies.Aurelia, the 25-year-old niece of the Empress, leads an army through the deserted ruins of the northeast US to establish contact with the Northern Federation.An illegal side trip has her talk politics with the Archbishop of Montreal followed by a jaunt to see the tiny spaceport of Canso, Nova Scotia. There, she falls in love with a rocketry tech before being forced to defend it and him...
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Sixteen-year-old Leon Rhaine crafts impossible inventions from bursts of inspiration he can neither remember nor repeat. Few inventions work twice. Most collapse into rubble, or worse, shrapnel and flame. The havoc caused by these psychic scientific breakthroughs threaten his dream enrollment at a prestigious science institute, and the only shot he has at saving his family from a lifetime of debt. Leon is approached by a mysterious man promising to...
8) 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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Did you know that . . .
John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game?
Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row?
The shortest war in history, between England and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only thirty-eight minutes?
Want to learn which U.S. president was a descendant of King Edward III? Or which famous people lived to read their own obituaries? Then That Book is the book for you! From...
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Welcome to the Traveller's Guide to Mount Shasta, California, where the majestic beauty of nature meets the allure of adventure and spiritual exploration. Nestled in the heart of Northern California, Mount Shasta stands as a towering sentinel, drawing visitors from far and wide with its snow-capped peaks, pristine alpine lakes, and lush forests teeming with wildlife. Whether you're seeking thrilling outdoor escapades like hiking, skiing, and mountain...
11) Run Like Hell
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Buckle up for a thrill ride like no other in this electrifying tale where love, danger, and secrets collide! When Kendra, Aiyana, and Derek's wedding turns into a fight for survival, they're thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. With assassins hot on their trail and mysteries lurking around every corner, they'll need all their cunning and courage to uncover the truth. From the streets of their besieged city to the flooded depths of New Orleans,...
12) Survival
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Stranded on a hostile alien planet after the destruction of the alien station, Commander Winters and the crew of the Falling Star are thrust into a perilous unknown. As they explore the desolate landscape, they discover that the alien city is already inhabited.Meanwhile, tensions escalate on Earth as the president and a select few senators conspire to abandon society, seeking refuge in a hidden bunker beyond the outer reaches of the solar system....
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ChevepakI hate my mating marks, and I'm probably the first male to feel this way. I'm a straight-laced historian who learned their lesson growing up. Never go against the family unit. Always back up and defer to your female lead. But now, I'm helping abused males get off Quasar and away from their Ermadas. If I'm found out, I'll be ostracized by the twelve other males who share Councilor Vina's home with me. To complicate matters even more, the mating...
14) Gleaners
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Psychiatrist Elizabeth Wyler is called to the bedside of a badly injured Los Angeles Police officer, Leo Moore. His superiors want information about how Moore was hurt, and what happened to his missing partner. As she listens, Beth is drawn into the edges of a shadowy conspiracy.
Homeless men she's trying to help lead Beth and Moore to an enormous, anonymous warehouse where she discovers an injured man. Oliver Raine, it emerges, has knowledge of...
16) Dead West
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A group of college friends from modern day get sent back in time to the old west during a zombie apocalypse.
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Kendra Summers is just another ordinary housewife and mother. Her days are filled with crosswords, household chores, catching up with friends and making sure her writer husband has done his daily word count.Kendra has organised a catch up with an old friend who she hasn't seen for a while. However, her writer husband makes a strange prediction for the future she can't just can't get out of her mind.The strange prediction is out of character for her...
18) Slacker 2
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The group continues fighting their way through the zombie apocalypse, but a lot of things have happened since the first book.
19) Star Mole
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Gerald the star mole is living large. All the nice fresh stone-free dirt he can dig in, all the worms he can eat, and no predators to raise his stress level. Unless you count the funny people in white coats with their odd penchant for sticking pins in his head. But set against all the bennies, Gerald dismisses this as a First World Problem.And then, Ragnarok. The white coats load Gerald onto a very long rail gun and shoot him off into space. All but...
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