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1) Dead End
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Amidst the chaos of battling an escaped terrorist, Yamaguchi, who wields deadly alien technology found within the mysterious city, Commander Winters and the crew of the Falling Star find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival. As they contend with Yamaguchi's relentless assaults, a new threat emerges in the form of an alien space station, resuming its relentless attacks on Earth and the stranded crew. With the crew of the Falling Star divided...
2) Engine City
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The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light
With Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light, both finalists for science fiction's Hugo Award, Ken MacLeod launched a new interstellar epic with all the engaging characters and ingenious SF inventiveness of his earlier Fall Revolution novels. Now MacLeod delivers the culmination of his epic of a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of intelligent alien life, and in which humans find themselves involved...
3) The Keep
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Ruby, Nolan, Bonnie, and Shamus sink into deep depression with the news that their parents will be arriving tomorrow! They are looking at being restricted for life!Donzereli to the rescue! He "borrows" a VIP flying car and streaks so fast to the coast, the kids and Dr. Allen are breathless. He has booked a VIP tour of a fishing and Lobster harvesting vessel. He posed as Councilor Walkegon.Nolan had just caught a monster fish that must weigh a ton!...
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Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared form the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K-PAX.
K-PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of earth. Prot has incredible insights...
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Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.
The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year...
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In the distant Andromeda Galaxy, humanity faces a brutal war against the mysterious Zentari aliens. Captain Jenna Reynolds, Zentari warrior Xalorix, and scientist Dr. Liara Chen navigate betrayals, sacrifices, and shifting alliances as they lead their people towards a peaceful resolution. Amidst gritty space battles and moral dilemmas, they discover mutual respect and forge a path towards cooperation and understanding in a shattered galaxy. Hope for...
7) Ilene's Box
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An otherwordly visitor goes on a deeply personal mission to a pet store.But not for the reason you think..."[Alexandra Brandt's] stories always seem to be filled with truth and a gentleness that is hard to ignore. This wonderful and original pet story gives us a very different look at a possible alien, and a very different outcome, one with heart." Dean Wesley Smith, Bestselling Author and Editor of Pulphouse Magazine
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Rystole Whitlock, a young rancher and colonists on the Earth-like planet of Dale Cannon, spends his days cutting class and herding buffcows. When a group of alien slugs invade his family's cabin he can't find a good way to corral them before the toxic slugs put his mother in a comma. Determined to save his mom, and the rest of the colony, Rystole won't stop until he gets revenge or a cure. If you enjoy exploring alien worlds and first contact stories...
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Jared's is your average guy moving to New York City. He had the perfect ordinary life with a loving family, a job set up and good friends waiting for him until the day he was abducted by sentient canine aliens from his apartment and attempted to be sold off on the Galactic Black Market. He was rescued from one place, only to be trapped in another. Rodney is an eight-foot Canid police officer from the Canis Lupis galaxy and had been suffered from...
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"One look, and it's all over."
There are some rules you never forget. Above all else, whatever you do, you never look directly at a gorgon.
Now, plug your ears, because the war for humanity has begun.
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Sergeant Cameron "Jet" Shipley was there when they first arrived in 2026. For 16 long years, he learned to hide, and to never make a sound. Learning the most important rule of all about the aliens: You just... don't... look....
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