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1) 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...
2) Colossus
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"...a spine-tingling sf novel certain to wow readers who want to explore sentient AI, parallel universes, paranoia, and sustaining human consciousness for generations to come." - Booklist
For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES
Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish-a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of...
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Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell.As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he's made the right call.The First Mission Book Two of The Shadow Order - is a fast-paced, planet-hopping, space opera adventure.
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Matt longed for more purpose in his life. He lived in a large, empty house without any wife, kids, or even a pet. His day job as a transmission line developer was also mundane. Reading science fiction novels at night was the only escape for him. It distracted him from the boring monotony of life. But things would quickly change. While traveling from his Florida home to Buffalo, NY on a transmission line project, things get eerie - and fast. To secure...
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How would first contact-on earth, in space, on another planet-transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth? What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable...
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Roswell Army Air Force base, 3 a.m., June 15, 1947. A shape appears from the shadows and taps Major Delbert D. Johnson on the forehead. The alien points a glowing raspberry rod at an adjacent table. "That one said you are a navigator." Indomitable Allie, Intelligent Dreadnought 1, and the gang race home to Prime after surviving a deadly encounter with the Lost Fleet and its dangerous leader, Marine transport vessel Naomi Clevenger. Everyone knows...
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Alexander Selwood hides many secrets. That he's the first immortal of Cynfor is just one of them. When he decides to help the resistance when his actions lead to putting a friend in danger, he is led down a path that leads him to confront his own past and many dangers, most of them stemming from the immortal despot Thaxter and his bunch of immortal goons called the Elite. Though allied with the Resistance, Alexander's actions often strain the tenuous...
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Evie always knew there was something different about her brain, but she learned to keep it hidden. She always loved the stars, too, and those other bright lights she'd seen in the night sky as a child were never far from her mind. Who was behind them? Scout had surveyed many planets, but the mind he sensed on that little blue-green marble was unique. He shouldn't go back, he knew. Contact was forbidden. But the mind called to him in ways he couldn't...
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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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