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1) The Avatar
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A monumental epic tale of space exploration and alien contact from one of science fiction's greatest writers In the future, humankind has taken only limited advantage of a miraculous gift left for it in the far-distant past. A beneficent and inscrutable alien race called the Others has provided "gates" that enable passage to all corners of the galaxy. But after the colonization of a single star system, a repressive government on Earth has forbidden...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The only survivors of an annihilated human race must find one another somewhere in the cosmos and unite to destroy the alien aggressors who obliterated the Earth in this classic science fiction adventure After a three-year mission, the American starship Benjamin Franklin and its all-male crew have returned to Earth, only to discover the planet is dead, a blackened shell devoid of life. It is clear that one of a trio of alien species engineered the...
3) The Star Fox
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intergalactic privateer resolves to rescue a human space colony taken captive by alien aggressors An outpost located at the edge of the galaxy, New Europe has been overrun by the Aleriona, a hostile alien race that resents humanity's incursion into deep space. Fearing a wider war, the World Federation on Earth is hesitant to respond to the outrage, especially since the invaders claim the colonists have already been killed. But ex-navy captain Gunnar...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Space explorers returning to an unrecognizable Earth after five millennia away find themselves caught up in a deadly political power game on a planet racing toward intergalactic war Five thousand years have passed since the interstellar spacecraft Explorer left Earth, and now Edward Langley and his two crewmates are returning home. The faster-than-light mission that took only a year for Langley, Matsumoto, and Blaustein has cost them the only world...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On an Earth that barely survived a nuclear holocaust, visionaries who dream of reaching for the stars attempt to revive the forbidden technology that once destroyed their world Centuries ago, humankind was nearly destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse. Many generations have passed since that terrible time, and the remnants of civilization have re-formed into separate, vastly different societies. The dominant culture of a widely diminished Earth, the ecologically...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This classic from science fiction's Golden Age envisions a primitive future where only the forbidden technology of the past can save an endangered tribe from violent extinction Five centuries into the future, America is no longer what it used to be. Many generations after the old civilization was consumed in a nuclear firestorm, the few survivors have returned to a simple, agrarian lifestyle and eschew the malevolent "magic" of science that brought...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Humans and their genetically altered descendants struggle to find their place in a universe controlled by a benevolent artificial intelligence in this brilliant classic of future speculation On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intelligences called the cybercosm runs the planet and the universe far more efficiently than any flesh and blood ruler ever could, in essence rendering the human race obsolete. On the Earth's moon, genetically...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An unsuspecting time-traveler stumbles upon a horrific plot to alter the future in this classic science fiction adventure from one of the genre's best Born with a strange genetic mutation, Jack Havig can travel backward and forward in time at will. His unique gift enables him to visit ancient Rome, the Byzantine Empire, and the Wild West. He's even seen the far future, when the ecology-minded Maurai Federation dominates a world nearly obliterated...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
10) Starfarers
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Courageous space explorers embark on a mission to make contact with alien races light years away, while the Earth they leave behind ages twelve hundred centuries It's the most exciting discovery since humankind first began watching the skies: SETI scientists detect starship "trails" in a galaxy many light years from Earth, and at long last the dream of human-to-alien contact is attainable. But the courageous crew of starfarers assembled to take on...
11) Tau Zero
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This Hugo Award finalist, "justifiably regarded as a classic" (SFReviews.net), is the tale of an epic space voyage where time dilation goes horribly wrong. Aboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine , fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty light-years away. Since their ship is not capable of traveling faster than light, the crew will be subject to the effects of time dilation...
12) Fire Time
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this science fiction classic, a recurring environmental disaster sets the native population of a distant planet at war with itself-and human colonists from Earth are trapped in the middle Firetime is coming to Ishtar. This once-in-a-millennium event occurs when one of the planet's three suns encroaches on Ishtar's surface, to disastrous effect. The nightmare rapidly approaching, barbaric tribes have declared war on their more civilized brethren...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A World War II freedom fighter is transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth to undertake a great but perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he's wounded during an engagement with the enemy and awakens in an unfamiliar parallel universe where the forces of Law are locked in eternal combat with the forces of Chaos. Against...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Werewolf Steve Matuchek and witch Ginny Graylock defend America in this fantasy duology from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Operation Chaos : In a world where magic is real, werewolf Steve Matuchek and powerful witch Virginia Graylock are paired together in the war to stop the invading Caliphate forces from taking over America. Their mission: stop the enemy from unleashing their superweapon -- a genie in a bottle. And that is only...
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