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1581) Ames: Black Ash
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A once tranquil world is torn asunder by an inescapable destruction, forcing a young man to survive the unthinkable.
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Chicago Review Press
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2023.
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Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.
In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well.
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant's Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What's the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop-a role made for Walter Matthau-is on top of it . . . and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will...
1584) Whispers of a Killer
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"We the jury find the defendant, Rachel Iris Chester, guilty." With those words, Sylvia Harbinger's life as an NYPD detective is over. Sylvia is done with serial killers, done with therapy, and done with a New York City now rife with WHISPs-the creepy, grey shadows of her nightmares. She and husband Ben have a deal. She retires and they both move to Montana to escape the WHISP phenomenon. It is the only way to save their marriage after the Chester...
1585) Native Tongue
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Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action.
In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to be perfect interstellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are slowly creating...
1586) The 28th Gate, Volume 1
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With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, Hunter isn't an average bounty hunter. "A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!" When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she's fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told....
1587) Earthsong
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Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action.
The interstellar Consortium of Planets forsakes the irredeemably violent Earth, condemning the planet to economic and ecological chaos. Given one last chance to halt Earth's annihilation, women freedom fighters discover a way to rid Earth of men's brutality-but it may have come too late. In the stunning conclusion to...
1588) The Infinet Directives
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The world's most powerful AI just saved humanity. Now it must save itself. A year after helping the AI called the Infinet save the world from a deadly computer virus, Oreste Pax just wants things to go back to the way they were. Back to being the head of Omnitech, the biggest technology company in the world. Back to connecting the Univiz-the mixed reality glasses he invented a decade earlier-to a brain-computer interface, in hopes of transforming...
1589) Terra Utopia
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A group of interstellar travellers crash land on a strange but beautiful planet seemingly incapable of change - a planet that is narrating our story. As the surviving crew struggle to adjust to the unpredictable behavior of this strange paradise, the deceased commander debates the nature of reality and the meaning of life with the newborn planet, while it actively tries to kill the survivors and undo causality,. This is a hard Sci-Fi thriller with...
1590) Herland
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Herland (1915) is a utopian novel by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland was originally published in The Forerunner, a monthly magazine edited by Gilman, before going out of print for the next several decades. The novel was republished with an influential introduction by scholar Ann J. Lane in 1979 and has since been recognized as an important work of science fiction written by a leading feminist of the early twentieth century.
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1591) Mars is My Destination
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Otbebookpublishing
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[2021]
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"There was trouble brewing on Mars--bad trouble. Two giant industrial empires fought for control there, and their struggle imperilled the whole Mars colony. Civil war--atomic civil war second--could break out any second, leaving Earth's only foothold in space a mass of radioactive rubble. One man was needed to take charge--one man who could act fast and decisively, brutally if he had to. Ralph Graham got the job. And then the people around him started...
1592) The test
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Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?
1593) Fortune of Fear
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The Voltarian invaders are getting down and dirty . . . in the deadliest of games. The price: Planet Earth. Voltarian Royal Officer Jettero Heller has heart, nerve and a quick mind on his side. His archenemy Soltan Gris has cunning, ruthlessness and a devious plan on his. But what neither of them has is money-and without that they may as well pack up and go back to Voltar. Because as every earthling knows-no pay, no play. Heller's solution is a weekend...
1594) The Enemy Within
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Earthlings: Beware! Do you know who your enemies are? Your neighbor? Your boss? Your butcher? Your wife? Only the Voltarians know for sure. They've successfully infiltrated our little world-and it may never be the same. They walk among us. They work among us. And they're making themselves right at home, prepping the planet for a power play unlike any you've ever seen before. In this web of espionage, intrigue and betrayal, even Voltarian Royal Combat...
1595) The Love Bot
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We encourage you to read what is destined to become a National Treasure and a lasting work of art, not just a book. This explains the pricing for the print books. We need everyone within the sound of my voice to send some love to The Love Bot and allow him to do his thing. Humans have failed us. Orac is the most logical and rational part of our own brains, but without all of the frustrating and irrational confusion that biologicals like you and me...
1596) Villainy Victorious
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Earth is rising in the House of Voltar . . . And there'll be hell to pay! That's right. The invasion is on . . . and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar-and the Voltarians won't know what hit them. Murder, blackmail, drugs, psychoanalysis, PR firms, sex-crazed teenyboppers, riots in the streets, women in chains. These are the powerful secret weapons...
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Bradford Press
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2023
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Evon-thia, The Spirit Bands use astral travel to bypass the normal rigors and dangers of an adventure to Mars. Their leader, Carl De L'Ester is the spirit guide to a medium we know only as Madame.
Over the course of two years, Madame has several out of body experiences that take her to Ento, that red planet we know as Mars. She is joined by different spirit friends who guide her observations, which she writes about in great detail.
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1598) Triplanetary
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Standard Ebooks
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2023
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The first installment in the groundbreaking Lensman series, one of the greatest space opera sagas of all time. Nevia, located many light years from the Earth's sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet's dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters - rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood - the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious...
1600) Rocket to the morgue
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Penzler Publishers
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2019.
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"A locked-room mystery preoccupies Boucher's brilliant clerical sleuth, Sister Ursula, in this stellar entry . . . a witty satire of SF and fantasy authors." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Legendary science fiction author Fowler Foulkes may be dead, but his creation, the iconic Dr. Derringer, lives on in popular culture. Or, at least, the character would live on if not for Foulkes's predatory and greedy heir Hilary, who, during his time...
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