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This year's edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction demonstrates once again why the anthology received the 1988 Locus Award for the best anthology in the field.
Gardner Dozois presents the finest writing of the year, from both new writers and old favorites, including Walter Jon Williams, James Patrick Kelly, Brian Stableford, Steven Gould, Harry Turtledove, Eileen Gunn, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, Bruce McAllister, Connie Willis, Lewis Shiner,...
20462) Footsteps in the Sky
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The pueblo people who landed on the Fifth World found it Earthlike, empty, and ready for colonization . . . but a century later, they are about to meet the planet's owners One hundred years ago, Sand's ancestors made the long, one-way trip to the Fifth World, ready to work ceaselessly to terraform the planet. Descendants of native peoples like the Hopi and Zuni, they wanted to return to the way of life of their forebears, who honored the Kachina...
20463) Hijacked
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The Line Between Right And Wrong Is About To Become A War Zone...Manc Shepherd is alive, desperate and mad as hedrin.Before the hunt for payback even begins, the Corollas's deadliest killers target Manc as prey. Down to his last, most treacherous allies and his father's old fighters, Manc races against death to find the hapless boy who has endangered Manc's schemes by systematically foiling ambush, assassination, and betrayal.Two problems stand in...
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The Leydens were people of extraordinary means. The father a well-known adventurer. The mother a spiritualist oft consulted by the government of New Britain. The daughter, Kassandra, inherent of both the skill and sense of adventure that made her parents great.
But when her mother vanishes without a trace, and her father turns toward spirits of a fluid nature as he loses himself in memory, Kassandra is left to find her own way and purpose. She quickly...
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Mikkee the Martian and the twins are watching a TV program about ghost hunting. Billy does not believe in ghosts, but Mikkee knows otherwise. He invites the twins to visit a haunted house. There they meet the ghost and hear an evil story of how he was left to roam the earth. Mikkee summons a higher authority, finds a solution to the ghost's problems, and solves a murder mystery over a hundred years old.
20466) Riposte
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THE GAUNTLET IS THROWN…
Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner have united two Great Houses of the Inner Sphere in a marriage that upsets the balance of power among the stars. Though some hope this may bring an end to centuries of war, Maximilian Liao of the Capellan Confederation has enlisted the aid of two highly placed Davion traitors to destroy Hanse Davion and the Federated Suns from both within and without.
But in the distant star chambers of...
20467) Paris en l'an 2000
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Extrait : "Lorsque les Socialistes arrivèrent au pouvoir et qu'ils furent maîtres de Paris, la première chose à laquelle ils durent songer, ce fut d'exproprier toutes les maisons de la ville, afin de les transformer et de les mettre en harmonie avec les nouvelles institutions sociales."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN :
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares,...
20468) Genèse
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Version révisée d'octobre 2015. Les colonnes du temps" est le conseil de lecture du site www.monBestSeller.com, sélectionné pour le Prix Concours de l'auteur indépendant 2015. Automne 2003. Notre planète est agressée par une sphère lumineuse qui dévore lentement sa surface.
Seuls ses ples semblent épargnés par l'avidité du monstre qui, en peu de temps, finit par effacer l'Europe et l'ouest asiatique.
Tandis que la population mondiale...
20469) Edward Eternal
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For Edward T. Scupper, life has been one long, lonely road. Born in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, for reasons unknown, he stops aging at eighteen. At first, it's exciting to live through the various decades while others succumb to time, but after a number of years, he finds that immortality is boring.
Science proves to be the answer, or so he thinks. Edward-Ed-journeys from one city to another in the US in order to find an answer to his predicament....
20470) Gaia Speaks
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Looking for some new age joke material...? How about an adventure with multiple generations having their own experience?in multiple dimensions... This book explores the potential for planet Earth to be a living sentient being named Gaia, and does she have something cued up for us! You'll get to know some funny and eccentric characters who are all realizing simultaneously the planet might just be more than meets the eye. It's deep but whimsical and...
20471) Cyan Toxin
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Fact 645 - High heels make great weapons. Somehow, Allie always managed to attract every sociopath within a 100 click radius. Don't ask her how she did it. She chalked it up to the unlucky curse that had plagued her all her life. And Sloven the Slayer was no different. Creepy was his middle name. Luckily, her mama had taught her the advantage of a well-placed kick. Fact 792 - Allie hated liars, especially gorgeous ones of the male variety. After the...
20472) Chipd
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"Four years since Elias Karlsson founded Chipd and one year since the start of public use of these chips, there have been no known concerns for their physical safety..."
Sebastian, Luannie, Jaewon, and Samara are studying abroad in Sweden to attend The School of International Relations as part of a unique new program. They learn more about each other and their program directors before their Fall semester, one that never begins. During an excursion...
20473) Blades of Grass
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The nuclear attack had caught the United States by surprise. The next wave would be even worse.
20474) The Lazurai Returns
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She was different, and could be mankind's savior, or it's worst enemy.
The third generation born after a freak accident, her kind were shunned by humanity. Because they meant walking death. Until one human showed her compassion. Then her gifts came to view. Her parents and their parents only knew death, could only give death. But, they only wanted to be understood.
Rochelle was searching. For the one thing that could save all of mankind from itself....
20475) By Blood Betrayed
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IN HIS BROTHER'S FOOTSTEPS…
Harley Rassor is a simple farm boy in a complex universe-more than happy to work the land of planet Slewis with his father. His restless older brother left to join the elite mercenary corps, Able's Aces… and paid with his life. Now, Harley's father wants him to join the fight-and learn what happened to his brother.
What he learns is that the Aces are in turmoil. His instructor-tough-as-nails Lieutenant Livia Hawke-also...
20476) The Righteous Men
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The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. . . .
A teenage computer prodigy is mortally strangled in Mumbai. A far-right extremist is killed in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. A wealthy businessman is murdered in Thailand. A pimp in Brooklyn is found stabbed to death and mysteriously covered by a brown shroud. What connects the victims is an ancient prophecy that leads to the end of the world, and it's...
20477) Mythical
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It's illegal for mythical beings and humans to be together. However, laws can be broken.When human Ezekiel is discovered meandering the Elflands, the punishment for such an infringement between the species is certain death. Frantically he lies to the mythical beings about his true intentions and reasons for being in the Elflands in the hope they will spare his life.Mythical being Jenilia has zero faith in the human she meets named Ezekiel, not simply...
20478) Scaredy Dragon
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Join Scaredy on his journey from constant fear into freedom.
See the beauty of an enchanted kingdom come to life through Gillian Copley's vivid paintings.
This captivating tale of discovery delights children of all ages.
"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
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The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones,...
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ARGORON. VANOK. LITHONIA.
They are the First Worlds.
This collection includes three novellas of sword-and-planet, science fantasy, and sword-and-sorcery tales. From Argoron, the hidden red planet to Vanok, the watery world and to Lithonia, a landscape shrouded in magic.
From the sword-and-planet adventures in Mark Porter of Argoron to the science fantasy adventures of Raiders of Vanok, and the sword-and-sorcery quest of Praxus of Lithonia....
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