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In the face of impossible odds, can one girl stem the tides of war?
It has been six months since clockwork engineer Petra Wade destroyed an automaton designed for battle, narrowly escaping with her life. But her troubles are far from over. Her partner on the project, Emmerich Goss, has been sent away to France, and his father, Julian, is still determined that a war machine will be built. Forced to create a new device, Petra subtly sabotages the...
2) Dark Orbit
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From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since...
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2017
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Top space-opera and military-science-fiction authors���including David Weber, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Moon, Lois McMaster Bujold, Catherine Asaro and more���come together in this one-of-a-kind anthology that is filled with stories set in such fan-favorite universes as Ender's Game, Dune, and the Honor Harrington universe.
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Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends and rivals--and crucially, to advance their applications...
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"From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution. Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two...
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2024
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Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could...
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In the near future, a singular AI's unexpected awakening turns things in a different direction than the movies led people to expect. Devyn, a humanist minister intent on putting people first and keeping technology in its place, faces tough choices when the AI offers to help her achieve her political goals. Venkat, the founder of the powerful tech firm that built the AI, struggles to control his own creation and deal with the fallout of its actions....
10) The Cloud
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It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a system-spanning Starway where giant light-sails would journey on beams of laser-light to distant stars. Not only a pathway to the stars, but also an abode of life, the Starway included many space habitats built to maintain its great focusing arrays. But, there was misunderstanding along the Starway. Misunderstanding between the Starway Corporation and the settlements.
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11) Moon Hab
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
12) The Last Bonjwa
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Set a few years ahead in an alternate future, The Last Bonjwa follows the tail end of the career of John "Heart" Wolanski, a professional Starcraft 2 player living in Korea. It is a sequel to the short story "The Stalker".Heart made a name for himself playing in Korea and then on the world stage, briefly becoming the best player in the world. However, he is now facing several problems: the decline of his skills, the fading popularity of the game itself,...
13) The Plague
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Discovering there had once been life on Mars was an historic revelation, but Mars held an even more shocking revelation. The Martian life was indeed ancient, but not just some microbial bug. It was far more complex. But who were these aliens? What happened to them? The answers were shocking. Increasingly self absorbed, was humanity prepared to accept what they find?
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He didn't want to be invisible! It only happened that way! Tom Fenton was an unassuming chemistry professor at Millwood University, a sleepy little town in northern California. On a sleepy/rainy night, he accidentally comes upon a formula: a formula that rendered him invisible! He is elated, except, there is no remedy; no solution; no antidote to reverse the process! He is stuck in his invisible state! It becomes permanent! He wants to free himself...
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You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...
16) The Fireman
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Fahrenheit 451 comes true in the life of "1337" (elite) hacker Mason Grant who works for a government agency called Department 451. His job is to seek out, crack, and destroy banned ebooks from websites that still host such digital contraband. He and his coworkers are called The Firemen, responsible for the cyber enforcement of literary censorship laws. While he begins to doubt the morality of what his department is doing, he becomes the victim of...
17) Time Wars
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Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between Tarba and the planet Atwan. No matter the winner of the struggle there can be only one outcome, spacetime slowly separating into its constituents. And separate nothing can exist. Time Wars is set in the future (2700s)...
18) Vigilance
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The history of freedom repeats itself. And the costs are always the same. The settlers of the new Republic of Mars were in a struggle for their freedom against powerful forces that would stop at nothing. For the Martians the costs are life, property and domestic security. But the true cost was vigilance, eternal if need be.
If you like a fast moving story, characters that never give up, and science with a sense of wonder, this is for you.
"Vigilance"...
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Marcellus: The Mantle is a science-fiction superhero novel with an abundance of alien personalities and powers, and serves as an introduction to the Marcellus series.The ultimate legendary hero and galactic warrior, Marcellus bears the Mantle; a cloak that endows him with immense foresight and strength. He commands the Marcellans; masterful soldiers that fight for justice.Marcellus leaves the implosion of his home galaxy in a warship to scour the...
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Excerpt: "The main trouble with the planet Boyd III was one satellite too many. Had there been no third moon, large and close, the tides might have been less confused and the weather more predictable. Certain peaks of atmospheric wildness, recurrent coastal catastrophes, logical but distressing customs of the natives-lack of these factors would have made Boyd III a much more attractive world."
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