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1) 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)...
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Ruins are all that's left. The name doesn't matter. A long time ago, alien creatures were brought here but somehow escaped and infested the city, but just because it was left in ruins does not mean that everything is lost.
The Ruins trilogy are three stories that follow the trials and tribulations of three men, set in different points in the city's fall--a scavenger who has to help a tourist find what she lost a long time ago, a father who wants...
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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to fail, can Ritter live up to the demands of his father, an engineer the equal of any hero in the Five Great Classical Novels, as they struggle to prevent this civilization from falling like every civilization...
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Stableford has mapped out for us in engaging stories the wonderful and sometimes disturbing world of the next thousand-years, on Earth, throughout the solar system, and to worlds beyond, with emphasis on huge sociological changes and extraordinary alterations in the biological life of humans. It is one of the most detailed and plausible and fascinating projections in all of science fiction. Now, in The Omega Expedition, it takes us into another millennium,...
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Die Erde ist ein sauberer Ort. Umweltverschmutzung, Gewalt, ja sogar unerwünschte Gefühlsregungen—all das gehört einer kaum mehr dokumentierten Vergangenheit an.
Diese aufgeräumte Welt hat unerwünschte Bewohner längst auf dem Mond untergebracht und vergessen.
Doch eine dieser ausgelagerten Strafkolonien erwacht, und mit ihr Aubrine, eine Frau, die ihrer Stimme beraubt wurde, jedoch nicht ihren Vorstellungen einer Rückkehr auf die Erde.
8) 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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This novel is a sequel to The Zombie Philosopher. Edward and his valet, Brent, take a space liner tour on the SS Brizo from the Lunar Gateway to New Troy at Earth-Sun L4, on to Mars, and back to Earth. Brent's less-than-masterfully-coordinated enemies take a new tack in their efforts to destroy him but are foiled once again. Edward's new friend Cindy investigates an archaeological find of artifacts on Mars and interrupts a plot to perpetrate fraud...
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When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible.
Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky, which long ago was the...
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"If you like your books to have substance and a bit of a mind twist, this is where you'll get it."When Dr. Priya Sengupta is called to the beach to help return a stranded pod of bottlenose dolphins into the Pacific, she can see that something has gone very wrong. What she doesn't realize is just how wrong… It's not just the dolphins. It's bees on the side of the highways. And her friend-also a biodiversity specialist-is seeing some strange happenings...
12) The Oracle
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Evan Stewart, a twenty-first-century student of history, travels back in time to the Los Angeles of the 1930s. His original objective was to interview individuals who were significant in the events surrounding World War II, and write scientific papers on his findings. His course was altered, however, when his hobby of horse racing trivia and a blossoming romance intervened to sidetrack his intent.
His knowledge of the winners of horse races permitted...
13) Level Six
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Fifteen years after warring artificial intelligences nearly destroyed Earth, a young woman finds an artifact from that struggle, upsetting a delicate balance of power and dragging her into the middle of a new fight for humanity's survival.
With a significant portion of the planet covered in heat-absorbing black dust, Earth's biosphere teeters on the edge of collapse. One AI faction is attempting to fix the damage, with huge machines trundling across...
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From the Hugo-winning, bestselling author of The Guns of the South, a tale of love, parasitism, and loss in this Tor.Com Original Something Going Around, by Harry Turtledove.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
15) The Need for Air
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A mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn't enough for life.
16) Backscatter
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She was cold, hurt, and doomed, but otherwise reasonably cheery.
Life might emerge under the most unlikely conditions...or in the last extremity. From the author of the "Galactic Center" novel comes Gregory Benford's hard sci-fi tale, Backscatter.
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In a cyber-enhanced, futuristic Chicago, Sonata knows near-immortality is achievable through downloading her mind into a cyborg body after death. But, this young artist wants to prove that living forever isn't the same as living a beautiful life. The Three Lives of Sonata James, a Tor.com Original from science fiction author Lettie Prell.
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Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface. The crew, thinking that their attempts at terraforming and breeding for Martian adaptability have finally payed off, rejoice at the prospect of a brighter future. But, Nina's about to unlock the mystery of the disaster that stranded them on Mars...and nothing will ever be the...
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This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope, filled with wonders. Set earlier in the same "future history" as Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, and The Fountains of Youth, The Cassandra Complex is the independent story of events crucial to the creation of the universe in which the others take place. It is the twenty-first century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War Three, the biotech war, is on the...
20) Exodus
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When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive?
In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance.
But while the government wants to...
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