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Long earth volume 1
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1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
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"I Will Survive is an empowering picture book based on Dino Fekaris and Frederick J. Perren's #1 hit song. Gloria Gaynor's recording in 1978 became her signature song and was a near-instant success, topping both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles chart. Considered one of the most important disco offerings ever and embraced by millions across the globe, it remains an anthem and inspiration for marginalized groups everywhere. Kaitlyn Shea...
5) 2312
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"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering...
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From an author with countless beloved science fiction classics, In the Year 2889 is a short work of science fiction that imagines the future. Set in the year 2889, George Washington Smith is a wealthy and ambitious, businessman. He possesses a great amount of influence on his society, not just because of his wealth, but because he owns a newspaper. In the Year 2889 depicts a slice-of-life narrative, following George through his day-to-day life as...
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The Lani People is a futuristic sci-fi fantasy about a space veterinarian who travels from planet to planet helping alien life. One day, Kennon falls in love with a female alien on a planet where all aliens only have daughters. Excerpt: "The boxed ad in the opportunities section of the Kardon Journal of Allied Medical Sciences stood out like a cut diamond in a handful of gravel. "Wanted," it read, "Veterinarian-for residency in an active livestock...
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Blast off with "From the Earth to the Moon," a visionary science fiction masterpiece from the iconic Jules Verne. This groundbreaking novel spins an extraordinary tale of the daring Baltimore Gun Club, a post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, who devise an audacious plan to catapult a spaceship to the moon. In the era before actual lunar expeditions, Verne astonishingly predicts technological advancements and the thrill of space exploration,...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Journey in Other Worlds" (A Romance of the Future) by John Jacob Astor. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
10) The Fourth 'R'
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The Fourth "R" (also known as The Brain Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith, first published in 1959. It is a science fictional examination of the genius naïf phenomenon. The plot follows a five-year-old boy named Jimmy Holden, who was given the equivalent of a college education by virtue of his parents' invention, an "Electromechanical Educator." In his review column for F&SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as...
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"Highways in Hiding" by George O. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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Continuing the narrative from Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michael are ready to travel to the moon in All Around the Moon. The three men sit anxiously in their bullet-shaped projectile, ready for take-off. After the launch, their series of adventures and misadventures begin. Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michael must be quick and clever, as they brave an encounter with an asteroid, suffer accidental intoxication, deviate...
13) Off on a Comet!
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Off on a Comet is a high-stakes adventure novel and is included in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaire series. When the orbit of a comet named Gallia is headed towards the Earth, the planet is facing a very high risk. However, Gallia only touches a small part of the Earth, sparing most of the world, but taking a small region of the planet with it on its journey through space. Thirty-six people, spanning from French, English, Spanish and...
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The sweeping saga continues as Gabriel Ferro and Dr. Catherine Blake prepare to travel to the alien's planet to learn firsthand how the aliens successfully transformed their society to one that revels in peace harmony and balance. But the question remains… what are the alien's true motives? Is it their intention to transmute mankind forever? Together, Gabriel and Dr. Blake venture beyond Earth, beyond the Milky Way to a world they could not have...
15) Easy to Be a God
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Rich space opera in a mind-boggling universe.
In the 24th century, human civilization has made a great leap forward, colonizing over a thousand planets and exploring thousands more.
They also survived a bloody civil war.
Now, humanity must struggle with revolutionary changes. In the Xan-4 System, both scientists and Federation soldiers, including Sergeant Henryan Swiecki, temporarily on parole, secretly observe two alien races from an orbital...
16) Project Earth
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Sometimes life brings out our hidden hero potential.
Ride along on this epic sci-fi thriller with Josh Hamilton, an average science enthusiast college kid, as he transforms from a wimpy nerd to savior of the world. Josh, along with former high school jock Mike and his mischievous side kick Alan enter a national space contest. What starts off innocent enough kicks into high gear after they stumble upon top secret intel involving the international...
17) Prodigal Schemes
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Alex must con the great and powerful Knox.
Ten years have passed since the attack on IAS, and it's graduation day for Alex. That's right, he's nineteen and ready to take on the galaxy... if only Knox would trust him.
Knox secretly plans to meet with Dr. Amalie Mallet, IAS's predictor. She's foreseen catastrophe is coming, and Knox needs to prepare to keep his family safe. But he doesn't allow any of the crew to join the meeting in order to "protect...
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Near Space - The First Frontier is set against a present-day background with a twist. Richard Dawson, chairman of the Clipper Group, invents a range of new technologies which have a huge impact on the world. The technologies detailed in the book: the Space Clipper, Air Train, Air Cargo, Air Ship and the Space Light Systems, all revolutionise the current state of the world by completely replacing the former competing technologies.
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A secret hidden on a colony world could affect the course of a war between humanity and an alien civilization in this bestselling space opera from Poland.
It is the mid-twenty-fourth century. After colonizing a significant portion of Orion's Arm, humanity encounters an advanced alien civilization, which-unwilling to make contact-starts a total war. There is more at stake here than just the conquest of territory. It's a matter of survival for the...
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Pronounced 'ann iss e', odd ys e tells of a journey through space and time of an 'alien' people that found their way to this world just over six thousand years ago, they called themselves 'gann'. Being all killed in an unforeseen circumstance, they now survive in the afterlife where they have been interacting on a subconscious level with the humans of Earth in an attempt to find their way back to reality. This true story is told by kynn, a gann soul...
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