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21) Infinity
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Two lives; intertwined in a way that neither of them could have ever imagined. One, a young man running for his life from a mysterious threat that wants him eliminated. The other, a determined young woman, who will go to great lengths to get answers to the secrets her family keeps. Both of them are destined for something far greater than themselves, they just don't know it yet. Set in a futuristic, technologically-dependent, world that is not so far...
22) The Listeners
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A classic of science fiction, this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)-the organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. A tale of contact with alien life hailed by leaders of SETI organizations and today's leading science fiction authors as hugely influential, the story appeals to both science fiction readers and the hundreds of thousands of members of various SETI organizations....
23) 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)...
24) Nucleation
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In this riveting debut science-fiction techno thriller, a top-notch pilot experiences a disaster during the highest-profile project of her career. Now Helen must unearth the shocking truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival-or did she encounter something never before seen in the stars?
We are live, we are live, we are live...
Helen Vectorovich holds the unique distinction of failing at first contact.
Only the most elite operators...
25) Chaos Weaving
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Chaos Weaving is Collection One of The Freeborn Chaos Chronicles. These first fifty futuristic flash fiction fables tell complex original stories and weave interesting concepts about our Universe through the experiences of people performing jobs, saving the planet, exploring gravity wells in deep space, peering through lenses to the future, and jumping time portals into the past. Most of these stories began with an epic title that tells a big part...
26) Ruins: Trilogy
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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...
27) Big Town
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Big Town is a government green facility that invites obese people to lose all of their unwanted pounds in a week's time, painlessly and effortlessly, and at no cost to them. Rose and Bruno, an overweight couple, answer the ad and discover that their energy creates electricity. Their fat is converted into an alternative bio-fuel while they sleep, but things go wrong: people die, and three robots do a cover-up on their own.
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The far-flung imperial frontier is no place for greenhorns.
Two Toes, the renegade Tigerillian war chief, is off the reservation and slaughtering human settlers west of the Bloody Muddy. Only a half-grown boy with a heart full of vengeance and bottled lightning in both hands stands between the outlaw war chief and the rest of the western frontier.
But there are secrets about young Lightning Ryan Taylor that span the known universe. Secrets that...
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"Edward M. Lerner has produced the best-ever guide to putting the science in science fiction, and he's done it with clarity, wit, and panache." --Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night
The essential resource for anyone who reads, writes, watches, or studies science fiction.
Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage -- at least often enough to be helpful -- to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded...
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The age-old question about alien existence and human contact is, explored in a new way in this collection of six novellas, previously anthologized in Analog magazine. When disillusioned aerospace engineer Adrian Mast buys a book at a remainder sale, the last things he expects to find in its appendix are alien spacecraft designs.
With the help of the bookstore owner, Adrian tracks down the author-only to find him in a mental institution anguishing...
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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...
32) The Nostalgist
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With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.
The Nostalgist: A Tor.
Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson.
33) Tsunami Storm
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Bronze Medalist - 2017 Readers' Favorite Awards.Lieutenant Tiffany Grimes is a rising star in the Navy. She has a date with destiny.In the high-tech world of advanced secret weapons, the ability to trigger terrifying earthquakes and direct devastating storms has been mastered by the military.Vice Admiral James Billingsly now controls America's most powerful new weapon of mass destruction, which he secretly uses to impose his own warped moral code...
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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,...
35) Mind of McDavid
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When McDavid gets left behind on Earth, he and a group of unlikely allies must work together to get back to their families, who are traveling to a new world, and to stop those who want to keep everyone on Earth.
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This is the tail that has cost many people their lives and will continue to do so. That you are reading this shows that man's power though great, is not omnipotent. The power men have they covet dearly. The power these people have is the ability to see, hear, smell, taste, really sense and analyze anything anywhere. In addition they have the power to destroy and kill. I tell you these things not that you can do anything about it, but rather to maybe...
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This sci-fi thriller explores the possibility that when we dream, we're merely glimpsing into an alternate reality. Three strangers bound together by a shared dream fight against the current of fate. Can they come to terms with the truth? Are we the only versions of ourselves? Are you the best version of you to exist? They must find each other without losing themselves. Two universes hang in the balance as external forces vie for control of their...
38) Visible Unknown
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"Visible Unknown" is an ambitious work of science fiction that poses thoughtful questions about the past, the future, and our own human vulnerability. The story begins as a deadly virus has wreaked havoc for 15 generations – killing trillions and no cure is in sight. Now, a group of teenagers embarks on a dangerous journey to find a cure… and they discover that they face a far more treacherous threat than anyone had ever imagined.
After diving...
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In the early 2000s in a top-secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history. As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins...
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Generations have been and gone since Colonel Jeremy McCloud disappeared without trace on the first space mission launched by the United States of America in August 1945.
Those involved in the launch are also gone-or have they?
Present day, twenty-first century
The first indication there might be contact with the 1945 space vessel The Javelin was unknowingly initiated by an archivist, Sophia Aburae, who heard a distinct signal originating...
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