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The Cerulean Mines is a Lost Tales of Power novella.
There is a region of space that is so hostile to life and magic that anyone sent there dies from exposure alone and yet it holds a valuable resource that must be mined by hand. Cory was sent to these mines to die, and yet he must survive in order to rescue his best friend's widow. He just has to live long enough to make it happen....
Lost Tales Series:
Volume I — The Enemy of an Enemy,
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Dieses Buch enthält folgende Romane:
Manfred Weinland/Peter Haberl: Boreguirs Vermächtnis
Susan Schwarz: Hinter dem Ereignishorizont
Alfred Bekker: Die Perle Chardin
Marc Tannous: Vergessene Welten
Am Morgen einer neuen Zeit.
Der Krieg zwischen den organischen und anorganischen raumfahrenden Völkern konnte im letzten Moment abgewendet werden. Die Menschen jedoch sind nach wie vor fremdbestimmt und als die Erinjij gefürchtet, die sich in...
83) Mindbender
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Extrasensory perception is a gift sought and often exploited. But what if society viewed telepathy as an affliction and instituted camps to keep telepaths under control?
Taralyn is a convicted telepath. She is tormented by guilt after her ten-year-old daughter is mind-wiped by the Association, a political group that imprisons telepaths for the good of the public. When she steals the child and flees Earth, she is pursued by Asher, an Enforcer of the...
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In the middle of disaster, impossible strikes Sue Warrell, Systems and Security Chief aboard Expedition Mission Bellagos, fought long and hard for a one-way trip. Protecting the lives of over eight thousand people and the generation ship they call home. As a failed systems update tests Sue and her team to their limits, a crew member's disappearance pushes disaster into the impossible. Can Sue solve the mystery before the Bellagos passes the breaking...
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"Pyramids of Meridian" contends with the reality of a veritable afterlife, with inspirations from the novel "Hyperion," the anime "Evangelion," and the movie "The Matrix."
After Michael Rene Gostani dies in the Vietnam war, he discovers that he alone can change the imprisoning afterlife. Utilizing this newfound gift, he frees billions of trapped souls and builds them a grand capitalist city called Meridian. In the process, he awakens an all-consuming...
86) The Archives
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The world is finally recovering from the effects of pandemic, war, and economic collapse. Disease is still rife, people still starve, and the peace is fragile. Yet humanity still strives for the stars, taking its first steps along the path of interplanetary exploration. And with them, both on and off the battlefields, robots have an increasing role. Not everyone is happy with this, including some of the machines…
This novel is based, with permission,...
87) Quarantine
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The majority of her crew having perished in a flu outbreak, Captain Kovak is in desperate need of a friendly port.She finds a planet on the map with the tags fuel and crew for hire, figuring she's home safe.Until she ends up quarantined.
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It's been one thousand years since the exodus from Earth and the rebirth of civilization among the stars. All Matt Becker wants is to go home to his wife and son, but he finds himself thrust into a desperate struggle for survival. Reptilian Alcari invaders ruthlessly advance as they flee the Dark Plague, and the collectivist Joinder seek to avenge their ancient defeat. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Brisbane is soon embroiled in a three-way battle...
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Being accepted for the Amelioration Expedition was the easy part. It only took twenty years of education and knowing the right people. Marlin Delaney had wanted to be part of colonizing another planet since she was a little girl. Everything was going according to plan…until she was raped. Then it seemed that everything that could go wrong did. Before she could get off the planet of Oriel, she discovered she was pregnant. It was a fact she hid until...
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At the heart of the Concord, unrest is festering. Unrecognized by the Elite, the ruling class, an undercurrent of rebellion is surging through the enslaved Bond class. It's a threat that could bring down all of civilization, creating a third Dark Age. Lord Alexand, first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, stands to inherit a vast industrial empire along with a seat on the Directorate, the Concord's ruling body. But he sees the writing on the wall...
92) Sudanna, Sudanna
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On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the liberating sounds of music.
Hiley OIV is one of Ut's most conscientious inhabitants, a man so afraid of losing his head (utpeople have very precarious necks) that a Bad Thought almost never enters his...
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The galaxy is a dangerous place.
It's about to become even more dangerous.
For centuries, the United Federation of Planets has maintained a tentative peace across the Milky Way Galaxy while preparing for the long-fortold emergence of their greatest enemy - the alien Krai'kesh.
Now the Krai'kesh emerge from beyond our galaxy, threatening to rain death and destruction down upon all human life.
A lone fleet stationed at the edge of the galaxy struggles...
94) Ragnars Welt
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Auf einem Planeten außerhalb des Unionsraums hat sich eine Katastrophe ereignet. Ragnar scheint der einzige Überlebende seines Planeten zu sein, doch die Tragödie muss aufgeklärt werden und so macht er sich auf den Weg zur nächsten Raumstation. Sein Notruf reißt Raumstation Void7.36 aus der täglichen Routine.
Raumpilotin Max—mitten in der Ausbildung und nicht gerade mit dem Vertrauen ihres vorgesetzten Captains ausgestattet—muss sich den...
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Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying Earth), and its sequels-a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.
In Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight , Cugel the Clever is still seeking...
96) Triploidy
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When their baby is born with a genetic defect caused by an extraterrestrial intelligence, new parents must fight to save their child-and humanity.
A medical mystery . . . and a threat from beyond the stars.
For Jon and Marianna Knox, the birth of their daughter Persephone marks the happiest day of their lives. Until they learn that Persey is suffering from a rare but fatal condition called "triploidy."
Her doctors are baffled, and with...
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Grand Admiral Chaka Saahren has the rewards of rank
...but he doesn't have Systems Engineer Allysha Marten. Determined to keep her safe, Saahren will go to any lengths to win back the woman he loves. Allysha agrees to temporary employment by the Fleet, hoping to avoid at all costs the man she believes responsible for the death of innocent civilians, including her estranged father.
Sean O'Reilly has a plan...
...and it involves hijacking Allysha...
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Mars for the Martians! Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact, everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars. The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But, this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation...
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In the prequel to the Saga of Shadows trilogy and Hugo Award nominee The Dark Between the Stars, humanity recovers from war as new threats loom.
Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the human race is still picking up the pieces. The Terran Hanseatic League has become the Confederation, and King Peter and Queen Estarra work to heal wounds among the factions of humanity, as well as with the alien Ildiran Empire.
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After living a life of indentured servitude to the feds, Betta Reganta finds new opportunity on a derelict space station. Getting the space station up and running is only one of the many challenges she faces. Partnering with Jadis Ter, a failed genetic experiment and owner of a neighboring power station, takes her life for an even darker turn.
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