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The technologically groundbreaking novel of space exploration from the only science fiction author nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Roy Malcolm has always been fascinated by space travel. And when he wins a voyage to the Inner Space Station as a game show prize, he’s sure it’s the trip of a lifetime. Before long, Roy is taken in by the young crew—and shares their adventures and lives.
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Roy Malcolm has always been fascinated by space travel. And when he wins a voyage to the Inner Space Station as a game show prize, he’s sure it’s the trip of a lifetime. Before long, Roy is taken in by the young crew—and shares their adventures and lives.
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In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times).
In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose...
In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose...
3) Cradle
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A journalist hunting military secrets uncovers an alien presence off the Florida Keys in this novel by the award-winning author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In 1994, an experimental navy missile mysteriously disappears off the coast of Florida during testing. While investigating the link between the disappearance and some unusual whale sightings, journalist Carol Dawson finds much more: a strange golden trident that may...
In 1994, an experimental navy missile mysteriously disappears off the coast of Florida during testing. While investigating the link between the disappearance and some unusual whale sightings, journalist Carol Dawson finds much more: a strange golden trident that may...
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The Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club is a 21 st Century haven for people seeking to escape New York City's frantic pace. Dressed in clothes their ancestors might have worn during the 1800s, members enjoy foods of the period and read periodicals featuring news of a particular date in the 1800s. However, the 1800 Club also has an astounding secret . . . Time Travel. Members travel back in time nudging famous persons and key events just enough...
5) Rama II
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In the sequel to the multi-award winning sci-fi novel Rama, a second Raman spaceship enters our solar system and “offers one surprise after another” (The New York Times).
Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of...
Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of...
6) Time Paradox
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Derak, Shesain, and the time crew are unexpectedly thrust 600 years into Thumar's past. A planet wide plague is raging that our intrepid time travelers were predestined to cure.They return to the future to discover their actions dramatically changed their original timeline. With help from the mysterious Time Sentinels of the universe, they set out across time, space, and dimension to fix their time paradox.Can they stop the space-time-continuum from...
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While studying the electron shells within the hydrogen atom, scientists realized that these are actually a tiny subset of the entire universe's operating system band structure. Since the brain operates on electron timing, it was concluded that everyone must in this way be connected into the common mind. Thus, science had finally discovered the real source of consciousness.
8) Rapture
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After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is once more a bel dame, part of a sisterhood of elite government assassins trained to a cut a target's head off without remorse. But the end of a centuries-long war has thrown her native land of Nasheen into turmoil. A huge influx of unemployed–and unemployable–young soldiers have brought Nasheen to the brink of civil war, even as an alien spaceship stations itself in orbit above the capital.
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9) 2043
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You know your own mind, right? In the near future this is no longer taken for granted. So integrated with information spaces, we change. How might you mind be changed? To what purpose ?Zeno should be celebrating. His startup has sold software for the brain implants on a vast scale. Emotional engineering, pre-awareness. It goes by many names. Steady and incremental massaging of minds. Preparing human neural structures for the message to come. More...
10) Marvelous Things
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Isolation is hard. Dale Abbot is about to find out it can get even harder.Alone aboard his deep-space vessel, Dale Abbot must let go of everything that remains of his burned-out hazeof a life to help a newly-emerged AI consciousness.David Edward Wagner, a masterful storyteller with an MA in philosophy and a sardonic wit,brings you MARVELOUS THINGS, a profoundly heartfelt science fiction novel, full of dramatic tension and sly humor.
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Beware of your next injection...High school student Adara Banks suffers a drowning accident while white water rafting. William Banks, her estranged father, attempts to revive her from coma by injecting her with stolen nanotechnology.This military-grade nanotech attaches to her nervous system. The swarming nanobots inside her body, interconnect and carry Artificial Intelligence, which enable intelligent control of the living body.William Banks programs...
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Nurse Beth Cameron wakes up from stasis and finds she is the only crewmember onboard the USFS Grace, a small hospital starship. A novelette.
As Beth's amnesia fades, she realizes something is terribly wrong; the rest of the crew should be on board the USFS Grace with her, but they are not. The Simulated Intelligence Servicer known as SIS has missing data and communication to the outside universe has been, corrupted. SIS is unable to obtain information...
13) Les Ovoïdes
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De courses-poursuites essoufflantes en captures soudaines, et d'affrontements musclés en malentendus amusants, ce tome rallonge considérablement la liste des péripéties, déjà nombreuses, vécues par Bartol et son entourage.Son entourage proche… qui se modifie quelque peu. Sa vie personnelle semble, en effet, prendre un tournant important. Quel est-il ? Sera-t-il provisoire ou définitif ? Le Marsalè fera-t-il les bons choix ?À bien plus...
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Dexter Newman's wife left him and took his two young sons. Desperate to locate her and find out why she tore their family apart, he uses his Internet and network skills to track her down. But her electronic trail is wrought with security codes and firewalls he can't hack through, so he turns to a new technology developed by the military that is guaranteed to find her...or kill him in the process.
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Have you ever wondered how different the world might be if things had unfolded differently? What if you could travel to a parallel world where Albert Einstein, the genius who revolutionized the course of science, never existed? In this book, we offer you a rare opportunity to embark on an intriguing intellectual adventure that stretches beyond the bounds of science fiction into a complex and intertwined reality.Behind the walls of laboratories and...
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The Lattice Of Space: A Novel Even with Robot Planet in ruins and the deaths of hundreds of their robotic compatriots the four robots Dag, Sigmund, Walker and Hanson were working hard to save humanity from possible extinction. All they have to do is restart the Big Bang to prevent the quickly decaying lattice of spacetime from destroying all. If they can. The Lattice of Space is set in the future (2600s) and is the third and final novel in the Future...
17) McLaughlin
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McLaughlin International is a subcontractor for the Department of Defense located in Albuquerque, NM. The routine contracts pay the bills, but the one that McLaughlin's cofounders, Tom McLaughlin, Kristen Dahl and Rusty Langston, were most interested in was the highly classified project code named "Marvin." When DOD lost faith in the viability of the project they dropped the funding. McLaughlin found a way to continue the project in the private sector....
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Le jour J est enfin arrivé : le départ de Symbiose a enfin eu lieu !Nous découvrirons qui parmi les nombreuses personnes désirant faire partie du voyage a réellement eu la chance de participer à ce périple interstellaire.Mais quels événements marqueront ce voyage ? Quelles en seront la destination et la finalité, souhaitées par les Symbiosiens, expérimentateurs discrets mais attentifs ?Il est question d'un nouveau monde… un monde o tout...
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What starts in space may not stay in space. Many governments today are preparing for war in space. Most people today are unaware of it. When will it happen? How will it be, conducted? What will be the effect on a young boy just coming of age?
Donner had already discovered a covert signal coming from the secret 'Battle Stars' in orbit before the war. Destruction of the Battle Stars begins the war, which soon spreads to the Earth's surface and all...
20) Aftermath
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They'd come so close to being wiped entirely out of existence when Gerald informed them that he was going to be removing them all from the sim, but Jarrod's foresight, suffering, and self-sacrifice saved them from that fate when he used the sim to kill Gerald by overloading his neural interface.Coming that close to death gives you a whole new perspective on life, so after a celebratory party that left everyone but Jarrod with a nasty hangover, they...
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