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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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In the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There was one problem: It only works in children. Within a single generation, a new world order developed. Bridged Children grew smarter, faster, and stronger than the Adults and demanded equal rights. The Adults fought back. During the ensuing war, Adams, a prodigy among...
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A second collection of ten short stories from the future history of Machine Civilization. From the midst of the Breakup of the US – and 100 million dead – to three generations later, in a place of Demi-humans, Thinking Machines, and interplanetary travel, come and see the men and women, and boys and girls, who are making a future and new worlds!The Old South, to the Oregon coast; the surface of Asteroid Ceres to the warring states of China, these...
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Saving an alien planet is nothing compared to meeting your sales quota.
Untrained tag-along, Marcus Aimond, aboard humanity's first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise.
When the rookie and his crew encounter the Nerelkor, a frog-like civilization, he is thrust head-first into an alien civil war. The opposing factions, Rejault and Dinasc, are stuck in an ill-fated feud driven by...
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Woestynn Prison is the most desolate prison planet of the Ruben System, a desert wasteland meant for the worst of prisoners.Ford is a new recruit from the Academy, hoping to make a name for himself in this notorious place.When arriving he finds more than he expects, and grows more than he could have imagined.
6) I am AI
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"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence ★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Shortlisted – Best Shorter Fiction – British Science Fiction Association If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you? Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program,...
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In the near future, multinat conglomerates plunder the solar system for raw materials to sell to increasingly hostile governments. The intense competition for resources further out into the solar system results in the establishment of an asteroid-ore processing plant on the dwarf planet of Ceres, run by robots and clones, controlled by humans. Most asteroids are mined from inside the solar system, but any asteroids tracked from outside the solar system...
8) Regent
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With Canada now on the Ohio River, the imperium needs allies.Aurelia, the 25-year-old niece of the Empress, leads an army through the deserted ruins of the northeast US to establish contact with the Northern Federation.An illegal side trip has her talk politics with the Archbishop of Montreal followed by a jaunt to see the tiny spaceport of Canso, Nova Scotia. There, she falls in love with a rocketry tech before being forced to defend it and him...
9) Starship-101
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Starship-101 successfully landed on Proxima Centauri-b about twenty years ago, marking humanity's first interstellar settlement. But with radio messages taking over four years to traverse the vast darkness of space, this fledgling colony has been isolated from Earth. Enter the Clason twins – Tarvin and Harden – the galaxy's preeminent Superposition Navigators. These brothers can bend the quantum space-time continuum to their will, instantaneously...
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Did you know that . . .
John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game?
Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row?
The shortest war in history, between England and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only thirty-eight minutes?
Want to learn which U.S. president was a descendant of King Edward III? Or which famous people lived to read their own obituaries? Then That Book is the book for you! From...
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Welcome to the Traveller's Guide to Mount Shasta, California, where the majestic beauty of nature meets the allure of adventure and spiritual exploration. Nestled in the heart of Northern California, Mount Shasta stands as a towering sentinel, drawing visitors from far and wide with its snow-capped peaks, pristine alpine lakes, and lush forests teeming with wildlife. Whether you're seeking thrilling outdoor escapades like hiking, skiing, and mountain...
12) Break the Moon
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Sixteen-year-old Leon Rhaine crafts impossible inventions from bursts of inspiration he can neither remember nor repeat. Few inventions work twice. Most collapse into rubble, or worse, shrapnel and flame. The havoc caused by these psychic scientific breakthroughs threaten his dream enrollment at a prestigious science institute, and the only shot he has at saving his family from a lifetime of debt. Leon is approached by a mysterious man promising to...
13) Run Like Hell
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Buckle up for a thrill ride like no other in this electrifying tale where love, danger, and secrets collide! When Kendra, Aiyana, and Derek's wedding turns into a fight for survival, they're thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. With assassins hot on their trail and mysteries lurking around every corner, they'll need all their cunning and courage to uncover the truth. From the streets of their besieged city to the flooded depths of New Orleans,...
14) New Vengeance
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An adventurous short story from the Vengeance Trilogy world!After a trip into the future almost killed Freya, she is more determined to learn who the traitor is. Even if it means stepping back and letting someone else be in charge.The files they need to save the Resistance and everyone they know are trapped on a hard drive they can't access. Only Bash has the skills needed to recover the data...But the hacker is always one step ahead…Join the Resistance,Get...
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The things I do for my country…Covert recon, special ops, the occasional assassination. The work I do in the shadows keeps people safe. It's what I do. It's who I am. What I am not is a fucking sex-bot. But according to the plump little cutie I just discovered locked away in what is supposed to be a secret bio-weapons laboratory, that's exactly what she needs me to be to ensure her safety and mine. Don't ever let it be said that I'm not up for...
16) Grievers
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Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function.
Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks-in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life-casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she...
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Flying a stolen deep space flitter, Jodie Ifilda, bounty hunter, sets down in the dense forests of remote, uninhabited planet Comstairs.
Exactly the kind of place where her bounty would chose to hide out.
But Comstairs hides other secrets. Secrets that should stay hidden.
Secrets that Jodie might find herself digging through.
If she wants to survive the day.
A sci-fi adventure story from the author of "Designated Driver"
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Your parents are lying bags of dicks, everything you ever had a nightmare about is real, and probably was hiding under your bed. Parallel dimensions exist, let's get that out of the way right now. What matters more is that something is causing them to merge. A process, to put it bluntly, that can only be described as slamming one's tit in the proverbial plane of existence's door… or simply put, maximum unpleasantness in all the wrong places. Monsters,...
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An adventurous short story from the Vengeance Trilogy world!Being the only man on the planet that can procreate, Bash fights for his rank among the Resistance. As the most powerful weapon ever created, Freya struggles to balance her humanity as it clashes with her need for vengeance.A quick scouting mission takes a turn for the worse when they are locked inside a doomed building. While investigating the historic events, Freya unknowingly transmits...
20) Elusive
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Book 3 of the Adrsta Chronicles takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the heart of the apocalyptic aftermath. Prince Whyle of Throm, a member of the constitutional Monarchy, is faced with his most challenging mission yet-to retrieve Amber's stranded sister from the ruins of Earth before relentless enemies from his solar system, track her down. Driven by his usual cold-hearted determination, Whyle ventures into the desolation and chaos of...
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