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Eta Draconis  by Brendan Ritchie

Eta Draconis

Brendan Ritchie

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"Elora is leaving her hometown for university. Leaving behind friends, family, and safety to follow her dream of studying theatre while she still has the chance. Together, Elora and her older sister, Vivienne, set out by road for the city and the upcoming...

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The mother  by B. L. Blanchard

The mother

B. L. Blanchard

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"What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never had overseas empires, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Protestant Reformation. There is, however, in an obscure island nation called England, a woman running for her life. Marie,...

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For the first time, again  by Sylvain Neuvel

For the first time, again

Sylvain Neuvel

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"Aster believes she is a normal teenage girl - she is very wrong . . . Teenager Aster barely escapes with her life when her adoptive father is killed in a shooting. Suddenly finding herself under the protection of a special US military unit, blood tests...

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The children of men  by P. D. James

The children of men

P. D. James

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"The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary...

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Ascension  by Nicholas Binge

Ascension

Nicholas Binge

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"When a mountain mysteriously appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a group of scientists are sent to investigate and discover what is at the summit. Eminent scientist, explorer and chronic loner Harry Tunmore is among those asked to join the secret...

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Quantum radio  by A. G. Riddle

Quantum radio

A. G. Riddle

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"Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. At CERN, he analyses data generated by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, Ty believes he's found a pattern in...

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The battle of Jedha  by George Mann

The battle of Jedha

George Mann

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"Jedha. The worn streets of this ancient world serve as a confluence for the galaxy. Visited by all, yet owned by none. Here, the Jedi are but one creed among many worshipping and studying the Force. From the Guardians of the Whills to the Path of the Open...

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The weight of command  by Michael Mammay

The weight of command

Michael Mammay

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"Lieutenant Kiera Markov is a scout platoon leader for a peacekeeping force on the remote planet of Tanara, where little has happened for decades, and the only mission is to keep the lithium flowing up the space elevator to feed the galaxy's incessant demand....

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Titanium noir  by Nick Harkaway

Titanium noir

Nick Harkaway

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"Titanium Noir imagines a world in which there is a medical process which changes people into stronger, smarter, bigger humans, with a much longer lifespan, known as Titans. But the procedure is incredibly expensive, so only a very small number of people in...

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Knight of Talassar  by Nick Kyme

Knight of Talassar

Nick Kyme

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"Master of the Watch, High Suzerain of Ultramar, Knight Champion of Macragge... he, Cato Sicarius, is the bearer of many titles, and his deeds are legendary. As Captain of the Second Company Ultramarines, Sicarius' bravery and tactical acumen are second to...

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The dark city  by Chris (Science fiction writer) Wraight

The dark city

Chris (Science fiction writer) Wrai...

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"The Throneworld is in turmoil, wracked by the opening of the Great Rift and the failure of the Astronomican. Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, his mind and body ravaged by what he has seen in the Hollow Mountain, is missing, taking with him the clues to the...

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Ahriman eternal  by John (Novelist) French

Ahriman eternal

John (Novelist) French

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"Doom has come upon the Thousand Sons. Born from the Rubric, a curse of fire and dust stalks them across time and space. The spirits of the Rubricae are vanishing from the prisons of their armour, while living sorcerers take their place one by one. Driven by...

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Horus rising  by Dan Abnett

Horus rising

Dan Abnett

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"Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. On the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favorite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, the...

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Zen and the art of starship maintenance  by Tobias S. Buckell

Zen and the art of starship maintenance

Tobias S. Buckell

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"This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity--sometimes in the same story--rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling."--Provided by publisher.

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Wool  by Hugh Howey

Wool

Hugh Howey

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"In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow...

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Shift  by Hugh Howey

Shift

Hugh Howey

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"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost...

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Dust  by Hugh Howey

Dust

Hugh Howey

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"The final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate. The Silo is still in danger. There are...

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Lost places  by Sarah Pinsker

Lost places

Sarah Pinsker

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"A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music and memory,...

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Hit parade of tears  by Izumi Suzuki

Hit parade of tears

Izumi Suzuki

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"Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and...

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Alien agendas  by Ian Douglas

Alien agendas

Ian Douglas

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"The Saurians, a highly evolved reptilian species which escaped extinction 65 million years ago, have an agenda: to achieve behind-the-scenes dominance over Earth. Operating from hidden bases, they use psychosocial techniques to plant conspiracy theories and...

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The sirens of Titan  by Kurt Vonnegut

The sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

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"When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once...

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Fractal noise  by Christopher Paolini

Fractal noise

Christopher Paolini

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"July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn...

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The thick and the lean  by Chana Porter

The thick and the lean

Chana Porter

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"In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens...

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Cataclysm  by Lydia Kang

Cataclysm

Lydia Kang

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"After five years of conflict, the planets Eiram and E'ronoh are on the cusp of real peace. But when news breaks of a disaster at the treaty signing on Jedha, violence reignites on the beleaguered worlds. Together, the royal heirs of both planets - Phan-tu...

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Thirsty animals  by Rachelle Atalla

Thirsty animals

Rachelle Atalla

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"With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with her mum at their rural farm. For now, they are safe with just enough to get by. Yet at the border, tensions are close to breaking point as more and more southerners chase the...

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Dawn  by Octavia E. Butler

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

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"When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her. She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of...

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Galápagos  by Kurt Vonnegut

Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut

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"The human survivors of the "nature cruise of the century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains."--Publisher.

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The ten percent thief  by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The ten percent thief

Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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"Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent - the Virtual elite - and have the world...

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Antimatter blues  by Edward (Science fiction writer) Ashton

Antimatter blues

Edward (Science fiction writer) Ash...

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"Surviving isn't living, even for an Expendable. Mickey7's antimatter gambit paid off. He's out of the Expendable game and doing whatever else he can to help support the threatened colony on the ice world Niflheim. But the colony now desperately needs the one...

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Burrowed  by Mary Baader Kaley

Burrowed

Mary Baader Kaley

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"In the distant future, a genetic plague has separated humanity in two - Subterraneans who live in underground burrows to protect their health, and strong surface-dwelling Omniterraneans. Zuzan Cayan, a brilliant Subter girl with 'light blindness,' is about to...

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The memory of animals  by Claire Fuller

The memory of animals

Claire Fuller

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"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an...

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A brief history of living forever  by Jaroslav Kalfař

A brief history of living forever

Jaroslav Kalfař

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"When Adela discovers she has a terminal illness, her thoughts turn to Tereza, the child she gave up at birth. Leaving behind her family in their native Czech village, Adela flies to the United States to find her long-lost daughter before it is too late....

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Grass  by Sheri S. Tepper

Grass

Sheri S. Tepper

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"What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but...

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Bliss and Imaginarium  by Mike Ring

Bliss and Imaginarium

Mike Ring

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"When Edward is fired by the Rapture Factory because of his attacks on their oppressive Calgorithm he travels to the Imaginarium, a colourful centre of resistance. Soon Edward is sent to Pergamum to retrieve a powerful weapon against the Calgorithm. Edward...

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The last catastrophe  by Allegra Hyde

The last catastrophe

Allegra Hyde

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"A vast caravan of RVs roam the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde's...

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Battle scars  by Sam Maggs

Battle scars

Sam Maggs

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"Cal Kestis leads the Stinger Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, Cal's crew has...

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Paradise-1  by David Wellington

Paradise-1

David Wellington

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"Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew...

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Some desperate glory  by Emily Tesh

Some desperate glory

Emily Tesh

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"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the...

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Loki's Ring  by Stina Leicht

Loki's Ring

Stina Leicht

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"Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception - making her like a daughter to...

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The new one  by Evie Green

The new one

Evie Green

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"A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they've always wanted-- it's too bad she isn't real. For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious...

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The scourge between stars  by Ness Brown

The scourge between stars

Ness Brown

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"A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back...

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Cat's cradle  by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

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"Cat's Cradle is as autobiographical as any of Vonnegut's work up to that point. The Hoenikker family of the novel closely parallels Vonnegut's own family, consisting of an elder son who is a scientist, a tall middle daughter, and a younger son who joins Delta...

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Multiverses

Multiverses

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"A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite Earths of the multiverse. Featuring Alix E. Harrow, Clive Barker, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Annallee Newitz, Alastair Reynolds and more. Imagine infinite Earths, an endless universe...

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Imperium restored  by Walter Jon Williams

Imperium restored

Walter Jon Williams

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"Star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula have decisively beaten the forces of the corrupt Zanshaa government. It seems all there's left to do is to travel to the capital of Zanshaa to reunite the empire under the banner of the Restoration. Before...

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Trine  by Chris Faraday

Trine

Chris Faraday

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"Two years after jilting his bride and escaping his hometown of Gracious, Brad Van Reed returns to the aid of his eleven year old sister, Kristen. Though he's having a hard time believing that the old amulet in her possession gives her the power to create...

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Iron kingdom  by Nick Kyme

Iron kingdom

Nick Kyme

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A war-weary Battle Group Praxis arrives at the Knight world of Kamidar, ruled by the Iron Queen Orlah, to return the queen's slain daughter and heir, who died fighting in Guilliman's name. In truth, the Imperium's mission here is twofold: to strip Kamidar of...

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Veniss underground  by Jeff VanderMeer

Veniss underground

Jeff VanderMeer

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"The first novel (originally published in 2003) by Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation, including approximately 50,000 words of new material exclusive to this edition"--

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Not alone  by Sarah K. Jackson

Not alone

Sarah K. Jackson

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"In a world very close to our own, a mother and her young son desperately fend for themselves in the confinement of their one bedroom flat. Five years ago, a toxic microplastics storm killed most of the population. Now Katie must forage and hunt the few...

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Beyond the reach of Earth  by Ken MacLeod

Beyond the reach of Earth

Ken MacLeod

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"THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity cannot go. New worlds are discovered, but with them come new dangers. At the heart of their discovery is the Fermi, ruins of alien technology thought to be...

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The scarab mission  by James L. Cambias

The scarab mission

James L. Cambias

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"Solana Sina is a scarab, salvaging wrecked and abandoned space habitats among the Billion Worlds of the Tenth Millennium. She and an oddball crew--a raven, a cyborg, and a dinosaur--board the derelict colony Safdaghar hoping to score some loot before the...

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Ten planets  by Yuri Herrera

Ten planets

Yuri Herrera

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"A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by one of Mexico's finest novelists. The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present....

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The scriptures  by author DRGN

The scriptures

author DRGN

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"It is the end of days. A nuclear strike hits New York. Alfie, a young black male, survives but with no memory of what has happened. The only thing he can remember with any clarity is how to play his guitar and a few snatches of old blues and folk songs....

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Flux  by Jinwoo Chong

Flux

Jinwoo Chong

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"A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious new employers have inadvertently discovered time travel - and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes..."--Dust jacket flap.

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Infinity gate  by M. R. Carey

Infinity gate

M. R. Carey

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"The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds, except that they're really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate...

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Rubicon  by J. S. Dewes

Rubicon

J. S. Dewes

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"Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war...

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Feed them silence  by Lee Mandelo

Feed them silence

Lee Mandelo

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"Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a...

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I'd really prefer not to be here with you  by Julianna Baggott

I'd really prefer not to be here with you

Julianna Baggott

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"Julianna Baggott delivers her debut short-story collection of the weird and wonderful, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters."--

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Hel's eight  by Stark Holborn

Hel's eight

Stark Holborn

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"Ten 'Doc' Low is a medic with a dark past, riding the wastes of the desert moon Factus, dispensing medicine to the needy and death to those who cross the laws of the mysterious Seekers. Cursed by otherworldly forces, she stays alone to keep herself safe, and...

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Moths  by Jane Hennigan

Moths

Jane Hennigan

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"Forty years ago, the world changed. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around the globe. Some were killed quietly in their sleep, others became crazed killers, wildly dangerous and beyond help. All seemed hopeless. But humanity...

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The strange  by Nathan Ballingrud

The strange

Nathan Ballingrud

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"Anabelle Crisp is fourteen when the Silence arrives, severing all communication between Earth and her new home on Mars. One evening, while she and her father are closing their diner in the colony of New Galveston, they are robbed at gunpoint. Among the stolen...

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Voice of Mars  by Glynn Stewart

Voice of Mars

Glynn Stewart

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"In a galaxy tied together by the magic of the elite Jump Mages, Damien Montgomery graduates into their numbers only to discover that without connections, he can't find a ship and is stuck in the Sherwood system. Pirates attacked David White's jump freighter,...

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The moon and the desert  by Robert E. Hampson

The moon and the desert

Robert E. Hampson

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"Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have...

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Time trials  by M. A. (Michael A.) Rothman

Time trials

M. A. (Michael A.) Rothman

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"Marty Cohen was a gifted linguist and student of ancient military strategy who stepped away from academic Egyptology and opened a woodworking shop. Away from the bitter politics and petty rivalries, he's happy to take care of his people, play the occasional...

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Kingmaker  by Robert (Freelance writer) Rath

Kingmaker

Robert (Freelance writer) Rath

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"The Officio Assassinorum safeguards the future of humanity. Its agents are the bloody-handed, secret saviours of the Imperium, killers charged with achieving the impossible... and Vindicare assassin Absolom Raithe has just been handed the most difficult...

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Ashes of man  by Christopher Ruocchio

Ashes of man

Christopher Ruocchio

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"With the Cielcin united under one banner, the Sollan Empire stands alone after the betrayal of the Commonwealth. The Prophet-King of the Cielcin has sent its armies to burn the worlds of men, and worse, there are rumours... whispers that Hadrian Marlowe is...

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The mimicking of known successes  by Malka Older

The mimicking of known successes

Malka Older

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"[This novel] presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic...

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Enemy of my enemy  by Mary SanGiovanni

Enemy of my enemy

Mary SanGiovanni

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"The moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. The clock is ticking, yet when a distress signal arrives from a Weyland-Yutani biowarfare outpost, a desperate plan is launched to evacuate the trapped...

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Nothing but the rain  by Naomi Salman

Nothing but the rain

Naomi Salman

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"In a sleepy little town where the never-ending rain can take away memories, Laverne, with every drop of water dangerous and with mysterious forces preventing escape, must find a way to survive."--Publisher.

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Camp Zero  by Michelle Min Sterling

Camp Zero

Michelle Min Sterling

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"In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is breaking ground on a building project called Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. A clever and determined young woman code-named Rose is offered a chance to...

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The ends  by J. P. (James P.) Smythe

The ends

J. P. (James P.) Smythe

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"Decades ago, a vast object called the Anomaly was discovered moving through space. Missions sent to explore it found that anyone entering the Anomaly was unable to die. It kept moving, across our solar system, until finally the Anomaly enveloped Earth. Thirty...

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We are legion  by Dennis E. Taylor

We are legion

Dennis E. Taylor

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"Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to...

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Unseen  by Cathy Hird

Unseen

Cathy Hird

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"In the Toronto of the future, an AI called Monitor oversees all the city's infrastructure. Coordinating public transit and self-driving cars, gridlock is a thing of the past, along with surprises with city electrical and water systems. The system is foolproof...

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Frontier  by Grace (Video gamer) Curtis

Frontier

Grace (Video gamer) Curtis

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"Earth, the distant future: climate change has reduced our verdant home into a hard-scrabble wasteland. Saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travellers and gunslingers and horse thieves abound. People are as diverse and divided as they've ever been -...

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Beetle in the anthill  by Arkadiĭ Strugat͡skiĭ

Beetle in the anthill

Arkadiĭ Strugat͡skiĭ

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"Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the...

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After the eagle has fallen  by W. Michael Gear

After the eagle has fallen

W. Michael Gear

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"In the aftermath of Sam Delgado and Breeze Tappan's ambush of the posse at Slickside, tempers flare in the Bighorn Basin. During an attempt to stop unchecked violence from breaking out, Governor Agar faces death, saved only when Lauren Davis shoots first....

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Lockdown tales. 2  by Neal Asher

Lockdown tales. 2

Neal Asher

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"A collection of nine novelettes and stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher (150,000 words of fiction between them), all written during lockdown and including four that are original to this volume. Some of these thrilling and inventive narratives are...

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Fallout  by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Fallout

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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"In a shocking betrayal, Captain Rolo has vaporized the supercarrier Immortal with a nuclear warhead, all but wiping out the Vanguard army. Little does he know that King Xavier and the surviving Hell Diver and Cazador teams from Brisbane were not aboard.In...

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The Genesis 6 Project  by Michael Ferguson

The Genesis 6 Project

Michael Ferguson

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"A middle of the night arrival by unmarked helicopters with secret cargo from the Middle East places the facility on high alert. When the unspeakable happens and the mysterious Subject Alpha escapes with Dr. Kathryn Ryan as a hostage, the military is forced to...

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Dying of the light  by George R. R. Martin

Dying of the light

George R. R. Martin

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Dirk t'Larien journeys to the planet Worlorn, site of the great Festival of Worlds, and, in the desolate twilight descending on the once-bright planet, tries to save his former lover, Gwen, from an alien nobleman.

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Mockingbird  by Walter S. Tevis

Mockingbird

Walter S. Tevis

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"A futuristic tale set in a world where reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on, and machines dominate humans focuses on two people who teach themselves how to read and how to think independently."--Publisher.

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Into the chaos  by James Rosone

Into the chaos

James Rosone

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"Captain Brian Royce brings Hadad to his home planet, which shows obvious signs of battle. Did any of his family survive? Where are all the children...did the Zodarks take them? Admiral Miles Hunt finds himself appointed to a new position beyond his current...

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Khaøs  by Jeremy Robinson

Khaøs

Jeremy Robinson

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"Several months after his neighborhood was cloaked in darkness and invaded by the demon-like denizens of a hellish world, life has returned to normal for Miah Gray, aka: Laser Chicken. No longer burdened by PTSD, he is free to enjoy his family and to help pick...

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Empathy  by Hoa Pham

Empathy

Hoa Pham

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"Vuong is one of five Vietnamese clones that have come of age at 25. The Department in Hanoi is allowing them to meet after being separated for twenty years. Lian has murdered her foster father after being forced to eat meat. Geraldine is dying of cancer in...

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The high country  by John Jackson Miller

The high country

John Jackson Miller

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"When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction - only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship...

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Arch-conspirator  by Veronica Roth

Arch-conspirator

Veronica Roth

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"Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the genes of the fallen, humanity will end. Antigone's parents have been murdered, leaving her father's throne vacant. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her...

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What price victory?

What price victory?

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"The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world...

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The meister of Decimen City  by Brenna Raney

The meister of Decimen City

Brenna Raney

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Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town--a good streak for her-- but the peace...

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Karma of the sun  by Brandon Ying Kit Boey

Karma of the sun

Brandon Ying Kit Boey

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"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people...

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In ascension  by Martin MacInnes

In ascension

Martin MacInnes

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"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the...

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The remembrancer's tale  by David Zindell

The remembrancer's tale

David Zindell

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"What happens when a man tasked with developing perfect memory forgets the most important thing in the universe? After a cataclysmic stellar war, peace has come to the trillion human beings who live on the Civilized Worlds. In Neverness, the City of Light, the...

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Hopeland  by Ian McDonald

Hopeland

Ian McDonald

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"A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before. When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne -...

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Aberration  by Cathy McCrumb

Aberration

Cathy McCrumb

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"When rogue drones threaten citizens and the ship's crew falls ill, the Recorder answers their call for help, one again drawing scrutiny from the Consortium. With no other option and under an Elder's overbearing watch, she returns to Pallas Station where she...

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Are you happy now  by Hanna Jameson

Are you happy now

Hanna Jameson

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At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy. Yun has everything he ever wanted, but somehow it's never enough. Emory is finally making her mark, but feels the shame more than the success. Andrew is trying to be...

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Garro  by James Swallow

Garro

James Swallow

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"As the epic battle for Terra rages and the future of mankind hangs in the balance, former Knight Errant Nathaniel Garro fights among the ashes and fire of the embattled Imperial Palace as the shadow of Horus Lupercal's triumph looms. From the brutal betrayal...

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Chance  by Matthew FitzSimmons

Chance

Matthew FitzSimmons

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"A clone plays a dangerous game of life, death, memory, and murder in this twisting thriller. Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it's a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were...

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The forcing  by Paul E. Hardisty

The forcing

Paul E. Hardisty

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"Civilisation is collapsing... Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All...

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Hospital  by Song Han

Hospital

Song Han

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"When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a standard business trip. A break from his day-to-day routine, a good paycheck, a nice hotel - nothing too extravagant, of course. No fuss, but all the amenities. But this is where his...

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High noon on Proxima B

High noon on Proxima B

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"Adventure! Danger! Revenge! And a mail-order robot gunslinger in a wedding dress? Only in the wildest parts of space could this happen. It's time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universe's western territories with this follow-up...

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Heroes of an unknown world  by Ayize Jama-Everett

Heroes of an unknown world

Ayize Jama-Everett

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"After traveling back in time to rescue his fostered daughter, Taggert has returned to the present and found himself in his favorite place: up against the wall. But the world they've returned to is not the one they left: everything is slightly grayer, the...

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Neuromancer  by William Gibson

Neuromancer

William Gibson

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Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life. Until he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers him a...

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