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Each man has a measure of luck given by destiny, but not a drop more. Has the luck of an unusual guide responsible for the passage of visitors into the deep buried bellies of alien ships just run out? His newest client, a young woman named Janita, proves to be a member of the resistance carrying in her body an alien civilization's gift to humanity. Will either of them become the devil's martyr? One story gives life to another, waiting all along......
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Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But, this strange and likeable man cannot be, as he claims, from the planet K-PAX.
Or, can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And, his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads...
4) Dead End
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Amidst the chaos of battling an escaped terrorist, Yamaguchi, who wields deadly alien technology found within the mysterious city, Commander Winters and the crew of the Falling Star find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival. As they contend with Yamaguchi's relentless assaults, a new threat emerges in the form of an alien space station, resuming its relentless attacks on Earth and the stranded crew. With the crew of the Falling Star divided...
5) Faster Gun
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It's hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, and a hundred times too big to be a ship. It looks like nothing anyone ever saw. And, it's crashed just outside Tombstone with something alive inside.
*This story is told in a non-traditional fashion. Chapters will appear out of order.*
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In a future where interstellar travel is only possible for humans by stowing away like rats in the walls of alien ships, few choose to travel far from home.Indeed, Sister June never strayed beyond the boundaries of the dome on Mars that housed her commune. And she never intended to wake on the journey from that dome to another on the far side of the universe.But a pair of stowaways drain too many resources from the other travelers, forcing all of...
7) Dreamchild
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Max is not your usual five-year-old boy. Unable to speak, shy and strange, he was conceived while his mother was the victim of an alien abduction. Max is a unique being: a hybrid of human and alien. He carries the fate of all mankind in his tiny hands. And, now that the government has discovered his powerful connection to the aliens, will Max survive long enough to fulfill his purpose-for either side?
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A secret backdoor meeting between Ambassador Ode Abumwe and the Conclave's Hafte Sorvalh turns out to be less than secret as both of their ships are attacked. It's a surprise to both teams-but it's the identity of the attacker that is the real surprise, and suggests a threat to both humanity and The Conclave.
9) The Fall
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She can't remember her kidnapping. After watching her husband die on the bridge of the CCS Alexander and being used as bait by Earth's government,Laura Howard has found a second chance at love on a planet light-years from Earth-until she falls, and a head injury erases her time on Tolar. Angry, frightened, and impulsive, she rejects the Tolari ruler who loves the woman she was before the fall, vowing to live free on Tolar and master the empathic gifts...
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The fourth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday.
Albert Birnbaum was once one of the biggest political talk show hosts around, but these days he's watching his career enter a death spiral. A stranger offers a solution to his woes, promising to put him back on top....
11) Crucible
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Now comes a brand new science fiction epic.
It began with Crossfire: a far-future novel of planetary colonization and alien first contact. Jake Holman, a man trying to escape a dark past, brought together a diverse group of thousands to settle on a new world. But instead the humans found themselves caught in the crossfire of a galaxy-spanning war between two disparate species: agressive, militaristic humanoids known as Furs and passive, plantlike...
12) Dark Orbit
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From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since...
13) Rex
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A word of warning ... From author Avery Meadows comes a dark enemies-to-lovers alien romance about Mesozoic dinosaur shifters and the fated human mates they track down and capture.One might think an invasion by aliens ranks as the worst thing that could possibly ever happen, but Capri Smythe's here to tell you, it's not. Neither is being hunted by not one but two aliens--a dinosaur shifter and a lizard-skinned reptilian. Nope. Because right now, Earth's...
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From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning"
As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sharp jaws of death. But now she's embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life-journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the city in the middle of the...
15) Earth-Ground
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"My sense of smell is greater than hers. I watch her as she showers, as she eats, as she tends to others daily… and I wonder when Dr. Robyn will realize her body slowly changes?" -Steele, Xeno Sapien When futuristic Earth finds alien DNA and creates a new species of hybrids in hidden labs, Dr. Robyn Saraven helps the "creatures" escape. She uses her connections to establish their own city on Earth-Ground, where they can learn, grow, and avoid the...
16) Vilcabamba
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Harris Moffatt III, President of the Free United States and Prime Minister of Canada, has never seen Washington, D.C.; it belongs to the Krolp now, along with ninety percent of everything. All he can do is try to keep the rest of it out of their hands, in Harry Turtledove's Vilcabamba.
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17) Technoserf
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The Madrian Empire rules worlds as numerous as the grains of sand on a beach. When the Madrians conquered Roby's homeworld, they brought him to this godforsaken lump of a world, to toil at their will.Now the Gate has failed, leaving them without communications or transport to the rest of the Empire. When Roby identifies the problem, he's offered a chance to fix it.Roby now faces a quandry. Even if he can repair the damage, should he? Will he be better...
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The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet:
"We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send...
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MandyI thought the only good alien was a dead one. Those Pig Faces and Tooth Fairies razed human civilization and forced us underground a couple hundred years ago. I'd still be there, except my mother told us we had to flee the compound for our very lives. My brothers and I figure we'll hide out or maybe find other survivors band together to kick some alien butt. Until the first thing we see are a squad of pink, fanged Tooth Fairies waiting for us...
20) Orb Hunters
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First, the gods abandoned the universe. Then, the champions and demigods waged war. Now, Kova has stumbled into the chaos, and she's far out of her depth.When a black orb arrives on Kova's planet, it throws her structured and predictable life into disarray. Then her untamable twin Rosi disappears, leaving behind a cryptic invitation to show Kova something extraordinary . . . if Kova can only find her.For years, Kova grieves Rosi's absence and unsolved...
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