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As invading aliens unleash monsters resembling mutated carnivores to devour all of human life on Earth, an extended family gathers together in a mansion on an isolated bluff for a last stand. To survive, they must fight together against ravenous beasts attacking from land and sea.A recently divorced woman joins a virtual community in search of social acceptance and companionship. After fashioning a new identity for herself, she sets off to explore...
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An elderly homeless man suddenly discovers that his debit card, which is usually almost empty, has been filled with thousands of dollars, and whenever he spends money, by the next morning it has somehow reappeared. He uses this inexplicable bounty to get off the streets, clean himself up, and attain a measure of personal security. The source of the magical largesse is something he never would have imagined.
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A woman doomed to fall endlessly backwards in time unexpectedly finds an unusual and enigmatic romance. An elderly homeless man's debit card becomes a magical fountain of money. As predatory aquatic aliens invade the Earth, a formerly disabled young woman obtains the power to fight back. A terminal cancer patient discovers a dark fantasy world where he embarks upon a quest towards a tantalizing yet ephemeral goal.In these fast-paced but subtly-wrought...
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An investigator journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a frontier planet to determine the motivation for a gruesome suicide. When he arrives, he encounters a sexually profligate cult focused on a local fungus with hallucinogenic properties. As he learns more about the alien psychedelic and its devoted users, he discovers a sinister threat to his sanity and his life.
25) Highwayman
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On a primitive frontier planet, a woman's companions are killed by a monstrous creature while traversing an isolated canyon on horseback. Teamed only with a near-feral orphan child, she determines to kill the monster so it won't endanger future travelers.
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As predatory aquatic aliens invade the Pacific Basin, a severely disabled young woman receives an experimental cure in a secret facility. As a side effect of the treatment, she and a few other test subjects become telepathically linked with each other and with the alien group-mind. The only hope for humankind is for these recently healed patients to attempt a suicidal mission deep within enemy strongholds.
27) Sithonia
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In the aftermath of devastating warfare that has reduced human society to confusion and poverty, benevolent alien visitors have arrived to help put the planet back together. Sithonia, an autonomous polity open only to women on an isolated peninsula in northeastern Greece, has remained intact. As an alien negotiating team with human translators prepares to enter Sithonia to confer with its abbesses, questions about the genders of the representatives...
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Hannah and a colleague from the Telepathic Guild have been investigating environmental issues in the Arctic. After the crash of their small plane in a remote wilderness area, they encounter a renegade who has forsaken human society and become telepathically linked to a savage wolf pack.
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On the eve of an imminent invasion by a violent alien species that leaves no survivors, a lonely technician on a remote moon station seeks solace among the denizens of Low Town, the lawless, undisciplined quarter where all the riffraff and outcasts live. While there, he learns of a wild plan to save the station that involves driving all the personnel to the edge of sanity and beyond.
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Four science fiction thrillers in one volume
The One Thousand: Book 1
It is the late 1960s...
What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers? So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities, which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage. Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him. But, to do...
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Aliens attack Earth, or so world governments believe. In the aftermath of global warfare brought on by the crash of an alien spacecraft, Adriana wakes up in a hospital-like facility with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The administrator tells her she has family on the outside that she needs to find. When she leaves, she begins to hear whispers in her mind that draw her to a disparate group of strangers that she instinctively feels are...
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In the near future, a member of an elite rescue unit stumbles upon a conspiracy that involves time travel, sightings of alien vessels, portals to distant worlds, and the disappearance of refugees, the homeless, and other disenfranchised people. As he and his team investigate further, he uncovers truths that cause him to question his worldview, loyalties, and the code by which he lives.
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It is the early 1970s. Their hunt for a group of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on igniting a rampage of mass murder leads the Team of Seven, composed of counterculture humans and benevolent aliens, to a prison in Turkey, war-ravaged Vietnam, a luxurious nuclear fallout shelter, and finally to direct confrontation with their enemies.
Book Four of The One Thousand Series
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An estranged married couple remains in virtual worlds compiled from past memories while they await new younger bodies. Their adult children must cope with tense surrealistic visits with each of their parents as well as protestors that resent the resources spent on keeping older people alive.
An official investigating a gruesome suicide journeys to a castle in a remote valley on a far planet where a sexually profligate cult ritually imbibes a fungus...
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Heroes aren't always as they seem; often they are ordinary people reacting to circumstances beyond their control or pursuing the only option open to them. In this eclectic collection, reclusive old folks take on powerful cyborg bodies to combat ferocious invading aliens; a man near death uses cutting-edge psychiatric technology to journey into his memories and come to grips with crucial decisions from his past; a dead woman travels halfway around...
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During the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life. Using terraforming, time travel, and other expediencies, human survivors from Moonbase and the outer colonies attempt to cope with their devastating loss, reconstruct the Earth's surface, and reorganize Earth sociologically to ensure lasting peace, while others plot to claim the pristine reconstituted planet for their...
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In a world whose inhabitants routinely visit famous historical events, two jaded road-weary tourists take a holiday in an isolated retrograde enclave where time travel is forbidden.Humankind is plunged into chaos as the recently deceased reappear and take up residency in their former homes.As the result of an expensive technique that restores their youthful vigor, wealthy old people gallivant from place to place adventure-seeking and partying. However,...
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