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5041) Weary
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In the irradiated ruins of post-war Melbourne, children are going missing. The war in China changed Lance Corporal Diana Yossole. It broke her. It rebuilt her. Now she patrols the shantytowns along Melbourne's shoreline, keeping the peace with engineered, military precision. But when Yossole is tasked to assist the local bluecaps in an infant kidnapping investigation, she discovers that war has a way of following you home. There's a conspiracy at...
5042) Secuestrando a Abby
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¡El inicio de una saga épica! Descubre nuevos mundos, choques de culturas, esquemas de poder, venganza, rescates y, sobre todo, esperanza...Abby Tanner vivía en su montaña creando obras de arte y disfrutando de la paz y tranquilidad, hasta que el rey de los valdier, gravemente herido, se estrelló en sus tierras con su dorada nave espacial. Zoran Reykill sabía que debía encontrar un lugar seguro para sanar después de escapar de un puesto militar...
5043) Return to Oz
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Falken survived the ordeal on Olympus, only to be stunned with a shocking revelation: his good friend Weaver is still incarcerated on Oz. The only way to get Weaver out is to volunteer to go back inside the prison himself. But the clock is ticking — Falken will only have a few days to find his friend and help him escape. While he's back on Oz, he'll have to follow the rules to the letter. One step out of line, and they'll both be stuck in jail ......
5044) Missing Love
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Why are people willing to kill for the crashed ship? Amanda is enjoying having time to date all the terrific guys on Ice. She's trying to figure out if she has a real love connection with any of her teammates on the Ice Search and Rescue Team. Once she's made her choice, she ends up running for her life with the guy of her dreams and another woman. Mack had decided that Amanda is the woman for him. Unfortunately, his boss sent him to explore a crashed...
5045) The Transdyne Awakening
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The Transdyne Corporation are creators of highly intelligent synthetic beings. 'Trans' have become so sophisticated that they have begun to develop the capacity for independent thought. The 'highbreeds' are companions to the privileged while lesser 'droneclones' are employed in manufacturing or in the brutal Polibro force. Their search for a meaning beyond their programmed function leads many to the self-destructive act of 'Toxout'. In a time of ruthless...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Man Who Was Dead" by Thomas H. Knight: As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered-for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive!, "Monsters Of Moyen" by Arthur J. Burks: "The Western World Shall be Next!"...
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Doté d'un corps asymétrique, Robin, le Zog, rêve de traverser l'énigmatique « rivière à damiers » qui déchire en deux hémisphères sa petite planète.
Son ambition? Rien de moins que d'établir le « contact » avec les Zots, l'autre peuple dont on ne connaît pas grand-chose et dont on en dit encore moins de bien. La rivière est pourtant infranchissable: tel un échiquier o les cases noires contiennent des remous meurtriers et les cases...
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Book 1: Abducting Abby
The beginning of an epic saga! Discover new worlds, clashes of cultures, schemes of power, revenge, rescues, and above all, hope.... Abby Tanner was content to live on her mountain creating works of art and enjoying the peace and quiet until a golden space ship crash lands with the King of the Valdier inside, desperately hurt. Zoran Reykill knew he had to find a safe place to heal after he escapes from a Curizan military post....
5050) The Lost Island 3
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The cast and crew are still stranded on the island while they try to find a way off the island they run into new dangers.
5051) Benevolence
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If you were sentenced to death, wouldn't you jump at a chance for life? Even if it was to leave Earth and board a ship full of freaks-the hideous survivors of a DNA altering plague? Arlen Rowell took that chance and found the freaks were a finer stock of folks than the ones who shunned them from their home planet. On the ship Benevolence Arlen found honesty, integrity, fortitude, a little danger, and…love. Then he found a way to contact the other...
5052) Circle of Life: 2115
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PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS GENERATIONS: 2115. At its core, this story is about a man and a woman... and more. It is a tale of love, life, and adventure in the year 2115. His name is Jason. Her name is Kathy. And an unexpected collision of fates thrusts their lives together in a faraway place.
They are not strangers, but have been estranged for many years. Theirs is an uneasy reunion. For Jason, it is an undesirable encounter-for time does not heal all...
5053) Gas Giant Jump
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Earth kids meet alien kids in this action-packed series that follows young athletes throughout the universe competing in the Galaxy Games. Who will prevail in the next out-of-this-world event?
5054) Apex Magazine Issue 117
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Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief - Jason Sizemore
FICTION
The Crafter at the Web's Heart - Izzy Wasserstein
Cold Iron Comfort - Hayley Stone
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions - Wole Talabi
Hole in the World (Novel Excerpt) - Brian Keene
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Interview with Author Izzy Wasserstein...
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This volume presents the complete works of Jules Verne (47 novels.) Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 — 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in...
5056) In God We Trust
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Lewis Manning and Paul Dickey were two security officers, who worked the afternoon shift at Clarkson Memorial hospital. What began as a boring afternoon soon, turned into chaos as veterans of WWII began flooding the hospitals all over America. As a strange storm rages over the hospital, even stranger events, begin to unfold within the walls of the hospital.
5057) The Courier
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Meet Kara Stronggear, a very young member of the cadre of Couriers. She thinks she has what it takes to be one. After all her dad trained her to fight, in the use of weapons, to know when to run. Kara knows how to operate most steam boilers, how to fly airships. But when someone wants something she has and is willing to kill for it, she finds she isn't as ready as she thinks. From gun battles, to hurricanes, to fighting guard dogs, to running on the...
5058) Berceuse
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Maintenant que Gemma Fisher a reçu la malédiction de Penn, Lexi et Thea, ainsi que toutes les étranges nouvelles facultés l'accompagnant, elle n'a pas d'autre choix que de s'enfuir avec elles. Bouleversée de devoir laisser tous ceux qu'elle aime derrière, elle est encore déterminée à ne pas
s'abandonner aux indicibles appétits qui la tourmentent. Malheureusement, ils s'intensifient chaque jour, et elle ne sait pas encore combien de temps...
5059) Quinn
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Quinn Brooks wakes in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there; she only knows she must escape or die.
Fortunately Samantha Woods is willing to pick up hitchhikers, and the two women become friends.
As they travel across Alaska, Canada and into the lower 48, Quinn "travels" uncontrollably in time. Persued in the present and shot at in the past, can Quinn find the answers she needs before time runs out?
5060) Under the Alien Ice
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Gemma is excited to explore Europa as she competes for Team Earth in the Extreme Worlds Race, held at the bottom of Europa's alien ocean. But what does she discover when she gets there? Includes fun facts, websites, and other resources.
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