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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September-October 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Spilogale Authors
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  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #228 [MultiFormat]
by TTA Press Authors
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Interzone magazine, which is now in its 28th year, has launched the careers of a great many SF and Fantasy writers. It is often shortlisted for awards and has won the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Interzone includes many features including interviews, news, and reviews. The magazine is currently published every other month and continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcoc... more info>>
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Our October issue again includes a variety of human-alien contact stories. John G. Hemry's lead novella, with the deceptively simple title "The Rift," deals with two different kinds of alienness: one within a species, and one between ours and another that has started behaving in a way startlingly (and lethally) different from what human colonists have come to expect. The question, of course, is why, and what can be done about it. The answer requires understanding each side from its own point of ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Tempestuous weather is forecast for our September issue. Our first stop is Venus, where Hugo and Nebula Award winner and NASA scientist Geoffrey A. Landis escorts us on a wild ride full of pirates, intrigue, and the stunning scenery of the second planet's upper atmosphere and introduces us to "The Sultan of the Clouds." The roiling skyscapes in this novella are gloriously captured by Jeroen Advocaat's dramatic cover art. If the clouds were Terran and the air-borne kayak was a two-seater biplane,... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 64457 - Reading Time: 184-257 min.
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Iceworld [MultiFormat]
by James Scott DeLane
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When the Dawn probe detects strange energy readings in the asteroid belt, Colonel Sydney Nichols and the crew of the Archimedes are sent to find answers. They soon discover evidence a fifth planet once orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Seeking clues as to the fate of this lost world, the crew travels to the dwarf planet Ceres where they make astounding discoveries that alter mankind's future. (Published: 2010)
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Cluster [Cluster Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Piers Anthony
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The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Sphere Sol is about 100 light years in diameter, centered on the Earth's sun. Surrounding this sphere are other, similar spheres each centered on another star such as Polaris or Canopus. Colonization is accomplished by: instantaneous teleportation, called matter transmission or mattermission (very expensive); "freezer" ships in which colonists are sent in cryonic preservation at very high speeds (... more info>> (Published: 1977)
Words: 93655 - Reading Time: 267-374 min.
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A Stranger in Paradise [MultiFormat]
by Edward M. Lerner
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Enter the peripatetic and creative mind of speculative-fiction author Edward M. Lerner . . . "A Stranger in Paradise" -- The Firster generation ships spread humanity thinly across a million cubic light-years, in hundreds of tiny enclaves in as many alien environments. Many colonies eventually died out. Some managed to eke out a hard-scrabble existence, their memories of Earth warped or nonexistent. Few retained any vestige of civilization ? and for those who somehow survived, there is the Reuni... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Lightspeed Magazine, August 2010 [MultiFormat]
by John Joseph Adams, Catherynne M. Valente, Joe Haldeman
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The August 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between: Catherynne M. Valente teaches us "How to Become a Mars Overlord," with her step-by-step program that enables each and every one of us to find the right Mars for us to rule over; Tananarive Due tells the tragic story of "Patient Zero" in her chilling account of a child being raised in isolation, ignorant of an ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 32766 - Reading Time: 93-131 min.
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Our September issue features a couple of decidedly unusual and decidedly different kinds of alien contact stories. David D. Levine's "Pupa," as its name suggests, shows a highly charged incident in international politics from the viewpoint of someone too young--and otherwise immature--to participate in it in a conventional way, but uniquely placed to play a pivotal role. Stories told from an alien viewpoint are one of the hardest kinds to pull off, but I think you'll find this an outstanding and... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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A Time of Exile [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Katharine Kerr
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The world of Deverry: an intricate tapestry of fate, past lives, and unfathomable magic. With A Time Of Exile, Katharine Kerr opens new territory in The Deverry Saga, exploring the history of the Elcyion Lacar, the elves who inhabit the country west of Deverry. It is years since the half-elven Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn. When Rhodry's lost lover, Jill-now a powerful wizard-comes to Aberyn and tells him it's time he accepted his elven heritage, Rhodry faces the most difficult choice o... more info>>
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Startide Rising [Secure eReader]
by David Brin
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David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?
The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in t... more info>>
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Sundiver [Secure eReader]
by David Brin
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No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in history--a journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Three big novelettes form the centerpiece of our August issue, perfect for the beach or poolside, (and the cabana, if you don't care for the sun). The first features the return of recent Asimov's discovery Gregory Norman Bossert and his "Slow Boat"--the boat here is on its leisurely way to Mars containing a most unwilling passenger, a young woman threatened with interplanetary exile for her hackerly ways. Can she, with little but her own wits, turn the tides on her mysterious captors? Next, in "... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Countdown to Armageddon [MultiFormat]
by Edward M. Lerner
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Hezbollah has obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to Hezbollah, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back to a turning point in European history. Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel and prevent the nullification of all Western civilization. Their mission can be accomplished, if at all, only in ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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The Green Girl [MultiFormat]
by Jack Williamson
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Love transcends. This doesn't hold truer than in this pulp classic by Jack Williamson. Melvin Dane has been seeing a vision of a green girl since he was a child. Images of her came over the ether. Is she just fantasy? Or a reality that managed to cross time and space? And now, with the Earth under threat of extinction, will Melvin ever meet that girl of his dreams? With an alien force trying to bring Earth back to the Ice Age, Melvin and his foster father, scientist Sam Walden, embarked on a h... more info>>
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2010 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Our July/August double issue takes full advantage of its extra space to offer a range of features that wouldn't fit in a regular issue. Bob Eggleton's cover heralds "Doctor Alien's Five Empty Boxes," a new novella by Rajnar Vajra about the psychiatrist (introduced last year) who has to treat troubled extraterrestrials--without knowing what they consider "normal." In this one he has an added challenge, related to the venerable observation that things are seldom what they seem. . . .
We'll also ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
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On the planet Pyrrus, human colonists have fought a centuries-old war with the native life forms. These life forms adapt to human tactics and technology, evolving new species so rapidly that natives returning from even brief trips off planet must be carried in protective armor canisters from their ship to the safe buildings, where they will learn of the latest deadly threats. "The Ethical Engineer" is the second volume in the DEATHWORLD series. It was originally published as a two-part serial i... more info>> (Published: 1963)
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Homesmind [MultiFormat]
by Pamela Sargent
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Anra is a solitary. She was born without the power to mindspeak and cannot, like all of her fellows can, communicate in unspoken thoughts. In the past, she would have been killed at birth but the arrival of the Wanderer, the comet controlled by the cybernetic intelligence known as the Homesmind has changed everything. The people of the comet, the skydwellers, now supply solitaries with implants that allow artificial mindspeaking. The solitaries are sequestered in a single village willing to care... more info>> (Published: 1984)
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Mass Effect: Retribution [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Drew Karpyshyn
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Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species. But beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on “harvesting” the galaxy’s organic species for their own dark purpose.
The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the few who know the truth about the Reapers. To ensure humanity’s survival, he launches a desperate plan to uncover the enemy’s strengths—and weaknesses—by studying ... more info>>
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Deathworld [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
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"Deathworld" centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite b... more info>> (Published: 1960)
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Human by Choice [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain, Travis S. Taylor
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Best-selling science fiction print author Travis S. "Doc Travis" Taylor and best-selling eBook author Darrell Bain have combined talents to produce a new science fiction thriller. Several alien lifeboats make it to earth in widely separated spots after their interstellar spaceship malfunctions. One of the aliens comes down near the home of Kyle Leverson, a former army intelligence officer and now a widowed science journalist. The aliens think they can never go home but they are able to convert t... more info>> Dream Realm Award Winner
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Recycled Hero [MultiFormat]
by R.L. Wayman
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John Scully was just another busted-up soldier from a score of little-known conflicts, intending to live out his life on the coast of Maine. But that was before he discovered the injured alien craft up on Jacob's Notch. If it hadn't been for the baby, maybe he wouldn't have gotten involved. But the crew was hurt and hungry, with no way to get home. With Gert's veterinary skills and his engineering experience, maybe they could get off-planet before someone else stumbled across the crash site.... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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The Key [MultiFormat]
by Pauline Baird Jones
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When Sara Donovan joins Project Enterprise she finds out that what doesn't kill her makes her stronger.... An Air Force pilot--the best of the best to be assigned to this mission--Sara isn't afraid to travel far beyond the Milky Way on an assignment that takes her into a galaxy torn apart by a long and bitter warfare between the Dusan and the Gadi. After she's shot down and manages to land safely on an inhospitable planet, Sara encounters Kiernan Fyn--a seriously hot alien with a few secrets of ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Uplift War [Uplift Series Book 3] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by David Brin
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David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of ... more info>>
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Winterfair Gifts [Vorkosigan Series Book 15] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan's long-awaited wedding is the occasion for romance and intrigue for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee, Romance Readers Anonymous Listserv Award Winner, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2005)
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