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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #224
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Interzone magazine, which is now in its 27th 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, December 2009
by Dell Magazine Authors
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David A. Hardy's spectacular December cover illustrates a story as hard to capture in a single image as it was to imagine in the first place: "Formidable Caress," the latest of Stephen Baxter's "Tales of Old Earth." Old Earth, you may remember (though you don't have to) is a most peculiar place where time is layered, running at different rates at different altitudes. That's what makes it possible to experience a drama on such a colossal scale that it would at first seem intrinsically beyond the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009
by Dell Magazine Authors
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Stories both sweet and savory await you in our piquant December issue--and something for almost every taste. The more sophisticated palates among us often prefer both flavors intertwined, and Brian Stableford posits, in his newest novelette for us, that "Some Like It Hot." Don't fear--there will be no sign of either Tony Curtis or Jack Lemmon dressed as not-so-lovely ladies (and sadly no sign of Marilyn, either), but, instead, we offer a sophisticated fictional treatise on the future of commerci... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Destiny In The Stars
by Gorgenia Ralph
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Destiny is a young woman with extraordinary powers that could rival the gods. She is abducted from Earth by mean alien grey men called Veron, and taken light years from her home. Upon reaching their destination they are attacked and shot down by the Destroyers. These men are soldiers enlisted by the Council to protect the galaxy from a terrible threat; nasty creatures known as Phant. The Veron are spreading this terror throughout their worlds. Destiny must use her power to survive. But fearful ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Cosmic Dreams
by Tony Teora
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The year 2012 came and passed without the Mayan prophesized apocalyptic destruction of mankind. But in 2042, a strange spherical communication device is discovered on Europa and activated. It warns that it will destroy mankind. Can Mitch Lovelace and the crew of the Tesla II find a way to deactivate the device before it's too late? What are the intentions of a Pyramid shaped spacecraft that arrives on the scene? Can the best minds from Earth decipher the codes within the codes and save mankind--... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Long Way Home
by Darrell Bain
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A surprise assault on an Exploration Corps starship by implacably hostile, xenophobic aliens leaves its one remaining longboat as the only option for warning the home worlds of the existence of the predators. Unfortunately, the starship met disaster while thousands of light years from Earth. Theoretically, that sort of voyage in a longboat is possible but has never been attempted. In order to return, the crew has to stop on numerous unknown planets to renew supplies and hydrogen fuel many, many ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Human by Choice
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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MindFlight
by Stephen Goldin
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MindFlight By Stephen Goldin Alain Cheney, a telepathic spy has been having blinding headaches and strong sexual urges, so he comes back to Earth for tests. The Agency knows about his condition, known as telepause. It affects the best telepaths, making them unreliable in the field. The Agency kills these people to preserve the secret of telepathy. An officer of the Agency, Joby Karns is responsible for killing Alain. (Published: 2009)
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Orb World
by Andrea Gale
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Ylana is dead. So what is she doing in a strange village on an even stranger world full of leather-clad warriors, slave to a handsome, dark-eyed master, on the eve of embarking on a dangerous quest for a powerful Orb, to save a village, avert a war, and rescue her own future? (Published: 2009)
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Sten [Sten Series #1]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Hailed as a "landmark science fiction series" the Sten Series has thrilled millions of readers all over the world. Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet "delinq" to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe--a man hailed by his billons of subjects as "The Eternal Emperor." This edition contains a brand-new "Forward" introduction to the series as well as a select... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Revenge of the Damned [Sten Series #5]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Product Description Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a POW camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe could keep Sten from his mission. (Published: 2001)
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Earth Angel
by Jeff Fuell
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When Brian Bradford meets the Devil and God in the same week, it's just the beginning of a transformation for him and his teenage daughter. (Published: 2009)
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The Wolf Worlds [Sten Series #2]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Hailed as a "landmark science fiction series," the Sten Series has thrilled millions of readers all over the world. Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet "delinq" to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe--a man hailed by his billons of subjects as "The Eternal Emperor." When the Emperor needs to pacify the Wolf Worlds, the planets of an insignificant cluster... more info>> (Published: 1984)
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Beyond Those Distant Stars
by John B. Rosenman
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Alien invaders have all but destroyed humanity. Stella McMasters, a retired naval officer, yearns to get in the war but knows she'll never get a chance. Then amazing things start to happen. After saving a comrade's life during a meltdown that almost kills her, physicians remove her radioactive flesh and turn her into a superhuman cyborg. She is then given command of her first ship and, against her better judgment, falls in love with its charismatic pilot. On their way to join the Empire's last l... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Rainscape
by Jaye Roycraft
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This is a re-release of Jaye Roycraft's award winning Futuristic novel originally published by ImaJinn Books in 2001 Outlaw telepath Rayn DeStar has discovered the perfect hiding place--a home in the wasteland of Exodus. But his peaceful anonymity comes to an abrupt end when murder brings interplanetary investigators to the desert. Rayn has little interest in the crime, but a great deal in the female telepath providence has sent him. Dina's strength awakens in him the lust for power and dominanc... more info>> (Published: 2001) Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence Winner
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To Wish For Trust
by Jayme Evans
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Lance came from Earth to Mallen and now to Elfax, only to find that he must earn trust among his captors. Bastis Malena finds the red-haired man to be too docile for a slave. (Published: 2009)
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VORTEX [Sten Series #7]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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The Empire is in chaos. The once--great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity's future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be--and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten--Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade--who now leads humanity's fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark sour... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Foundation [Foundation Series Book 1] [Secure]
by Isaac Asimov
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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire had ruled supreme. Now it was dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, could see into the futre--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that would last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathered the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brought them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generation... more info>>
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The Return of the Emperor [Sten Series #6]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they didn't locate the Emperor's secret source of Anti-Matter Two, the economic keystone of the Empire. And so they sent a team of crack commandos to capture Sten, one of their late ruler's few surviving confidantes. But Sten, as usual, had his own agenda. For he knew something about the Eternal Emperor that would shake the Empire ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Empire's End
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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After the victorious defeat of an Imperial Assault fleet, former Ambassador Plenipotentiary Sten finds himself now a traitor and renegade to the Empire in the midst of a dangerous, galactic Civil War that threatens to put Sten at odds with the Eternal Emperor himself... (Published: 1993)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2009
by Dell Magazine Authors
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No room here to be clever about our fabulous October/November double issue, so let�s begin: Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore contribute a literary tale of loss and personal redemption amidst the curious life cycle of an insect known as the "Blood Dauber"; Heather Lindsley, making her Asimov�s debut, tells of the troubles experienced by time-traveling wage-slaves who answer the eternal question of just "Where the Time Goes"; R. Garcia y Robertson returns to his Burroughs-inspired milieu for a j... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Court of a Thousand Suns [Sten Series #3]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Having fought his way from slave labour on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor's bodyguard, the most dangerous weapons Sten has encountered in Prime World are the lies of Court politicians. When a bomb goes off however, he discovers the danger and corruption behind Court intrigue. (Published: 1985)
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Fleet of the Damned [Sten Series #4]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Sten's luck seems to have deserted him. He had barely scraped through Imperial flight school when he was assigned a tacdivision in the Fringe Worlds. The enemy couldn't have picked a better time or place to launch their long-planned attack against the Empire. But Sten won't give up without a fight. (Published: 1988)
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Robot Dreams
by Isaac Asimov
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Legendary robopsychologist Susan Calvin questions robot LVX-1 about his unique ability to dream, and opens a frightening window into the hidden underlayers of his positronic brain. (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee
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Foundation and Empire [Foundation Series Book 2] [Secure]
by Isaac Asimov
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Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire--still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies ... more info>>
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