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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2009 [MultiFormat]
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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 [MultiFormat]
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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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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #224 [MultiFormat]
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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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The Long Way Home [MultiFormat]
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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Destiny In The Stars [MultiFormat]
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 [MultiFormat]
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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Human by Choice [MultiFormat]
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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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Kris Longknife: Undaunted [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Mike Shepherd
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 Kris Longknife encounters some peaceful aliens who have come to warn humanity of an unidentifiable force that is roaming the galaxy, obliterating everything in its path?a path now leading directly toward the human worlds.
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The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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  A prophecy foretold... Three years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on. Born of that war is the Morcai Battalion, a fleet comprised of Centaurians and humans--the first collaboration of its kind and a step toward an intergalactic alliance. But the fragile union is tested as their courageous Commander in Chief, Dtimun, is faced with the temptation of the forbidden--and human--Dr. Madeline Ruszel. A combat surgeon, ... more info>>
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Beyond Those Distant Stars [MultiFormat]
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 [MultiFormat]
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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Outlander [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Diana Gabaldon
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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another ... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot und... more info>>
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The Zap Gun [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Philip K. Dick
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 Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick's remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions--Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope tha... more info>>
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The Wolf Worlds [Sten Series #2] [MultiFormat]
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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Sten [Sten Series #1] [MultiFormat]
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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Orb World [MultiFormat]
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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Court of a Thousand Suns [Sten Series #3] [MultiFormat]
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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Empire's End [MultiFormat]
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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Foundation [Foundation Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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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Revenge of the Damned [Sten Series #5] [MultiFormat]
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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Storm Rising [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Mercedes Lackey
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In Storm Rising, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs--terrifying creatures out of nightmare. Both Valdemar's Heralds and Karse's Sunpriests struggle to marshal their combined magical resources to protect their realms from these devastating, spell-fueled onslaughts. But as the situation becomes bleaker and bleake... more info>>
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The Return of the Emperor [Sten Series #6] [MultiFormat]
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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10:15 [MultiFormat]
by Trent Kinsey
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One second always makes the difference. The suspenseful tale of three students and one teacher trapped in one second of time, only to find out that something is there with them. Something no one has ever seen before, with an appetite none of them want to bear witness to. (Published: 2009)
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Fleet of the Damned [Sten Series #4] [MultiFormat]
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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Star Trek: Enterprise: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Michael A. Martin
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At the start of the twenty-first century, unconditional war swept across the Earth. A war that engulfed the great and the small, the rich and the poor, giving no quarter. Each side strove for unconditional victory, and as battle built upon battle, the living began to envy the dead. Chastised by the cataclysm that they had unleashed, the governments of Earth came together. Humanity vowed to put an end to war and to strive for the betterment of every living creature. A united Earth created Starfle... more info>>
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