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McKee's knowledge of science fiction is impressive. He quotes esoteric short stories from the 1930s alongside contemporary sci-fi and fantasy films, showing an encyclopedic command of the genre. It serves him well as he combs the genre for examples of religious themes such as sin, faith, religious experience, the apocalypse and the afterlife. The author all too briefly touches upon the issue of science and faith, but this can be forgiven in a book...
2) Bunker 10
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Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
3) To the Stars
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To The Stars: A Novella Collection With the help of new technology, humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced perilously between progress and set back, as these five stories of the future show. To The Stars: A Future Chron Collection is a short story collection in the Future Chron Universe. The Future Chron Universe consists...
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From The Earth Volume 1: A Novella Collection Space was not only the final frontier it was the final abode of freedom. Over the next century the extended Jackson family will learn that the only way to think freely, to breathe freely, to dream freely is to stay mobile. In these related stories they are drawn by their pursuit of freedom, despite dangers, hardships and even death, into the far reaches of the Solar System. From The Earth Collection: Book...
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
6) Moon Hab
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Lunar Series: Book 1: Moon HabCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robots. But AI and robots don't always do the job, and when they...
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When Cormier Oil and Gas sends geologist Warren to the planet FH-358, they assume it's lifeless. But instead, Warren discovers something unexpected: a teenage girl named Mina who knows where the oil comes from. The company desperately wants Mina's knowledge, but she doesn't know how to communicate with them. Out of time and frustrated, they decide to risk Mina's life for the location of the oil. In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, Warren will have...
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In the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There was one problem: It only works in children. Within a single generation, a new world order developed. Bridged Children grew smarter, faster, and stronger than the Adults and demanded equal rights. The Adults fought back. During the ensuing war, Adams, a prodigy among...
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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About the Book A December trail ride in the mysterious Superstition Mountains of Apache Junction, Arizona becomes one of terror and death when uninvited guests appear. Gina McHenry and her group of teacher friends, innocently decide to extend the ride through Massacre Ground, home to a harbor of Ghosts, foot soldiers in the 1860's indicated an abundance of death and terror. Ghost weary wranglers, hired to lead, abandon the group of thirty riders when...
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Stories of the Raksura volume 2
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Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells.
Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats...
12) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
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Have you read the Princes' Game series? Do you want to read it, but prefer spoilers before going into intense and R-rated stories? Or do you just want to know what happened so you can skip ahead to other novels that refer to events that transpired during the series? The author has prepared this set of summaries for you! This volume includes:
1. A blow-by-blow synopsis of each book;
2. Discussions of the military and personal repercussions;
3. Cast...
14) Thainig An
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The stakes are high in Thainig An, an action-packed science fiction short story set amid The Saoirse War. Young Camoo and their baby-expecting parent are trapped in their house as the Saibhir soldiers sweep in to enslave the survivors of a bombing. With the soldiers banging on their door, Camoo must make the difficult decision to balance giving life and taking death to survive. Will the family make it through the night? Discover the answer in Thainig...
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A second collection of ten short stories from the future history of Machine Civilization. From the midst of the Breakup of the US – and 100 million dead – to three generations later, in a place of Demi-humans, Thinking Machines, and interplanetary travel, come and see the men and women, and boys and girls, who are making a future and new worlds!The Old South, to the Oregon coast; the surface of Asteroid Ceres to the warring states of China, these...
16) Bringer of Light
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In the near future, multinat conglomerates plunder the solar system for raw materials to sell to increasingly hostile governments. The intense competition for resources further out into the solar system results in the establishment of an asteroid-ore processing plant on the dwarf planet of Ceres, run by robots and clones, controlled by humans. Most asteroids are mined from inside the solar system, but any asteroids tracked from outside the solar system...
17) Diplomat At Arms
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When a murder interrupts a diplomatic mission, Captain Boru gets called in by the local governor to solve it. Or become the sacrificial goat. The political currents run deep and murky, and Radio Officer Nyssa Taggart must rise to the occasion to save her captain. Diplomat At Arms, the second book in the Operation Marrakesh series, takes the reader on a thrilling military space adventure. Be sure to read all the books in this series!
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Within the mind of Darshan it was always the same, an interplay of strange disjoined events. Characters oozing expediency and glorious machines exhibiting untold power. Darshan had put forth a simple explanation, although lecturing the cleaner about it was maybe a little ambitious. It was an overzealous boffin instructing a reluctant student. Had Darshan mentioned it for her own delectation?
That was just the kick-off. In another location Michael...
19) Ealu
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Albee is a slave on a Saibhir residency ship, desperate for freedom and autonomy despite the light-years standing between them and their dreams. Captured again and tortured for answers, the Saibhir believe that Albee had help trying to escape. Is there a resistance on the ship? Or is it a dream created by torture? Ealu, the thrilling science fiction short story from the Saoirse War Series, will take readers on a journey of survival, bravery, and resilience....
20) Regent
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With Canada now on the Ohio River, the imperium needs allies.Aurelia, the 25-year-old niece of the Empress, leads an army through the deserted ruins of the northeast US to establish contact with the Northern Federation.An illegal side trip has her talk politics with the Archbishop of Montreal followed by a jaunt to see the tiny spaceport of Canso, Nova Scotia. There, she falls in love with a rocketry tech before being forced to defend it and him...
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