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Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they can hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful that Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the...
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Revelation space universe volume 3
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The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence-and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety-or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads...
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Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered?
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Revelation space universe volume 1
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes...
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Seafort saga volume 2
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Nicholas Seafort, a Commander in the U.N. Navy in 2197 assigned to defend the galaxy's starways, is stranded aboard a ship teeming with arrogant colonists and violent street children, and must find a way to protect them from the alien predators that are preparing to attack.
8) Mars
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Jamie Waterman is a young Navaho geologist who is picked for the ground team of the first manned expedition to Mars. He will be joining an international team of astronauts and scientists. But once the crew land on the red planet, they soon discover they must battle not only the alien land on which they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. When they come face to face with a chasm ten times as deep and large as the Grand Canyon, all twenty-five...
10) Moonfall
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It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
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Rama series volume 1
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"Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work"--
12) The sky people
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Lords of Creation volume 1
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Marc Vitrac is sent to the U.S. Commonwealth base on the planet Venus, where he studies the different types of life found on the planet and tries to learn how they evolved and adapted.
13) The silent war
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The future of Earth and human accomplishments in space hang in the balance when fighting for control of the resources of the Asteroid Belt escalates between the Astro Corporation and Humphries Space Systems, and others try to take advantage of the chaos.
14) Komarr
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Imperial Auditor Lord Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr to investigate an accident in which a solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the planet was shattered by a runaway spaceship, but he finds himself unwelcome in the domed cities and must hasten to stop a plot that could result in his exile.
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Colonists aboard the interstellar starship "John Glenn" are heading for the pristine planet Ymir where they plan to create a utopian society, but a miscalculation leads them to a different solar system where they set up a temporary home and breed children specifically for the purpose of building a collider to gather antimatter the ship needs to continue its journey, and trouble begins when the laborers realize they are going to be abandoned as soon...
16) New Earth
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Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
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We've found another Earthlike planet, but what secrets does it hold? The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new, Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of water and a breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to learn more, an exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years...
17) Judgment day
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Kingdom of Light; The Forces of Darkness
Ira Breitling--Man of God; Manuel Crow--Lord of Darkness
Even the universe is not big enough for the both of them ... especially when Ira Breitling is handed a divine gift--an interstellar engine that can lift humanity into the heavens. Crow--awash in riches, commanding nations, supremely powerful--swears eternal vengeance on Breitling and his Fellowship of the Faithful ... and on all humankind.
The reign...
18) The precipice
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Dan Randolph risks what is left of his fortune to try and harness the wealth and natural resources available from asteroids in order to save the Earth from environmental disaster.
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Fractalverse volume 1
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A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
20) Iron sunrise
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Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, must join forces with a disaffected teenager calling herself Wednesday Shadowmist as she races to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow.
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