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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?
6) 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...
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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.
10) 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...
12) 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...
13) 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...
14) 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.
16) 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.
17) Wyrms
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Serving a usurper who has destroyed her family and rules their space-dwelling sphere home, Patience journeys to the heart of her world in order to reclaim her crown, a quest that may spell salvation or destruction for the cosmos.
18) All systems red
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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" 'As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.'
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed...
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"Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling...
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