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903) The Hellflower
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Once He had Been a Star Master-Now He Dealt in Soul-Shattering Ruin... Farradyne had committed the one unpardonable error a Space Master could make. He didn't die along with the other 32 passengers when his ship smashed into the Bog on Venus. They broke him-exiled him to the rotting fungus fields of Venus. Now his only desire in existence was to return to the cool, gleaming sea of deep space. And there was a way-only one. But he would have to become...
904) Foundation
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In 2070, Ben Dawson was on the cusp of changing mankind, until mankind intervened. And then, instead of celebrating his crowning achievement of launching the world's first airborne city, he was fighting for its survival. Threatened with imminent personal and financial ruin, Ben assembles a team that will embark on a mission across Earth and space to save Sky City.
Racing against the takeover of Sky City by The Department of Space, his team finds...
905) Phobos Station
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Mars is a nice place…when it's not trying to kill you. Most spacefarers avoid Phobos Station. It is hard to get to and the locals would rather shoot you than be helpful. Melanie Destin has agreed to a simple task: Identify the person who receives a container the Requiem delivers to Phobos Station. When she learns the identity of the intended recipient, things becomes far more deadly. As the body count rises, Mel must find a way to protect her shipmates...
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are seven stories by Ray Bradbury: "The Monster Maker", "A Little Journey", "Morgue Ship", "Lazarus Come Forth", "Defense Mech", "The Creatures That Time Forgot", and "Asleep in Armageddon".
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The Grandfather's War is a science fiction novelette written by Murray Leinster, an American author known for his significant contributions to the science fiction genre during the 20th century. Unfortunately, there isn't a detailed synopsis readily available for this specific novelette. Murray Leinster's works often explored themes of technology, space exploration, and the human condition, so we can provide a general overview of what a story in this...
911) Amazing Stories 135
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Amazing Stories Volume 135 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "A Matter of Size" and "Donkeys to Bald Pate" by Samuel Mines, "Information Please" by Stanley Whiteside, "The Pleasure Age" by Joed Cahill and "Clutch of Morpheus" by Larry Sternig.
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Amazing Stories Volume 148 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by three different authors: "Dead World" by Jack Douglas, "Bimmie Says", "Pollony Undiverted", "Shatter The Wall" all three by Sydney J. Van Scyoc, and "A Fall Of Glass" by Stanley R. Lee.
913) Emergency
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Spaceships break down. Suffer troubles. Hell, sometimes they just grow old and ornery.
When Last Stand answers a distress signal in orbit, they step into more trouble than they expected, but that's never stopped Tessa before.
The rest of the Sector gets to deal with it instead.
Book Six of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western science fiction adventure series full of bright characters, messy worlds, and all manner of ethical conundrums.
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are seven stories by Roger D. Aycock: "Today is Forever", "The Feeling", "Wailing Wall", "Assignment's End", "The Anglers of Arz", "The Wheel is Death", and "Stalemate in Space" by Charles L. Harness.
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Lojor was the Einstein of the dinosaur world, and he had a problem. His government wanted him to invent the hydrogen bomb. Lojor did not know how to do this, and he did not want to learn because he was opposed to the idea. But the demands on him were relentless, and he had to come up with something.
Lojor was an astrophysicist. He wanted to keep on doing what he loved, which was trying to understand the sun. The government didn't care about the sun,...
918) Athena Setting
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A wonderful piece of technology, the repurposed vessel Athena glides high above Jupiter's cloud tops. Jess Candell loves the orbital runs between the planet's moons.But out here, when things go wrong, they go wrong fast.And bad.Jess finds herself faced with tough choices. Will she have to risk everything.A science fiction novel that pits human ingenuity against failing technology.
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Amazing Stories Volume 34 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are seven stories by Wilbur S. Peacock: "The Victory of Klon", "The Thing of Venus", "Planet of No-Return", "Destination - Death", "Prey of the Space Falcon", "Chimera World", and "Spider Men of Gharr".
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