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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
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"The Door Through Space" by Marion Zimmer Bradley invites readers into a captivating anthology where the titular story, "The Door Through Space," takes center stage. Set on the mysterious planet of Wolf, the narrative follows Race Cargill, a former intelligence agent pulled back into a perilous web of intrigue and betrayal. After a forced retirement due to a blood-feud, Cargill is thrust into a high-stakes conflict that could destabilize the Terran...
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From an Aurora Award-winning author, a new sci-fi novel follows three intrepid humans caught up in a conflict that stretches across time and space.
Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate mission to reconnect with long lost sleeper ships, sent centuries earlier from Earth to settle distant worlds.
A trio of Humans must work with their mysterious alien...
Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate mission to reconnect with long lost sleeper ships, sent centuries earlier from Earth to settle distant worlds.
A trio of Humans must work with their mysterious alien...
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"It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings--his Bible is their "book of strange new...
5) Beautyland
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"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on...
6) Rebirth
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In a zombie-infested California, a woman must face a deadly cult to help a friend in need in this dystopian sequel to Aftertime.
Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back. Yet as the first winter approaches, Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the land. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a...
Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back. Yet as the first winter approaches, Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the land. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a...
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"The Colors of Space" by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a captivating anthology that transports readers to a universe teeming with mystery and intrigue. The centerpiece story, "The Colors of Space," delves into the tensions between humans and the enigmatic Lhari race. Young Bart Steele becomes embroiled in a high-stakes adventure as he seeks the truth behind the Lhari's warp-drive technology, a secret that could shift the galaxy's power dynamics. Disguising...
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Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.
10) E.V.A.IN.E
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A World Exists where the Incomparable Beauty of an Alien Technology Meets Its Ultimate Challenge: To Remain Protector of Their Secret Trancendent Yet to Be Born.
A remote planet's inhabitants' coexistence with ghost colonization from another world. The Denevans are the only explorers known toride their expanse wave of their galaxy's five spiral arms. They bring a concept all their own. They seek to fulfill the wish for the procreation of a future...
12) Death's end
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With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...
13) The Lure
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In this thriller from an author who "deftly mix[es] history, science and science fiction," researchers discover alien life and global conspiracy (Publishers Weekly).
A signal from space, a conspiracy on Earth.
An underground research station in Eastern Europe is suddenly bombarded with rhythmic bursts of subnuclear particles from beyond Earth-a pattern so complex it can only come from a highly evolved intelligence.
As the messages...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2010
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The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar,...
15) Nightflyers
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Penguin Random House
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2018
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A classic novella from the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones—a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, soon to be an original series on SYFY. This is the definitive audio edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills of Alien, the psychological horror of The Shining, and, of course, the inimitable vision of George R. R. Martin. When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious...
16) Youth
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
17) The Eyes of Thar
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She spoke in a tongue dead a thousand years, and she had no memory for the man she faced. Yet he had held her tightly but a few short years before, had sworn eternal vengeance-when she died in his arms from an assassin's wounds.
He had come back, though he knew what to expect. He had always come back to Klanvahr, since he had been hunted out of that ancient Martian fortress so many years ago. Not often, and always warily, for there was a price...
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Living on Mars is such a drag! That's where Miri lives with her exobiologist parents who were transferred to the red planet for work. One day while doing her chores with her robotic dog Ruff, she makes a startling discovery that will make her re-evaluate whether living on Mars is so bad, after all! With full-color illustrations and a short chapter format, this 32-page sci-fi book will capture the interest of both reluctant and avid readers who enjoy...
19) Dumbwaiter
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Meet Sol, infamous, intergalactic smuggler. And meet the little pet he is sneaking to Earth through the Philadelphia space station for Florence. When Florence meets the diver she isn't at all impressed - until she learns what it can do. Will this alien space pet fulfill her wildest dreams or be more trouble than it is worth?
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Alien encounter story written from a Christian world view and influenced by the classic science fiction of the 20th Century. A survey ship exploring Intersections between regions of space discovers that alien ships are searching the same set of Intersections. The crew, and all of humanity behind them, must find a way to make a place for the human race in a galaxy already occupied by a number of more technologically-advanced races. Discovering an alien...
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