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Sarah lives a solitary life in her small homestead, surrounded on all sides by a vast forest that seems to go on endlessly. While she finds peace in her daily routines and connection to the natural world, Sarah also feels a deep loneliness as the sole human inhabitant in this isolated place.
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
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Mechanists volume 2
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Branded enemy number one by the PAC, Ashiva, Synch and Taru discover a precious resource that everyone wants to get their hands on, especially the PAC, who is desperate to sacrifice an entire province to achieve its optimal results.
5) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
6) Superluminal
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The future is at war for the soul of humankind ...
It is a time when civilization has extended itself far into the outer reaches of the solar system, and in doing so has developed into something remarkable. But humanity's progeny -- the nanotechnological artificial intelligences called "free converts" -- face extermination at the hands of the tyrant Amés and his invincible armies, and once the Napoleonesque Director develops superluminal flight,...
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• An Amazon Best Books of the Year selection
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• Barnes & Noble-One of 25 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Debuts to Watch for in 2018
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• Bookish-Winter 2018's Hottest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
• Library Journal: Spring/Summer Best Debut Novels
"Interesting quirks and divided loyalties flesh...
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A missing ship, seemingly lost without any emergency signal. Without any trace. Marrakesh is dispatched to discover what happened to the Northwind. And rescue the crew if they can. What they find threatens a whole new front in the ongoing A'Zedi/Wronlori war. Radio Silence, the fourth 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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Second foundation trilogy volume 2
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Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume.
With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant...
10) Wilderness
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Alice White has a secret. There is no friend or family member she can confide in-and she cannot trust it to the strangers she chooses for the fevered one-night stands that are as close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik Summers, college professor and biologist, who draws Alice from her cage, igniting a passion within her that she can't control or deny. Though he shares her fire and a deep spiritual and emotional kinship, Erik recoils from...
11) The Edge
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Mak is a pod pilot on the DreadNought Exeter, a star ship in the Earth allied Unity. The DreadNought's mission is simple. Destroy the enemy, the Kyrzal. A ho-hum war that should have been quick and easy. But not all enemies are obvious. Hidden agendas and betrayals, complicate a mission that is not what it seems at first. Mak's expertise as a pilot in the fighting machines known as Pods will be tested as he is thrust unwillingly into a role he feels...
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"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is...an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today..." - Charles Stross
"One of the best anthologies ever assembled by this most prolific of science fiction editors...." - Joe Haldeman
"Highly recommended!" - Greg Bear
"...Dozois and Strahan bring together some of the finest writers in the field..." - Vernor Vinge
"This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds...
14) Dragon King
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For decades, dragons held the essence of magic that fueled a wizard's power, but in 1007 AD, evil claims the heart of one such wizard while another seeks to save the magic. Tucker Bolen considers himself a renaissance man of the thirty-first century and balks at society's rigid cultural practices. After purchasing and using a reincarnation reader, he not only connects with his past entities, he also suffers their bid to surface and claim his soul....
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A short story to accompany Exodus (UnderEarth #1)
Finn and Jovi, two young archaeologists, discover a mysterious abandoned spaceship in Damascus which takes them to the home of Ru and Keon, the legendary and ostensibly fearsome Thought Beings of Pertinax where they partake of tea and biscuits, while learning more about the real history of modern industrialised civilisation and the true purpose of life.
Some confusion also arises involving a doorknob......
17) Poster girl
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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2023.
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396 pages ; 23 cm
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"Todos conocen a Sonya Kantor. Su imagen fue usada en un cartel como propaganda por parte de la Delegación, un gobierno que controló durante décadas a la población a través de un implante ocular que premiaba o castigaba cada acción. Sin embargo, se produjo un levantamiento y todos sus miembros y simpatizantes fueron llevados a la Abertura, una prisión en la que cumplen cadena perpetua. Ahora, tras diez años encerrada, un viejo conocido le...
18) The Fall
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The first book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. Young Ben Casper lives in an old shopping mall with his family. He must contend with growing up, falling in love, and losing friends, as well as becoming embroiled in a plot to kill the gods that could put everyone he cares about in mortal danger... For fans of The Hunger Games and...
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The moon has been split, and the Visitors have Earth in their alien grip. But, the captive planet? That's not her problem. Megan just wants to track down her missing dad...
The world stopped turning long before Megan was born. Ever since the Visitors split the moon and stilled the Earth, permanent sunset is all anyone has known. But now, riding her trusty steed Cisco, joined by her posse, Kelly and Luis, Megan is on the run from her Texas hometown,...
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Alon, Shanra, and Oen find themselves in the darkest dungeon of the Preit stronghold. They share their cell with Darrik, friend and heir of a space pirate, and Jarred, a former member of The Order nursing a family grudge and a personal mission to end their evil reign.
Will any of them survive to reveal the secrets of the Zeta mission? Or will The Order once again bury any hope of a world built on shared strengths?
Even if they escape, they...
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