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Following up Firestar and Rogue Star, Michael Flynn continues to deliver vivid characters, suspenseful prose, and an imaginative plot. In the early years of the twenty-first century, humanity has progressed into space, having established a permanent presence with Earth-orbiting Leo Station. Science and commerce in space are booming, and humanity's future looks bright. But one man's desire for vindication and revenge could end it all. Lodestar chronicles...

Eons ago, a gentle race of giants fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of man to fend for themselves. Fifty thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into an orbit about Earth. In the twenty-first century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens who are lost in time-and who begin to reveal something of the origin of mankind. Finally, man believed that...

This second installment in a classic cyberpunk series is a fast-paced ride through a gritty, well-imagined world. Steward is a clone, a beta. His memories are fifteen years old because his alpha never had a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. An alien race known as the Powers has established relations with humanity. The Policorp that held his allegiance has collapsed. He fought and survived the off-world Artifact...

This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is found guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high official and not reporting it to the authorities. Instead of a forced confession and apology on television, he gives a speech on American freedom....

CAN A HUMAN BOY SAVE EARTH FROM AN ALIEN INVASION?⭐ "The story grabs you right from the start and takes you on a rollercoasterjourney." - 2021 Reader's Favorite Book Awards GOLD MEDAL WINNERThings are looking dire for Ben Archer.From his jail cell on an alien warship, Ben watches, helpless, as the Toreq blast the Earth with droughts, floods, and hurricanes. Ben's hopes of bringing balance back to the natural world are in shambles. His enemies accuse...

BEN'S FATE LIES IN THE ALIEN'S HANDS.An emotionally shaken Ben Archer finds himself at Bob M.'s doorstep. But who is this man who is sheltering him from government agents, and what secret is he holding?Much bigger questions must be solved, however, as the aliens' time on Earth is rapidly drawing to a close. Can Ben save his alien friend from the claws of unscrupulous enemies in time to send him on his way home?In this third instalment of The Alien...

Starting a new life in Yorkstone, Jack and his fourteen-year-old ward are hired to find a metallic tablet that holds the key to an extraordinary scientific discovery that has fallen into the wrong hands, leading Jack into the middle of a political organization that will do anything to stop himBook Two of the Jack Stein Series Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared around the world and been translated into several languages....

Oona, a dimension-traveling St. Berdoodle, knows who murdered a local celebrity but must evade the killer while working with local misfits to solve the case.

Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.

"Prepare for an experience unlike any other. The Hibernaculum is many things. A mind full of thoughts suspended in mid-thinking. Words halted on the lips in mid-speaking. But make no mistake: you have come to be digested. You have come for sublimation. You have come to separate your wheat from your chaff. The Hibernaculum will corrode away the crime and growths of a life thus-far lived and absorb only what it needs of you. It will suck you clean with...