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Voudriez-vous risquer un voyage à un autre univers-pour l'amour? Jan et Roger sont des scientifiques-et ils cherchent à voyager vers un autre univers. Mais quand leurs recherches sont arrêtées, ils prennent un risque dans un véhicule pas testé entre les mondes-et ils rencontrent leurs autres sois. Quelles peuvent être les conséquences-pour la science et pour l'amour? Environ 9000 mots.
1862) Lucky
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After years stranded on a distant mining colony, Cassandra "Lucky" Luckenbach finally has enough money to catch a ship back to Earth. She boards Rosebud, unaware she's walking into the center of a life-altering interstellar conspiracy. For Trigg Donner, commander of the space freighter, life in the space lanes isn't easy, but it's home. When a routine landing on San Pedro simultaneously unearths a mystery simmering on his ship and drops Lucky into...
1863) The Magitons
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After an apocalyptic war on their home planet of Beldora, a band of citizens launch into the unknowns of space in a desperate attempt to survive. Crew members come out of hibernation to find themselves being murdered one by one. While evading the killer and searching for other survivors, they intercept a signal from another vessel.Celebrating their rescue, they soon learn they have stumbled upon the strange world of the magitons-immortal life forms...
1864) Nice to Meet You
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Matt longed for more purpose in his life. He lived in a large, empty house without any wife, kids, or even a pet. His day job as a transmission line developer was also mundane. Reading science fiction novels at night was the only escape for him. It distracted him from the boring monotony of life. But things would quickly change. While traveling from his Florida home to Buffalo, NY on a transmission line project, things get eerie - and fast. To secure...
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Introducing Viola Stewart - a widowed optician with a penchant for detectiving - who stumbles upon a secret society of Men in Grey.Three short tales with a stempunk-ish twist...Who is taking the children? And what is the connection between Viola's missing patients, the photographer, and The Society?... and a dark Victorian mysterySomeone is stalking the women of London. An unexpected encounter puts Viola in grave danger. What if Jack the Ripper was...
1866) Think Twice
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From the bestselling author of Don't Even Think About It, these high school seniors may know each other's thoughts, but they'll never see what's coming.
Since refusing to take the antidote after acquiring flu shot–induced telepathy two years ago, the twenty Espies (that's people with ESP to you norms) have been kept together in one class every single day. Now that they're seniors, their separation is looming . . .
Though their superpower...
1867) Expendable
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In Expendable, the first volume of the League of Peoples, Festina Ramos is assigned to escort an unstable admiral to planet Melaquin. Little is known about Melaquin, for every explorer who's landed there has disappeared. It's come to be known as the "planet of no return," and the High Council has made a habit of sending troublesome admirals there in an attempt to get rid of them. It's clear that this is intended to be Ramos's last mission, but she...
1868) Saint Code: The Lost
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The cybernetic revolution was inevitable. Too bad nothing else changed. For St. Augustina, a cyber-spy for hire, life is a series of endless nights in the heart of the Data Bowl, the digital city of corporate markets and submarkets. It was a place where anything could happen, but even so, she expected this to be a typical job … even if it came from the mysterious Orange Lady.She was wrong. From fighting Neo-ninjas to singing in a lounge act, St....
1869) Secret Minds
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For a Circle of Wild Minds, even Christmas can be a time for enemies…Hiding out from The Agency has put everybody on edge. When Yumi learns that one of their mortal enemies, Merrywell, has contacted Chad for help, she accidentally takes a tumble into a nearby lake. Her stumble does more than give her a chill. It throws her mental powers completely off, which could have deadly consequences for the rest of the team.When their enemy's pleas for help...
1870) Face the Fear
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In the eighth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, superpowered teens must save the Earth's future from dangerous mutants by traveling to the past.
Trapped on a futuristic Earth, Ethan, Ashley, Toni, and Jack must battle earthquakes, giant rats, and a ruling superhuman race of Omegas, in order to stay alive. And failure is not an option, as the teens might be Earth's only hope to return to the haven it once was. The plan? Dodge the Omegas...
1871) Black Cat Weekly #134
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This issue, we have 3 original tales. All are mysteries. Plus, we have 1 original science fiction tale, also a mystery. I leave you to unravel this puzzle! (Okay, I guess it's not that much of a puzzle-one of the mysteries is also a science fiction story.) I moved Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken's selection to the science fiction section (it was definitely science fiction) and I moved famous science fiction artist Ron Miller's mystery into the lead...
1872) Chimera Secrets
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What happens when science goes too far?Chimera Secrets feature five stories about genetically altered humans who find love.A Nurse for a Wolfman : Only love can tame the beast.Guarding the Mermaid : Love is even more slippery than this mermaid when wet.The Lionman Kidnapping : It's not just his mane that's impressive.A Chimera's Revenge : A mad scientist. An even madder patient. A fiery kind of love.Capturing a Unicorn : Will he betray or save the...
1873) Black Cat Weekly #43
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #43. If this isn't the best issue we had to date, it's pretty darn close. Lots of great tales are packed into this one-including not one, but two mystery novels (by Edwin Balmer and Nicholas Carter), three shorter mysteries (including a major new novelet by Robert Lopresti, a great reprint by Victoria Weisfeld, and a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles). On the science fiction side, we have an amazing set of stories...
1874) Mirror's Edge
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Noah's life was perfect. But it was a lie. When a buried secret explodes back into Noah Ryuzo's life, he finds himself racing against time to fight an opponent he's spent his entire entire life trusting in the hopes of piecing his family and his life back together again. When past and present collide, what will the future hold as it teeters at the brink of the mirror's edge?
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Haber nacido con un destino no garantiza que tu vivirás lo suficiente como para cumplirlo. Killian DeBrujin podría morir mientras perseguía el suyo.
Después de perder a sus padres, Killian es forzado a ser el Alfa, un rol para cual estaba destinado desde hace tiempo. Después de un juego de venganza que salió mal, el futuro se ve poco prometedor.
Además, para complicar las cosas, el apocalipsis desparece a la humanidad, el no tiene otra opción...
1876) Second Chances
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Get ready for a thrilling ride through time and space in Andi Winter's Relics of a Future Past Series. An inventive series that defies genre classification, these books offer an engaging mix of science fiction, action-adventure, and contemporary fantasy all set in the breathtaking landscape of the Pacific Northwest. This collection includes two novellas and one full-length novel: Memories of a Future Past, A Kiss in Time, and Spring Comes Twice. MEMORIES...
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Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story.
For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.
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1878) The Wolf Lord
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Roguish. Reckless. Unreliable.Raff Pineda has a certain reputation among the Animari. He's the one to call if there's a party starting, not the man to rely on when all hell breaks loose. Though he's nominally the leader of the Pine Ridge pack, he defers to his second on the tough calls. Raff prefers to live fast and hard and keep his heart hidden, but a certain Eldritch princess won't fall for his usual tricks, and their contract political marriage...
1879) Caleb
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Arianna McDougall is an unemployed, High School drop-out, still living at home with her parents on the Scottish Isle of Arran. Conventional, religious, and black, she is horrified by the outrageous bad-boy who arrives at her door looking for the White Mouse. Because Ari isn't what she seems, and marrying Caleb Devereaux and telling him her secrets is the last thing she ever thought she'd do.Caleb is many things: redneck punk-rocker, IT geek, and genetically-engineered...
1880) Saving Time
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Scotland 2061-forty-three years after the stock market crash that changed the world.
Rory Campbell, dedicated Militia man and son of Caitlin and Scott Campbell (Stolen Time), lives in a self-governed Community in the Scottish Highlands. Rory's routine of leading the Invercharing Community's Militia and keeping the local bandit groups at bay is upset when he discovers an abandoned nuclear submarine in a sea lock in the North Western Highlands
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