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Earth is no longer safe for human women.There's only one place we can go to be protected-planet Athion.Project Exodus has begun... To escape the predatory Trads, the president of the United States has ordered the first transport of human women from Earth to Athion.With our experience, my team at the Observatory are helping to launch the first ship of Project Exodus.All is not well with the project, however. Not everyone is happy about the Athions...
1902) Blood Thirsty
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To stop a ritual for power, bloodlines must be drawn in the sand.
A war that has raged for a millennia may come to a close as werewolf alpha Lukis attempts a ritual that will give him unspeakable power and incite a cataclysmic event affecting the whole world. He is willing to sacrifice everything for it, even his own offspring. Leading a coven of vampires, Ace aims to stop him, but she may be thwarted by her own past and a love triangle she wanted...
1903) Contretemps
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Vous assistez à l'enterrement de Boris Legrand, tué par balle cinq jours plus tt. L'enquête piétine, et sera bientt classée sans suite faute de preuves. C'est là qu'entre en scène le commandant Otto Rivers, qui possède la curieuse faculté de vivre sa vie à l'envers…
Grâce à lui, et malgré son cynisme débordant, vous essayez de remonter jusqu'à l'heure du crime et ainsi éviter le drame. Vous sentez-vous prêt à vivre cette aventure...
1904) Is That What People Do?
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More than three dozen of the best and most popular stories by the acknowledged master of the short science fiction story. The thirty-nine works contained in this volume-twenty-six from the author's ten other Open Road collections, plus thirteen additional pieces unique to this volume-include these vintage Sheckley stories: "The Eye of Reality," "The Language of Love," "The Accountant," "A Wind Is Rising," "The Robot Who Looked Like Me," "The Mnemone,"...
1905) The Red Abyss
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Betrayed. Abducted. Trapped in an escape-proof hellhole. A wartime mission erased from Miles Kim's memory holds the key to his freedom. Trapped in a cell far away from Seraph, he must piece together who put the bounty on him and why. His captors seek to uncover a secret he knows nothing about. His fellow prisoners will want him dead once they learn who he is. To survive, he'll need to solve a mystery buried in his past and survive long enough to escape....
1906) Rise of the Riftwalkers
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In a fractured world where the Cold War never ended, an experiment shatters reality. Time, dimensions, and alien forces collide. Survivors uncover a hidden conspiracy, embarking on a perilous quest to restore order. A breathtaking journey through alternate history awaits.
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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of Contents
• This is How We Stay Alive - L. Chan
• The Bloodless Cut - Evan Marcroft
• The Cold Inside - Vanessa Fogg
Cover art by Candra Hope.
1908) Tarea-Garcia
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Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task used to work for TJ Blackwell and Blackwell Ops.But after a sticky time-travel assignment to Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, he skipped the country-and the 21st century. Now he's Charlie Tarea.Solana "Soleada" Garcia is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She also was a Blackwell Ops agent, and TJ sent her to Terminate With Prejudice one Charlie Task. That was all well and good-until they met. What...
1909) Allie and the Navigators
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Roswell Army Air Force base, 3 a.m., June 15, 1947. A shape appears from the shadows and taps Major Delbert D. Johnson on the forehead. The alien points a glowing raspberry rod at an adjacent table. "That one said you are a navigator." Indomitable Allie, Intelligent Dreadnought 1, and the gang race home to Prime after surviving a deadly encounter with the Lost Fleet and its dangerous leader, Marine transport vessel Naomi Clevenger. Everyone knows...
1910) The Trouble With Earth
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Earth turns up on the vacation she wasn't invited to and finds all the other planets in the solar system in the hot tub—even Pluto! Then she discovers exactly why: it looks like she has FLEAS! Yuck. Earth asks everyone to take a look inside her atmosphere, and they're amazed by what they see . . . birds, fish, creatures galore, and yes, even fleas.
The Trouble with Earth is the perfect story to teach us to be kind and less quick to judge others....
1911) Redeemed By Rilic
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Avery Chambers just wants to be left alone to do her research and... make history. As a crew member of the long-term Earth expedition to find Alien Life, Avery is the head botanist and producer of living food for the expedition fleet. When something goes terribly wrong and she's blamed for contaminating the crew, she must find a way to redeem her work and good name--even if it means accepting the help from a too sexy for his own good god-like Alien,...
1912) Let's Play Three
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What would happen if the DNA of Roy Hobbs, Casey at the Bat, and Henry Skrimshander got mixed up with Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, then the whole concoction was thrown into a blender and set on "comic book?"Welcome to baseball, PEBA style. Where the game is global and growing, and where you'll find scandal, love, mystical powers, ghosts, and even perhaps a Russian spy and a Japanese inspector or two. In other words, anything can and does happen.LET'S...
1913) Second Sight
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In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition.
Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn't mean she actually believes all the rumors about UFO sightings in her small town. That is until one night when she sees a glowing ship in the sky and a man who could be the father that walked out when she was just a child.
Now Elena...
1914) Diadem from the Stars
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Abandoned on an alien planet, a young woman gains remarkable powers from a mysterious artifact, in the first installment of a sprawling, unforgettable science fiction saga. A magnificent combination of space opera and epic fantasy quest in the beloved science fantasy tradition of Andre Norton and C. J. Cherryh, author Jo Clayton's masterful Diadem Saga begins with an unforgettable tale of destiny, self-discovery, survival, and an extraordinary...
1915) The Source
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In the far distant future, Humankind is forced to live in hermetically sealed plastic domes. Most of the earth is barren and uninhabitable because of deadly viruses. Somewhere out in that barren wasteland is an Anti-Body Source to fight the deadly virus and free Humankind from their confines. Three individuals risk all to save the world.
1916) Commitment Hour
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After most of Earth's population has left for other planets, life is simple in the isolated village of Tober Cove. Fullin, a twenty-year-old musician, lives well off of his craft. But soon he must make a life-changing decision that all residents of Tober Cove must make. Up until their twenty-first birthdays, the people of Tober Cove change gender every year. But at the age of twenty-one, they must commit to being male, female, or a Neut (essentially...
1917) HoloCity Hard Boys
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The house always wins. Unless it falls down…When Bubbles acts as a witness in a high-profile murder case she's warned to stay low. Taking on a gambling gangster and his henchmen wasn't in the cards. But then he went and made it personal…HoloCity Hard Boys is the second stand alone mystery novella in the HoloCity Case Files series, a companion collection to the Bubbles in Space series.Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element in this eccentric cyber-noir...
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Speculative Fiction anthology led by best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson. A diverse group of authors join in with a broad spectrum of genres and styles sure to capture your imagination: Patrick Dugan, Sarah J. Sover, Tim Lewis, Michael La Ronn, Sara Jordan-Heintz, Kevin A Davis, Karen A. Phillips, Rachel Nussbaum, JL George, Laura Ruth Loomis, Michele Stuart, Kareem Miskel, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Madelyn Lopez
1919) Escape Hour
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The impact was only the beginning...Now reunited with her younger brother, Tessa and her band of survivors are again in trouble. Trapped in the constant night from the impact, the goal is clear: escape the city and head north to where Tessa's estranged father waits.But escaping the city won't be easy.The corrupt police chief is taking over, and Tessa's group has killed his savage son.Her stepfather is closing in by the hour, and soon, he'll find them....
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The end of the world as we know it has already happened.Now we have to deal with the fall out.Nowhere on Earth is safe.An unseen foe walks among us, appearing just like any other man.Only they're not.They're charming, seductive, and handsome, but they're also alien, and are taking our women to become breeding slaves on their own planet, Tradrych.I, Camille Harran, and my team of men-head of security tough-guy, Aleandro, studious and caring meteorologist,...
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