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"Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn't cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She's broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother's medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who's now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching...
2) My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me
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After being summoned to another world, Yogiri and Tomochika were abandoned by their classmates as bait to distract a rampaging dragon. Thanks to Yogiri's ability to cause instant death with a single thought, the two of them survived and made the arduous journey to reunite with their classmates in the capital city. Although they overcame tremendous danger along the way, rejoining the other students is still only the beginning. From the intricate schemes...
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Spawn of the Martians is a contemporary space science fiction story of the first manned mission to Mars. Three Global Space Force fleet astronauts and three planetary biologists travel to Mars on a three month mission to the Red Planet to discover the existence of liquid water and bacterial life. What they find instead is a terrifying, flesh-eating red spore that threatens their mission, their lives and the lives of their loved ones on Earth.
4) En Masse
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Captain Neal Bishop hasn't been having very good luck. While recovering from injuries, he had the misfortune of catching his Commander spending quality time with a superior's wife. That landed him a rather dull rehab assignment body-guarding a group of scientists at an archeological site.But this site wasn't like any other. This moon had never been colonized by humans, and until a miner's drill pierced one wall just three weeks ago, this cavern had...
5) Mindtouch
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Seersana University is worlds-renowned for its xenopsychology program, producing the Alliance's finest therapists, psychiatric nurses and alien researchers. When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he's unprepared for the challenges of a vast and multicultural society... but fortunately, second-year student Vasiht'h is willing to take him under his wing. Will the two win past their troubles and doubts and see the...
6) Moonbeams
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Who is randomly destroying Earth's settlements on other worlds, and why have they apparently spared Earth itself? The truth is stranger than anyone could have imagined!
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Earth's Last Day is a dramatic, end-of-times story describing a species extinction event when a comet from the Kuiper Belt collides with Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the resulting collision sends thousands of tiny meteorites and five planet ending asteroids hurtling toward Earth with no hope of escape for mankind.
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No one from the present generation will witness the time in question firsthand, but the issues described in the book are well known today. It would be beneficial to acquaint oneself with these earth matters that urgently need to be discussed if just not for the simple reason things you do not know can hurt you. Knowledge is power! The Epic Future World Unknown is a futuristic scenario that follows the personal lives of normal people over the next...
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"Dagger Jameswood Enters the Fourth Dimension" is a science-fiction detective story. The quirky hero faces multiple, ultimately life-threatening challenges on his way to learning how to enter the fourth dimension. It's a fun read with a light touch on the sci-fi, eccentric characters and a great adventure.
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Freelancer. Detective. Investigator-for-hire. The thing Brooke Lawson has been dreaming about her whole life. And out in the Black, it's finally become a reality. There's only one problem; Everything she knows, she learnt from a holovid.
She's made good so far, using her wits and a lifetime of privilege to keep herself and her crew above water, but with debts piling up and morale running low, it's only a matter of time before her luck finally runs...
11) Optical Osmosis
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It's been said the eyes are the windows to the soul. What happens, however, when those windows crack? Tempe, Arizona resident Greg Gnops, is about to find out.When an accident involving sunlight and a telescope alters Greg's vision, he suddenly finds himself with a strange new ability that drains psychic fragments of a person's soul from their body, killing his victim in the process. Despite trying to hide behind a pair of sunglasses, the slightest...
12) Baby Babble
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Nikie is a newborn baby who, from the very first moment of her birth, has amazing powers to speak like an adult, make words appear in the air, turn words and sentences into colors and symbols, and speak in mathematical terms. How her parents Nick and Angie and her doctors accept and deal with these amazing and astonishing powers is the essence of Baby Babble.
13) The Chosen
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Blurb:Jerant Perdue is unusual, nothing less than a genius. Not that he was born that way.At the age of nine he was taken to undergo the 'treatment'. Except he was not the only one.Twelve years later Jerant seems to have achieved little – in work and in life. But secretly his project progresses to a breakthrough.Yet all the while he has not gone unnoticed. A covert organization known as the Group has big plans for him, doing everything to ensure...
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If the Government actually made this a Law, I believe it would help eliminate crimes against women and children.
The Keeper of the Castle is about how Warden Jack Blake uses extreme methods of punishment to virtually eliminate crimes against women and children and how he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This story details what can happen when a person with this disease is in a position of power.
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In Parvon Zin Koban Hunter Book 2: Return of the Anunnaki, the ancient promise of the Anunnaki looms large – their prophesied return to the Adamu, the beings they crafted, has come to pass. However, the sight that greets them sparks divine ire.
The Adamu, once compliant subjects, have diverged from their intended path, embracing rebellion over subservience. Faced with this insubordination, the Anunnaki's verdict is absolute and merciless: the eradication...
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Two sets of teens who died tragically on opposite sides of the Earth discover telepathy, empathy, entanglement and healing on a journey to new beginnings. This 4,000-word short story is set almost completely in the afterlife, where universal consciousness connects us all.
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"Time Ship & Shapeshifter" is a science fiction adventure about an alien pilot with a time-traveling spaceship and telepathic abilities who, after a collision with a mysterious pod, teams up with a young boy to repair her ship and navigate through various challenges and timelines.This book will most appeal to science fiction enthusiasts and readers who enjoy intricate plots involving time travel, alien technology, and the blending of fantastical elements...
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Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.
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An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...
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When the results of Earth's genetic experiments fled their makers, they took their own name as they left humanity behind; centuries later, the Pelted have spread into a multi-world alliance of cultures and languages, cribbed from Terra or created whole-cloth. Claws and Starships collects six stories of the Pelted, ranging from the humor of a xenoanthropologist on the wrong side of mythology to more serious works considering the implications of genetic...