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41) The Very Black
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Anders was pretty sure he was going to die. No one had yet flown the new-style jet job and lived to tell the tale. A story both chilling and heart-warming that shows us how bravely the human equation can operate when the chips are stacked against it.
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AN ENTIRE GALAXY WAS IN DANGER! Somewhere, somehow, the first moves had been made-there was a pattern beginning to emerge. Someone, or something, was on the way to wresting supreme power over all the planets currently controlled by Mankind-and the Interstellar Corps seemed helpless to meet this threat. No 'normal' man could hope to penetrate the vast conspiracy of it all. But... the Corps did have one man who wasn't normal, a man who possessed a very...
44) Four-Day Planet
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Four-Day Planet Four-Day Planet . . . where the killing heat of a thousand-hour "day" drives men underground, and the glorious hundred-hour sunset is followed by a thousand-hour night so cold that only an Extreme Environment Suit can preserve the life of anyone caught outside.cFenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to...
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"The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead. At the cost of many lives, the Democracy has managed to clone and train General Michkag, one of the Traanskei's master strategists. Colonel Pretorius and a hand-picked...
46) Defy the Stars
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls "startlingly original and achingly romantic...nothing short of masterful."
She's a soldier—Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel.
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She's a soldier—Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel.
He's...
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A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven into exile, but conflicting religions and hostility to science keep human civilization fragmented and constantly fighting wars over petty power and fertile land as a plague devastates populations. However, everything changes when a secret visitor from the observer satellite from Earth accepts a slow death in order to visit the planet...
48) My Fair Planet
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All the world's a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor . . . only he intended to direct it!
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and...
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Johnson knew he was annoying the younger man, who so obviously lived by the regulations in the Colonial Officer's Manual and lacked the imagination to understand why he was doing this....Once these irritating farewells were over with, he could begin to live as he wished and as he'd dreamed.
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that...
50) The Blue Tower
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As the vastly advanced guardians of mankind, the Belphins knew how to make a lesson stick-but whom?
Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as, the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and...
51) Once a Greech
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Discovering intelligent life was the last thing Fleet Captain Iversen wanted to happen to his watch. Especially, when the ship in question was, commanded by his absolute worst officer. And yet, here he was.
Evelyn E. Smith is best, known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy,...
52) Deathworld
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This classic science fiction novel by Harry Harrison was originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. It follows professional gambler, Jason dinAlt, who uses his psionic abilities to rig games of chance. He is challenged by Kerk Pyruss, ambassador for the planet Pyrrus, to ply his trade with a large sum at a government casino. He succeeds and avoids their attempts to reclaim his winnings. On a whim he decides to accompany Kerk back...
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"Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system....
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This is a science fiction short story by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith") and illustrated by van Dongen. 'There has always been, and will always be, the problem of surviving the experience that any trained expert can handle ... when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When no one has ever gotten back to explain what happened....' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of...
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley and illustrated by Ashman that first appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. The following passage is part of its intriguing intro: 'He said he wasn't immortal-but nothing could kill him. Still, if the Earth was to live as a free world, he had to die. ' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the...
59) The Barbarians
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History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas.
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Planet of the Damned is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, published in 1962. The story is set on the planet Pyrrus, which is known for its extreme and deadly environment. The planet is inhabited by several intelligent species, including the deadly and aggressive pyrrans. The story follows the journey of a group of humans, led by a man named Brion Brandd, who have come to Pyrrus to study its unique flora and fauna. However, they soon find...
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