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In AD 2125, humanity fell short of achieving the United Nations' sustainable development goals. Technological advancements in the past century led to the creation of nuclear defense systems and new types of nuclear weapons, including meteorological weapons. However, this technological competition and exploitation resulted in the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of the environment. A 180-year period of relative peace came to an end...
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The end of the world is just the beginning.Earth has suffered a devastating attack by an unknown force of extraterrestrial origin, wiping out a civilization ten thousand years in the making in one day.Who are they, and why have they come?The survivors include Char Nelson and her team of powered combat armor 'Jockeys,' Nathan Bradley, a soldier who fights at the side of an alien of our own making and Arlan Moncrieffe, and analyst that must determine...
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Ben Sandmor doesn't care about anything else except finding his dealer and snorting another line of glorious blow.When Ben's dealer doesn't show up at the usual time and place one night, he tries not to freak out and decides to go looking for him. But what he didn't plan on finding were aliens landing on the roof of his car trying to kill each other!This cold, bizarre night leads Ben into an adventure of, quite literally, galactic proportions. The...
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A short story to accompany Exodus (UnderEarth #1)
Finn and Jovi, two young archaeologists, discover a mysterious abandoned spaceship in Damascus which takes them to the home of Ru and Keon, the legendary and ostensibly fearsome Thought Beings of Pertinax where they partake of tea and biscuits, while learning more about the real history of modern industrialised civilisation and the true purpose of life.
Some confusion also arises involving a doorknob......
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Two aliens are sent to an unknown planet to study its inhabitants. Their mission did not begin as they expected. Getting into funny situations, the aliens learn a lot about the alien planet and its inhabitants. Follow the adventures of funny aliens, as well as visit distant planets and find out where the Gods are hiding, you can read the stories that are included in this collection.
6) Dawn
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"In this fast-paced, lively, and enjoyable finale, Wood offers a wide array of intrigues, battles, and retreats." -Kirkus Reviews
The long-awaited finale to the epic Clash of the Aliens science fiction saga.
When a Hoo-Lii invasion fleet unexpectedly arrives and attacks, they cripple Earth's space defenses. The Space Force retreat to an asteroid based fortress. The human space fleet suffers terrible damage and on the brink of defeat, dissident...
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The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea.
Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they found a way to live, and eventually a way to leave.
Alicia wants nothing more than to fly.
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8) Mayflies
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Transient. Ethereal. Delicate. Insignificant. Mere insects... Like all the human beings trapped aboard a vast starship on a generations-long journey to a new home. The Mayflower is run by an immortal captain who views himself as a god. Gerard Metaclura was just a normal man until a terrible accident left him near dead, his body destroyed. But his brain was installed as the sentient command core of the generation ship. At first Gerard was confused...
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Jon Gallock must balance peaceful relations among the dubious aliens, and the avaricious great powers of the world who are determined to seize the visitors' advanced technology, no matter the cost.
Spanning the globe from the lush beaches of Hawaii to the desert wasteland of Africa, Jon, and his team race to save the people of Earth from nuclear war, and a looming planetary catastrophe.
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Daniel Hankerson was perfectly happy being just a mid-level spy, genetically-enhanced low-ranking member of the royal family and an avid poker player.Then the war started, someone tried to murder him, he met a strange war correspondent with an even stranger secret, and he found himself aboard a prototype warship going to the fringes of the Central Imperium.Then things got worse.An ancient enemy is approaching with a large fleet aided by people Daniel...
11) Emperor in Exile
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Daniel Hankerson never wanted to be the Emperor.He was perfectly happy as a normal intelligence officer, analyst and poker player. But fate never asks what you want.Now, after the biggest defeat in the history of the Central Imperium, Daniel is isolated aboard the communications ship, and for months he can only broadcast to his Imperium and listen to the news of mounting losses.His enemies continue to chase him and they have their own plans for controlling...
12) Timescape
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Noom was nameless before he approached the planet Earth; nameless and eternal. Through an evil act of sabotage against Eternity, two creatures at the core of the Universe touched one another and unleased a cataclysmic explosion that birthed both the expanding Universe...and Time. Time did not exist in Etermity, and Noom is determined to locate it, capture it, and shove it back into the hole it came from. So, the name: as Noom detected traces of the...
13) The Alien Ring
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Rob is an unusual high school senior. He doesn't waste his talents playing video games all day after school. He's not a great athlete, nor is he interested in creating TikTok videos. He doesn't even experiment with vaping, drugs or alcohol. He is simply a young man dealing with ADD and anxiety along with insecurities caused by his verbally abusive mother.
The trials, tribulations and complexities of being a teenager are intensified when he unintentionally...
14) Collapse
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"Tantalizing. . . . Nuclear holocaust, savagery, and space aliens converge on Cleveland in a competent start to a five-part series." -Kirkus Reviews
A series of electromagnetic pulses brought the world to its knees. But that wasn't the end, it was just the beginning.
Some who survived turned to Taylor MacPherson, and he has given them hope. After many years, they've carved out a bastion of democracy in the sea of chaos that is the post-apocalyptic...
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Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie has no idea that what lies ahead is much more intriguing than what the radar techs call Santa's Ghost or Santa's Sleigh.
After Harpie inadvertently discovers the landing site of a spaceship,...
16) Resolution
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When an earth exploration vessel explodes, a captain takes an escape pod with a handful of the crew. The pod goes off course and crashes on a desolate and uncharted planet. After an initial cataclysmic clash with locals, the captain is the only survivor. He encounters an ancient alien society that has forgotten their history and relies on strict laws to protect marginal natural resources. Those laws doom his shipmates but lead him on an ironic path...
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Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation that could mean a possible brighter future ... or the decimation of the Encedalons and the entire human race. The awe-inspiring, exquisite moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two' s Between the Covers.
Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens' ...
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"A fun, nostalgia-filled anthology of twenty-three original, lighthearted horror tales riffing on the movie monsters of both modern cinema and B-movie favorites." -Publishers Weekly
Lights! Camera! Monsters?
Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies-and their monsters-come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires,...
20) No Choice
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A shifter caught on film. A cop with unwanted fame. Will she embrace her new identity, or become a monstrous beast? McKenna Largo loves police work and hates being in the spotlight. But when the California cop transforms into a cougar in the middle of a bank raid, she knows there's no dodging the publicity. Now a viral video sensation, she's the reluctant public face of a newly created race of shifters…As the police department uses her for "PR"...
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