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While searching for a lost love, a mercenary between assignments comes across a wealthy world in which there are no weapons, no poverty, no permanent social attachments, and everyone is free to pursue their own interests. There's only one catch: these people have no means to defend themselves against a rapidly approaching swarm of alien invaders.
2) Hive Minds
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In the near future, a couple seeks to evade societal confusion by joining a commune based upon sharing and solidarity. However, the once free-thinking members become oppressed by authoritarian leadership and investigating governmental agencies. As the escalating situation becomes increasingly restrictive and intolerable, the couple plans an escape.
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In the near future, as societies continue to erode and the gap between rich and poor widens, inexpensive college camps spring up around the country as an alternative form of higher education. At one such camp, a partially dysfunctional veteran and a woman alienated from her family meet and attempt to make sense out of the rapidly changing world.
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It is the late 1960s... In this sequel to "The One Thousand" a team composed of humans and benevolent aliens hunt for murderous, alien-possessed convicts with enhanced powers who have escaped from prison. They discover that this fellowship of psychopaths is preparing an elaborate party for hippies and other street people in a remote mansion built to simulate a Medieval castle, and that they are planning to slaughter everyone who attends. Now the seven...
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A recently divorced woman joins a virtual community in search of social acceptance and companionship. After fashioning a new identity for herself, she sets off to explore the meticulously created landscapes of this new world, unaware that the beautiful environments are rife with human predators.
6) Gladiators
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In the near future when their benefits are cut off, veterans resort to professional combat to make ends meet. Makeshift arenas open in numerous locales, and websites offering crowdsourced funding proliferate. An ex-soldier rising in popularity on the entertainment circuit attempts to reconcile his empathy for his opponents with his need for finances.
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After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.
9) Time Zone
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In a world whose inhabitants routinely visit famous historical events, two jaded road-weary tourists take a holiday in an isolated retrograde enclave where time travel is forbidden.
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A single mother facing a life-threatening illness, deportation, and the possible loss of her children goes for a job interview in a strange mansion filled with virtual reality machines and other high tech devices. In exchange for the health, wealth, and safety of the woman and her children, the prospective employer requests that she undertake a painful, terrifying task.
13) Rainfall
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Escaping a death sentence on a starship, three refugees come across a stone city that has been mysteriously abandoned. With a torrential rainstorm fast approaching, they become aware of a horrific menace lurking in tunnels beneath the city streets.
14) Shanti
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The colonists on the remote planetary outpost of New Sedona are a contented lot. Their work is undemanding, and they have the companionship of alien creatures called shanti that shape-shift into the forms of their favorite imagined pets. However, the colony's serenity is shattered when new way station administrators arrive and assume dictatorial control. And in the surrounding wilderness, other aliens begin to assume the shapes of nightmarish monsters....
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Long have the clandestine members of the Telepathic Guild assisted individuals, corporations, and governments by means of their unique skills. Guild Home functions as a headquarters and a refuge, and its strict regulations foster unity and discipline.In this linked series of stories, a guild member falls in love with an outsider and is faced with a life-changing decision; a group of young people rebel against the guild's stringent rules; a famous...
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After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.
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A dying detective's final assignment, to solve the mystery of a series of kidnappings of infants from maternity wards of hospitals, becomes complicated when he discovers that aliens are abducting the babies to use as vehicles for their non-corporeal colonists.An elderly warrior faces ignominious torture and death as a sacrificial scapegoat offering to prevent total warfare.Invisible aliens infiltrate human society as innocuous researchers, students,...
18) Sylvia's Wake
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Technology has been developed that can reanimate corpses and simulate personalities after death. The wealthy use it as a means of carrying on their legacies. Sylvia Peddington, also known as Sinister Silvia, was a ruthless businesswoman in life. Now, shortly after her resuscitation, a hearse driver has delivered her to the elegant mansion of one of her competitors in life for a party to celebrate her coming out as one of the undead. Little does she...
19) Touchable
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After fleeing systemic intolerance on Earth, a lonely man on a far-flung interstellar outpost receives an exciting offer from a battle-jaded veteran - but there's a catch. She's lonely too, and wants a traveling companion, but only if he agrees to assimilate a hitchhiking alien life form.
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In a shattered post-apocalyptic world, physical books have become invaluable. Somehow a wandering ex-mercenary and a dedicated librarian must save an entire library in an abandoned village on the shore of the Brahmaputra River in Northeast India from a mob of murderous marauding scavengers heading downriver.
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