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4441) The Muse's Opus
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Ambient Modifiers, or Ambimods, are a carnivorous species hunted to the very edge of extinction by the human race. Unable to hunt their prey freely, they hide among the shadows to preserve their numbers. However, one of them takes up an unbelievable task.Lila van Shilon decides to leave the safety of her remaining Ambimod race and chooses to live amongst the very prey she was trained to hunt. Donning a human form, she moves to the city of Esguir and...
4442) Claiming Earth
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Britt Anderson is retired. Secretive and fiercely independent, she journeys to Delroi to spend time with her two oldest friends. She doesn't expect to be dragged back into the spy business when she gets there. But the lure is impossible to fight for a not so reformed adrenalin junkie. Danger. Conspiracy. What's not to love?
Unfortunately, there's always a price and it presents itself as the darkly dangerous Barak Trace. She can't deny the attraction,...
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Copanatec is the second book of the series The Timecrack Adventures, which sees the two young brothers, Archie and Richard Kinross, return to New Earth in the next dimension, in the continuing search for their parents who disappeared from an archaeological site in the Yucatan jungle.
The island of Copanatec is home to The Lords of the Cloud, an ancient civilisation, who in their desperation to find a lost, life-giving treasure, have recruited Talon...
4444) Accouplée aux guerriers
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Les circonstances ne lui laissant guère le choix, Hannah Johnson se porte volontaire au Programme des Epouses Interstellaires: la voici accouplée non pas à un, mais à deux partenaires. Ses futurs époux sont des guerriers de la planète Prillon, les hommes y sont réputés pour leur ardeur au combat et au lit.
Après avoir traversé toute la galaxie en vaisseau spatial, Hannah se réveille auprès de Zane Deston, l'immense et séduisant au possible...
4445) Sandy
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Sandy tries her luck on creating the greatest invention yet. She succeeds in being successful and famous, but gains even more. It is the love and power that she'll always treasure.
4446) Raanar
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Sometimes a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do… even if that involves big girl panties and a very sexy dragon-man.
A bounty hunter with her eyes on the prize, Jenna's to-do list includes making crazy amounts of money, ice-cream and retail therapy when she's not working. It does not include sabotage by space rat, or any kind of black hole. It most certainly doesn't include crash landing on a planet in the back end of beyond where everything is...
4447) Todo en la Mente
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Hace años leí acerca de una casa de ancianos en donde hicieron un experimento, de hacer que el ambiente de los residentes fuera como en su juventud. No puedo recordar en donde leí esto o qué estaban tratando de lograr, pero recuerdo que un resultado sorprendente fue que el cabello de las personas se oscureció.
Desde entonces, he tenido esta idea al acecho en el fondo de mi mente. ¿Qué tal si se llevara el experimento a su conclusión lógica?
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4448) Crónicas Infernales
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Hay un mundo ocultado a nuestros ojos, hecho por espíritus y almas errantes. No es el Reino de los cielos que estamos hablando, pero de la caverna donde los demonios y pecadores permanecen desde los albores del tiempo. ¿Estamos seguros de que sólo los corruptos son nombrados? ¿Y cual es el destino por aquellos terminan en las llamas del infierno? Demonios, príncipes malditos, cazadores. Traiciones y pasiones se tejen entre las páginas de esta...
4449) Apex Magazine Issue 120
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Apex Magazine is an award-winning digital genre zine of short fiction.
EDITORIAL
Our Audacity by Maurice Broaddus
Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore
FICTION
Dune Song by Suyi Davies Okungbawa
Fugue State by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due
N-Coin by Tobias S. Buckell
Pimp My Airship (novel excerpt) by Maurice Broaddus
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good by LaShawn M. Wanak
When We Dream We Are Our God...
4450) On 20468 Petercook
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To the Fringe...and Beyond.
A Tor.
Com Original.
4451) Living on the Edge Ii
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Jim and Teena Lacy volunteered for SOG (Special Operation Group) after Jim returned from Korea, where he served in the 187th Airborne, a Regimental Combat Team. After extensive training, they completed assignments in various parts of the world. This story covers their mission to verify intelligence reports that Russia had covertly moved Nuclear weapons and troops into Cuba. Their mission objectives were to confirm those reports and obtain photos for...
4452) Greener Than You Think
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Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike. Greener Than You Think is a satire rather than an adventure story. One plant (a Bermuda grass treated with a special growth chemical) slowly spreads across California and beyond, swallowing cities and making vast tracks of land uninhabitable. (Goodreads)...
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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself...
4454) Shadow Dance
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THE SHADOWS OF A MAN'S PAST ARE LONG...Cole Danvers is a small-time shadowrunner scratching out a living in the dangerous, divided sprawl of Denver, Colorado. But when a lucrative heist to steal an AmerIndian amulet goes terribly wrong, costing him both his teammates and nearly his life, Cole hits the streets intent on only one thing-vengeance.
But as he tracks down the Johnson that sent him on this deadly mission, Cole quickly realizes he's stumbled...
4455) Caught in Amber
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Recently out of rehab, Sasha James is determined to keep her head down, complete her parole and never touch amber again. The chip in her neck controls her cravings for the highly addictive drug, but also tracks her every move. Not that she goes anywhere other than work and the halfway house she calls home-a far cry from her luxurious former life as lover of the mining colony's top drug dealer, Guy Christiansen.
Agent Nathan Sterling has no desire...
4456) The Right of the Line
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The war is on the verge of being lost.
The alien virus has begun its offensive, punching through the human defences and sending advance elements to threaten Earth itself. HMS Invincible and her crew, having barely returned from their last mission, are thrown into a desperate mission to strengthen the inner line of defences before the virus can smash them too and destroy the human race. The stakes have never been so high. Defeat means the end of everything.
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4457) Recalled to Life
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It is the story of a group of scientists who discover a way to bring back to life people who have been dead for a day. The main character is an ex-politician and lawyer who takes on the job as frontman for the group. He has to make his way through the legal and political minefield the process brings up.
4458) Pareja asignada
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Cuando una potencial amenaza contra su vida obliga a Eva Daily a buscar refugio en otro mundo, solo le queda una opción disponible. Debe postularse al Programa de Novias Interestelares. Después de una valoración íntima y sensual de su idoneidad, a Eva se le asignará una pareja y se la transportará a ese mundo para convertirse en su novia.
Al llegar al planeta desierto de Trion, Eva pronto descubre que las cosas son mucho más diferentes de...
4459) Far Star
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At her mother's death, Dayra Smith fled the Empire and her powerful, sadistic step-father, driven by her dream of building a new life for herself and her half-brother and sister on the raw frontier world of Far Star. Clawing a living from the land isn't easy, but Dayra is determined to make a success of the run-down farmhold, and she doesn't need any man's help to do it until it becomes clear that her step-father hasn't forgotten her, or forgiven,...
4460) Songs of Leaving
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"Crowther's collection opens with a magnificent homage to Ray Bradbury, 'Some Burial Place, vast and Dry' (the title is one of several references to Whitman), in which the last survivor of a lost colony remembers his home and is visited by it. Despite that tough first act, the quality of what follows remains consistent. These lovely and thoughtful stories are speculative fiction at pretty much its best, conjuring self-contained worlds that for all...
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