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From an author with countless beloved science fiction classics, In the Year 2889 is a short work of science fiction that imagines the future. Set in the year 2889, George Washington Smith is a wealthy and ambitious, businessman. He possesses a great amount of influence on his society, not just because of his wealth, but because he owns a newspaper. In the Year 2889 depicts a slice-of-life narrative, following George through his day-to-day life as...
2) Youth
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
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The kind of man she'd been taught to fear.Her only chance to choose a life for herself.Hiding behind a tank of molten uranium salts, Iphigenia's chewed fingernails gripped the radiation shielding and her dark eyes watched the man she both craved and feared to talk to.Inside the dock, the spacejock did maintenance work on his ship. His oval face clashed with his haircut, buzzed on the sides and long enough on top for his brown hair to float like seaweed....
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Who are Minnie and Earl?
In the earliest days of constructing the first permanent colony on the moon, they are the single secret shared by the everyone working on the project: two friendly old people, who somehow beat the astronauts to the lunar surface and are perfectly happy with hosting the kids to nightly dinners, but remain close-mouthed about who they are and how they got there.
But they are not the strangest thing to be found on the moon.
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5) A New World
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After an interstellar journey of one hundred fifty years, Russel Keating and his extended family arrive at a new world. When they arrive, there are primitive people already living on the planet they expected to be uncolonized.
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Coming out really threw a wrench in Jordy and Lyle's relationship. Becoming human refugees in an alien organization called the Anti-Scouts made it worse. Can a simple game set things right? Or will virtual reality make reality worse? Jordy logs in to the Dream Trust Test find out.
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She waits alone on the dark park bench, missing the family who no longer call. She waits for the tiny pollinators who fill the park each night - if not her life's triumph, then at least something she feels rightly proud of.
If only she had someone left to share her wisdom with.
A quiet science fiction story about the future of humanity - and family.
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Weinbaum's worlds are eight tales of action, adventure, and alien discovery that revolve around the planets and moons of New Sol, a system redder and more compact than our own, but much like how our Solar System was imagined in the 1930s. We've updated Stanley G. Weinbaum's original science fiction short stories into a new setting, a system where his dreams could really take place, not too different from how he first wrote them, in the not-so-distant...
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Once a pirate, always a pirate. Right?
Raith has flown with the Iron Dagger for quite a few years, but never before has he been, placed in the crosshairs of one of their runs. After a heist gone wrong, Raith must, use his synthetic piloting skills to outwit racers, traders, and a pirate king hell-bent on revenge.
And, he can't even trust his crew.
When the smoke settles, Raith's fate, hangs in the balance.
There's more than one way to shatter a...
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An epic story of a teenager whose passion for science propels him to go on his best adventures - but his formal school education sometimes gets in the way, until one day, his love for science and his love for a younger girl meets when he falls head-over-doc-Martins for Bianca from the First Grade of Middle School. But, she shuns his advances as she feels their age-gap is too wide, but he comes up with an idea. He thinks he can shorten their age-gap...
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Evie always knew there was something different about her brain, but she learned to keep it hidden. She always loved the stars, too, and those other bright lights she'd seen in the night sky as a child were never far from her mind. Who was behind them? Scout had surveyed many planets, but the mind he sensed on that little blue-green marble was unique. He shouldn't go back, he knew. Contact was forbidden. But the mind called to him in ways he couldn't...
14) Aether's Lullaby
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Aether's LullabyEngr Dr Naila Hina Science Fiction Fantasy and Business Strategies and the limitless wonders of the Aetherium.
15) Colony Worlds
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A selection of 13 award-winning science fiction stories. Three stories, are set in the world of the The Break of Civilisation (published June 2023). #2 The Descent of the Kestrel, #3 Outcasts and #6 A Goat for the Killing. Imagine: 1. a space ark where some aboard don't want to be saved 2. a disabled generation ship where the survivors want to escape the controlling AI 3. a mutant who teams up with a brain-damaged member of his sworn enemy 4. a perilous...
16) Arenas Eternas
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Arenas EternasIng Dra Naila Hina Entre las dunas cambiantes de un antiguo desierto, donde el tiempo susurraba a través de los granos de arena, una arqueóloga llamada Evelyn y un audaz aventurero llamado Rick se encontraron envueltos en un relato que trascendía los siglos.
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Obsession is not love. But it is a toxin that kills someone ever so slowly. Sandra finds out about this the hard way. She was obsessed with her brother's mate, her brother's soulmate thinking that it was love. She did everything in her power to win Josh's love but to no avail because Josh only loved Max. Blood is supposed to be thicker than water but in this case the two siblings are fighting over the love of another. After the tragic events of the...
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This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different.
The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform-a clumsy "digger"-seeks to escape her servitude to humans, but is denied sanctuary by the beautiful and graceful "flyers." Also included is the acclaimed story "Of Mist, and Grass, and...
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A Trader. A Crew. A System Of Wonder.Space is wonderous but deadly too.Trader Mistress Idryia prepares to enter a new solar system. She feels the ship vibrate, hum and pop. Idryia wants to get rich.Idryia feels danger comes for her and her crew.If you enjoy wonderous, enthralling scifi short stories filled with wonder and awe. You will love this one!
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Dr. Song was looking for intelligent life. What he finds makes him rethink everything.
When Dr. Song volunteered to solo a discovery mission to Omicron Aa, he believed the planet held intelligent life. But when he crash-lands on the planet's surface, what he discovers makes him question everything he believed to be true.
A Writers of the Future semi-finalist story from the author of The Madness Method and The Lost Road Chronicles.
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