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Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared form the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K-PAX.
K-PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of earth. Prot has incredible insights...
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"The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves When the man calling himself Archie Leach begins spotting his dead lover at random locations around the city, he must finally stop running and face the truth-which may not be quite as he's remembered it all these years. An American living in Australia, Archie's had so many aliases that when he wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed, he almost forgets which one he's supposed to use. With his delivery...
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Prophecies & Premonitions continues the plight of the ASRP...The Association of Scientific Research of Phenomena, and the people involved. Groups of scientists, spiritualists, mystics, and psychics have united to find a way to stop the doorways from other worlds and dimensions from opening into ours. Strange creatures, both ethereal and physical have emerged from these portals. Have they come to us with messages...or do they have something more sinister...
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Ammon Waters is on the verge of a stunning breakthrough - the ability to travel through time. He's also on the verge of a breakdown - unable to distinguish reality from a pharmacological illusion. DECEIVE THE PARADOX explores one man's descent into the abyss of insanity as he uses the desperation caused by tragic loss to advance his science.
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In A Whole Man, a baby boy is born in a hospital surrounded by the chaos of battle and civil unrest. The birth is unremarkable and little noted, but the child, Gerald Howson, turns out to be very special. He is afflicted by infirmities and bodily flaws, but his mind becomes a miraculous device, capable of telepathic marvels that can, and do, change the world. But the power fantasies that sometimes tempt him are deadly to those near him and can ultimately...
6) Disconnected
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The first book in the upcoming Arden Series, takes you into a compelling new futuristic realm, when people are technologically connected like never before by a formidibly powerful system. A story of innocence, secrets, power, and love, that begins with young Keralan's sudden transfer to a new and dizzying world of luxury, to the interrupted solitude of a simple monk, and finally a lost soul whose lies become exposed, along with his true identity....
7) Schizotopia
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Flora is missing, and I have to find her. She won't answer my calls, and I'm terrified that she doesn't love me anymore. Maybe she's ignoring me because I'm a creep. It's probably not because she's been abducted by lizards in suits; they only exist in my paranoid delusions. Probably.I have to warn you, I might not be the most reliable of narrators. If you come with me to look for Flora, you might help keep me sane. Or you might end up in my world...
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In The Atlantic Abomination, an exploratory expedition to the bottom of the ocean discovers the remnants of a long-lost civilization, and then, the enormous body of an alien being preserved for unknown millennia. An attempt to raise the body unleashes a horror beyond imagining as the creature revives from a long sleep and begins to exert control over men's minds throughout the world. This is a classic SF horror story in the mode of John W. Campbell's The...
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Deception's Maternal Embrace is the first collection of short stories written by Phillip Garrett. The stories within all follow a common theme of deception. While that may be more literal in some than others, the idea of something not being what it seems is present throughout. The four stories range from Science Fiction, Adventure, and Horror. "The Staged Couple" is a flash fiction story following George and Mary, a couple on the run whose bad habits...
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Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen-from the New Mexican commune where she grew up . . . and from the haunting memory of the freak accident that took the life of her younger sister. Now, at thirty-two, Sunny voices radio spots in Albuquerque while struggling to hold on to a floundering relationship. But when a second tragic accident-and the devastating truths that come to light in its aftermath-turns her world upside down, Sunny runs...
12) Subterraneans
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Alex Graves has become unstuck in reality. Not only has he broken free from prison, he has broken free of a single universe, simultaneously experiencing multiple versions of his life--dangerous fugitive, intrepid explorer, questing superhero, dying man. But which one is real? This is the third novella of the I AM MERCURY series.I AM MERCURY is a nine-part serial suspense thriller about visions of other worlds, the stories we tell ourselves, and the...
13) Crompton Divided
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Crompton Divided was also published in the United Kingdom under the title The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton. Alistair Crompton, skilled nosologist at Psychosmell, Inc., sniffs out something he's been missing his whole life: his other selves. His disturbed psyche was divided into three parts and the other two were implanted in other bodies on other planets. His obsession to reunite himself leads to disturbing discoveries about the underpinnings...
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Book 1 The Backrooms: No Way OutJoin a lone explorer as they navigate the inescapable maze known as the Backrooms - an infinite expanse of rooms and corridors. Their quest for freedom grows urgent as the dread of eternal entrapment becomes ever more palpable. "The voice keeps growing louder and louder, acting as a weight, pulling my sanity down to a deep dark place the longer I'm lost in here."Book 2 The Backrooms: BeginningsDiscover the diary entries...
15) I : GARDEN
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I heard them plotting their freedom.They looked to me.An alien planet. A prisoner once human-named tends to an otherworldly garden. And the years pass.Now, his fellow prisoners dare to escape. Is freedom a dream? Or a lie?
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"The Zookeeper of the Backrooms" is a tale that delves into this surreal and haunting environment, chronicling the journey of Lilly, an ordinary individual who finds herself thrust into an extraordinary and terrifying reality. Lilly's story is one of survival, transformation, and the blurred lines between keeper and captive, predator and prey.This book is a compilation of Lilly's journal entries, a firsthand account of her experiences in the backrooms....
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« En tant qu'âmenate, je suis de passage. J'accompagne cette humaine dans sa vie. Pour un temps donné. Ni le sujet ni moi ne connaissons sa durée. Seule, ELLE est au courant. Un matin, je pars. Cela indique que le temps est terminé. C'est ainsi. Pas plus, pas moins. C'est mon sens […] Enfin, j'avais déjà pas mal voyagé dans les galaxies diverses et variées, je me suis dit que les humains, c'était nouveau pour moi. À faire un grand voyage,...
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An alien, digitally uploaded to a lurker probe and tasked with observing the Earth is supposed to briefly wake from his slumber every 11000 years and send a report. When he starts noticing humanity's accelerated technological progress and having become a big fan of humanity, he becomes disobedient and starts waking more frequently: every 100 years. There is good reason. His race knows that in sexually reproducing, DNA based life forms, psychopathy...
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Embark on a captivating journey into a not-so-distant future where the world teeters on the edge of transformation. Meet Hope Valencia, one of the world's most accomplished PT-SOF agents for the League of Consciousness, as she embarks on a mission that defies the boundaries of time and space. Her adventure commences in the future city of Amsterdam, cloaked in an aura of uncertainty, where a cryptic task awaits her. In this uncertain future, technology...
20) Cryptozoic!
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Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can now travel to the past using a technique called "mind-traveling." Artist Edward Bush returns from a nearly three-year mind-travel...
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