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"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
2) Deepsix
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In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a small...
3) Octavia gone
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Alex Benedict novels volume 8
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"After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead--just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
4) Moonfall
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It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
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Ancient shores volume 1
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Farmer Tom Lasker digs up an odd boat in the middle of his North Dakota wheat field, leading to further exploration that yields a mysterious buried structure which serves as a portal to another world.
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Alex Benedict novels volume 9
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When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
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Dr. Kimberly Brandywine, not satisfied with the accepted knowledge that the only living things in the universe are on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, sets out to investigate the mystery of what happened to her sister (and clone) Emily, who disappeared, along with an entire village, in an unexplained explosion.
8) Echo
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Alex Benedict novels volume 5
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After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
9) Chindi
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The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the first greeting of an undiscovered life form? Academy starship captain Priscilla Hutchins and the one-maligned Contact Society are about to learn the answers...to more questions than they could possibly...
11) Coming home
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Alex Benedict novels volume 7
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An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
12) Thunderbird
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Ancient shores volume 2
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The Nebula Award-winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden ; (2)...
13) Eternity road
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend, too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 27: July 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevitt
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
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The embers of War still glow as memories of strange skies over an alien landscape, light-years from home, bring back the sensations of battle; a time when personal sacrifice meant the difference between salvation for all, or total destruction.
Gathered here is a cross-section of stories from the first decade of the award-winning Defending The Future series. Written by the known and up-and-coming in the military science fiction genre, these stories...
16) The devil's eye
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Alex Benedict novels volume 4
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Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath return from vacation to their home base on Rimway to find that celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who had sent a cryptic message requesting their help, has asked for and received a mind wipe after transferring an enormous sum of money to Alex's account, and the duo sets out to discover what they have been paid to investigate.
17) Starhawk
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"Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure. Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream. She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To...
18) Omega
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"Somewhat sentient, the omega clouds obliterate life on every planet in their path. Now one of them is predicted to reach Earth in about 900 years. But between Earth and the cloud, lies the home world of the Korbikkan race. They are humanoid sentients and one of three sentient races known to humanity. Now, mankind must decide whether to marshall the science resources needed and to bring to bear the weaponry needed to save another race without putting...
19) Firebird
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Alex Benedict novels volume 6
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2011.
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Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
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