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When alien starships from a hostile interstellar power arrive in orbit, Britain is one of their first targets. Swiftly, the aliens take control of Britain's cities and force the remainder of the British military to go on the run. With the government destroyed, the population must choose between fighting and collaborating with the alien overlords. This is truly Britain's darkest hour.
Caught up in these events are a handful of ordinary people, struggling...
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Princess Kris Longknife is Viceroy, repesenting the Royal United Society to the alien Alwans. She commands a battle fleet in orbit and leads a major industiral effort to support that fleet. She's got a lot of people working with her... and they'd like some vacation time. Better yet, they'd like a stake in the planet Alwa that they're defending. They want homesteads. That means land, and Kris Longknife is very sensitive to her own Native American roots....
23) Voyagers
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Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal that his research station is receiving from space is not random. Whatever it is, it's real.
And it's headed straight for Earth.
He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to confront this enigma. Even lose the only woman he's ever really loved.
And maybe start a world war.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....
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From bestselling author David VanDyke.
After barely fending off the insectoid Scourge, Admiral Absen frantically prepares for another attack while dealing with politics and treachery from within, even as Specter pursues his own hidden agenda. Can Earth Fleet save humanity once more, and will a bold counterstrike by an elite force of AI-equipped ships buy time, or merely invite disaster?
25) Atlantis
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The lost city of Atlantis is real. As Lieutenant Josh Pierce discharges from the military following eight tough years of service, he comes home to find his life turned upside down. Shortly after, strangers arrive to volunteer Josh for a meeting with a secretive Atlantis team.
Unlike anything you've read before, Lost City is a story of love, deception and exploration, all tied to a city that thrived thousands of years before our own civilization....
26) Tear Tracks
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Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace treaty between humanity and the first sentient aliens they've discovered. She's undergone careful training and study to prepare for this moment. But what if her approach is too human?
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Tuk-Palteia Liam has survived the front lines of a civil war and a return visit to his home planet, but now he has to face the ultimate obstacle. Stubborn lovers.
As long as Liam and Ondry have the same goals-the pursuit of profits and status-they are the perfect partnership. But now Ondry wants to protect his palteia at any cost, even if it costs him his newly won rank. Liam hates the idea of Ondry sacrificing for him, and he is not going to allow...
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In "Encounters Beyond Earth," we will go on an exhilarating journey into the uncharted territories of the cosmos. With meticulous research and a passion for unraveling the mysteries of the universe. You've been invited to peer beyond our planet's boundaries and explore the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.From ancient civilizations' tales of celestial visitors to the cutting-edge science of exoplanet exploration, this eBook immerses...
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From Hugo Award finalist and bestselling author David VanDyke.Poised to reconquer humanity's home, Captain Absen and Conquest are confronted with a new enemy that upsets the balance of power and changes everything EarthFleet expected.Their struggle to free Earth becomes instead a desperate battle for sheer survival as they contemplate the unthinkable: total annihilation.
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Rita Longknife has had enough of sitting home and watching General Ray Longknife gallivant around the universe. No sooner does she deliver little Al Nuu Longknife than ships start disappearing out on the rim of human space. Is it pirates, or is there something more sinister. Just because half the fleet is back in mothball, Rita's not going to sit around and let this happen.
Rita swappes her Attack Transport rank of pilot for a full commission as...
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Ellos llegaron desde una galaxia muy lejana... para salvarnos. En el espacio profundo, un agujero negro ha colapsado. La Tierra arderá y nuestro sistema solar desaparecerá.
Mientras tanto, en Galicia, un grupo de antropólogos encontrará un extraño petroglifo, que hará que descubran un secreto escondido durante milenios.
Ese secreto les llevará a los confines del cosmos en busca de respuestas, en un universo donde nada es lo que parece.
Nuestro...
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'Recalling my initial encounter with a peculiar balloon-like creature that unexpectedly appeared while I was returning home from work in the rural depths of East Sussex, I couldn't help but think of the infamous "Beast from the East".
'When confronted with something unusual, I have a tendency to rationalise it in order to make the experience seem ordinary. However, even after a decade has passed since this incident occurred, the only logical conclusion...
33) The Last Sunrise
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Neil thinks he's pretty ordinary.Then he gets a letter and a photo from his father, who had left him and his mum fourteen years ago for a life in the bush and off the grid.That photo explains why.And it will send Neil on a journey that will turn his life upside down – and cost him something precious that he never knew he had…
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Here I am now in the twenty-third century. The universe has not changed in more than two hundred years. There is still one race of beings trying to enslave another.
For me, the grandchild of former slaves, my journey began in the 1940s with a light in the sky.
Visiting a small town in the Southwest United States, I was captured by an alien life-form and altered by experiments by the aliens. Now the year was 2268. I was now in my grandparents'...
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An act of desperation by young magician Brandon accidentally snatches Scott Hathaway from our world. Struggling to adapt to his new life, Scott becomes ensnared in dark local politics. He realizes he can use the knowledge he brought from his world to save his new friends, but at what cost?
36) Steel Tree
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A science fiction retelling of The Nutcracker.
The voyage from Earth to Petipa isn't cheap, but those who can't afford it can pay off the trip by working the farms of Eta, the fertile moon that feeds humanity's new colony. Klara Silber's parents paid their debt, but left her behind, in charge of the orchards and the android nutcrackers. She's sure if she follows their example, she'll earn her invitation to ascend the space elevator and join Petipa...
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Mom's accidental death let Grandmother declare Angus an orphan, because Dad was an alien, an Aracheed. Worse, the crazy old bitch got custody, and plans to trap Angus on her estate, away from the alien half of the family until Angus reaches eighteen. But other secrets lurk. Angus must learn about the dark mysteries buried in her own family's past. Things Mom never explained. She must confront the old woman, and learn how to make her own way, in a...
38) Rebel Earth
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The world changed when aliens, taking the form of God from the Bible, arrived on Earth and took twenty-four thousand people away with them. After they left, the believers left behind flocked to the countryside and took up simple, agrarian lives, while the high-tech cities walled themselves off and braced themselves for the aliens' inevitable return.
A hundred and sixty years have passed. While prejudice between Puritans and Citizens persists in the...
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On the small planet of Xantus, a revolution is about take place. The stage is set for an epic adventure where a ragtag team led by Trykan Tenc discover a truth kept secret for many years. The Swayer influence has reached its boiling point and must be dealt with. Can Trykan guide his team to victory while seeking his origins? Follow the Sent Seven as the story unfolds!
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INSIDE THE DARKSIDE is a collection of 12 dissimilar stories inhabiting the near future. A long-winded, umbrella-like philosophical long story description might be more appropriate if you, my readers, are presented with story clues. Here they are in order:
GREY – A hotshot pilot, attempting to follow in his father's galactic shoes, finds even his own whining is grey-ting.
MISTY JOURNEY – The way out is unclear, even with help.
THE LONGSHOT...
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