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3281) Out of Time
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Danger is never very far from our team. As Cooper deals with the inconceivable direction of his future, the rest of the team struggles to find their footing on two continents with miles of dangerous obstacles between them. Will they find their way home to safety, or will they be forever doomed to look over their shoulders with the shadow of GenMed always seeming to fall across their paths?
3282) Burn
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The tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests.
But even believers find temptations in the black markets; non-believers are willing to defend their ideals with fire. Walden's only hope may lie with a third option: a very unlikely alien intervention.
In Burn, James...
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Can an astronaut, trapped like a fugitive in an alien world, uncover the keys to a hidden universe? Discover a world where Kennedy survived in Dallas, where 9/11 never happened and where the path of American history was changed forever! Confronted by a wife who thinks he is a stranger, married to a heartless heiress and perused by covert agents, can our embattled spaceman look beyond his scientific beliefs into a world of ancient teachings - to retain...
3284) The Road to the Stars
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Kendra's going to drag humanity to the stars no matter who stands in her wayKendra and Aiyana Cassidy's dreams are coming true.Aiyana's teleportals are growing in popularity, and Kendra's starship is nearly complete.But the Artemis Colony is throttling the planet's supply of rare earth metals.If Artemis isn't stopped soon, in twenty years ¾ of the population will be dead.They don't want a war, but if Artemis insists, Kendra's never learned how to...
3285) Falling Stars
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In the early years of the 21st-century humanity has advanced step by slow step into space, but has discovered through constant monitoring of the heavens that certain asteroids have changed their orbits and are headed for horrifying impact with Earth. Urgent action is required, but politics and a worldwide financial crash get in the way. The members of the van Huyten family, led by matriarch Mariesa who heads the vast space industry complex she has...
3286) Amazing Stories Volume 9
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Great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Old Shag", "Badge of Infamy", "The Flying Tuskers of K'niik-K'naak", "The Valley Of The Masters", "Out of Mind", "The Hoplite", and "Death and Taxes".
3287) Backlash & Kid Stuff
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Another well written fantasy Sci-Fi adventure thriller short story by Winston K. Marks about aliens coming to earth and introduced robots as personal servants all is going well until they rebel and attempt to take control. (Goodreads)
3288) Through Stranger Eyes
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Flesh comes cheap in a machine world. Doctor Rick Stenslandt has always advocated against the fusion of man and machine. But after a near-fatal accident, he is forced to accept ocular implants or go blind, end up unemployed, and without social status. But something goes wrong. Now he remembers people he has never met before-influential members of the corporate elite that governs the world. And they have all been murdered. Worse, it seems he's the...
3289) Earth 2100
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Earth on the Cusp of the Twenty-Second Century How the world has changed in the last seventy-six years. In 1948, scientists ran the first computer program, and "the Ultimate Car of the Future," the futuristic, three wheeled Davis Divan, debuted. Since then, a succession of inventions-the personal computer, the internet, the World Wide Web, smart phones and social media-have transformed every aspect of our lives. The next seventy-six years will change...
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Dinosaurs were having sex on the Moon sixty-six million years ago, and Bolon didn't like it. Make no mistake about it, Bolon enjoyed a bit of the naughty now and then as much as any other healthy Goddess-fearing dragon (as they called themselves back then), but he was running an ore mine up there, by golly. His employees were refining important metals on the Moon-gold, silver, titanium, and niobium-or so he thought. However, now he was hearing about...
3291) Shroud of Eden
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An adventure across space and time!5 STARS: The writing style is crisp, the book is well edited and contains a healthy splash of hard science mixed in with a nice story line (new discoveries, alien aggressors, a military in need of leadership and a bad guy you'll love to hate). While there are some fleet battles-if you're looking for hardcore action, this might not be your cup of tea. If you're looking for a well told story with plenty of length,...
3292) First of Their Kind
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Synthetic Intelligence.
Thought impossible, but Dr. Wallace Theren has pushed the boundaries of computational science, creating an artificial mind capable of conscious thought. Naturally, his creation faces a harsh world bent on using it, exploiting it, or destroying it. If the first synthetic intelligence is to survive its early years, it'll need friends, but more importantly, it'll need a family.
And together, they'll need to show their enemies...
3293) The Bryce Connection
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Having won, Javier sets out to explore the larger galaxy and maybe avoid the Concord until they get a little less pissed off. But he'll need friends. So he goes looking. A new adventure awaits you with four new Science Officer short stories, bridging the gap between the end of Season One (V1-8) and the beginning of Season Two: The Alien Seas. Come make new friends and allies. The future is out there.
3294) Humanity Prime
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When man's emerging star-empire met that of the savage Cromanths, the alien hordes began a war of extinction against humankind. So overwhelming was their power that Earth's outposts and finally the Earth itself were utterly destroyed. But one starship managed to escape, carrying colonists toward some distant habitable planet, if such a place existed, and if the Cromanths didn't find them first. The mission was successful and the colony established....
3295) Apocalypse
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A world-ending meteor. An invasion of monsters. A desperate fight for survival...
Alex Keener has lived all of his sixteen years in Bunker 108. He's walked the same metal halls, seen the same faces, has followed the same rules. All that changes when a viral outbreak forces him to flee the safety of his bunker.
Outside, he discovers a barren world twisted by the impact of the meteor Ragnarok thirty years ago. Alone, he must wander a brutal landscape,...
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Following in the footsteps of one of the greatest science fiction masterpieces ever written, this long-forgotten sequel to "The War of the Worlds" boasts Thomas Edison as its hero. Originally published in the late 1800s, this is one of the rarest and most important cornerstones of the science fiction genre. Turning the original Wells tale on its head, this novel weaves a distinct and astonishing story of humans invading Mars, marking the invention...
3297) Lady of Mazes
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Author and professional futurist Karl Schroeder, whose novels Ventus and Permanence have established him as a groundbreaking visionary in hard science fiction, extends his imagination into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas, to tell the story of Teven Coronal, a ringworld with a huge multiplicity of human civilizations.
Brilliant but troubled Livia Kodaly is Teven's...
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Great collection of action short stories by Jim Harmon from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Planet With No Nightmares", "The Spicy Sound Of Success", "Name Your Symptom", "Blueblood", "Always A Quorono", "Confidence Game", "Charity Case", and "No Substititions".
3299) Sanctuary in Hell
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Dante Carloman is a computer geek who finds himself leading a small colony marooned on a barren planet. The daily life of these humans is a struggle for survival against both the elements and an alien species, they call harpies, who are bent on their eradication. On the world the human colony named 'Cocytus', Dante uncovers unnerving clues linking humans to the harpies dating back to Earth's early civilizations. In order to solve this mysterious relationship,...
3300) Cradle
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A journalist hunting military secrets uncovers an alien presence off the Florida Keys in this novel by the award-winning author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In 1994, an experimental navy missile mysteriously disappears off the coast of Florida during testing. While investigating the link between the disappearance and some unusual whale sightings, journalist Carol Dawson finds much more: a strange golden trident that may be worth millions . . . and...
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