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« Un homme du passé », c'est l'histoire d'un homme, appelé Joe, étrange aussi bien dans sa forme que dans son attitude. Lors de la guerre civile américaine, il était avec ses camardes quand il a mystérieusement disparu. Cent ans plus tard, un homme apparaîtrait dans le village et se prendrait pour Joe. Il agissait étrangement en demandant après des gens qui y vivaient il y a 150 ans. Il disait qu'il a vécu avec des créatures étranges...
3) Blueshift
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Alone.On a space station designed for millions, First Lieutenant Elín Hallsdóttir is alone, with only her memories and the other four members of the shut-down crew. The station orbits the planet, turning from darkness to light to darkness again. Solar storms are growing, the station is dying, but life continues on. Or does it?Elín's past rides with her, and with every rotation of the station her future seems more uncertain. And then the unthinkable...
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Running - The Alien in the Mirror can be considered the cyberpunk prequel to the military scifi Iron Series but might also be the prequel to other science fiction thriller series.Ishmael Bodd 'wakes up' for the first time, a billion years in the future. He is a Citizen of Supercity, on Marstoo, far away from old Earth in the Universe. In his world, crime doesn't exist and Citizens only need electricity to live, whereas clones, who eat food and drink...
5) Jigo Jitoku
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If you look too long into the abyss of cyberspace, it may look back at you. A classic cyberpunk tale!
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Causality doesn't always run in a straight line... Tharsis has done the incredible: she has thrown herself across time and space, escaping certain death in the void. Only problem is, she dove a little too far. The icy wastes of Noqumiut may be behind her, but she's further than ever from home. Caleb Ross has always considered himself an unremarkable guy. Waking up centuries in the future was shock enough. Being told he's in charge of a planet? That's...
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When Shawn Stedwin takes a new job in a new city, she believes she's found a great fit in a great company. But after a six-month monitoring period by her boss, Sameer Singh, she is invited to join him on a secret project in the hidden half of the building's fourth floor. His mission is to find a way to bring someone back from the dead.Using a mixture of nanotechnology and biology, Singh thinks they can reawaken a cadaver's personality. If he's right,...
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In 1997 a terrifying sound was picked up by underwater microphones once used to track Soviet submarine movements in the ocean. This sound was picked up over five thousand kilometers away, and was rumored to be a large creature. In 2019, the sound has returned and its source is no longer a rumor. A team of engineers builds a vessel and prepares to attempt to locate and make contact with the entity. Meanwhile, Codi Cohl is entering a darkness of her...
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Turning back is not an option...A mission to Mars is doomed from the beginning, but no one sees the signs. When the radar goes out millions of miles from home, the Atlas crew begins to realize they might be lost.Running out of fuel, oxygen and time, they must decipher the chaotic star charts and find a way to salvage their mission - without sacrificing themselves.
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Book One in The Space Empire Trilogy -- What does a Prince of the Space Empire do when his father takes his toy away? Spend the summer in a Camp Meeting on Earth. Just what is a camp meeting? Open air and open water baffle men raised in tunnels and domes but the message of God's claim on their lives is even more disturbing. Alexander promised his family he'd come home alive, but Imperial SSTs targeting the Discovery might change his plans.
12) Lord of Rays
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Lt. Comdr. Guest is alone aboard the spaceship Helios 5, orbiting close to the sun, when he spots a strange ancient Egyptian funeral boat. On the boat lies a mummified figure wearing the mask of Osiris. As Guest watches, a man appears reading from a scroll, then vanishes. Guest starts acting strangely, speaking ancient Egyptian words.
Moonbase contacts Guest, warning him that he's entered an intersection of realities-the physical world and the ancient...
13) The Jester
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The Jester is an alien lifeform who travels the universe. In this story he has come to visit the Earth, which he last visited a thousand years ago, when he spent his time in Ireland, where the locals worshipped him as a god and called him a Leprechaun.
He is called The Jester advisedly, because he is a jolly but mischievous character who likes to play tricks on people. He is not evil, he just likes having fun. Sometimes he makes dreams come true.
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"The only records that delineate and authenticate Corporatia territories are on that Palmetto. We want it back.""What happened?" Yoelin asked."A records clerk bypassed security, recorded the information and then deleted it from our computers, and departed for Havelox Rest, outside our jurisdiction, where we believe she is now."After the words "Havelox Rest," Yoelin heard only the pounding of her heart. A wave of dizziness passed. Why there? Why did...
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The story of Sam and the colonists continues. Sam finds that all his memories are suspect. Many of the characters from TCOM1 are in the book, as AIs. Some are good people; some are not. The humans eventually do arrive on Mars, and in several forms. The RNF (rich and famous) are fleeing an overheated Earth and bringing all their baggage with them. What could possibly go wrong, eh?If you found the many acronyms confusing you can get the Glossary of...
16) E-Catalyst
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When fifteen-year-old Jeremy Marshall goes on a family vacation to watch a rare astronomical event, he and his sister get a lot more than they bargained for. As particles from a nearby comet rain down into Earth's atmosphere, an electrical discharge vaporizes millions of people worldwide including his parents. As survivors grieve for their loved ones they lost in this horrible event, a biological contagion begins to mutate plants, insects, animals...
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Marco has taken all of the skills he learned from Emrey and become one of the best fighters in the Confederate States, but he hates the life he's forced to live. Now he's reached New Orleans for a massive pit fight championship, but the fights that he'll face in the pit are nothing compared to the fights that await him in life.
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Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The July 2016 issue will take you to places you might never have imagined. It will appeal to your inner child, and hopefully take you back to the places you loved as a child…and if you're still a child, it will open your imagination to all kinds of new worlds.
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Here the world ends, and a new world begins. Advanced developers have disappeared, leaving behind encrypted data. Information managers track the whereabouts of 'K' while decrypting the data. What is the truth revealed at the end of the information warfare unfolding in the near future managed by AI? Predict and start the SF 'United Future Organization'."
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