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Carlina's Calling [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
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Carlina was a Priestess of Avarra. Jandria was a Guild-mother of the Sisterhood of the Sword. But neither order had a place for Jandria's forsworn oath-daughter and her newborn child, so Carlina and Jandria decided to found a new one, combining the features of both, to be a haven for all women who would come to them. (Published: 1991)
Words: 2816 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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Censored by Earth Command [Bullets and Lasers Volume 1]
by David Kuzminski
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The Lizzars planned on defeating the Centaurs with their new secret weapon. Instead, it teleported a town from Earth into the heart of an ongoing war! Bullets and Lasers marks the introduction of David L. Kuzminski's new Censored by Earth Command series. [Warning: Contains Sexual Situations] (Published: 2006)
Words: 76718 - Reading Time: 219-306 min.
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Censored by Earth Command [Volume 2--Arrows and Lasers]
by David Kuzminski
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Aware now from enslaved humans that the Earth possesses incredible technology and weapons, the Lizzars use their teleporter to steal more pieces of Earth in an attempt to gain those. However, one of those pieces includes a military academy with real weapons and ammunition. Now the Lizzars are in for a real battle against a force of trained cadets while the Centaurs race to ally themselves with the new humans on their world. [Warning: Contains Sexual Situations] (Published: 2006)
Words: 102094 - Reading Time: 291-408 min.
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Chaff
by Greg Egan
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In a future of bio-engineering wizardry threatened by drug abuse, sabotage, and bio-terrorism, an undercover DEA agent tracks down an American bio-chemist who disappeared while working on a highly classified project. The renegade scientist carried a stash of genetic tools with him into Colombia, and is hiding out in a jungle fortress laced with lethal bio-chemical boobytraps. (Published: 1993)
Words: 8621 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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Changer of Worlds [Honor Harrington Series #13]
by David Weber, Eric Flint
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Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her--a lesson the young "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" learns when a desperate battle against "pirates" who aren't quite what they seem begins her brilliant career. Closer to home, in "Changer of Worlds," a secret that the alien treecats have ke... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 131664 - Reading Time: 376-526 min.
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Child of the Stars
by R. L. Hennessy
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In a far distant future, human females are colonizing the galaxy, as long ago, society had unceremoniously selected human males for extinction. But there's a problem surfacing that threatens to not only jeopardize the galactic expansion, but also humanity's very existence. (Published: 2012)
Words: 85822 - Reading Time: 245-343 min.
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Cocoon
by Greg Egan
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Detective James Glass is hired by a biotechnology firm to investigate an explosion that leveled their research laboratory. As he digs deeper into the case and discovers the true nature of his employer's secret research project, he is forced to confront the emergence of a frightening new biotechnology that challenges the convictions of his own homosexuality. (Published: 1994) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee
Words: 12059 - Reading Time: 34-48 min.
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Commonwealth Universe: History: The Rebirth: The Order Series Book 1: Undying
by Michelle Levigne
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Marnya is a novice, traveling to a teaching enclave to expand her healing talents. But her life is changed forever when her traveling party is attacked by brigands. In defending herself and her friends, Marnya is critically injured -- but she does not die. She thinks she has hidden her remarkable healing from everyone, but two of the soldiers who rescue the novices belong to the Order of Kilvordi, and they know her secret. She is one of them, an Undying. Raf and his friend, Danal, give Marnya h... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 102377 - Reading Time: 292-409 min.
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Creatures of the Abyss: The SF Classic
by Murray Leinster
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Hugo Winning Author's Masterwork of Alien Invasion! Orejas de ellos, the things who listen, whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else could you explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean? An alien intelligence gorged at the bottom of the Luzon Deep and made its plans. Radar expert Terry Holt and the crew of th... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 50435 - Reading Time: 144-201 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Daemon
by James Patrick Kelly
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While attending an sf convention, James Patrick Kelly is propositioned (ahem) to work on a project that reveals more about an overbearing colleague than he really wants to know. (Note that while the people in this story are real, none of the events depicted actually took place, it's fiction). (Published: 1998)
Words: 7224 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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Dance at the Gym
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
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The hardest part of ending a war is getting the opposing sides to talk to each other. (Published: 1987)
Words: 661 - Reading Time: 1-2 min.
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Danila's Song [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
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More and more, he was becoming a bitter introvert. And this process, the leronis at Serrais had said, was almost surely irrevocable. It came as a direct result of what he had gone through, both physically and psychologically, during the horror of the fire ... (Published: 1991)
Words: 5723 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Dead World [Sunsinger Chronicles Book 3]
by Michelle Levigne
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Bain and Lin meet up with Ranger Captain Gilmore again. Gil has an important mission for Sunsinger's crew: helping test a new device to protect ships from the alien Mashrami. The only problem is, Lin has to get Sunsinger very close to the aliens in order to test it! (Published: 2002)
Words: 36315 - Reading Time: 103-145 min.
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Deadly Enterprise
by Christopher Hoare
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Gisel Matah is the Iskanders' top agent, but often her commanders' chief pain in the neck. Sometimes passionate, sometimes tough, sometimes acerbic, she's clever and always ready to twist their intentions to meet circumstances as she sees them. Escorting young Yohan Felger across a haunt of outlaws to an enemy city was already a daunting task, but when her commanders changed her mission to include sounding out the leaders to switch sides it became a Deadly Enterprise. On Gaia, an alternate Earth... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 118418 - Reading Time: 338-473 min.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
by John G. Hemry
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Experimental faster-than-light spacecraft aren't coming back from their test flights, despite the use of the most highly-trained pilots available. Desperate for answers, NASA turns to another kind of astronaut with another kind of training. (Published: 2001)
Words: 4647 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Down There
by Damon Knight
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A futuristic author uses a computer to write a short story. This story predates home computers by a dozen years and eBooks by a quarter century! (Published: 1973)
Words: 3638 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Dragon Rigger [Star Rigger Series Book 3]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Legends of a subjective reality in the hyperspace Flux, where dragons combat stray riggers, have existed since the rigger pilots began their navigations. But Jael LeBrae discovered legend is real enough in the Flux, when she met Highwing, a dragon in mortal battle with the evil creature Tar-skel, known as the Nail of Strength. Now Jael finds herself thrust back into the battle again, but this time with a much reduced band of dragons. Tar-skel is expanding his dominion beyond the dragon universe ... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 148130 - Reading Time: 423-592 min.
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Enhancement, Incorporated
by Rajnar Vajra
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Subscribe to Enhancement Incorporated, choose an appearance, and ViewNet will stream your selection into the optic nerves of other subscribers. Of course, any technology may offer opportunities for abuse--such as murder. (Published: 2000)
Words: 8488 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
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Eripmav
by Damon Knight
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This short-short story explores a planet inhabited by sentient plants and the dangers they face. (Published: 1958)
Words: 300 - Reading Time: 0-1 min.
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Ethan of Athos [Vorkosigan Series Book 7]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[An independent novel in the Vorkosigan universe.] Dr. Ethan Urquhart is Chief of Biology at a District Reproduction Center. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact, the planet is forbidden to them. Isolated from the galactic community by distance and a lack of exploitable resources, the Athosians have peacefully lived their peculiar social experiment for 200 years. But now the ovarian cultures dating back to the original settlement of the plane... more info>> (Published: 1986)
Words: 62349 - Reading Time: 178-249 min.
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Fault-Intolerant
by Isaac Asimov
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An author's short-short diary excerpt reveals a love/hate relationship with a new word processor ... and a new twist in the technology of creativity. (Published: 1990)
Words: 1905 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Feel the Zaz
by James Patrick Kelly
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In a full-blown Internet media economy of the near future, the film and sports stars of the mid-20th century achieve a perversely glamorous revival. Has their sort of glamour truly been lost in the 21st century, and can it ever be regained? (Published: 2000) Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee
Words: 13045 - Reading Time: 37-52 min.
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Fruitcake Theory
by James Patrick Kelly
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Perhaps the aliens who resemble overgrown roosters aren't as dumb as they look.... Very funny first contact story. (Published: 1998)
Words: 4600 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Halcyon Drift [Hooded Swan, Vol. 1]
by Brian Stableford
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In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He's also picked up an alien parasite that's determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger possibly stay o... more info>> (Published: 1972)
Words: 58069 - Reading Time: 165-232 min.
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Hearts of Stone
by Taylor Manning
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Graff and Graff had trumped her every effort to beat them to the treasures of the past, but Elizabeth meant to beat them at their game. Whatever she had to do, she meant to mark the treasure of Basing Castle for herself--even if it meant seducing the unnervingly irresistible Captain Peregrine Dalton to get to the treasure first and mark it. She had a heart of stone. She hadn't counted on lust and she certainly hadn't counted on losing her heart to one of the defenders who'd died when Cromwell cr... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 58698 - Reading Time: 167-234 min.
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