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All the Mutant Trash in all the Galaxies
by M. F. Korn
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A collection of four novels/long novellas by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic whores, abused robots, Lolitas, conmen, robber barons, oilfield and nuclear blue collar white trash, schizophrenic aliens, video outlaws, rednecks, thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants and good country people each carving out a piece of desperate living for himself/herself/itself. Each of the four novels/novellas has an introduction by one of these... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 143215 - Reading Time: 409-572 min.
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Alpha One - The Jump Pilot
by Chris Burton
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What lies beyond the worm hole is the devil incarnate... Jake is a trainee Jump Pilot and war is rife in the galaxy...The Sentinels are very sensitive about a region of space, light years from their territorial boundaries. They are guided by the Betanica Sect, who seek to protect the galaxy and in particular the Tri Star Region from invasion by the Kryl. The Kryl are the devil incarnate. Jake is a final year Alpha Academy student and he has chosen Jump Ship Command to launch his career. He and... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 111706 - Reading Time: 319-446 min.
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Alpha One: The Kronan
by Chris Burton
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The Kryl are back... but this time they intend to feed! Jake Carter and Jonathan Hoskins return in the sequel to Alpha One - The Jump Pilot. The wormhole has reopened and the Kryl have returned bringing with them a vast armada under the command of the new Kronan -- Morvalt. The Kryl Queen and Morvalt's sole intent is to defeat Alpha and take Planet Earth and its people as their new food source. Jake graduates and assumes his first post aboard an Alpha Battle Cruiser; whilst his girlfriend Carla... more info>> (Published: 2012)
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Alpha-II
by Thomas J. Hubschman
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It's been twenty years since the conclusion of the great galactic wars. A ranger is sent from the victorious New Worlds Confederacy on a routine mission to assess the residual radiation on Alpha-II, once the playground of the well-to-do. He finds the lush forests and exquisite beaches intact, the rest of the planet uninhabited by anything more than tree toads and weird mutated marine life. Or is it? Who are these childlike adults he finds living like primitives in the jungle? How could they hav... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 37875 - Reading Time: 108-151 min.
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Altered Humans [Prelude to The Pet Plague]
by Darrell Bain
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In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don't care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, al... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 55461 - Reading Time: 158-221 min.
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Alternate Casts
by Marsh Cassady
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Each particle of time contains an encapsulated universe. In each of these universes are individuals with the same names and nearly identical lives. In widely-separated space-times Lou Graham's family and young actress Mary Llewellyn have been murdered, which means that they probably will die in every space-time. Lou travels back to 1888 to solve the mystery and perhaps save his family from their fate. (Published: 2004)
Words: 63221 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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Ambrov Keon [Sime~Gen, Book 7]
by Jean Lorrah
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When Sime killed Gen, it was the normal way of things--after all, Gens weren't really people, were they? They existed only to provide Simes with life-giving selyn. And then Risa Tigue, a Sime, injured and needing selyn, stumbles on the trail of a gen named Sergi ambrov Keon. Sergi is a Companion, a Gen who can control the transfer of Selyn without harming either Sime or Gen. In Risa, Sergi sees the potential for that rarest of beings, a Channel. But can Risa survive the transformation--and even ... more info>> (Published: 1986)
Words: 76537 - Reading Time: 218-306 min.
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Amira
by G. Bryan Smith
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EPIC SPACE OPERA ADVENTURE! In the fifth installment of the "Colonel Kendrick Landry" sci-fi series (See FN1 below), Amira is this novella's title character. Amira is the beautiful young jungle woman on the distant planet of Crucida. She is the leader of humanoid tribes fighting cruel opposing tribes led by the humanoid named Aku. Stranded on the planet twenty-five years ago when her Earth scientist parents' star craft crashed in an electro-magnetic storm, Amira was abducted as a five-year-old b... more info>>
Words: 17080 - Reading Time: 48-68 min.
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An Audience For Einstein
by Mark Wakely
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Professor Percival Marlowe is a brilliant, elderly astrophysicist who's dying, his greatest achievement still unfinished and now beyond his diminished means. Doctor Carl Dorning, a neurosurgeon, finally discovers a secret method of transplanting memories from one person to another, thanks to Marlowe's millions. Miguel Sanchez, a homeless boy, agrees to become the recipient of Marlowe's knowledge and personality in this unorthodox experiment, enticed by Dorning's promises of intelligence, wealth ... more info>> (Published: 2005) EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 67349 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
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An Officer and a Blob
by Jon Hartless
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The story is set within the Spherical Dimension, which contains billions of realities within its 0.5 mm exterior. The story involves the crew of The Green Carnation, a battered space freighter from the rundown Rezer Merchant Fleet, and the backdrop is the ongoing war between the Hedar and Jerotta empires. The Carnation is boarded by the Hedarian survivors of the final Hedar/Jerotta battle, in which the Hedar fleet has been destroyed by the Jerotta's use of new cloaking technology. The Hedarians,... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 63003 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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Ancient Whispers from Tomorrow
by J. Richard Jacobs
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First alien contact. We've dreamed of what that may be like over a long time and several answers have been proffered. None of them have been as bizarre as this. None of them taxed the imagination as much as "Ancient Whispers from Tomorrow" does. It is difficult enough to take in the idea of coming face to face with something truly alien, but this book gives us a ringside seat to just such an event. Walk the regolith of Mars and see the "thing at North Head City." If you dare. Tina Tamran, Chief ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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And Devious the Line of Duty
by Tom Godwin
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Sometimes the most diligent and loyal thing an old man can do is fumble, drink beer, and let a young man get into trouble.... A classic tale from the golden age of science fiction, edited by the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr. (Published: 1962)
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And Then the Town Took Off
by Richard Wilson
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The Pulp Paperback Laugh Riot by Hugo Nominee Writer--Out of Print for Four Decades! The SF magazines lauded And Then The Town Took Off as a comic masterpiece when it first appeared as half of one of the legendary Ace Double Novel in 1960. Amazing Stories said that "There is something completely disarming in the plight of Superior, Oho, when the residents waken one morning to find their entire town hanging several miles up in the air like a giant satellite. Was it caused by a nuclear explosion i... more info>>
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And Your Point Is?: Scorn and Meaning in Jeff Lint's Fiction
by Steve Aylett
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This follow-up to Lint, the biography of cult author Jeff Lint, delves deeper into the psychosis of the seminal writer's work. This series of essays and reviews from around the globe, representing decades of study, is being presented for the first time in collected form. A must have for collectors, students, imitators, and stalkers alike. Contributors include Steve Aylett, Eileen Welsome, Arkhipov Halt, Daniel Guyal, Chris Diana, Alfred Bork, Michael H. Hersh, George Cane, Dennis Ofstein, and Je... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Angel Island: The Classic Female Utopia
by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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Women With Wings and the Men Who Wanted to Clip Them! When a group of shipwrecked sailors find an island of beautiful, naked women with wings--they think they've found paradise. What the sailors don't realize is that they are the snake in the Garden of Eden. At first the sailors can't live without these beautiful goddesses and woo them ardently. But once the have married the winged women, the men can't live with the thought of their freedom of the air--or that if mistreated, the women might all ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Angel Venom
by Kim McDougall
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Nathanael rescues Madalyn from the horror of war when she is six, and sets the rhythm for their lives. Whenever Madalyn finds herself in trouble--which is too often--Nathanael is there to bail her out. As they mature, this special bond deepens, and Nathanael becomes much more than Madalyn's protector. He is the man she will marry in a big church with all the trappings. Nathanael has other plans. Though he loves Madalyn with all his heart, he has long ago dedicated his soul to the work of God. No... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Angels Among Us
by C. E. Barrett
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Take five individuals from different times, planets, and realities, put them together in another time and place and discover the resulting consequences. Add two unseen dimensions--one good, one bad--each trying to influence the outcome. The result? Adventure, romance, confusion, emotional turmoil, and a book you won't be able to close until the end. (Published: 2001) Sime~Gen Reviewer's Choice Award Winner
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Angels In Disguise
by Josh Tremino
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At 19, Nick tries to do a good deed and instead ends up with a demon's soul. He has powers and other demons are out to hunt him down. As he struggles to master his new abilities, Nick gets closer to Jenny Morgado, the girl he's long loved. Only now that he sees the world of angels and demons does he realize Jenny is a lot more than the girl he thought he knew. (Published: 2011)
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Animatronica [Captain Spycer #3]
by J. D. Crayne
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"Funny!" says Hugo winner Larry Niven about science fiction of J. D. Crayne. In the third adventure of Captain Spycer and her zany band of space heroes, the Earth is doomed! Or maybe it's Callisto that's doomed. On the other hand, perhaps it's just Anaheim, California. The only chance Earth has to avoid possible annihilation is to send the Command Force's intrepid Captain Sherilyn Spycer to the rescue! The Captain and her crew of stalwart civilization-savers are on their way, and the hero busine... more info>>
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Another Way
by Nancy Gaffney
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A Planetary Guards Chronicle A thousand years ago, in the name of 'the greater good', a great betrayal occurred. In the name of righteous retribution and justifiable genocide, a peaceful planet is attacked. A civilization a thousand years in the re-building is razed. An idyllic society, steeped in music, literature, and civic duty, is forced to flee the only home they've ever known. In middle of the struggle for survival, Shannen 'Keeper' Everett, Jason 'Preacher' Carrack and Colonel Robert Pre... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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Apertures [Book One]
by Darrell Bain
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Twins Jan and Jani discover the existence of alternate Earths in a most unusual way. The first exploring party from another alternity immediately recognize that the twins have a powerful but unrealized talent for creating apertures into alternate worlds, but the twins suddenly realize they can spot an aperture and the person who formed it at a considerable distance, a talent they didn't know they had. The explorers from the Pankan Empire on another Earth have never seen the like of the twins. Th... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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Apex Magazine Issue 17
by Apex Authors
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Original Fiction: "Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)" by Ian Tregillis "The Girl Who Had Six Fingers" by Brenda Stokes Barron Reprint: "Citizen Komarova Finds Love" by Ekaterina Sedia (originally appeared in Exotic Gothic 3) Poetry: "Love's Ecology" by Rose Lemberg "Anything So Utterly Destroyed" by Elizabeth McClellan (Published: 2010)
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Apocalypse Doll
by Xavier Cecil
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ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! A Zombie plague gengineered by rebellious robots has gripped the globe in rotting talons of infectious hunger. A fortified survivor colony finds an edge against enemy bio-warfare only by weaponizing other robots: Robots built for sexual companionship. Denied their true purpose, sapient love dolls battle zombies, evil machines, and their own emotions, for a humanity with reason to fear all A.I.'s "I'M NOT LIKE YOU!!!" she shrieked, outrage-alarms ringing in her Kernel. "I'... more info>> (Published: 2012)
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Aramar [Sunsinger Chronicles Book 8]
by Michelle Levigne
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A colony world lost during the Downfall, Aramar is in a strategic spot between the Commonwealth and Conclave. Both galactic civilizations want Aramar to join them. Trouble is brewing, and the crew of "Sunsinger" is asked by the Commonwealth Council to go to Aramar and assist the Commonwealth's ambassadors. And help them escape if the trouble erupts into civil war. Lin is friends with the ambassador and his wife, so she and Bain stay at the embassy. They meet the two ruling families of the planet... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Arcadia: A Science Fantasy
by Tabitha Bradley
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Powerful New Science-Fantasy in the Darkover Tradition. Intergalactic adventurer soldier-of-fortune, Alexandra T'Kayn, returns to Arcadia, the Elysian colony world she grew up on, only to find you truly can't go home again. For her home world has been invaded by their enemy, the Regissians, in this enthralling science-fantasy of people, greed and ambition that only becomes more intense as it unfolds. A "Wild Psi," Alexandria's uncontrollable, but powerful, psionic powers have gotten her into big... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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