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Smarter by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSmarter is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii we learned in "Quicker" has a nerve mutation that makes her an athletic phenomenon, so fast that no one can keep up with her... -
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Comet! by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Comet!" is the fifth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In “Comet!” she and her team begin exploring outer space using the wormholes she produced in "Rocket." Unfortunately Comet Hearth-Daster is on a trajectory to strike the Earth... -
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Rocket! by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAlternate cover edition for ASIN: B008RBN7TA"Rocket!" is the fourth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In “Rocket!” she works out the enormous potential of the wormholes she discovered in "Lieutenant... -
![Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield]()
Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLuke Tavares has dreamed of joining the vast gaming guilds of the hypernet. After recently graduating high school, his parents have given him the same ultimatum as his siblings; he has one month to get a job to pay for his air, gravity, and water aboard the Dahlia.The freighter needs more hands, but Luke doesn’t want to be a trader-ship engineer... -
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![Lieutenant by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Lieutenant by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"Lieutenant" is the third in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii we learned in "Quicker" has a nerve mutation that makes her an athletic phenomenon, so fast that no one can keep up with her. In "Smarter" we learned how these fast nerve processes have made her a genius. She's both shy and concerned about her social skills, yet loved by those around her... -
![Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov]()
Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“A trickster at heart, and often very funny” (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his labyrinth-like, Kafkaesque tales of contemporary Europe...Categorized as:
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![Tau Ceti by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Tau Ceti by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Tau Ceti" is the sixth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius and an athletic phenomenon.In “Tau Ceti!”, she is continuing to find uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she has discovered. These wormholes aren’t big enough to send people through, yet they are making huge changes in our world... -
![Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson]()
Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves... -
![Quicker by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Quicker by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsQuicker is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep... -
![Mutation by Nerys Wheatley]()
Mutation by Nerys Wheatley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitten. Infected. Turned.Cured.Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes.Feared and despised.The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before.And Alex is trapped right in the middle of the outbreak...Categorized as:
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![Bones Are White by Scott Sigler]()
Bones Are White by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA collection of nine horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of NOCTURNAL, INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and ANCESTOR. This eBook- and audiobook-only collection brings you more of Scott's thought-provoking short stories from his five years of weekly storytelling, as well as a brand-new HUNTER HUNTERSON & SONS story and a brand-new KISSYMAN tale... -
![Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton]()
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 85 ratingsAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . -
![A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt]()
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler’s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life... -
![San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant]()
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment...Categorized as:
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![Pegasus in Space by Anne McCaffrey]()
Pegasus in Space by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn a triumphant career spanning more than thirty years, Anne McCaffrey has won the devotion of millions of fans. Now she has written the exciting and long-awaited addition to her classic Pegasus series--and the perfect link to her bestselling Rowan saga . . .For an overpopulated Earth whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up...Categorized as:
action-adventure audiobook book colonization contemporary epic female-author fiction -
![Utopia Five by A.E. Currie]()
Utopia Five by A.E. Currie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratings“My name is Lee and I was born on the 8th January, 2025 - the day the Panopticon was turned on.”A battle is raging and Utopia Five holds the key. The Earth of 2053 is a changed place. A decimated humanity is constantly watched by a mysterious organisation. City states make their own laws, enforced by the army of omnipresent drones.A few make it to the new bases on Mars or the Moon... -
![Inescapable by Niall Teasdale]()
Inescapable by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStarting a new job is never easy, but taking up her new role as head of Palladium Security Solutions’ investigative department, Fox Meridian is left wondering whether she is really cut out for this one. Board meetings are boring, politics sets her teeth on edge, and there’s no sign of a need for a detective anywhere... -
![DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale]()
DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA serial killer has murdered eleven people over the last four years, the link between the crimes unnoticed until Fox Meridian’s AI personal assistant, Kit, makes the connection. The only thing which seems to connect the victims is LifeFit, a plug-in application which allows users to find virtual exercise companions over the most popular social network in the world, LifeWeb... -
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Fox Hunt by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA spree killer with a purpose? A creative dispute taken to extremes? It’s up to Tara ‘Fox’ Meridian to untangle the mess before more people die. Fresh back from a training visit to Luna City on the Moon, Fox Meridian is called to the murder of the main writer on an internet video show, Murder is My Business. Business has become very cutthroat... -
![The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan]()
The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHard science fiction’s grand master delivers the stunning conclusion to his Orthogonal trilogy.In a universe where the laws of physics and the speed of light are completely alien to our own, the travelers on the ship Peerless have completed a generations-long struggle to develop advanced technology in a desperate attempt to save their home world... -
![Ra by qntm, Sam Hughes]()
Ra by qntm, Sam Hughes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMagic is real.Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity.Student mage Laura Ferno has designs on the future: her mother died trying to reach space using magic, and Laura wants to succeed where she failed. But first, she has to work out what went wrong... -
![Biochips by William Gibson]()
Biochips by William Gibson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsTurner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected... -
![Outland by Dennis E. Taylor]()
Outland by Dennis E. Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six college students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal...Categorized as:
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Vurt by Jeff Noon
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsVurt is a feather--a drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Pink Pornovurts, doorways to bliss. Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. And Yellows--the feathers from which there is no escape... -
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![Rapture by Kameron Hurley]()
Rapture by Kameron Hurley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAfter years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors.The end of a centuries-long holy war has flooded the streets of Nasheen with unemployed - and unemployable - soldiers whose frustrations have brought the nation to the brink of civil war... -
![The Terminal State by Jeff Somers]()
The Terminal State by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory... -
![The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers]()
The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it... -
![Writers of the Future Volume 30: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by Dave Wolverton, Orson Scott Card]()
Writers of the Future Volume 30: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by Dave Wolverton, Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmbark on Voyages of Imagination and Wonder. Discover the new visionaries of imagination. Experience the thrills, laughs, heartbreak and tears that can all be found in this fabulous new anthology. We’ve scoured the globe to find the most powerful new writers, and then paired them with the most gifted new illustrators to bring you L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXX...Categorized as:
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![Children No More by Mark L. Van Name]()
Children No More by Mark L. Van Name
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#4 in the popular Jon and Lobo military science fiction series. A nanotechnology-enhanced space warrior must save an army of innocent children who have been brainwashed to serve as a deadly army for interplanetary military attacks. Military SF with an adventurous flourish – Mark Van Name notches a thoughtful and hard-hitting #4 entry in his Jon and Lobo saga... -
![Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan]()
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsFour hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change... -
![Of Bone and Steel and Other Soft Materials by Annie Bellet]()
Of Bone and Steel and Other Soft Materials by Annie Bellet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsEking out an existence as a scavenger in post-apocalyptic Russia, Ryska never thought she would be more than a blind, discarded military experiment. Then she ends up in the middle of a kidnapping gone wrong and must use her all her skills to save herself, and the young boy who brings back painful memories of her past... -
![Delta Green: Alien Intelligence by Bob Kruger, Dennis Detwiller]()
Delta Green: Alien Intelligence by Bob Kruger, Dennis Detwiller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsDelta Green: Alien Intelligence is a set of eight short stories set in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Beyond being modern updates of the pulp horror of the 1930s, these stories seamlessly intertwine the Cthulhu Mythos into modern day conspiracy theory and the myths of alien abduction and visitation...Categorized as:
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![The Improbable Rise of Singularity Girl by Bryce C. Anderson]()
The Improbable Rise of Singularity Girl by Bryce C. Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsHelen Roderick thought life would be epic after she died. Once her neural paths were scanned and the pattern uploaded to an enormous bank of computers, she could be happy and carefree. No more aging, dandruff, fear of death, or any of the other drawbacks of hauling her own squishy meatsack hither and yon.But her new life is a troubled one... -
![Tamisan (Tamisan, #1) by Susan McKenzie]()
Tamisan (Tamisan, #1) by Susan McKenzie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsAn illegal experiment.Mortally wounded Zhenna Rhodarma has had her consciousness transferred into the body of a Waikari, a native of planet Althar 3. Her new form has two hearts, psychic abilities and can breathe underwater.A dangerous escape...Categorized as:
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![Of All Possible Worlds by William Tenn]()
Of All Possible Worlds by William Tenn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsIt was a good job and Max Alben knew whom he had to thank for it-his great-grandfather... -
![Incursion by Jay J. Falconer]()
Incursion by Jay J. Falconer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsTIME TRAVEL THRILLERTime isn't what we think it is...Most scientists think of time as a mathematical tool to chronicle events from past to future. Others view it as an integral component of the fourth dimension.But physicist Lucas Ramsay thinks they’re all wrong. Dead wrong.Time is something else altogether... -
![Five Fantastic Stories by Algis Burdys, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Five Fantastic Stories by Algis Burdys, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsCollected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild The Stoker and the Stars When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy...Categorized as:
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![Manticore Reborn by Peter J. Evans]()
Manticore Reborn by Peter J. Evans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsDurham Red is horrified to find herself hunted down by her own demonic future self, Brite Red. The only way she can save herself is to get her talons on the terrifying alien artifact known only as Manticore.. -
![Retribution by Steve Stanton]()
Retribution by Steve Stanton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsIn a post-cyberpunk future, Mia and Zakariah Davis risk their lives to secure an activated sample of the life-prolonging eternal virus” for their son Rix. Afterwards, Mia is murdered in retribution and the family is overcome by grief. Zakariah goes on a quest to contact her spirit in the afterlife while Rix wants revenge, no matter the cost...Categorized as:
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![Contagion by Katherine Anne MacLean]()
Contagion by Katherine Anne MacLean
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsWhen they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans. They'd come through thirty-six light years of space only to find that another group of humans had settled the plant generations before. Still it was a beautiful place…expect for the contagion... -
![Tethered by Vaughn Ashby]()
Tethered by Vaughn Ashby
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsIn 1982 Moe killed a man while defending his son.The next day the man came back.In 1982 Moe went missing.The man continued to come back.In 2014 events are repeating themselves.In a race against time, reason and more time, Shane has to unwind mysteries of the past in order to save his friend Jason who has gone missing.Ugh…. That sounds heavy... -
![Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature by Sheldon Teitelbaum, Robert Silverberg]()
Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature by Sheldon Teitelbaum, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThe world’s first English-language historical anthology of Israeli fantasy and science fiction, Zion’s Fiction will open a portal into a little-known wellspring of speculative fiction from the ultimate Imagination.This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s...Categorized as:
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![The Encoded Heart by Peter J. Evans]()
The Encoded Heart by Peter J. Evans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThe third Black Flame adventure of this well-received trilogy featuring blood-sucking vampire and sexy killing machine with attitude, Durham Red. After Xandos Dathan's abortive bid to plunge the Accord into war, Durham Red flees into the uncharted Vermin Stars in pursuit of her precious data crystals... -
![Albatross (Volume 1) by R.A. MacAvoy, Nancy L. Palmer]()
Albatross (Volume 1) by R.A. MacAvoy, Nancy L. Palmer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsAccused of being a terrorist, a fugitive physicist takes flight in a gritty future world where the government has gone insane.Rob MacAulay has followed the flight of seabirds all his life, as well as the elusive nature of quantum field theory. He is a brilliant physicist, famed for solving the Unity Theory, a tall, gentle man with glasses and a tweed jacket.And he is framed as a terrorist...Categorized as:
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![Countermind by Adrian Randall]()
Countermind by Adrian Randall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsIn a postprivacy future, secrets are illegal and all communication is supervised. Telepaths are registered and recruited by a government with no qualms about invading the minds of its citizens. Fugitive psychics are hunted by the Bureau of Counterpsychic Affairs, or Countermind.Alan Izaki is one such fugitive, as well as a hacker, grifter, and thief... -
![The Scarab by Scott Rhine]()
The Scarab by Scott Rhine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsAny problem can be solved with help from your friends and the proper application of high explosives. The Scarab is a PG near-future thriller that fans of pod racing, Mario Cart, and Speed Racer will enjoy. Hemophiliac and ace mechanic Ethan Hayes has risen to the top of the computer gaming circuit as the Scarab...Categorized as:
action-adventure adult book cyberpunk espionage fiction hard-sci-fi political-intrigue
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