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Legacy by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"My name is Benjamin Dragon. I have a gift. Scratch that. I have more than one. It's something I guess I was born with. Sure it sounds cool, but everything's changed. How do you go to school like a normal kid when you're ten and you can lift boulders with your mind or heal people with a touch? Now things are really bad. I got home and my parents weren't there. I waited. They're still gone...Categorized as:
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The Fugitive by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this exhilarating one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, Mark James is on the run—and on the wrong side of the law—but he'll do whatever it takes to save Sarah Hart and help the Garde...Categorized as:
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Independence Day: Silent Zone by Stephen Molstad
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe No. 1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found.Okun's story is amazing, yet completely believable... -
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Return to Paradise by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this thrilling one-hundred-page prequel companion novella, discover what happened in the aftermath of the Mogadorians’ attack on Paradise, Ohio, from Mark James—Number Four’s bully-turned-ally.After Four leaves town to find the rest of the Garde, Mark is left behind to pick up the pieces... -
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![The Dirdir by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen]()
The Dirdir by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGetting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order — for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple... -
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Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Rage launch the ultimate assault on the Human Sphere. Their greatest weapons are the most fearsome creatures in the galaxy—the Xenomorphs. Having fled centuries before, the Rage return to take revenge and claim the planet for their own. Now, through a deal struck with the unlikeliest of allies, the human race may rely on the Predators to ensure mankind’s ultimate freedom... -
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Burn by Walter Jury, Sarah Fine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Car chases, explosions and action galore—awesome."—Kirkus Reviews on Scan At the cliffhanger ending of Scan, Tate loses the very thing he was fighting to protect, what his father had called the key to human survival. Tate doesn't have much time to worry about it because he needs to get away, to ensure he and Christina are safe... -
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Five's Legacy by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn this exciting seventy-five-page prequel companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, discover the true origins of the traitorous Number Five. Before allying himself with the Mogadorians, before infiltrating the Garde, before committing the ultimate betrayal, Five was in hiding just like the others. But when his Cêpan dies, Five is forced to survive on his own... -
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The Demon Seekers by John Shors
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEarth, 2171.It's been a century since hostile aliens turned Earth into a prison for the worst of their own kind, nearly wiping out humanity in the process.Seventeen-year-old Tasia is a Seeker--a human survivor who hunts down the cruel creatures that conquered and destroyed her world...Categorized as:
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A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTan Hadron from the realm of Gathol encounters a wide range of enemies in this science fiction thriller of the 1930's. He fends off green men, mad scientists, cannibals, spiders and white apes. The main character, Tan Hadron, finds himself an unlikely hero in this pulp fiction classic. "A Fighting Man of Mars," is the seventh book in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian series...Categorized as:
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The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMan against dragon. Each bred for slaughter. "The Dragon Masters is a story grounded in genetic engineering, but the science is so far advanced that it could be considered magic... -
![নয় নয় শূন্য তিন by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
নয় নয় শূন্য তিন by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsনিডিয়া টেবিলে একটু ঝুঁকে পড়ে বললো, রিশান একটা অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশ্ন করেছে। সেটা সম্পর্কে তোমার মতামত জানতে চাই।লি-রয় রিশানের দিকে তাকিয়ে বলল, কী প্রশ্ন?রিশান ইতস্তত করে বলল, ঠিক প্রশ্ন নয় একটা সন্দেহ। আমাদের এই দলটির সব কয়জন সদস্য অত্যন্ত কঠোর স্বভাবের, আমাকে এখানে টেনে আনার সেটাও একটা কারণ। মহাকাশ অভিযানে এরকম একটি দল পাঠানোর পিছনে সত্যিকার উদ্দেশ্যটা কী? মনুষ্য বসবাসের উপযোগী গ্রহ... -
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Dreamfall by Joan D. Vinge
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers.The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall... -
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The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEric John Stark, Outlaw of Mars, travels beyond the solar system for exciting science fantasy adventures on the planet of Skaith, a lawless sphere at the edge of the known universe...Categorized as:
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![The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan]()
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom's greatest scientist, until his master's ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, to save the body of the woman he loved, he had to attack mighty Phundahl, and its evil, beautiful ruler...Categorized as:
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John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJohn Carter of Mars Volume 6: John Carter & the Giants of Mars and Skeleton Men of Jupiter Strange adventures on Mars and Jupiter In this final book of the John Carter of Mars series from Leonaur, we once again join the Warlord of Mars himself in an exciting adventure-the tenth-entitled The Giants of Mars...Categorized as:
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![The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom's greatest scientist, until his master's ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, to save the body of the woman he loved, he had to attack mighty Phundahl, and its evil, beautiful ruler...Categorized as:
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Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Swords of Mars" is the eighth book in the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series. It was featured in six issues of the "Blue Book" magazine in 1934-1935. John Carter reprises his role of hero as he vows to bring an end to the Assassins Guild. He must travel to one of the moons of Barsoom, Carter then creates a race of secret super assassins to destroy this powerful Guild of Assassins...Categorized as:
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Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn Carter desperately needed the aid of Barsoom's greatest scientist, Ras Thavas, who is now a prisoner of a nightmare army of his own creation...Categorized as:
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The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett, F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEric John Stark rides again! Leigh Brackett's unforgettable science-fantasy hero of The Secret of Sinharat and The Ginger Star cuts a red swath across the brutal planet Skaith Having killed the king-dog Flay in his quest to save an old friend and mentor, Stark now wanders the Worldheart in the company of nine ferocious canines that respond to his every command...Categorized as:
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Speeding Bullet by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter Nick Herrera saved a little girl from being his by a New York City subway car, things have been different....He has been different. Now it seems as if accidents are falling at his feet and he's destined to play the role of the hero. But more importantly, Linda Lanko, one of the richest girls in the city, has noticed him -- a below-average student from a poor family...Categorized as:
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![City of the Chasch by Jack Vance]()
City of the Chasch by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomeone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai. It was Adam Reith's misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed... and Adam escaped to the surface with his life and nothing else.Tschai was a vast planet and previously unexplored... -
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The Reavers Of Skaith by Leigh Brackett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoised to at last escape the treacherous planet of Skaith, the swordsman Eric John Stark falls victim to a grim betrayal that turns old allies into dogged enemies. Chased through dangerous jungles and across predator-infested seas, the fugitive warrior dodges death at every turn in Leigh Brackett's final science-fiction masterpiece...Categorized as:
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Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEscape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire," "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus." A collected edition of these stories was published in 1946...Categorized as:
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![The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsImpetuous and headstrong is Tara, Princess of Helium and daughter of John Carter. Tara meets Prince Gahan of Gathol, and is initially unimpressed, viewing him as something of a popinjay. Later she takes her flier into a storm and loses control of the craft, and the storm carries her to an unfamiliar region of Barsoom...Categorized as:
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Llana of Gathol by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Mad ConquerorOut of Barsoom's frozen north, an army descended to pillage the red planet's proudest cities. Their crazed leader, the brutal Hin Abtol, stole the woman he craved. That was Hin Abtol's fatal mistake - for Llana of Gathol was blood kin to John Carter, Warlord of Mars.Cover art by Michael Whelan...Categorized as:
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Lost on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsLost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess of Vepaja, became a pirate, fought villains, then lost his beloved to the evil Thorist kidnappers. Napier's adventures on Venus continue in this pulse-pounding sequel to Pirates of Venus... -
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Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the mist-shrouded planet of Venus, advanced civilizations blessed with eternal youth co-existed with cities haunted by the living dead, while bloodthirsty man-beasts stalked the luminous nights. Earth man Carson Napier knew how to survive the planet’s many perils-but now a merciless tribunal had condemned Carson’s beloved princess Duare to death... -
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In the Courts of the Crimson Kings by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the “universe next door” first introduced in S. M. Stirling’s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn’t suspect this until the twentieth century. Then American and Soviet probes landed on our sister worlds and found life—intelligent life, at that...Categorized as:
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The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future... -
![Malcolm's Journal by Pittacus Lore]()
Malcolm's Journal by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMalcolm's Journal is a Lost Files bonus containing journal entries of Malcolm's thoughts, between rescuing Sam from the Dulce Base and meeting up with the Garde... -
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Sam's Journal by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJournal: ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7... -
![The Sky People by S.M. Stirling]()
The Sky People by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMarc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.But there are flies in this ointment - and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings...Categorized as:
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