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Home Again by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBringing Amelia home should be a cause for celebration, right? This is BSR we’re talking about. Our shepherd is aboard, and stirring things up. Come see Bob try and make peace, and get a little time in the shade... -
Terry Pratchett Discworld Collection 7 Books Set (Unseen Academicals, the Colour ofMagic, GoingPostal, Making Money, the Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort) by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTerry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the Discworld series, started in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, and which has now reached 37 novels with Unseen Academicals. Worldwide sales of his books are 60 million, and they have been translated into 37 languages. Terry Pratchett was knighted for services to literature in 2009. Titles Included in this set : 1. Unseen Academicals 2... -
Hostile Negotiations by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes one must face one’s fears to get something accomplished. Even if death would be preferred.Poaching is a crime. Poaching when a person is using the ZOO to help make it happen is a crime against humanity.That’s when McFadden and Banks get involved.Unfortunately, the trail heads off in multiple directions and one of those arrows goes straight back to the ZOO... -
Saucer Holler by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew come back to Earth to have some babies and catch up on some well-deserved R-and-R. Babies attract mother-in-laws, though, and Bob has one for the books. Meeting his stepson evens things out. All too soon, an old friend needs help, along with her new friend from out of town, sending the crew off to the stars... -
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Let's Make a Deal by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBob finally gets his wish, a chance to make peace with the Squirrels. His friend Natti is appointed Ambassador, and things look bright. Too bad all the Squirrels don’t want peace with Bob... -
Last Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #16 of the EarthCent Ambassador series.Start the series with the first book, Date Night on Union Station.Rumors are rife on Union Station and the EarthCent Ambassador finds herself defending the Stryx against the suspicions of the advanced species. Dorothy returns to SBJ Fashions from maternity leave and immediately starts spending money while giving Baa an excuse to engage in magic... -
Monkey Business by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBob was looking forward to settling in and peddling walnuts for a few days. Then a slip of the tongue sent him racing to save the old Commonwealth Navy fleet. Just when things were looking like he could head home to Nikki, and a couple days off, he’s called out on a rescue. Join the fun, as Bob takes the long way home... -
Take Me Home by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe time has come for Bob and the fleet to head back to Earth, and see if they can get along with the people there. The band puts on a concert to celebrate... -
Independent Living by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn space, nobody can hear retirees complain about the food. What do a group of retirees leaving Earth and a young woman in EarthCent's new witness protection have in common? They're all going to live on Flower, an enormous alien colony vessel employed by Eccentric Enterprises to travel a circuit of far-flung human communities... -
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
His Human Socialite by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been set up on a blind date with a Hyrrokin named Idun Grindstone?Noooo. This will never work!How can a human who is set to gain a significant inheritance have anything in common with a foul-mouthed, satanic-looking security specialist? Smoke regularly wafts out of this guy’s nostrils and his shiny barbed tail juts out in the air behind him as he prowls across the military hanger... -
Roo the Day by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Gene are off to take Joanna’s new friend home. Finding derelicts with no survivors gets them down, and one of them brings Topper to a crisis of conscience. When they find a ship that looks like Zoom built it, Bob hires the builder. Time will tell, if she is as good as Zoom. Then little Roos get the ship hopping... -
Gene's Regret by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhile Veronica is searching for a system to call home, she finds one that was torn up a long time ago. Bob gathers the fleet to go check it out, but Gene balks at the idea... -
Deadbot by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBob and the crew get the Roos to their new home. It’s not what they expected, and they raise a fuss. Andre has fun, until he finds out how the planet got its name. Then, a Roo explorer finds a whole other set of problems for Bob and the crew. Come along as our heroes try their best to make things come out right... -
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Can You Take a Juke? by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBob thought BSR might be able to do some business with Homm and his people. Turns out he was wrong, but their ancestors had left knowledge the company could use. Watch the crew try to recover the knowledge, without getting mixed up in their troubles. Of course, Bob picks up another apprentice for Scotti along the way... -
Wreckers by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe fleet needs to check into a beacon they found, but Bob thinks it might be more than it seems. Either way, it’s a hazard to navigation that needs to be seen to. Ride with the BSR fleet, as they find new friends, and old heroes... -
বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsসূচিপত্র*কাচ্চি... -
A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new time-travel thriller from Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible best-selling author R. R. Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time-travel series Extracted and the UK's number one horror series The Undead. A man falls from the sky. He has no memory. He has no sense of self... -
Baycation by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBob wanted to take a few days off, to chill after spending so long in the black. Letting go of his stress turns out to be harder than he thought it might be, and of course, Murphy gets to have a say. Come along, and see how Bob handles trying to stay out of trouble... -
Alien Architect Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s there to watch over his children, but he’ll have to watch out for his heart.Emelia Robbins works as an admin at the Alien Nanny Agency. She never goes on assignments, but when a desperate client puts out a last-minute plea for help, her boss decides to send her out in the field... -
Get Out Of Our Way by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSal needs to work on something that has bugged him from the beginning. His dissertation. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle… There is a group engaging four new mercenaries, prepping them with simulated operations in the ZOO. How come? Courtney has approved a new member of her team in California and Sal isn't sure it was a good idea... -
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Shonku by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
Dark Side of the Moon by V.R. Tapscott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this sequel to Jane Bond, Jane finds some very interesting things in the basement left behind when Kit went away. Among them is a fully operational space ship. Of course, the catch is, how can Jane fly it? Once Jane overcomes that hurdle, she and her friends are on the way again - and a new friend by the name of Olive comes along to pilot the ship - and make pancakes... -
Foundation's Friends: Stories In Honor Of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn this anthology honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Isaac Asimov's remarkable science fiction novel, today's leading authors—including Pul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, and Connie Willis—present stories set in the future that Asimov created in his own stories and novels... -
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Mail-Order Brides of Crakair: Scifi Alien Romance Box Set: A Complete, 6 Book Series Plus 2 Bonus Novellas by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThey're scaly and green, seven-feet-tall, much too cocky, and they're seeking Earthling brides.The Complete Mail-Order Brides of Crakair Series includes:VorkBrykJorgKralWulfLyelAxilGajePLUS SIX bonus epilogues never before released!Over 14 million page reads in this bestselling series... -
The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) -- stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. (He also wrote excellent short stories and novels... -
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Here is how monstrous humans are."A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans... -
We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness... -
Playground by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsONCE IN A LIFETIMEThree low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades... -
Don't Scream! by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand's Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.Jack Harmon can't think of anything worse than getting picked on by the bullies at school, until he discovers an even bigger threat. After finding a cell phone, Jack begins to hear a strange voice on the other end. Jack keeps trying to make his new "friend" happy. Now everyone thinks Jack has lost his mind... -
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, C.M. Kornbluth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsContents:- Introduction: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov- A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov- The Advent on Channel Twelve by C.M. Kornbluth- Plaything by Larry Niven- The misfortune cookie by Charles E. Fritch- I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini- FTA by George R.R. Martin- Trace by Jerome Bixby- The Ingenious Patriot by Ambrose Bierce- Zoo by Edward D... -
Aliens Love Panta Claus. Claire Freedman & Ben Cort by Claire Freedman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe aliens are excited because tomorrow's Christmas day. So instead of stealing underpants - they're giving them away! Join them as they help out in Santa's busy workshop, put neon pants on Rudolph & tie knickers up in the place of stockings... -
The Best of Eric Frank Russell by Eric Frank Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings13 classic stories. Includes: Allamagoosa (1955 Hugo winner); Dear Devil (nominated, 1950 Retro Hugo); Mana; Jay Score; Homo Saps; Metamorphosite; Hobbyist; Late Night Final; Fast Falls the Eventide; I Am Nothing; Weak Spot; Into Your Tent I'll Creep; Study in Still Life. Introduction by Alan Dean Foster. 10th place, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection... -
Aquila by Andrew Norriss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's a spaceship from the past - can it change the future?Aquila has been found by boys bunking off a geography field trip. They have no idea where it came from or what it does. But Geoff's discovered that when you sit in it these little coloured lights come on, and if you push one of the big blue oneS . . -
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Spanish Short Stories For Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImprove your comprehension, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these eight unconventional Spanish short stories! ** Fully revised and updated! ** In this book you will find: Short stories from a variety of compelling genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller, so you’ll have great fun reading, whilst learning a wide range of new vocabulary and rapidly... -
Sleye by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm falling for an alien who's forbidden. Does our interstellar love stand a chance?The alien I’m crushing on has one destiny—to set up the computer tech division on the new colony before returning to his home planet. As for me, I’m supposed to make sure the aliens locked in stasis on the interstellar ship arrive on the planet ready to assume their duties. Then it’s a one-way back to Earth for me... -
The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Infused with cosmic, culinary dread and seasoned with dark humor, The Nothing That Is reads like Anthony Bourdain riffing on Lovecraft. Winkler’s engaging style and hypnotic prose will consume you whole, and if that doesn’t whet your appetite, there’s an exploding graveyard... -
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
With Friends Like These... by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwelve stories of science fiction and interstellar adventure include Space Opera, He, Dream Done Green, Why Johnny Can't Speed, and The Emoman.• With Friends Like These .. -
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratings24 stories, by the Master.. -
New American Stories by Ben Marcus
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between... -
The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsContents:· The Wizard of Nehwon— · Poul Anderson · in · Gonna Roll the Bones · nv Dangerous Visions, ed... -
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas . . . Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre... -
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Legends of the Ferengi by Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Once you have their money, never give it back." -- #1 "Anything worth doing is worth doing for money." -- #13For centuries these and the other famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high cost in lives and latnium... -
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
See Otto: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 by David Milgrim
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOtto runs, runs, runs in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator, David Milgrim. This is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series.Meet Otto, an excitable robot who seeks adventure—and finds it—when he falls off his spaceship and lands on Earth, directly in front of a very cranky rhinoceros... -
We Open on Venus by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung Ramou and mentor Horace both narrate first stop of the Star Company actors on New Venus, run by Amalgamated Petroleum monopoly, who charge high for water and air. Smoking is a capital crime. Before landing, alcoholic Ogden 80s, has heart attack, forbidden to imbibe. The school gym overflows, the audience roars, and more catches fire than arts appreciation... -
Pew! Pew! Volume 1: Sex! Guns! Spaceships! Oh My by Rachel Aukes, M.D. Cooper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings9 Comedic space opera tales of big spaceships, poor life decisions, and lots of Pew! Follow the adventures of swashbuckling heroes and heroines who forgot their swash and didn't do up their buckles as they gallivant across the stars, saving the downtrodden and trodding on some of the down. Delta-Team: A "Simple" Kidnapping - M. D. Cooper The Methane Lake of Excruciating Tedium - Felix R... -
The Chicolini Incident by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInterstellar con artist Rex Nihilo has just hijacked a shipment of five thousand lazepistols, and he needs to unload them fast. When Rex encounters a band of stick-wielding separatists on the planet Chicolini, he thinks he’s found the buyers he’s been looking for...
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