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Bunker: Lock and Load by Jay J. Falconer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the insurgents take control, Jack Bunker must rally all his skills and training in an explosive battle for survival. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, Bunker vows to never stop fighting to protect those he cares about, not until the threat is neutralized or he draws his last breath...Categorized as:
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![Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
![UFO Down by D.C. Alden]()
UFO Down by D.C. Alden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOver the skies of war-torn Germany, Harry Wakefield faces a terrible choice - jump from his crippled RAF bomber without a parachute or burn to death as it crashes to earth. Harry jumps... And survives with barely a scratch. Twenty years later, a powerful earthquake rocks the Berwyn Mountains in north Wales, waking Harry and his family from their sleep...Categorized as:
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![The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere]()
The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst they noticed the pets were missing, then the neighborhood of Rowena Heights started losing…people. It was only later that they actually saw the packs of creatures stalking the streets at night. As the Mazurs get close to the truth about the night hunters, they discover the hunters aren’t what they thought at all... -
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![This Fallen World by Christopher Woods]()
This Fallen World by Christopher Woods
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world has Fallen, but life goes on… Matthew Kade was a corporate assassin—one of the best agents Obsidian Corporation had. But then the bombs began falling, and the old world ended. Now he must navigate the new world he finds himself in, a world where the strongest survive, and the weaker do their bidding…or die...Categorized as:
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![Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie]()
Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
![Antitype by M.D. Waters]()
Antitype by M.D. Waters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntitype is the prequel to acclaimed novels, Archetype and Prototype. Before Emma appears in their lives, two men face four months that will change their lives forever. One has dreams outside Richmond and away from his family business. The other wants to make the business his only focus... -
![Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris]()
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
![Glimpses by Lewis Shiner]()
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRay Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was...Categorized as:
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![Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson]()
Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
![Regia Occulta by Dan Abnett]()
Regia Occulta by Dan Abnett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world wracked by storms, Inquisitor Eisenhorn investigates a series of bizarre murders. Aided by local officials and using arcane methods of detection, Eisenhorn must decipher the secret of the Regia Occulta and stop the bestial killer before it strikes again. Read it because Mysterious deaths, strange storms, a monstrous killer that defies belief.. -
![Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAntofagasta, Chile...Rae Stanley was in trouble... -
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Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFour men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed...Categorized as:
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Memory by Linda Nagata
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives: On an artificial world with a forgotten past, floods of "silver" rise in the night like fog, rewriting the landscape and consuming those caught in its cold mists. Seventeen-year-old Jubilee knows that no one ever returns from the silver--but then a forbidding stranger appears, asking after her beloved brother, lost long ago to a silver flood...Categorized as:
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![The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont, Christopher Lane]()
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont, Christopher Lane
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers.Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries...Categorized as:
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![Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
![The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray]()
The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack after 20 years! Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called…. The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage!Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons—a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus... -
![The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson]()
The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vile greenish vapor was all that remained of the first victim of the monstrous Smoke of Eternity. There would be thousands more if Kar, master fiend, had his evil way. Only Doc Savage and his mighty five could stop him. But the corpse-laden trail led to mortal combat with the fiercest killing machines ever invented by nature... -
![The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne]()
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWidely rumored to exist, then circulated in a corrupt form, Jules Verne’s final and arguably most daring and hauntingly beautiful novel—his own “invisible man”—appears here for the first time in a faithful translation... -
![Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson]()
Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
![Pellucidar: By Edgar Rice Burroughs - Illustrated by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Pellucidar: By Edgar Rice Burroughs - Illustrated by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Sequel To At the Earth’s CoreAmerican David Innes narrates return to exotic, savage land below the Earth crust, old pal Abner Perry, female Mahar, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. He seeks beloved Beautiful Dian, torn away by trickery. He crosses the Pellucidar, the Land of Awful Shadow under a pendant moon, encounters prehistoric beasts & strange peoples... -
![The Prodigal Hour by Will Entrekin]()
The Prodigal Hour by Will Entrekin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn October 31st, 2001, six weeks after escaping the World Trade Center attacks, Chance Sowin moves back home, hoping for familiarity and security. Instead, he interrupts a burglary during which his father, Dennis, is shot and killed.What begins as a homicide investigation escalates when the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrives...Categorized as:
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![The Burn Zone by James K. Decker, James Knapp]()
The Burn Zone by James K. Decker, James Knapp
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction—until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It’s been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requires humans to act as surrogates to haan infants, Sam has been genetically enhanced to bond with them...Categorized as:
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![Because the Night by James Ellroy]()
Because the Night by James Ellroy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A... -
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![Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena]()
Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFilled with scientific acuity and existential challenges in the tradition of Ghost in the Shell and Frankenstein, this medical fantasmagoria is a disorienting look into the consciousness and will have you questioning the future of human evolution...Categorized as:
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![The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 27 ratings"Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape." Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease...Categorized as:
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![Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis]()
Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollects issues 13-27 of the original series as well as 14 pages of additional content.As the series hurtles towards its conclusion, Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan to stop The Four, makes a startling revelation about his past, and uncovers information on the world's first moon shot .. -
![Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is it - the long-awaited fourth and final graphic novel collecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCollecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely strong but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![The Planetary Omnibus by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
The Planetary Omnibus by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPlanetary has been hailed as a timeless story that turned modern superhero conventions on their heads.Written by Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan) and with stunning art by John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men), this critically acclaimed, landmark series took a look at the inter-dimensional peace-keeping force known as Planetary...Categorized as:
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