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Failure Mode by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a mission ends in disaster and there is no way to achieve the objective, no way to regroup and try again, no plan B, no hope, all you can do is fall back into FAILURE MODE: try to salvage what you can.If it is even possible to save anything. Or anyone.The galaxy is doomed... -
![Ice Genesis (ICE Trilogy) by Kevin Tinto]()
Ice Genesis (ICE Trilogy) by Kevin Tinto
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe sequel to the Amazon Bestselling Debut that sold more than 300,000 copies! The Americans and Russians are racing toward nuclear confrontation over a mind-blowing find under the ice in Antarctica...Categorized as:
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![Evil Among Us by J.K. Accinni]()
Evil Among Us by J.K. Accinni
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLorna, Jennifer and Seth struggle to reach the Hive amid the chaos of Armageddon... -
![Dead in the Water by Barry J. Hutchison]()
Dead in the Water by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDan Deadman's afterlife just hit an all new low. When a suspect explodes mid-interrogation and his office is taken over by an intergalactic despot, undead detective, Dan Deadman, reckons he's finally hit rock bottom. Banished to a dangerous underground hostel network, Dan becomes embroiled in a mass-murder investigation that will take him from the bowels of Down Here to the depths of the ocean... -
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![Darkwind by Mark Lukens]()
Darkwind by Mark Lukens
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Two in the Ancient Enemy seriesAfter a rancher finds ten mutilated bodies at a dig site on the Navajo Reservation, both Captain Begay of the Navajo Tribal Police and Special Agent Palmer of the FBI become involved ... but the case leads Palmer back up to Colorado where five more mutilated bodies and Stella's vehicle have been discovered at a burning cabin... -
![Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick]()
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPhilip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of the universe,” he once wrote, “are visible in my novels.” The five novels collected in this volume—a successor to Philip K... -
![Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck]()
Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMike Monroe and Jane Baxter barely survived their terrifying journey to the center of the Earth... -
![The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick]()
The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K... -
![Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend]()
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
![Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright]()
Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 bestselling horror sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews concludes here with Yesterday’s Gone: Season Six. The wait is over. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors woke to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Now they are home. But they're not alone. The Darkness has killed nearly everyone on the planet... -
![Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison]()
Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Space Team Universe just got a whole lot darker. In an alien city torn apart by crooked cops and ruthless criminals, private detective, Dan Deadman, specializes in cases unusual and bizarre... -
![Reaping The Harvest by Michael R. Hicks]()
Reaping The Harvest by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJack Dawson awakens from the terrifying nightmare of the events in BITTER HARVEST to find his world under siege. Millions of people have died while he's lain in a coma in a Norwegian hospital, and the threat of humanity's total annihilation looms closer with every passing day... -
![Mount Fitz Roy by Scott Sigler]()
Mount Fitz Roy by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMOUNT FITZ ROY is the long-awaited sequel to the Audible & Amazon bestseller EARTHCORE. The cataclysm in Utah's Wah Wah mountain range left the skies thick with ash, and the surface littered with corpses. The survivors of Earthcore's ill-fated platinum mining expedition move forward, looking to the Andes for the next find — a trillion dollar motherlode that will make them rich ... or dead...Categorized as:
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![Final Hour by Dean Koontz]()
Final Hour by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original novellas leading in to Ashley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of suspense from Dean Koontz! Just by touching others, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the darkest secrets they keep. The troubling talent has made the Southern California surfer wary of casual contact... -
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![Ice by Kevin Tinto]()
Ice by Kevin Tinto
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLibrarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B01557MW80.Hello ICE readers! ICE has undergone Edits and Additions! If you have one of the older versions, you can request an update from Amazon! KT Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years... -
![Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . -
![One Among the Sleepless (audio) by Mike Bennett]()
One Among the Sleepless (audio) by Mike Bennett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"One Among The Sleepless" is a contemporary fiction novel set in Brighton, England about sex, death and noisy neighbours: a thriller with a rich vein of dark humour that flows from both the narrative and the dialogue of the characters... -
![Sleep Writer by Keith Robinson]()
Sleep Writer by Keith Robinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverything changes for twelve-year-old Liam when a girl moves in next door. Madison is fifteen, pretty, and much weirder than she seems. Sometimes when she's sound asleep, she scrawls a message on a notepad by her pillow. She finds these cryptic words when she wakes the next morning – a time and a place... -
![Pandemia by Johnathan Rand, Christopher Knight]()
Pandemia by Johnathan Rand, Christopher Knight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world was warned. The last great flu epidemic kelled millions. Now the bird flu has mutated into the super flu and spreading fast. Four teenagers are caught in a world gone wild. They head north... -
![Stargate SG-1: Permafrost by Sally Malcolm]()
Stargate SG-1: Permafrost by Sally Malcolm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 30,000 word novella. Buried secretsA week before Christmas, Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers that archaeologists in Iceland are excavating a Norse burial site that might have connections to the recently encountered Asgard race.Concerned about what they might uncover, Daniel persuades General Hammond to let SG-1 travel to Iceland – much to the annoyance of the field archaeologists... -
![A Warp in Time by Jude Watson]()
A Warp in Time by Jude Watson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift.There are other kids, too.. -
![Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman, Paul McGann]()
Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring...But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight... -
![The Amateurs: A Novel by John Niven]()
The Amateurs: A Novel by John Niven
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Brilliant.” —GQ "Hilarious.” — The Times (London) “A novel about golf that is not only hilarious, but gripping, sexy, violent, and outrageous. . . . Niven combines his increasingly bizarre plots, and some shocking behavior, with considerable skill and, of course, large helpings of humor... -
![Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines]()
Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the Krakau came to Earth, they planned to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. This would have worked out better for all involved if they hadn’t arrived after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know—your standard apocalypse... -
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![Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant]()
Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHello, Im the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die.At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first timeto reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966... -
![Black Mountain by Greig Beck]()
Black Mountain by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome legends are real. Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend... -
![Lights Out by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein]()
Lights Out by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Patterson's high-octane sci-fi adventure series comes to a white-knuckle conclusion in the final battle that Daniel X has been waiting for his entire life. In this sixth and last installment of the Daniel X series, the alien-hunting hero is finally ready to take on the biggest threat in the galaxy: The Prayer--the same beast that brutally murdered his parents long ago... -
![The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover]()
The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginally published in 1966 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic given to mysterious visions, is adopted as a doomsday prophet by a group of small-town mystics... -
![Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood]()
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionThe author of such towering novels as The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood proves her imaginative prowess dazzles just as vividly in her short fiction... -
![Village of the Mermaids by Carlton Mellick III]()
Village of the Mermaids by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMERMAID [mur-meyd] noun -- a rare species of fish evolved to resemble the appearance of a woman in order to attract male human prey. Mermaids are protected by the government under the Endangered Species Act, which means you aren't able to kill them even in self-defense... -
![The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman]()
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones... -
![The Campfire Collection by R.L. Stine]()
The Campfire Collection by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Curse of Camp Cold LakeGhost CampWelcome to Camp NightmareSchool's out! And you're packed up and ready to head off to the best summer camp ever! Boating on the lake, tennis courts, campfires -- this place is all fun and games. But little do you know that the camp of your dreams is about to turn into the camp of your screams! Because the counselors aren't exactly what you expected... -
![Apex Predator by M.T. Anderson]()
Apex Predator by M.T. Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast lake on improvised boats.But halfway across, they discover something is tracking them from deep beneath surface, a colossal monster that's stranger--and larger--than anything they've encountered yet.New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner M.T... -
![A Question of Navigation by Kevin Hearne]()
A Question of Navigation by Kevin Hearne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only favor the aliens do for Clint Beecham when they abduct him is give him a shirt that says DO NOT EAT on it in their language. He’s told that as a physicist, he is to be reserved, along with five other scientists, for a mysterious purpose... -
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![Lungbarrow by Marc Platt]()
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history... -
![Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater]()
Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLost Solace is currently a Semi-Finalist in the international SPSFC science fiction competition. Finals take place in July 2022. Sometimes spaceships disappear with everyone on board – the Lost Ships. But sometimes they come back, strangely altered, derelict, and rumoured to be full of horrors.Opal is on a mission. She’s been seeking something her whole life. Something she is willing to die for... -
![Baby Hater by C.V. Hunt]()
Baby Hater by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novelette about an unlikely superhero... -
![Dark Island by Matthew James, Matt James]()
Dark Island by Matthew James, Matt James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLike the "Dark Continent" of Africa, the dark island of Madagascar holds many chilling secrets. One of them is a long thought extinct species of dinosaurs living at the country’s core. A massive earthquake rocks the mountain range within the Andringitra National Park. The splitting earth reveals a network of tunnels, hidden away for millennia... -
![My Sweet Satan by Peter Cawdron]()
My Sweet Satan by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe crew of the Copernicus are sent to investigate Bestla, one of the remote moons of Saturn. Bestla has always been an oddball, orbiting Saturn in the wrong direction and at a distance of thirty million kilometers, so far away Saturn appears smaller than Earth's moon in the night sky. Bestla hides a secret... -
![I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin]()
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions... -
![Armageddon by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein]()
Armageddon by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn the fifth installment of James Patterson's action-packed Daniel X series, Daniel must now face an alien whose origins appear nearer to the depths of Hell than the outer reaches of the galaxy. Number Two is an unstoppable criminal that's slowly been amassing an underground army of disgusting, disgruntled, and dangerous aliens to help him enslave Earth's population... -
![The Thing by Alan Dean Foster]()
The Thing by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.Soon it will be free...TWELVE MENTrapped in the Antarctic.ELEVENDiscover the intruder.TENBattle the alien force.NINEAgonise for the answer.EIGHTDesperate to be spared.SEVENConsumed one by one.SIX...FIVE...FOUR...THREE...They will all die.Unless something, anything stops.. -
![Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino]()
Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEighteen months and eleven lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month... -
![The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt]()
The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium... -
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![Eight by W.W. Mortensen]()
Eight by W.W. Mortensen
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTERROR HAS A NEW SPECIES Deep in the Amazon, the solution to the global energy crisis has been found; a mysterious source of power set to end our dependency on oil... -
![The Resisters, Book 1 by Eric S. Nylund]()
The Resisters, Book 1 by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwelve-year-old Ethan Blackwood has always known exactly what he wants ? to win the state soccer championship, get into the best high school, and become an astronaut. Then he meets Madison and Felix, who tell him something... insane. They claim that fifty years ago, aliens took over the Earth, and everyone past the age of puberty is under their mind control. Ethan doesn't believe it... -
![Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury]()
Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMink and the neighborhood kids are hard at work outside all day, playing a game called Invasion. Or at least that's what her mom thinks. Throughout the day, the mother continues to have strange encounters with Mink as she talks about her friend, Drill... -
![Dydeetown World by F. Paul Wilson]()
Dydeetown World by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat is left on earth after all the good people go? A bizarre mix of Clones and Urchins inhabit what is left of civilization as the Last Detective in the World operates in an underworld where crime pays. The original novella, Dydeetown Girl, is a Nebula Award finalist... -
![Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane]()
Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.’England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson... -
![A New Beginning by Kevin Ryan]()
A New Beginning by Kevin Ryan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFacing an unknown future As Max, Michael, Isabel. Liz, Maria, and Kyle pile into their van and leave Roswell behind, they are each hoping for positive experiences - or at least something different from most of the events of the past three years. After all, their high school years were anything but typical - the whole alien experience has nearly cost them their lives, again and again...
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