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14701) Lab 6
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Something is wrong in Lab 6-what are Sam's parents hiding? Sam Hughes has always been too smart for his own good. It's in his genes-both his parents are scientists who specialize in artificial intelligence-and sometimes it gets him into trouble. Sick of the bully who always steals his computer homework, Sam gives him a disk laced with a virus as a prank. To escape the bully's wrath, Sam runs and hides in his parents' lab. Inside, Sam hears a voice...
14702) The Takeover
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Roesha's encounter with the Guardian leaves her disbelief. She was never human.Are these all the secrets her father kept from her?Roesha was meant to be another teenager, not an alien princess! But there's a far-off throne on planet Dun and a people depending on her queenship.An obsidian force overtook the Jaha Palace when the virus infected Dun, narrowing the planet's chance for peaceful rule to return to across their lands.Perhaps that will change...
14703) The Price of Duty
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A STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE… Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle is a man without a nation. After his former commanding officer declared herself governor-general of a reborn Tamar Pact, Ronan, a loyal Steiner officer, led a group of soldiers and techs including his sister, Isobel, back for Garrison for reassignment. But on Garrison, his troubles multiply. The senior Lyran officer brands the 26th Arcturan loyalists traitors and cashiers them, stranding nearly...
14704) Majipoor Chronicles
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In the sequel to Lord Valentine's Castle, the history of Majipoor is revealed through thrilling tales of rulers, warriors, murderers, and thieves. "If you like tales with an Arabian Nights piquancy, this book belongs in your hands." -The Washington Post Book World
Lord Valentine has claimed the title of Coronal, ruling over the gigantic planet of Majipoor. Yet he still remembers Hissune, the boy who aided him in his time of wandering, and gives...
14705) The Cartographer
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While exploring a cave with his friend, 16-year-old Nathan stumbles upon someone unexpected: Science Officer Satou of The Explorers' League.Satou is equally surprised, and after Nathan breaks through the security barrier, he does the only thing he can and takes Nathan with him, forever changing the balance of the universe.Nathan is introduced to the Consortium: an intergalactic league of explorers, scientists, soldiers and diplomats. He also discovers...
14706) Live Streaming
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Daniel Norwich loves technology. So, when he gets the chance to work with his crush – Luke Merrell – on his virutal reality experiment he has to do it, right?But the illicit trial goes horribly wrong, and Daniel finds himself in an interesting predicament – he's stuck inside the program!Can Daniel's ones and zeros be recovered, or will he be lost in the code forever?
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Mik Murdoch has, swallowed the magical berry from the guardian of the Cave of Wonders and with it he's realized his dream to acquire superpowers. He's also, realized what you wish for, and what you get, are often two different things. While Mik has superpowers, he's having a really hard time with control. In fact, he's starting to wonder, whether being a boy superhero is, a good thing or not.
What's worse, his weird behavior doesn't go unnoticed...
14708) Zombies! A Love Story
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At home, everything has changed...When vegan, organic food-loving Suz returns to her hometown amid the red rocks of Arizona, everything is different. Her mother has morphed from a wilting wallflower into a gun-wielding sharpshooter and the Frankenfood corporation she most loves to hate has built a processing plant on the edge of town.He's changed, most of all...Her nerdy high school boyfriend Chuck has evolved into a card carrying hunk, making her...
14709) The Pull
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A supernatural force pulls Casey, a homeless alcoholic, to an abandoned Connecticut mill… There, he unearths strange shards with occult symbols that devour his soul. Can he find a way to stop the endless cycle of horror and possession, freeing himself from-The PullIn the rising floodwaters of ancient Sumer, Hili finds a possessed urn and touches its glowing violet glyphs. Bound to its evil, the young merchant woman travels through time, desperately...
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Everything is changing: new apprenticeships, new training. The Callisto Group is finding more responsibilities trust upon them, and less free time. Then they discover a comet streaking toward the station.JJ isn't worried. The closer the comet gets the more concerned are the rest of the inhabitants. What does JJ know that no one else knows? All the calculations point to an impending catastrophe.When questioned, JJ talks about faith, but is that enough?...
14711) Legacy: The Mark of Merlin
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Merlin's descendants, some evil, some not, and some not even aware of their legacy, have survived to the modern times. On the first Tuesday of October, the kind-hearted sixteen-year-old Ellen Anderson learns that she is one of Merlin's descendants soon after her legal guardians, her brother Michael and sister-in-law Tanya, were killed in a tragic car accident. As Ellen explores her legacy she eventually befriends Jessica and Karla Harman, sixteen-year-old...
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On the moon, the sole survivors of a terrestrial plague keep each other company.But when you have the whole moon to fill, two is a very small number.Can they persevere, for the sake of the human race, their lives-and their sanity?A very short story about the crushing loneliness of depression, and the need for human connection to survive.
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"An obsession is an emotion gone sideways. Often, obsessions are rooted in emotion. An obsession with death, because as a child, our protagonist witnessed the death of a beloved person or pet. An obsession with collecting, because things allow that person to bury their emotions under something tangible. An obsession with another person, based on love or rage or hatred or, well, you name it." - from the Foreword by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Webster defines...
14714) HyphenPunk Fall 2023
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This issue of HyphenPunk Magazine contains 6 stories from 4 different -punks! Cyberpunk from Elizabeth Broadbent, Katja Rammer, and Mohamed Shalabi Hopepunk from Desmond Astaire Ecopunk from Gustavo Bondoni Mythpunk from Hareendran Kallinkeel
14715) Selective Listening
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TWENY TALES OF WHEN THE MACABRE & HUMANITY CLASH
Monstrous spiders attack a hotel. A ghost cat that's part of a paranormal revenge scheme. Two gunslingers refuse to duel. A haunted marine base flightline. A witch barista. A rattlesnake bite that creates multiverses. A fortune teller who is always right and always wrong. A dead, newlywed werewolf in a drainpipe. A mermaid whose captor is using her tail for meat …
What do they all have in common?...
14716) Bugs From the Black Box!
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A mini collection of 5 brand new Weird science fiction stories from the author of Blacker Against the Deep Dark, Songs for the Lost, and more.
14717) La Dormeuse
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En 1949, Marie, une fillette de cinq ans, échappe à la vigilance de ses parents et disparaît dans les ruines de Pompéi. Retrouvée six longues années plus tard, muette et choquée, elle ne racontera jamais ce qui lui est arrivé. À sa majorité, elle revient à Pompéi. Alors qu'elle explore une mystérieuse galerie, elle perd sans s'en rendre compte une de ses boucles d'oreille dans une bousculade... et la redécouvre avec ébahissement le...
14718) Bolkarus Station
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Even the best laid plans rarely work out as intended.
Bolkarus Station: the Junkyard Dog's last chance to make the dangerous rendezvous with Slade and hand over the precious and highly illegal Rose Sunstones.
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2125, l'humanité est à son apogée ou du moins en apparence... Aucun signe précurseur de la bataille sans merci qui se profile à l'ombre.
Découverte, rivalité, pouvoir, hésitation, alliance, séparation, l'équilibre du monde repose sur un socle précaire. Au détour d'un mot, d'une page, l'humanité peut être détruite à tout jamais...
14720) Wanderer - Origins
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Hunted by a powerful Imperial fleet, his friends infected by the Taint, Jess has only one place to turn - the homeworld of his amazing ship, the Wanderer.
But his journey will reveal the origins of far more than just the Wanderer, and both the Empire and the Taint will be ready to pounce at any moment. Jess expects to learn how things started, but what he learns might also point to how everything will finish... and just how close that end may be.
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