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A Life for the Stars

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Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn

Isaac Asimov, Paul French · 144 pages

Earth officials were hard on the heels of the mysterious Sirian spy, Agent X, when he blasted off in a stolen spaceship. But before they could catch him, the master spy jettisoned the capsule that held his report into the icy rings of Saturn. In a flash, Lucky Starr and Bigman Jones found themselves in a race with the Sirian war fleet to recover it. When the Sirians couldn't find the capsule, t

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Robots and Empire

Isaac Asimov · 423 pages

Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante continuación del bestseller Los robots del amanecer . En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado -ni perdonado- su humilla

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The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide

Douglas Adams · 624 pages

Finally, here they are in one outrageous volume--all five best-selling Hitchhiker stories by Douglas Adams. Plus, you'll find a perplexingly frank introduction by the author himself, giving a behind-the-scenes look at each book and the zany radio series that inspired them. But that's not all! You also get a ferocious giggle of a short story, starring the two-headed, three-armed, ex-president of th

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Med Ship

Murray Leinster · 634 pages

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Masters of the Vortex

E.E. "Doc" Smith · 191 pages

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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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Ender in Exile

Orson Scott Card · 400 pages

After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game. In Ender’s Game, the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on E

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Realms of Time

Mark Wayne McGinnis · 272 pages

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · 528 pages

*She's a soldier.* Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. *He's a machine.* Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis,

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Postmarked the Stars

Andre Norton · 223 pages

This is the 4th of 7 Solar Queen Novels. They carried their deadly cargo to the very limits of the universe. The first shock is the body - the dead man aboard the Solar Queen bears a terrifying resemblance to the cargo master, Dane Thorson. Then Thorson and his crew discover the secret behind their strange cargo: an incredible mutation that threatens the universe with an uncontrollable new lif

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Sunborn

Jeffrey A. Carver · 430 pages

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Galactic Patrol

E.E. "Doc" Smith, John Clute · 255 pages

From back cover of Jove/HBJ paperback February 1979: **terror from space** The pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Masterminded by a super-scientist, their fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol. When lensman Kim Kinnison of the Patrol found the secret Boskonian base, it was impregnable to outside a

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Into the Void

Peter David · 151 pages

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Impulse

Dave Bara · 384 pages

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Count to a Trillion

John C. Wright · 368 pages

"John C. Wright burst upon the SF scene a decade ago with the Golden Age trilogy, an innovative space opera. He went on to write fantasy novels, including the popular Orphans of Chaos trilogy. And now he returns to space opera in Count to a Trillion. After the collapse of the world economy, a young boy grows up in what used to be Texas as a tough duellist for hire, the future equivalent of a hired

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Kirlian Quest

Piers Anthony · 328 pages

"From the distant planet of Amoeba comes word of an awesome invasion. And Herald the Healer, descendant of Flint of Outworld, must abandon his beloved Psyche to those who would burn her for witchcraft as he seeks to master the riddle of the cosmos, journeying to the ancient ruins on Mars and the Galaxy of Pinwheels..."--Page [4] of cover.

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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)

Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata

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Q-Zone

Greg Cox · 270 pages

From the book jacket: The puckish super-being called Q has bedeviled Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise since their first encounter at Farpoint Station. But little was known of Q's enigmatic past or that of the transcendent plane where he sometimes dwells. Now Picard must discover Q's secrets for the sake of all that exists. While the Enterprise struggles to surv

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Halo: The Cole Protocol

Tobias S. Buckell · 368 pages

In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold togethe

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Extinction

B.V. Larson · 340 pages

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The Ashes of Eden

William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens · 309 pages

For almost three decades, William Shatner has portrated STAR TREK's gallant commander of the legendary Starship Enterprise and her crew. Now William Shatner brings his unique blend of talents as actor, writer, director, and producer, to tell the story only he can, of Captain Kirk's greatest adventure... The time: six months prior to the launch of the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B and the tragic loss of

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Renegade

Joel Shepherd · 470 pages

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Quarter Share

Nathan Lowell · 250 pages

The Golden Age of Sail has Returned -- in the Year 2352 When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Ner

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