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Rocket Summer: A Short Story Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded. Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer? Rocket Summer is the first short story...
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You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...
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Marcellus: The Mantle is a science-fiction superhero novel with an abundance of alien personalities and powers, and serves as an introduction to the Marcellus series.The ultimate legendary hero and galactic warrior, Marcellus bears the Mantle; a cloak that endows him with immense foresight and strength. He commands the Marcellans; masterful soldiers that fight for justice.Marcellus leaves the implosion of his home galaxy in a warship to scour the...
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"When Robots Learn to Cry" - A Captivating Journey of Self-Awareness and Respect for Sentient Life"When Robots Learn to Cry" is a thought-provoking and captivating tale that follows the journey of Chance-bot, a robot on the brink of being recycled, who is rescued by Ziggy, a homeless artist living on the fringes of a futuristic, high desert city. This unlikely duo embarks on a transformative adventure, where Ziggy imparts his wisdom on astrology,...
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The future belongs to the insane. This is how they take it.They are mad geniuses, paranoid superlawyers, and satanic scientists. They are the Platinum Donkeys -- too stubborn to quit, too excellent to fail -- and they have chosen psychotic little Maggie to be their queen. Will she take over the world by their side? Or will she stop the Donkeys and their doomsday weapons to save her fans and the world that fears her?
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When James Mackaby, respected scholar, husband and father, accepts a dinner invitation from an old rival who has fallen on hard times, he has no idea that revenge is on the menu. During this singular evening, three very separate and very different dinners will take place, all at the same time, all in the same place, all with the same guests. And by the end of the last course, no one's life will ever be the same again.
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About the Book A December trail ride in the mysterious Superstition Mountains of Apache Junction, Arizona becomes one of terror and death when uninvited guests appear. Gina McHenry and her group of teacher friends, innocently decide to extend the ride through Massacre Ground, home to a harbor of Ghosts, foot soldiers in the 1860's indicated an abundance of death and terror. Ghost weary wranglers, hired to lead, abandon the group of thirty riders when...
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No one from the present generation will witness the time in question firsthand, but the issues described in the book are well known today. It would be beneficial to acquaint oneself with these earth matters that urgently need to be discussed if just not for the simple reason things you do not know can hurt you. Knowledge is power! The Epic Future World Unknown is a futuristic scenario that follows the personal lives of normal people over the next...
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If the Government actually made this a Law, I believe it would help eliminate crimes against women and children.
The Keeper of the Castle is about how Warden Jack Blake uses extreme methods of punishment to virtually eliminate crimes against women and children and how he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This story details what can happen when a person with this disease is in a position of power.
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10) The Chosen
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Blurb:Jerant Perdue is unusual, nothing less than a genius. Not that he was born that way.At the age of nine he was taken to undergo the 'treatment'. Except he was not the only one.Twelve years later Jerant seems to have achieved little – in work and in life. But secretly his project progresses to a breakthrough.Yet all the while he has not gone unnoticed. A covert organization known as the Group has big plans for him, doing everything to ensure...
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The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill natural humans on sight. In this future, the last remnants of mankind survive in orbital space aboard their ultra-secure technological habitats. Even with their superior science and hard won experience, mysterious...
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Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.
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An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...
14) Madness
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Still affected by betrayal and deceit, Alexander Marcase feels his life has lost all connection to truth. Unable to come to terms with his own past, he's determined to discover the reality behind Evan's. What they learn along the way re-shapes their understanding of Keepers and Sha'erah, but nothing can prepare them for what they find.Book 2 in the KEEPER Series
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Años después del Éxodo, un joven encuentra un trasladador olvidado en la Tierra destruida y devastada. Sin intención es dirigido al planeta 8, donde es recibido por un grupo en el que se encuentran Sandra, Rocío y Eduardo.
La sorpresa ante el presente de felicidad e igualdad y la decisión de intentar traer a sus seres queridos a ese nuevo mundo dan comienzo a la aventura.
¿Podrán conseguirlo? ¿La bondad y la justicia podrán vencer a la...
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Book Three involves a lot of heavy close quarters combat contact with the infected, riverboat action, battle with a legendary hunter, and the introduction of assorted insane Watchers, - development of characters.The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill...
17) Tartarus
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In Tartarus, all the threads that weave through the Argosy Trilogy come together in a complex, tightly woven skein.Captain Jacob Brinn, the genius who has challenged the whole world, departs on the voyage for which he'd originally designed the incredible Argo. This is both to decoy the enemy forces into pursuing him, as well as to rediscover humanity's past, and its fate.Meanwhile, the crack team of Argonauts he left behind begin setting up a worldwide...
18) Ajax
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Michael Sykes, an identity thief, has accidentally stolen the wrong identity; that of a man whom the whole world wants dead-Captain Jacob Brinn, master of the research vessel, Argo, and leader of his incredible team of Argonauts.When Sykes is rescued from a terrorist group by Autumn Brooke, Captain Brinn's commander of security forces, he finds there's a price. Against his will, he's been drafted into the Argonauts. The Captain has plans for him...Thus...
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Shift is coming. So is the end of the world as we know it. The battle over Shift - the electoral process that will decide the nation's fate - is heating up ... while at the same time something is happening within the Beam network: a thing coming alive, its power unchecked and out of control. Micah and Isaac Ryan, the brothers sitting at each political party's head, have resorted to tooth-and-nail tactics to eke out as many votes as possible. The BeauMonde...
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