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61) Alien Contact
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Most humans know that scientists are combing outer space for evidence of intelligent life in the universe. And most aliens know that the Galactic Union has been diligently jamming those efforts until Earth is ready to join. A small group of aliens has other ideas, though. They plan on sending humans fake messages as part of a plan for world domination. Only one "human" can stop them-Zack Gaither, Alien Agent. Zack will have to use all he's learned...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
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Lovelace was once merely a ships artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The...
64) Sound of Terror
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2023
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What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!
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Desperate times
As two worlds reel from a colossal final pulse that cuts off all contact between them, two unimaginable discoveries raise the stakes even further.
In a secret American facility, a power hidden from society for a decade is about to break free.
And something much bigger, buried deep beneath the Scottish Highlands for thousands of years, is about to rise up.
Desperate measures
All hope of restoring the gateway to New Kerguelen lies in...
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A peaceful colony invaded by aliens. A generation of fear. A final spark of rebellion.
Serena witnesses one callous act too many, one indignity on top of a thousand indignities. She won't bow down so readily any longer. The Meta are not invincible, and their influence does not extend to the hearts and minds of the people. The whispers become a rallying call: REBELLION!
Twenty-five years of subjugation under the Meta leaves the human colonists of Free...
67) Cormorant Run
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Aliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.
It could have been aliens, it could have been a trans-dimensional rift, nobody knows for sure. What's known is that there was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died.
Since the Event certain people have gone into the drift. . . and come back, bearing priceless technology that's almost magical in its advancement....
68) Seedling
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Trillions of miles from home, the first human Seedling is about to be hatched...
Fifty years ago, humanity launched a probe to a distant alien world.
Thirty years ago, it arrived.
And today... contact will be made.
When alien scientists studying a mysterious object detect unfamiliar DNA, they set to work on cloning the being responsible for the incredible technology.
Now, all alone and trillions of miles from home, their fully grown human Seedling...
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The pulse hits without warning.
In one harrowingly destructive instant, a mysterious seismic pulse in the Scottish Highlands rips away all semblance of global security.
When peace is shattered, fear takes over.
The stakes rise without mercy.
As the pulse's chaos spreads across the world, it becomes painfully clear that Piper McCarthy - a child born like no other - might hold humanity's only hope of averting total disaster.
But this threat isn't coming...
70) Under the Skin
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The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
71) Mutation
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IT LIVES. In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology-and turn it into something else.. IT MUTATES. In the Amazon rainforest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers-and spawn a new race.. IT SPREADS. In Mexico and Turkey, the men and women of Unit 51 race to uncover a global...
72) Jax
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Only a Talent can establish communication with the Castitaran dragons, known as numenjax. But when the communication short-circuits Confri and knocks her out cold, she thinks her part in the project is over. Until the numenjax come up with a much more creative plan!
73) Unidentified
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Troubled FBI Agent Nicole Mitchell is brought back from administrative leave and offered a second chance, to solve her most haunting case. A disturbing series of kidnappings has a small town terrified. Mitchell is certain that a serial kidnapper is exploiting local fears of UFOs and stories of alien abductions to hide in plain sight. Desperate to uncover the truth, Mitchell enlists the help of a skeptic who questions even her theory.
In three days,...
74) Return
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From #1 worldwide bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes RETURN, book #4 in a long-anticipated science fiction series. Can Kevin and Chloe survive alone in outer space? Can Luna, alone on planet Earth, avoid capture?
All hope seems lost for Kevin and Chloe as their escape pod hurtles into nothingness, as they run out of rations and supplies.
All hope seems lost for Luna as the aliens outnumber and encircle her.
If there any hope left for humanity?...
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Twelve tales of the unknown from a master of science fiction Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterious hollows, cliffs, dark forests, and the Wisconsin River flowing in its deep-cut valley. As Simak wandered the countryside and the ridges, he peopled them with imaginary characters who later came to life in his stories. One such individual is Johnny,...
76) GALACTIC RIFT
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The black is a lonely placeCarina Lin, her mage family, and her mercenary band are on the final leg of their long journey aboard the colony ship, Bathsheba.But to reach their destination, they must cross a region of barren space, where habitable planets are few and friends are rare.If Carina is to reach Earth, the rumored birthplace of humankind and hoped-for sanctuary for the mage clan, she must defeat the terrors that lurk outside and within her...
77) Spaceside
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From the author of Planetside, a Best Book of 2018 (Library Journal)
A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge…
Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he's a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he's now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military...
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As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.
As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister's mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming-including fleeing her predetermined...
79) Rogue Swarm
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An arms race for alien artifacts! As they seek the final pieces of a powerful alien technology, the Solaran Fleet and their xeno nemesis vie for control of the galaxy. If these relics fall into the wrong hands, Overmind X and her rogue swarm will have the advantage in the most deadly space battle the Fleet has ever fought. But a surprise visit from a wealthy and enigmatic patron complicates the admiral's plans, revealing new mysteries about the ancient...
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Quand la Terre reçoit ses premiers visiteurs venus de l'espace, la planète est plongée dans le chaos. Les Trivators sont venus pour faire entrer la Terre dans l'Alliance des Systèmes Stellaires, mais ils sont forcés de prendre le contrôle de la planète afin d'empêcher les Humains de la détruire dans un mouvement de panique, et de les protèger des forces militantes des autres mondes. La façon dont les Humains, à commencer par une famille...
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