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81) Llegada
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De la autora de fantasía éxito en ventas Morgan Rice llega una serie de ciencia ficción muy esperada. El SETI ha recibido una señal de una civilización alienígena. ¿Hay tiempo para salvar al mundo?
Después de que el SETI recibiera la señal, Kevin, de 13 años, se da cuenta: él es el único que puede salvar el mundo. Pero ¿hay tiempo? ¿Qué debe hacer?
¿Y qué tienen pensado hacer los extraterrestres a continuación?
El libro#3 estará...
82) Ascent
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From #1 worldwide bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes book #3 in a long-anticipated science fiction series. With planet Earth destroyed, what will become of 13 year old Kevin and Chloe in the mother ship?
Will the aliens enslave them? What do they want? Is there any hope of escape?
And will Kevin and Chloe ever return to Earth again?
83) E Being
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Worlds of If Science Fiction
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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I was the first man to reach the speed of light. I am also the answer to what happens to energy divided by the speed of light. Now I am an E Being and I'm hungry. I feed on energy-and to my horror, even the energy of humans!
84) Elysium fire
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Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 2
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Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction...
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SUICIDE RACE TO LUNA The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found for that first, all-important flight to the Moon-the pioneer manned rocket that would give either the East or the West control over the Earth. Yet when the race started, Adam Crag found that he had a saboteur among his crew... a traitor! Such a man could give the Reds possession of Luna, and...
86) Coming Home
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The world as we know it is on a certain path to war...
Delegate Cory Wilson has returned to gamra headquarters from deep space with a rather unwelcome guest: Captain Kando Luczon of the mammoth Aghyrian ship that has returned after mysteriously vanishing 50,000 years ago. On board the ship only 400 years have passed, in which they have visited another galaxy. But the captain isn't willing to share what they found there or why they decided to come...
87) Blue Diamond Sky
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As Cory takes a well-earned rest and finally submits to proper weapons training, he and a couple of people from his household go on a hunting trip in the marshland between Barresh and the turquoise sea. A bad storm has come through recently and on a deserted beach, Cory finds something Earthly that doesn't belong there: a message in a bottle, a piece of paper with HELP scratched on it with a sharp object. In Isla. Cory has a list of all humans in...
88) Watcher's Web
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She is lost on an alien planet. He said he'd help her get home. He lied.
Jessica's plane develops engine trouble over the dry Australian inland-and crashes in thick, unfamiliar rainforest.
A group she thinks is a search party shows up, but it consists of large-eyed not-quite people who kill all survivors except Jessica and a long-haired hippie named Brian.
No one is going to come to rescue her. In fact, they're not even on Earth.
While the pair wrestle...
89) The Alien Within
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Multi-Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova continues the story of Earth's first extraterrestrial contact with Voyagers II: The Alien Within.
Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth-but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to...
90) Voyagers
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Voyagers (Ben Bova) volume 1
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English
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Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows that the signals he's picking up at his space station are anything but random. The fiery object heading toward Earth is an alien spacecraft. Yet the world may never know for Ketih is trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy: his discovery had shattered the world power balance, setting off a brutal struggle for supremacy that raged within the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and...
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Never has there been more at stake for the people on Earth.
The referendum question is simple: does Earth join gamra, the organisation that governs the Exchange, the FTL space travel network?
While a "yes" vote would mean big changes, a "no" vote would leave Earth isolated and alone to face those waiting to fill the void, and those dark forces are already on the prowl.
Cory is one of the few people who can see the big picture, not just those campaigning...
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Deadly creatures, hostile climate, and that is just the scenery.
For many years, mysterious things have happened on the ice world of Tamer, but when a scientist goes missing from Barresh thought to be on Tamer, Cory is forced to take the issue by the horns.
Problem is, he is dealing with unexpected side effects of his fertility treatment, and, like his Coldi companions, he's lost much of his night vision, and has trouble tolerating low temperatures.
Trouble...
93) On Destiny
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Ink Monster, Llc
Pub. Date
2022
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“This has become my second favorite series right behind Harry Potter. I will continue to read this series again and again and be sad every time I get to the end. Worth every second!” – Nathan F.
From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin comes the exciting finale in the Aunare Chronicles
When Amihanna di Aetes first got to Sel’Ani, she never thought she’d have the full support of the Aunare,...
From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin comes the exciting finale in the Aunare Chronicles
When Amihanna di Aetes first got to Sel’Ani, she never thought she’d have the full support of the Aunare,...
95) The Hive
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Hey, y'all. It's Amanda again. Amanda May Jett. Now that the Hives are all gone and the Macks are burned to dust, I thought that maybe life would have gotten a little easier out here on the farm. But the next few months brings its own set of problems, including blizzards, banshees, and rolling balls of death.
Not to mention the appearance of Otis and Annie O and their humdinger of a boss, Hangnail.
Fall was bad enough, but it's going to be a beast...
96) No Morning After
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No Morning After by Arthur C. Clarke
"But this is terrible!" said the Supreme Scientist. "Surely there is something we can do!"
"Yes, Your Cognizance, but it will be extremely difficult. The planet is more than 500 light–years away, and it is very hard to maintain contact. However, we believe we can establish a bridgehead. Unfortunately, that is not the only problem. So far, we've been unable to communicate with these beings. Their telepathic powers...
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Aliens hijacked Earth from orbit! As the only humans awake, Bruce and Lindy team up with an android friend to do something about it!
Bruce, 11, and sister Lindy, 9, show up to school on a warm Spring morning. They discover that friendly aliens have arrived on Earth. Unfortunately, at lunch, things go awry when all of their classmates freeze in place.
The brother and sister realize that the interstellar visitors aren't really there to make friends....
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Picture a monster that is comfortably spread across a third of a planet like a sentient sheet of disgusting ooze. It's name is Limio and it is extremely distainful when the tiny human ship attempts to enter the planet Chaos near the black hole where it lives. But the humans and their tiny shop feel that progress requires them to get access to the rare minerals on Chaos which Limio is stopping. Can the humans hope to overcome an entity that can and...
99) UFO Down
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★★★★★ "GRIPPING, LOADS OF ATMOSPHERE, AND A VERY CLEVER TWIST!"
In the skies over Nazi Germany, RAF gunner Harry Wakefield faces a horrifying choice - jump from his crippled bomber without a parachute or burn to death as it crashes to earth.
Harry jumps… and survives with barely a scratch.
Twenty years later, a powerful earthquake rocks Harry's remote farm. Convinced that a plane has crashed on a nearby peak, he races up the mountain,...
100) Rogue Moon
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Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirth Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing the most terrifying pages in any SF novel I have ever read. A monstrous apparatus has been found on the surface of the moon. It devours and destroys in ways so incomprehensible to humans that a new language has to be invented...
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