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"As a teenager, Amy Therese Brewer argued with her friends and stormed out of a party-moments before the five other teens were brutally murdered. Now, on the anniversary of those deaths, ten people with connections to the crime have been invited to a remote cliffside house by a journalist looking to do a story about the so-called Memorial Day Massacre. But the group quickly learns the event is not what it seems. As a storm closes in and guests begin...
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Traumatized by the forces of biblical persuasion, a professor finally reaches his breaking point and then writes his own bible in the name of defending himself from those forces. Then, to his surprise, after completing his bible, he effectively healed his trauma and transformed into a person of strong moral character. But little did he know, his transformation instantly compelled the ultimate artificial intelligence program in the universe to bestow...
3) Lack
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As Earth's biome crumbles, humanity fails to develop the technologies necessary to stop an impending climate disaster. Faced with widespread starvation and environmental ruin, a radical faction seeks to preserve a segment of humankind by unleashing a deadly virus, targeting the vast heterosexual majority in a drastic attempt to reduce the population and save the planet.
However, this extreme measure falls short of halting the escalating environmental...
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LA NOVELA MÁS AMBICIOSA DE LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN ESPAÑOLA
UNA FASCINANTE EPOPEYA PLANETARIA
Hace casi ochocientos años que lo que se considera una esquirla de materia exótica fuera de control cambió la forma del mundo conocido. Los diversos países han vivido más o menos en paz desde entonces, pero todo eso está a punto de cambiar.
En Volkenskap, la megalópolis del archipiélago occidental, el justiciero conocido como El Hereje descubre que...
5) The Arbiter
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The thing was of metal-but it walked and thought like a man, and was a grim object of deadly peril and menace!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis...
6) New Olympus
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This startlingly beautiful and exotic story has to do with one of the most wondrous and frightening things in the world: growing up. Such simple words for such a complex, weighty, never-ending process. It carries with it the realization of responsibilities, the maddening loss of one kind of security and the sometimes-reluctant gain of another, and so much isolation. "New Olympus" is undoubtedly about a good deal more than the loss of one's childhood....
7) The Boarder
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With the delicate touch and deep sympathies of Ray Bradbury, Karen Joy Fowler or Jeff Ford, Alex Jablokov guides us through the remembered days of the 1960s when a teen boy and his family played host to an enigmatic and eccentric Russian exile named Vassily, whose spaceship-building past was full of hidden truths and treasures. The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author...
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Spacemen gave tiny, far-flung Callisto a wide berth. For it was the domain of the shrunken, ice-skinned brain who called himself "Zero."--intro.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross,...
10) Brain of Venus
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The malignant brain of a condemned criminal comes to life on another planet and radiates force-rays of madness and death.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John...
12) Vampire Queen
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I'm mightier than the law!" Valeine Drew, Vampire Queen of the Starways, flung her challenge at the Interplanetary Patrol. Curt Stanley accepted the challenge-and stepped directly into a Jovian space-trap from which there was no escape. John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own...
13) Lords of 9016
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Dick and his scientist friend Ladbrook take a helicopter into the giant hole that has opened in the ground near two cities where all people and animals have disappeared, only to find giant ants from the future.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten...
14) After the Atom
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Dr. Oswald Salsback believes that he holds in his grasp the vital genetic secret of preventing war for all time. But when an unexpected atomic blast hurls him into the future, he learns the bitter consequences of his discovery…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but...
15) Taste Taste
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Explorers, they found a new Earth-like planet and made planetfall. But why couldn't Jack remember what happened to his wife there?
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Defying the scorn of fellow scientists, Dr. Grayson builds a strange device that sends his image marching on!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis...
17) The Tell
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Not too far from now, the world is in a new arms race for predictive algorithms, a la Hari Seldon. The government who knows the future, controls the future. Can it be possible that a simple Vegas stage magician holds the key to this disruptive tech? If not, why is everyone after him!?! The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected by acclaimed author and critic Paul Di Filippo.
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A man is hypnotized into gruesomely murdering another man's wife, hurling her body into the chasm at the foot of Coniston Crag, for which he is sentenced to death. But after his execution he exerts vengeance from beyond the grave…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name,...
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Science fiction novella, not about giant worlds in outer space, but about microworlds closer to us. "It seemed to me," wrote the author, "that the conception of intra-atomic worlds, though by no means novel, had not so far been explored in all its possibilities... It gave me great pleasure to debate the possibilities while I wrote it; I hope that some of you at least will have an equal pleasure in reading it."
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was...
20) The Others
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Between the atoms of apparent solids there are spaces as comparably vast as those between this world and the nearest galaxy. Nature has ordained it that the atoms of countless worlds fit exactly into the spaces which are left between, in a great interlocking process. And Onia, a mysterious girl from another plane of matter has been projected to Earth…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear...
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