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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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 By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earthling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom. This book is the "founder of the feast"--the books w...
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The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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In the 7th millennium, humans have spread throughout the galaxy and govern most of the inhabited planets. Leonardo, Our Humble Hero and purple-blooded Bjornn of the planet Benitarus II, is sent as an expert appraiser to the Claiborne Art Gallery on the mostly-human planet of Far London. Leonardo's enhanced ultraviolet and infrared vision are ideal traits for assessment and authentication of artwork, and he immediately catches the attention of an aging Far London collector who, in spite of his co...
more info>> (Published: 1987) Prix Tour Eiffel Winner (100,000 franc prize, Best SF Novel)
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The Salmon of Doubt [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Douglas Adams
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On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy--which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction--Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as hi...
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Influx [MultiFormat]
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J.C. Jones
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When the Apollo 12 mission returned to earth in 1972, its crew left behind a collection of seismic monitors. Thirty-five years later, NASA engineer Brett Williams has discovered something startling in the ALSEP readouts. Something is moving on the surface of the moon... (Published: 2005)
Words: 107427 - Reading Time: 306-429 min.
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Winterfair Gifts [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan's long-awaited wedding is the occasion for romance and intrigue for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee, Romance Readers Anonymous Listserv Award Winner
Words: 23091 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
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Savage Survival [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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Darrell Bain's finest novel to date. Savage Survival is a coming of age novel like no other and Lyda Brightner is a character you'll remember forever. Raped at eleven. Forced to kill. Subjected to suffering in one brutal and horrible environment after another, with no parents or guardian to protect her as she grows up. Millions of earthmen have been captured by invulnerable aliens and are being put through the strangest and most terrifying survival tests ever imagined. Young Lyda Brightner's fir...
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Words: 86697 - Reading Time: 247-346 min.
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Here's Looking At You, Kid [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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For each showing of Casablanca, Rick has new hope that *this* time he'll get the girl. (Published: 2003)
Words: 2182 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
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Something in the Wind [MultiFormat]
by Dave Smeds
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All across Earth, people are inexplicably falling down dead from sheer fright. Reporter Audrey Wheeler discovers the phenomenon is related to the smuggled cargo an alien freighter was hauling. And as she learns more, she realizes the human race is in for some big changes. (Published: 1987)
Words: 7780 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Pesticide [MultiFormat]
by James A. Hartley
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The planet was perfect for colonization, with a pristine beauty and a thriving ecology. It didn't occur to any of them to wonder how it stayed that way--or what the consequences to the new colony might be. And by the time they discovered the planet's deadly secret, it was far too late for all of them... (Published: 1996)
Words: 2828 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Douglas Adams
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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur Dent's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the...
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Auto Erotica (Or, 'Mommy, Where Do Fiats Come From?') [MultiFormat]
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Michael Dack
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A series of mysterious accidents involving automobiles begins to turn into something more ominous during the morning rush hour. Simon, a not-so-enthusiastic office worker, decides that it's more worth his while to investigate these anomalies than to remain at work. He joins his sister Kathy and they begin to navigate their way through the bizarre and often dangerous landscape of a city where all the machines have gone simultaneously mad. Together, they must either escape or accept their place in...
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Words: 3852 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Scout's Pride [MultiFormat]
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Michelle Levigne
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Kay'li Fieran, daughter of Scout Captain Ian Fieran and Miranda Riallon, grows up among the Scouts. She learns her strengths and weaknesses, loyalty and honor, how to be keep going despite pain and loss--and she learns that sometimes the bad guys win. She grows up to carry on the legacy of the heroic family that established the Scout Corps, but the greatest adventure of her life still waits for her, back home on Chorillan, where her childhood friend has become a Wildling. (Published: 2005)
Words: 79071 - Reading Time: 225-316 min.
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BUNDLE: Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith: The Illustrated Screenplay AND The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith--The Final Chapter [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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George Lucas
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 BUNDLE: Includes The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith--The Final Chapter by Lucasfilm insider J.W. Rinzler! Episode III--The One and Only Official Screenplay, available exclusively in eBook format, including scenes that won't appear in the movie itself! Even before the release of the most eagerly awaited Star Wars movie of all time on the theater screen ... here's your chance to experience the action on your own computer screen! Straight from the set, this is the complete, final screenpl...
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2005 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2005A topic currently in many people's thoughts is the problem of identity theft, which, thanks to new and improved information technology, has become an almost ubiquitous threat. Another, which some people still regard as too science-fictional to be a real concern (while others worry about it for nonsensical reasons) is human cloning: the copying (in a very limited way) of people. But suppose you put the two together and then go beyond, to a world in which real copying of...
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Words: 73611 - Reading Time: 210-294 min.
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Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2005Acclaimed British writer Ian McDonald returns next issue with our cover story for June, a big, powerful novella that plunges us into a future India and Nepal of dazzling complexity and cultural diversity, where the highest of high-tech exists side-by-side with the most ancient of ancient ways, and unbelievable wealth cheek-by-jowl with utter poverty, for the compelling and fascinating story of what it feels like to become a god ... and then have to find your way in an ...
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Words: 67977 - Reading Time: 194-271 min.
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All for Naught [MultiFormat]
by John E. Stith
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All For Naught collects a novella and a novelette: "Naught for Hire" and "Naught Again." "Naught for Hire" is a quirky, action-packed, comedy set just a few years from now. Nick Naught, private eye, walks down some strange mean streets as he tries to stay ahead of the killers on his tail and tries to cope in a world where all the irritations we have with technology are magnified. Gadgets act up in big ways, including voice operated machines that talk back to people. Nick Naught winds up on a hit...
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Alien Infection [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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When a laboratory technician on the verge of retirement accidentally infects himself with blood from an emergency room patient, he intends to report it--until government agents swarm the hospital, confiscating every sample of blood taken from the patient--at gunpoint. Deciding not to report the incident just yet for fear of being thrown into an isolation chamber, he goes home--and falls violently ill. By the time he recovers and returns to work, scary things are happening. Everyone who has come ...
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The Hunter-Killer's Boy [MultiFormat]
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Robert Barlow
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The powerful military cyborg Ivan (who resembles a futuristic tank) is sent to a faraway planet on a mission both noble and horrific. He must save a primitive indigenous population by exterminating a human mining colony controlled by an uncontrollable and deadly infection. Ivan started life as a human, but is now both human and machine. First and foremost, he is a soldier who must complete a terrible, solitary mission. The conflict in this mission causes so much stress that Ivan's sanity fractur...
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Grievous Music [MultiFormat]
by James A. Hartley
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They tell us the nanos screw with our brains, make us uncontrollable, imagine things, but I don't believe them. That's just Subvert propaganda. (Published: 1998)
Words: 2899 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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Life, the Universe and Everything [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Douglas Adams
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No less a mission than preventing the destruction of the universe hurtles Arthur Dent and company through their third uproarious romp in space and time. Join Arthur Dent, earthling, jerk, kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams the reader is always up in the air. This book is a sequel to The Hitchhiker's G...
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Dumarest of Terra 2: Derai [MultiFormat]
by E. C. Tubb
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Earl Dumarest finds himself on the world called Folgone with a chance to win what most men can only dream of: vast wealth, unlimited power, and a beautiful heiress to be his wife. There is, of course, a catch. The power brings with it the privilege of walking a tightrope between assassination and war. And the bride-to-be is a psychotic telepath ...
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Superluminal: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Tony Daniel
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The future is at war for the soul of humankind ... It is a time when civilization has extended itself far into the outer reaches of the solar system, and in doing so has developed into something remarkable. But humanity's progeny--the nanotechnological artificial intelligences called "free converts"--face extermination at the hands of the tyrant Amés and his invincible armies, and once the Napoleonesque Director develops superluminal flight, his "Final Solution" will be all but assured. But hope...
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Skyclimber [MultiFormat]
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Raymond Z. Gallun
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Dramatic Saga of First Person Born on Mars! The first colony on the red planet is founded amid joy and hope, and the colonists are given every support. Then war sweeps the mother planet and the Mars colonists are abandoned by an Earth that needs every resource for its own survival. Though there are signs the colony could become self-sufficient in time, the colonists don't have that time. They face slow and certain death. However, Timothy Davis Barlow, nicknamed Skyclimber, the first person to be...
more info>> (Published: 2005) Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
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The Rhesus Factor [Sanctuary Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
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Sonny Whitelaw
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[From the author of Stargate SG-1: City of the Gods] The news is full of global warming speculation. The US government is under attack for its stance on greenhouse emissions yet in the background, away from the camera's eye, the real world is in decay. The Rhesus Factor is fiction, but it is up to the reader to determine just how much so, for all the issues are real the research and outcomes are happening now, yet no one seems to notice or care. Have we really reached the point of no return? Cou...
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Ark Ship [Special Edition: Sanctuary Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
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Sonny Whitelaw
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From the author of Stargate Sg-1: City of the Gods. "Humans are no longer one species," Ryl continued, idly rolling the wine in her glass. "Some of us regressed a million years and leaped into a future that might have been, becoming Metas. On Earth, the Rhesus plague deleted a huge chunk of genetic diversity in humans, taking with it a very special gene. As you reach out to the stars, to explore new worlds, to seek the sanctuary planet, Gaia, you will meet other species and situations that telep...
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