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|  | | Alien Safari
Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When celebrated Omicron detective Ferrix Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know what to expect. The world used to be a tourist attraction, but the safari tours were discontinued long ago due to rampant poaching. Only a handful of researchers live there now, including Jan Corbija, the young woman who reported the breach.br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-s | |  | | Cafe at the Edge of Outer Space
A sci-fi romance short story. 9,000 words.
div>span style="font-size: small">span>span style="color: black">In the distant future, our overpopulated planet requires all sixteen year olds to undertake a ten-year exile as a rite of passage. Paired with a mate on the voyage out to kick-start adulthood, /span>span style="color: black">they must all pass through the caf/span>span style="color: black">é/span>span style="color: black"> on the edge of outer space, the legendary waystation orbiting Earth./span>/span>/span>/b>/div>
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Time travel. Five stories. All linked by an unprecedented gift shop.
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div>span style="font-size: larger">span style="font-family: Times New Roman">span style="color: black">Who is Esther May Morrow? Why is it that her strange shop, resembling something out of medieval England, has remained unchanged from the nineteenth to the twenty-third century. What is she selling? And who will come to buy...?br />
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Stories in this collection feature a professional cardsharp with a dark secret | |  | | Godiva in the Firing Line
Future war, love and the rules of engagement collide on a hostile alien moon.
The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack! Join Godiva Randall, the beautiful daughter of a powerful politician, as she puts her paratrooper unit’s motto to the test. A delicate truce on Hoarfrost’s icy moon is about to explode, and blood will be spilled. This is the moment Lupine Corps has trained for—combat against a nightmarish alien foe, light-years from home.
But Godiva and her best friend, Dash Collingwood, are secretly in love. All mixed-gender combat units must take Celiba-C—a pill that suppresses sexuality—u | |  | | Kate of Kratos
The final installment in Robert Appleton's sci-fi survival trilogy.
div>span style="color: black">Jason Remington has been abducted by a monstrous creature. Having barely survived the ocean crossing, Kate Borrowdale must track him through an alien forest and over its awesome, low gravity roof. She finds him alive, but he is not alone. Two men and a woman, also survivors from the Fair Monique's crash, have rescued him and killed the creature. How? Kate senses they're hiding a secret and doesn’t trust them. Things look up when she finds a mountain cave for them all to live in. But procuring food proves tricky, | |  | | Lot 62: An Esther May Morrow Mystery
A female secret agent goes undercover at a high-class auction of antique treasures.
span style="font-size: small">span>span style="font-family: Times New Roman">Julie Blalock is approaching thirty and has an unfulfilling job with an accountancy firm. But she also has a secret—she was once an MI6 Agent. A personal tragedy forced her to quit eight years ago, but a chance offer to return for a one-time op is tootempting to ignore. Her mission: to pose as a rich socialite at Sotheby's, to gain critical intelligence during the most anticipated high-class auction of the year—Esther May Morrow's sale of antique treasures, featuring Lot 62, a prize that has even the | |  | | Prehistoric Clock
A steampunk experiment gone awry transplants a huge slice of London into the Cretaceous Period. The survivors must figure out how to get back alive...from a world ruled by dinosaurs.
Airship officer Verity Champlain is well-respected by her crew. But after a vital mission nearly goes wrong, she is having second thoughts about her career.
Lord Garrett Embrey is on the run. The Leviacrum Council, the secretive scientific body that holds sway over the Empire, executed his father and uncle and now they want him dead too.
Professor Cecil Reardon is consumed by grief. Since his wife and son died he's been obsessed with his work, and now he is on the verge of an extraordinary scientific breakthrough: his machine is about to breach time itself, to undo fate's cr | |  | | Sparks in Cosmic Dust
Five fugitives head into unknown space on a daring mission to mine a priceless element.
The final frontier is shrinking. Interstellar Planetary Administration sanctions are forcing the border colonies of deep space into extinction. Kappa Max is one of the last major cutthroat outposts, home to the lawless and the lonely...
Varinia Wilcox, the star attraction of a lucrative bordello gambling house.br />
Solomon Bodine, spurned by his lover and looking for distraction.br />
Clayton Barry, AWOL and a few drinks away from having to live in the gutter.br />
Lyssa Foaloak, a double-crossing criminal who'll kill anyone for a few credits.
Four strangers, each wit | |  | | Sunset on Ramree: History's Deadliest Crocodile Attack
Based on history's deadliest crocodile attack. **EPIC Award winner for Best Historical Fiction 2011**
span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On February 19th, 1945, one thousand Japanese soldiers retreated into the fetid mangrove swamps of Ramree Island hoping to escape their British enemy. However, they soon discovered that the sixteen kilometre stretch of marshland that promised to offer safe cover had delivered them straight into the jaws of hell./span>br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />
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| |  | | The Basingstoke Chronicles
Two scuba divers attempt to solve the mystery of a lost continent.
font size="2">There was something decidedly unusual about the dead body found floating off the coast of Cuba. The wool of his garment, while only twenty years old, was from an animal extinct for over nine thousand years. A group of professional scuba divers, including Lord Henry Basingstoke and his friend, Rodrigo Quintas, eagerly search the ocean bed for clues. But when they find a mysterious underwater vehicle, a fun vacation becomes an obsessive quest to be the first to solve the mystery. A daring journey back through time takes them to a hidden land of rainforests, deadly creatures, an | |  | | The Elemental Crossing
Sequel to The Eleven-Hour Fall
div>span style="color: black">font size="3">One man. One woman. A daring voyage across an alien ocean. The Elemental Crossing is the exciting sequel to Robert Appleton’s science-fiction adventure, The Eleven-Hour Fall./font>/span>/b>/div>
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div>span style="color: black">font size="3">After their hard-won escape from the perils of the desert, Kate and Jason are faced with their most difficult challenge yet on Kratos - crossing a vast ocean on just an improvised raft. Their relationship grows as hope dwindles. Procuring food, wat | |  | | The Eleven-Hour Fall
What if you fell from a great height...toward a ground you couldn’t see...and hours later, you were still falling?
span style="font-size: medium">span>span>span style="font-family: Times New Roman">For love, for survival, on a mysterious planet light years from home. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, astronaut Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds…/span>/span>/span>/span>
| |  | | The Mythmakers: An Impulse Power Story
The last will and testament of a forgotten Earth...
An Impulse Power story.
For Captain Steffi Savannah and her crew of deep space smugglers, life has become little more than a dogged exercise in mere survival. Their latest disastrous heist ended with another dead crew member—and no place left to hide. She’s even finding it hard to dredge up any excitement over the giant, crippled ship that appears on their radar, even though it’s the salvage opportunity of a lifetime.
They find that it’s no ordinary alien vessel. It’s a ship of dreams, populated with the last remnants of Earth’s mythical creatures. Including the blond, b |
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Dream-Dust Parasites
by Ian Irvine (Hobson)
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 “The year is 2011 and Samuel Elmsmore is adrift in the universe. After a series of breakdowns he awakens as a virtual prisoner in a hostel for the mentally ill. He’s estranged from his family and friends, and is jobless after an unfortunate incident |
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