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41) Uller Uprising
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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ZNIDD SUDDABIT! So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then, overnight, war is everywhere. How it will end is in the (merely) two Terran hands of the new governor-general,...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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One of the first novels about interplanetary travel, A Honeymoon in Space takes readers on a journey across the solar system. Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has made the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world: a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity and take to the stars. But before he uses it to expand humanity's understanding of the universe, he has some personal business to attend to-namely, wooing an old...
43) Little Fuzzy
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Little Fuzzy is a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper, now in public domain. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The story revolves around determining whether a small furry species discovered on the planet Zarathustra is sapient. It features a mild libertarianism that emphasizes sincerity and honesty.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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A professor manages to get his hands on a real authentic mummy, the mummy of Nitocris no less, the Egyptian queen he named his own daughter after. He quickly realizes his daughter not only carries the same name but also shares the same appearance as the former Egyptian queen. Strange things quickly start to happen and the barrier between past and present starts to fade. (Goodreads)
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Provocative, gripping, startling: bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting edge science and unrelenting suspense...
Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Dr. Arthur Marshak, his work is a momentous...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Bron Hoddan never wanted to be a pirate, but he was born into a family of pirates, who expected him to join the family business. Bron stows away on a space ship and runs away from home. But even though he has never committed an act of space piracy, he'll soon learn it's not that easy to leave his family's legacy behind. A wild, funny science fiction romp that will leave you smiling long after you've turned the final page.
48) Ullr Uprising
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Terra has a problem. The Ullr are uprising and the uprising must be put down at any cost. A brilliant retelling of the Sepoy Mutiny set against an interstellar empire. H. Beam Piper was one of the best writers of space opera that science fiction ever produced. Well written, insightful, and revealing.
49) Triplanetary
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Lensman volume 1
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The first installment in the groundbreaking Lensman series, one of the greatest space opera sagas of all time. Nevia, located many light years from the Earth's sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet's dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters - rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood - the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. The story is set in a future society where crime and punishment are quite different from our contemporary understanding. The novel follows the journey of Will Barrent, a man who wakes up with no memory and is informed that he is a criminal who has been convicted of a terrible crime. As Barrent tries to understand his predicament and piece together his past,...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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This collection of nine stories from the Grand Master of Science Fiction charts the course of humanity from the near future onward through millennia.
In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind’s future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.
This...
In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind’s future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.
This...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This work of science fiction by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith"), originally published in 1931, tells the story of Arcturus, the Inter-Planetary Corporation's top liner, and it's attempted voyage to Mars. Following an attack from a mysterious spaceship, they crash land on Ganymede, a planet of primeval terrors. The remaining crew build a new spacecraft and discover a way to survive amid the warring intelligences of the Jovian system. This work is...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Ethical Engineer is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1963. The story is set in a fictional medieval kingdom, where a power-hungry king named Lanius seeks to expand his empire by conquering neighboring lands. The main character, Conn Maxwell, is an engineer who is hired by Lanius to build a war machine that will help him conquer his enemies. However, Conn is also a man of ethics and principles, and he struggles with...
55) An Empty Bottle
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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They wanted to go home-back to the planet they'd known. But even the stars had changed. Did the fate of all creation hinge upon an empty bottle?
56) Children of time
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Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
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