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1) The Martian
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
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Brain Twister is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent, is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret project to develop a non-rocket space ship at Yucca Flats Labs in Nevada. But this is not a normal spy, this spy laughs at the FBI and all attempts to...
4) Unwise Child
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Synopsis: When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums' nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet.
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The Impossibles is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Malone. Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it. Kenneth Malone-sometimes known as Sir Kenneth of The Queen's Own FBI-had had problems...
6) Supermind
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This third book after Brain Twister and The Impossibles concludes the story around FBI agent Ken Malone.
Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it.
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The Alien was really alien-and Earth was faced with a strange problem indeed. They had to have a superman. And there weren't any. So.... Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction and collaborated with him on...
8) Farside
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When an Earth-sized planet circling a star thirty light-years away is detected, the race is on to build an astronomical observatory on Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth--a dangerous task plagued by accidents and breakdowns.
9) Star Surgeon
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"Star Surgeon" by Alan Edward Nourse. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to Saturn and the wide spaces in between before returning to Mother Earth.
This space saga was written by the American businessman John Jacob Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family.
11) Youth
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
12) Collector's Item
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Being, trapped in the steaming h-l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting one's manners-but anyone abducted, marooned, tricked, kept from tea might well crack under the strain! A wonderful and amusing satire of the modern cosmetics industry.
Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy...
13) Helpfully Yours
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"Come down to Earth-and stay there!" is a humiliating order for somebody with wings! When in Rome do as the romans do . . . well unless you fly.
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were...
14) The Venus Trap
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One thing Man never counted on to take along into space with him was the Eternal Triangle-especially a true-blue triangle like this!
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well...
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THE PLANET STRAPPERS started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted - a start on the road to the stars, but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!
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In this story, the planet Weald 3 has vast stores of grain. The planet Dara is in a perpetual famine. The problem is with Dara's history-decades prior they had a planet-wide plague that passed along blue patches on skin on those people who contracted the virus, and thereby passed the anomaly to their decedents. To make matters more interesting, Weald 3 has an irrational and over-riding fear of contracting the virus from Dara. And now enter Doctor...
17) Four-Day Planet
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Four-Day Planet Four-Day Planet . . . where the killing heat of a thousand-hour "day" drives men underground, and the glorious hundred-hour sunset is followed by a thousand-hour night so cold that only an Extreme Environment Suit can preserve the life of anyone caught outside.cFenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to...
18) My Fair Planet
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All the world's a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor . . . only he intended to direct it!
Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and...
19) The Blue Tower
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As the vastly advanced guardians of mankind, the Belphins knew how to make a lesson stick-but whom?
Evelyn E. Smith is best-known as, the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and...
20) Once a Greech
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Discovering intelligent life was the last thing Fleet Captain Iversen wanted to happen to his watch. Especially, when the ship in question was, commanded by his absolute worst officer. And yet, here he was.
Evelyn E. Smith is best, known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy,...
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