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by Lauren Mclaughlin ~
Lauren McLaughlin spent 10 years in the film industry, writing and producing films. She abandoned her screen ambitions to write fiction and is currently at work on the sequel to Cycler. Lauren’s Web site and blog are available at www.laurenmclaughlin.net. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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by Graham Sharp Paul ~
He thought Hell was the worst they could throw at him.
He was wrong.

Back from tangling with the Hammer of Kraa, the most brutal, trigger-happy tyrants in humanspace, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort is assigned to the Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq, which is struggling to rise to the threat posed by a newly resurgent Hammer. Aboard the floundering ship, Helfort is coming to grips with a painful injury and the unpleasant truth that nobody likes a young hero–least of all senior officers.

Without warning, the Ishaq and twenty-seven Fed merchant ships are blown apart in a horrific ambush, the first step in the Hammer’s master strategy to destroy the hated Federated Worlds. Michael and a pitiful remnant of the Ishaq’s crew escape the inferno. The Feds have no idea who’s behind the heinous attack, and the Hammer are determined to keep it that way, consigning the Ishaq’s survivors to a prison camp deep in the wilderness of the Hammer’s home planet.

No one’s getting out alive to derail the Hammer’s lethal master plan–especially not the FedWorlds hero who so humiliated them on the battlefield. It’s payback time, and the Hammers intend to throw their entire space fleet into destroying Michael Helfort and the Federated Worlds.

Too bad it won’t be enough.


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by Gerard Meerstadt\, John Wernert ~
Twins get lost in a world of fear and suppression. They must find the key to get out. When they discover the secret to escape, it changes their lives forever.]]> 8.9910 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
by Drew Karpyshyn ~
Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and its sequel Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels, including Mass Effect: Revelation. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He can be contacted through his website at www.drewkarpyshyn.com–it’s all Drew, all the time!


From the Paperback edition.]]> 6.2910 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
by Gregory Benford ~
The final chapter of humanity's future has begun and one man has been alive through it all: Nigel Walmsley, an ancient scientist from the distant past marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. From here he recalls the ingenious but desperate struggle against the mechs - a vast and violent artificial intelligence dedicated to the total destruction of the human race - and the enigmatic contact with the Old Ones. The Old Ones are life-forms bigger than the stars and guard the center of the galaxy - a voracious black hole calied the Eater of All Things. Close by, in a strange space-time continuum called the Esty, the survivors of humanity's ravaged planets have been forced to take refuge - and make a final stand against their ruthless executioners. Three men hold the key to human survival - three men whose link is Nigel Walmsley: Toby Bishop, a young warrior-in-training, a fugitive from the planet Snowglade and survivor of the renegade ship Argo; Killeen Bishop, Toby's father, leader of the Snowglade survivors and captain of the ship that dared to plunge into the Galactic Center; and Killeen's own father, a man thought dead who has been mysteriously saved from oblivion. As the mechs carve a path of calamity through the Esty, it soon becomes apparent that these three men - three generations in a family of voyagers - are their targets. But why? And how can Toby, his father, and his grandfather survive long enough to unleash the lethal secret they unknowingly carry against their relentless pursuers?]]> 6.2910 Publisher: Awe-Struck E-Books, Inc.
by Carole Ann Lee ~
Outwardly Slater's a cargo pilot. In reality he's a privateer defending the trade routes. His intergalactic freighter, Solar Wind, appears harmless, yet beneath the ruse lies an advanced warship. Having escaped from slavery, Kira joined the underground, assisting slaves to freedom. With trouble on her heels, she stows aboard Slater's ship. She's the last thing he needs and he vows to send her back home. If they only realized their parallel missions. Slater uncovers a shocking web of greed and betrayal, and is staggered at how close Kira came to dying. After weeks of close quarters, Slater finally locks-in the coordinates to take Kira home, he'll have to make the painful decision to either let her go--or risk everything by taking a chance on love.]]> 4.4910 Publisher: Star Trek
by Christopher L. Bennett\, William Leisner\, James Swallow ~
It's been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism -- broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been...is what actually happened. A Less Perfect Union: More than a hundred years after the Terra Prime movement achieved its dream of an isolationist Earth, humanity is once again at a fork in the river of history...and the path it follows may ultimately be determined by the voice of a single individual: the sole surviving crewmember of the first Starship Enterprise.¿ Places of Exile: Midway through Voyager's journey across the galaxy, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Commander Chakotay must choose whether to brave a deadly war zone or abandon their quest for home. But an attack by Species 8472 cripples the ship, and the stranded crew must make new choices that will reshape their destinies...and that of the Delta Quadrant itself. Seeds of Dissent: Khan victorious! Almost four centuries after conquering their world, genetically enhanced humans dominate a ruthless interstellar empire. But the warship Defiance, under its augmented commander, Princeps Julian Bashir, makes a discovery that could shake the pillars of his proud civilization: an ancient sleeper ship from Earth named the Botany Bay.]]> 10.7910 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
by Thomas Hager ~
A veteran science and medical writer, THOMAS HAGER is the author of The Demon Under the Microscope; Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling; and more than a hundred news and feature articles in Reader’s Digest, Journal of the American Medical Association, and many other publications.


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by Jeanne Duprau ~
It’s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster, which they believe is still in Ember. Together, Lina and Doon must go back underground to retrieve what was lost and bring light to a dark world.

In the fourth Book of Ember, bestselling author Jeanne DuPrau juxtaposes yet another action-packed adventure with powerful themes about hope, learning, and the search for truth.


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by Frederik Pohl\, Arthur C. Clarke ~
Praise for Arthur C. Clarke

“A master at describing the wonders of the material universe in sentences that combine a respect for scientific accuracy with an often startling lyricism.”
–The New York Times

Praise for Frederik Pohl

“Pohl belongs to a generation of classic science fiction practitioners, an editor and writer who not only witnessed science fiction’s maturation but also did his fair share in changing the baby’s diapers and teaching it to ride that first bike.”
–Los Angeles Times


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