Anyone, by Melissa Conway

Description
Like many refugees who fled their homes during the Cataclysm, Tainie Strauss is starting over. No friends, no money, new school--a tough combination for any sixteen-year-old, much less an awkward, unattractive girl whose mother believes in fairies. Tainie is pragmatic about her life until she starts imagining she can read people’s minds. The day her face temporarily changes shape seemingly of its own volition, she can only conclude she’s gone crazy. But her mother has a different theory: during a ceremony to stop the Cataclysm, Tainie was exposed to a secret catalyst that can turn an ordinary descendant of the Folk into a shapeshifter.

For the first time in her miserable life, Tainie can be someone else--anyone else. Soon her beautiful alter-ego Tory is attracting the attention of one of the best-looking boys in school. But Tainie barely has time to enjoy her newfound ability before covert agents bent on obtaining the knowledge of how to create an army of shapeshifters threaten her whole world.

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Escape From Earth (Oasis), by Ivis Bo Davis

Description
LEAVE EARTH OR DIE

The electromagnetic field around the Earth is fading away, and with it the protection it once provided against solar radiation. Soon the planet will burn, and everything and everyone on the planet will die. Deep Space Vessel Trisznov is the first human interstellar colony ship, and she is nearly ready to launch in search of a new habitable planet to colonize among the stars...

The United Nations has refused to arm the colony ships with powerful military weapons for their defense, under the guise of refusing to export war to the universe...

Radical religious zealots are intent on preventing unbelievers from exporting their wickedness to the heavens, even if they have to destroy the colony ships and the hopes of all mankind...

A greedy Russian Colonel has possession of a nuclear warhead to sell to the right buyer...

International bankers, determined to take political and economic control of the new colony, are behind the U.N.'s 'Unarmed Colonist" decision. Unknown to the United Nations, they are secretly building a fleet of heavily armed Space Cruisers to follow the colonists to their new planet, OASIS, to enforce their continued lust for power...

In the midst of immense international tension, a worldwide riot threatens to break out among the terrified majority who finally understand that they will be left behind to die...

Three unlikely teenagers leading a tiny group of political dissidents are all that stand in the way of the power brokers and those determined to prevent the colonization of the universe. Along the way they discover that they need the help of someone greater than themselves...

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How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu

Lev Grossman Reviews How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe for Amazon: (Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Magicians.)

The science-fictional universe in question in this marvel of a novel is Minor Universe 31 (MU31). It's something of a second-rate universe, having been left unfinished by whoever was constructing it--the laws of physics were abandoned only 93 percent installed, Yu tells us, and the human inhabitants "seem to have been left with a lingering sense of incompleteness." This is a universe you need to visit. If by some happy chance you don’t already live there.

The hero of this story, also named Charles Yu, ekes out a living there as a time travel repairman--"a certified network technician for T-class personal-use chronogramattical vehicles, and an approved independent affiliate contractor for Time Warner Time, which owns and operates this universe as a spatio-temporal structural and entertainment complex zoned for retail, commercial, and residential use." (Time Warner Time -- that's the kind of three-pointer Yu never misses.) Charles is a high-tech sad sack, whose only companions are a dog, who's mostly hypothetical, and a computer with a sexy feminine AI interface that Yu has a crush on.

The thing about time travel in MU31 is that it's not all wormholes and apocalypses and "look out that's a temporal anomaly off the starboard nacelle, Captain!" Human beings mostly use time machines to go back and eavesdrop on their own screwed-up lives, reliving key moments, bad decisions and missed opportunities, in the mistaken belief that they can change them. They can't. "I have job security," Yu explains, "because what the customer wants, when you get right down to it, is to relive his very worst moment, over and over again."

Not that Yu has it all figured out. His elderly mom is parked in a time loop, where she cooks a Sunday dinner over and over again. His father, a tragically frustrated inventor, is lost somewhere in the chronoverse. And Yu has a problem: one day he accidentally ran into his future self … and shot him. That's right: he shot himself. And one day, the laws of the universe dictate, that future self will be him.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a triumph, as good as anything in Calvino or Stanislaw Lem. I wish I could travel back in time with a copy and fraudulently publish it under my own name. Like most people, I thought I learned everything I needed to know about time travel from H.G. Wells and Star Trek, but I thought wrong: In Yu's skillful hands a worn-out science fiction plot device becomes a powerfully expressive metaphor for how we experience the flickering, ineffable, ungraspable spatio-temporal phenomenon of life. Because after all, we're all time travelers, blundering forward into the future at the rate of one second per subjectively experienced second.

Except when we don't. Think about it: How many times have you yourself been trapped in a time loop, cycling obsessively through one inescapable moment, again and again and again, while the rest of the universe rolled forward and left you behind?

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Red Moon, by Chris Berman

2017: While America prepares for a return to the Moon in 2020, China lands a military expedition on the Moon’s South Pole and in defiance of UN treaties, seizes the subsurface lunar ice fields and claims the Moon’s resources as the property of the People’s Republic of China. African American President Cordelier Price, thrust into her role as commander in chief by an assassin’s bullet, must enlist the aid of discredited former NASA astronaut John McGovern to lead an international collation and stake a counter claim. McGovern however, finds he must share his command duties with beautiful Russian cosmonaut Natasha Polyakova, as they face traitors, saboteurs and the Chinese military that will stop at nothing to end their quest. As the coalition crew battles for their lives on the unforgiving surface of the Moon, China’s true sinister plans for global domination emerge, sending the world on a collision course toward nuclear war.


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Sardu, by Carma Dillon

Ruby is the only child with an active imagination in a future spaceship society ruled by superstitious genetic engineers who put her parents down for being incurable daydreamers. She escapes with the legendary 100-year-old woman and is thrown into an outrageous quest to save the last giant dragonfly.

Saardu is a planet in the Eagle Nebula, seven thousand light years from Earth. The series is suitable for imaginative readers of any age, and is inspired by the idea of 11 dimensions as suggested by String Theory.

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Astra: The Reckoning, by Lisa Ekstra

Description
A year ago, Magnius Zoleki struggled with a life of boredom and an unhappy marriage. These days, he'd take those problems in a heartbeat.

After fleeing New England, Magnius and Amii arrive on Barnard Station: a decaying trade outpost on the edge of oblivion. One misstep sends them hiding in places vagrants refuse to tread, all while they plot to rescue her father from the alien mothership. Her plan is nothing short of audacious—if they manage to stay under the radar long enough to execute it.

To add to their troubles, the crisis with Xur reaches critical proportions. The Allied Confederacy refuses their demand for unconditional surrender, plunging them into a brand of warfare Astra has never experienced. Magnius and Amii try to stay neutral but get caught between the two sides and swept into the struggle. It's the beginning of a war that might kill everyone he holds dear. The last place he wants to be is on the wrong side, and if that doesn't tear apart what remains of his sanity, Amii Martin will.

Astra: The Reckoning is the second novel in the Astra saga, a story that follows in the epic tradition of Cyteen and Dune.

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The Starfish People, by Leann Marshall

Description:
Leg muscles burning and arms punching through water and air, hands clawing for something, anything that can pull me up, pull me out, give me a chance! Help me help me help me . . .
Gasping, SERA wakes from the nightmare again.
Her therapist believes that her troubled young patient is reliving the drowning death from a past life in her dreams. When she convinces Sera to travel back in time to witness the death of that past entity in an effort to break the nightmare's cycle, Sera is faced with a difficult choice: does she stand by and let events unfold as they will, or does she break the rules of time travel and help to save the ones she loves, only to risk everything, including her own life? The choice she makes results in an anomaly so horrible and yet so beautiful, it transforms each of them.


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Astra: Synchronicity, by Lisa Eskra

Free on the Kindle

Description
Magnius Zoleki has everything a fifty-year-old man could want—except the psionic assassin trying to kill him.

In 2310, humans persecute psions and hunt them to extinction regardless of guilt. Magnius is one of them: an evolutionary offshoot of mankind known for their psychic abilities and tendency to murder in order to utilize their power. Despite using his telekinesis sparingly, his secret makes it back to his childhood tutor. She murdered his best friend's father in cold blood, giving him every reason to run away before his abilities manifested. Now with the hope he'll join her cause to strike down humanity, she sends an assassin to bring him home. Of course, that doesn’t mean he needs to bring him in one piece.

As a consequence of his double life, Magnius faces divorce, bankruptcy, and death—but not necessarily in that order. In his flight to survive, he meets Amii Martin, a woman who recently lost her memory in a laboratory accident. She implores him for help rescuing the only man with ties to her past after relations with a benevolent alien race take a tragic turn. The last thing Magnius needs is to get mixed up in an ugly war, but in order to escape the clutches of his nefarious mentor and save Amii’s father, he’s willing to risk it or die trying.

Astra: Synchronicity is a science-fiction thriller that will appeal to readers who enjoy the work of C. J. Cherryh and also those who fell in love with the romance of The Time Traveler's Wife.




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Human Company, by Robert Petty

Human Company, a science fiction novel, pits humans against their bioengineered replacements.

Bios, women bioengineered from human stock, have settled the marginally inhabitable planet Snowshoe. However, the collapse of a space elevator has plunged their Femdom into a dark age.

Gypsy realizes that a long abandoned second elevator, which is near collapse, threatens to destroy the re-emergent civilization. When the bios women oppose his attempt to save the elevator, he recruits a company of outcast human girls into the quest.

CHAPTER 1 -- MECHANICALS

The trouble with women is that all you get is sympathy. They will
probably still be patting me on the head when the Elevator destroys the world.

As I searched for Redblood, I took a deep breath to ease the
tightness gripping my chest. This would be her last chance. She
either helped me or else.

Was she gone? A dark shape moved on the left -- only a horse in the stables. Across the square, the open gate framed a deserted
drawbridge. Why did it have to get dark so soon? At last I saw
someone to the right, standing on the castle wall. Shadows from the tower hid her features, but she stood straighter than the farm girls. It was Redblood.



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Containment, by Christian Cantrell

Description
As Earth's ability to support human life begins to diminish at an alarming rate, the Global Space Agency is formed with a single mandate: protect humanity from extinction by colonizing the solar system as quickly as possible. Venus, being almost the same mass as Earth, is chosen over Mars as humanity’s first permanent steppingstone into the universe.

Arik Ockley is part of the first generation to be born and raised off-Earth. After a puzzling accident, Arik wakes up to find that his wife is almost three months pregnant. Since the colony’s environmental systems cannot safely support any increases in population, Arik immediately resumes his work on AP, or artificial photosynthesis, in order to save the life of his unborn child. Arik’s new and frantic research uncovers startling truths about the planet, and about the distorted reality the founders of the colony have constructed for Arik’s entire generation. Everything Arik has ever known is called into question, and he must figure out the right path for himself, his wife, and his unborn daughter.

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Homecoming, by H.A.L. Wagner

This is a short story, not a novel.

Description
An astronaut must endure a long flight back to Earth on a British space craft alone after the Co-Pilot has died and all communications with England have been lost. Accompanied by the traditional Chimp on board, the astronaut, Hershel, has nothing to do but routine systems checks (the on board computer does them anyway) and participate in the mandatory Virtual Reality sessions to counter act the social deprivation experienced on long space flights. The computer mistakenly loads his dead co-pilot’s VR but Hershel decides to make the Co-Pilot’s VR world his own.


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Time's Edge by J. M. Dattilo

Description
Imagine being a Commander in the Galactic Armed Forces and on a mission so secret that you can’t be told what it is.

Imagine being thrown into another time and place with no explanation.

Imagine being stuck with a smart-mouthed computer, an ultra-correct android, and a seven-foot tall monster who knows both Santa Claus and Shakespeare.

Imagine being lost in time with a woman who may either be falling in love with you or trying to kill you.

Imagine being in a place that sits between worlds, dimensions, and times.

Imagine Time’s Edge.

Time’s Edge is the first place winner of the 2005 Tassy Walden Award, a literary prize given by the Shoreline Arts Alliance of Connecticut. A fast-paced, lighter tale, the story blends adventure, humor, and romance in a fun-to-read mix of sci-fi and fantasy.



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Distant Cousin, by Al Past

Description
What if our first contact from another planet was a human? What if the first real alien to visit Earth from another solar system was a woman on a mission to find the distantly related cousins of her own people? What if she brought with her a warning of an impending disaster of apocalyptic proportions? And what if nobody believed her?

Al Past’s novel Distant Cousin is a most unusual science fiction story with a most unusual heroine. Ana Darcy has jeopardized her mission and cut herself off from her own people to bring a desperate warning to Earth authorities. Astronomers at a Texas observatory don’t believe her, but the US military is willing to interrogate her—under custody of course. Her astonishing escape from Army detainment is our first hint that she may be more than she first appears and capable of more than we imagine. While the military scrambles to locate and recapture the woman they call “Gidget from Outer Space,” Darcy realizes that her journey to Earth has placed her in the path of the oncoming destruction and she will suffer Earth’s fate if the calamity is not avoided.

Befriended by ordinary people as varied as the family of a Texas dude ranch foreman, a mild-mannered reporter, and an Olympic contender from Barbados, Darcy conceives a daring plan to evade government capture while hiding in plain sight, and to deliver her warning in a manner which cannot possibly be ignored. Afterward, she might just fall in love … if she can trust her own feelings … and if she can trust her boyfriend with the truth about her origins. This is a science fiction novel which might better be described as a love story with scientific speculation. The premise of humans on another world is startling, and the author reels out details about Darcy’s homeworld so sparingly that our curiosity is cleverly aroused. It is only when unexpected arrivals provoke a sudden crisis of diplomacy that we learn exactly what Darcy gave up in accepting her mission to Earth—and what she might be running from.



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2984 by R. Vincent Riccio

Description
Enter a futuristic, Orwellian Earth a thousand years in the future, where a benevolent but omnipotent government controls everything - what you see, believe, think, and do - where one man seeks the answers to how the world developed in this fashion, & where he must unravel the mind-boggling mysteries & puzzles which surround society, mankind, his beautiful Nurse-guide, & his own incredible life. Futuristic, next-world Science Fiction adventure by acclaimed author-psychologist, R. V. Riccio.



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Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness, by Kristie Lynn Higgins

Book one in the Shades of Gray series.
Pandora Project Publisher

Description
A haunting melody . . .
A forgotten past . . .

Kat woke to a world of endless night. She had no memory of who she was. A music box, a letter, and a gun were her only clues. Her forgotten past was the least of her troubles. Killing machines called Un-Men hunted her. Why? She didn't know, only that to survive she had to destroy them. Kill or be killed.

A life of murder . . .
A life of loneliness . . .

Kimberly Griffin, a Life Closer (legal assassin) existed in a world of death. She Closed people for a living, a lonely demeaning existence, though she won't admit it. There was nothing to drive her in the bleak reality, not until she ran into Kat.

Worlds collide . . .
A life of lies . . .

What was Kim to do with Kat? Kat knew she was a Life Closer. Kim couldn't let anyone live who knew, but lies were unraveling with her around. Secrets were surfacing.

Who am I?
What am I?

By the time Kat ran into Kim, a year had gone by. There was something familiar about Kim, but the why wouldn't reveal itself. Was Kim just another test like the Un-Men? What did their chance meeting really mean?




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Helix, by JL Bryan

Description
In the 28th century, humans inhabit more than a thousand self-contained orbital colonies in the near reaches of the solar system. Billions of colonists follow the religious teachings of the Aescelan, priests who promote managed evolution and control their followers' reproduction through genetic engineering.

Nicholas Vermeer is the perfect citizen of prosperous New Amsterdam colony: junior police officer, devoted Temple member, soon to be a father. But when he and his wife visit the priests to design their first child, his wife dies in a shocking attack on the Temple, carried out by half-human monsters. His unauthorized investigation draws him into the shadows of a brewing war among the Aescelan priesthood, the United Nations government of Earth, and the cyber-industrial corporate giant Triod Industries, all of them vying for dominance of the unruly colonies.

The Aescelan priests have secretly and illegally spawned experimental new forms of humanity, and the creations are rebelling against their masters. Nicholas finds among these monstrous "chimeras" the truth about his wife's death, the priesthood's centuries-long manipulation of the human genome, and their dark designs for the future of the human species.

BONUS MATERIAL: This book contains an excerpt of Forbidden the Stars by Valmore Daniels.

About the Author
J.L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on the English Renaissance and the Romantic period. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He is the author of five novels and one short-story collection. He enjoys remixing elements of paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, horror and science fiction into new kinds of stories. His goal is to provide highly original fiction like you won't find anywhere else. His new novel is The Haunted E-book. The sequel to his novel Jenny Pox will be available by summer 2011. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Christina, as well as some dogs, cats, and domestic plants.
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