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Earth Unaware

HUMANS THOUGHT THEY WERE
ALONE IN THE GALAXY.
UNTIL NOW. A hundred
years before Enders Game,
humanity is slowly
making its way out to the
planets of the solar
system, exploring and
mining asteroids. The
ship El Cavador is far
from Earth, in the deeps
of the Kuiper Belt,
beyond Pluto. When the
ships telescopes pick up
a fast-moving object
coming in-system, theyre
unsure what to make of
it. Little do they know
that this object is the
most important thing to
happen to the human race
in a million years. Its
humanitys first contact
with an alien race. The
First Formic War is about
to begin. BOOK ONE OF THE
FIRST FORMIC WAR

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Gravity

Top Ten bestselling
author Tess Gerritsen
delivers a thoroughly
menacing new thriller. A
brilliantly compulsive
page-turner from the
author of The Surgeon. Dr
Emma Watson, a brilliant
research physician, has
been training for the
mission of a lifetime: to
study living organisms in
space. Jack McCallum,
Emmas estranged
husband, has shared her
dream of space travel,
but a medical condition
has grounded him. Now he
must watch from the
sidelines? The mission
aboard the space station
turns into a nightmare
when a culture of
single-celled organisms
begins to regenerate out
of control ? and infects
the crew with agonising
and deadly results. Emma
struggles to contain the
deadly virus, while back
home Jack and NASA work
against the clock to
bring her home. But there
will be no rescue, as
the astronauts are left
stranded in orbit where
they are dying one by
one?

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Snake Scare

Max Murphy thinks his mum
and dad are weird.
They're zoologists, so
they're always flying off
to different countries to
study exotic creatures in
their natural habitats.
And, as if that didn't
make life strange enough,
Max has to live in his
Uncle Herbert's house
with his annoying twin
sister, Molly, while
their parents are away.
Sometimes, the twins go
with their parents on
their travels. On one
trip, Max develops a
strange fever after he
drinks from a stream in a
village in Africa, and
everything changes -
especially his attitude
to animals. When he's
better, the village
healer tells him he has
special powers: he's now
at one with the animals.
But Max doesn't believe a
word of it - not until
the first time he begins
to transform...Luckily,
the effects never last
more than a few hours,
but that's plenty of time
for Max to experience
animal instincts first
hand. And as if that
didn't make life
difficult enough, his
parents' sinister
colleague Preston Slynk
knows all about Max, and
is always trying to
capture and perform tests
on him. Slynk's miniature
insect-robot spies are
never far away. For a boy
who wants nothing more
than a challenging
computer game and a
chocolate bar, life is
about to get a whole lot
more complicated...

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Speaker For The Dead

A FALLEN HERO - HAUNTED
BY HIS PAST, BUT CAN HE
CHANGE THE FUTURE? Ender
Wiggin was once
considered a great
military leader, a
saviour for mankind. But
now history judges his
destruction of an alien
race as monstrous rather
than heroic. In the
aftermath of the war,
Ender disappeared, and a
powerful voice arose: The
Speaker for the Dead,
who told the true story
behind the battle with
the aliens. Now, years
later, a second alien
race has been discovered.
But again they are
strange and frightening -
and again, humans are
dying. It is only the
Speaker for the Dead,
secretly Ender Wiggin,
who has the courage to
confront the mystery...
and the truth.

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Torchwood - Golden Age

On the trail of a
dangerous energy field,
Torchwood are led to
Delhi. There they witness
the simultaneous
disappearance of hundreds
of people, and Jack
discovers that the field
centers on an old
colonial mansion -
Torchwood India. Jack is
shocked to find that
Torchwood India is still
going strong - he shut it
down himself over 80
years ago. He's even more
surprised to find that
its members, including
his old flame the
Duchess, haven't aged a
day. What is the secret
of their eternal youth,
and how is it linked to
the deadly energy field?
The team must find out -
and they haven't a moment
to lose, for all the
time the field is
expanding...Written
specially for BBC Radio
by James Goss, Golden Age
stars John Barrowman as
Captain Jack Harkness,
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper
and Gareth David-Lloyd as
Ianto Jones.

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Dirk Gentlys Holistic
Detective Agency

What do a dead cat, a
computer whiz-kid, an
Electric Monk who
believes the world is
pink, quantum mechanics,
a Chronologist over 200
years old, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (poet), and
pizza have in common?
Apparently not much;
until Dirk Gently,
self-styled private
investigator, sets out
to prove the fundamental
interconnectedness of all
things by solving a
mysterious murder,
assisting a mysterious
professor, unravelling a
mysterious mystery, and
eating a lot of pizza --
not to mention saving the
entire human race from
extinction along the way
(at no extra charge). To
find out more, read this
book (better still, buy
it, then read it) -- or
contact Dirk Gently's
Holistic Detective
Agency. 'A thumping good
detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time
travel-romantic-musical-comedy
epic.' The author

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Mammoth Book Of Time Travel SF
(25 Mindbending Science
Fiction Stories)

This thought-provoking
collection not only takes
us into the past and the
future, but also
explores what might
happen if we attempt to
manipulate time to our
own advantage. These
stories show what happen
once you start to meddle
with time and the
paradoxes that might
arise. It also raises
questions about whether
we understand time, and
how we perceive it. Once
we move outside the
present day, can we ever
return or do we move into
an alternate world? What
happens if our meddling
with Nature leads to time
flowing backwards, or
slowing down or stopping
all together? Or if we
get trapped in a constant
loop from which we can
never escape. Is the past
and future immutable or
will we ever be able to
escape the inevitable?
These are just some of
the questions that are
raised in these
challenging, exciting
and sometimes amusing
stories by Kage Baker,
Simon Clark, Fritz
Leiber, Christopher
Priest, Kristine Kathryn
Rusch, Robert
Silverberg, Michael
Swanwick, John Varley
and many others.

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