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82) Westwind
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In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with...
83) Rescue mode
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"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
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Armed with his knowledge of science, Leo Geo becomes an astronaut and heads into space, where he encounters pirates and tries to stop a comet that is headed toward his brother's science laboratory on the space station. Matt Data is working in his lab on the space station when he learns his brother Leo's computer is about to malfunction and turn evil, so he takes a spaceship to save Leo. Both Matt and Leo are in for an adventure in this flip-over graphic...
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"The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed and the animals (and the humans brought to live there) were bioengineered to help the guests enjoy their stay. But the Empire was shattered in a horrific war; centuries later humanity has lost much of their advanced technology, and Artemis is...
88) Zero limit
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For war hero Caitlin Taggart, mining work on the Moon is dirty, low pay, and high risk, but no risk seems too extreme if it helps her return to Earth and the daughter she loves more than life itself. Offered a dangerous, long-shot chance to realize that dream, Caitlin will gamble with more than just her life. By leading a ragtag crew of miners on a perilous assignment to harvest an asteroid, Caitlin could earn a small fortune. More importantly, it...
89) Grawitacja
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An organism harmless on earth where it is subject to gravity terrorizes a research station in space. Scientists die violently and from their insides spill creatures that are part human, part frog and part mouse. A medical thriller by the author of Bloodstream.
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Taylor, the astronaut from Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston), appeared briefly during Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but his whereabouts remained largely unknown--until now. Revealed for the first time are Taylor's deadly adventures, the violent unrest among the apes, and the secrets of the mutant city hidden beneath the Forbidden Zone.
When astronaut Taylor and his crew landed on the planet, they found human-simian relationships reversed. When...
91) Now and forever
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Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing, " in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99, " in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
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Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret after the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover...
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