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D. P. From Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds takes the familiar newsroom comedy of wisecracking reporters and drops an impossible visitor into the middle of it. The staff of the Daily Star has an answer for nearly every question anyone can throw at them, so when a stranger claims to have escaped from...

What if the history you learned in school were only one version of events? In Crossroads of Destiny, H. Beam Piper turns an ordinary conversation about alternate history into something increasingly difficult to dismiss. A group of travelers debate how Columbus, political elections, wars, and...

Public Enemy by Kendell Foster Crossen takes the familiar police chase and drops it into a future where law enforcement has changed almost beyond recognition. Brad Raynor is a newly minted Public Police Officer, highly educated and equipped with technology that makes hiding extraordinarily...

Captain Hannah has seen plenty of strange things while hauling cargo between the stars, but the Monahan boys are something else entirely. They can swim through empty space, pass through solid glass, communicate without speaking, and treat impossible feats as casually as skipping school. Hannah...

A routine voyage through hyperspace becomes anything but routine when three alien beings awaken aboard the Star Rover. They are remnants of a civilization that vanished a million years ago, and their first encounter with humanity does not go well. To the crew, the skags are hideous monsters. To...

An American butterfly collector ventures deep into Brazil searching for an extraordinarily rare specimen. Instead, he encounters José Ribiera, a frightened man carrying several pounds of gold and desperately trying to buy cattle. José refuses to explain why he needs them. He only insists that...

Don Hartley is an ambitious television technician with his sights set on something bigger than his place behind the cameras. Then an accident with a piece of studio equipment produces an impossible result. Don discovers that he can point a camera toward a location and see what is there even when...

Murderer’s Chain by Wenzell Brown is a wonderfully devious blend of science fiction, crime, and dark humor. Its narrator has a problem: his wealthy mother-in-law Maudie refuses to finance his latest investment scheme. Since his wife will inherit Maudie’s fortune, he begins considering a...

Winter Wedderburn longs for something remarkable to happen. His comfortable life offers little excitement, so he pours his attention into orchids and dreams of discovering a specimen unlike anything known to science. Then an unidentified orchid begins to thrive in his greenhouse. Its strange...

Life aboard a Mississippi shantyboat is poor but never dull for Jimmy, his younger sister Pigtail Anne, and their Uncle Al. Uncle Al has little money and holes in his socks, yet he makes sure Jimmy goes to school. Jimmy repays that devotion with fierce loyalty, even when it means refusing to run...

The Diktatura believes Dr. Joseph Euge has given it the ultimate weapon. His mutant virus spreads with terrifying efficiency, yet carefully chosen loyal citizens appear immune while criminals and political enemies die. To the men controlling the country, the explanation seems obvious. The...

Far beyond the crowded worlds of Earth, humanity’s scattered colonies survive because someone is always watching. On the lonely edges of explored space, members of the Space Frontier Watcher Service spend months at isolated posts, scanning the darkness for the Rumi raiders who strike without...

Sam Newman has escaped farther than any fugitive could reasonably hope to run. His stolen ship is nearly out of fuel, Earth is impossibly distant, and the crime behind him cannot be undone. Then he finds a green world that seems almost too welcoming. The air is perfect, food grows everywhere...

Sidney Davidson has not vanished, and he has not gone mad in any ordinary way. His body remains in England, helpless among friends who can touch him, guide him, and speak to him. But his eyes show him another place entirely: a lonely shore, a ship offshore, penguins moving across the rocks, and...

Are you the kind of individual that loves a good, juicy fact? If so, this is the audiobook for you. This encyclopedia of facts is going to allow you to delve deeper into the world of humanity than you ever thought possible, and we will throw in some facts about the animal kingdom as well. Covering countries far and wide and various time spans, you are going to be taken on a journey that will further expand your own knowledge on all things connected to being a human being. With The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia, you never know what you'll learn. There is only one way to find out.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALT Dubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards...

From the time of his childhood in rural Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower's vision of himself and his country was one of confidence and hope. His hard-working parents taught him self-reliance and nothing that happened in his long career ever eroded this trait. During nearly half a century of service to his country and the world, Eisenhower displayed a deep understanding of the nation's problems, aspirations, and fears that prevailed during both war and peace.  

Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-fearing town north of Reams. Not just dead things, but twisted forms…unholy shapes. And there are rumors of a blasphemous union and of fell creatures that haunt the night. Yet even as plague and witch pyres blacken the sky, the town remains untouched by the malady that has already claimed thousands and will claim thousands more. It is here, in Enfaire, that an old Franciscan friar and his ward take shelter from a storm. It is here, in a little town on the edge of civilization, that they will have their faith truly tested.

When Bruce Cowan takes his family and flees Boston to homestead out west, he figured the journey to California to be long but safe. Their first day out reveals how wrong he is and the perilous dangers of the Santa Fe Trail. It would have been a massacre but for Trent and Pat MacLeod. Trent favors a Sharps .50 caliber buffalo rifle, while his younger brother Pat packs two Texas Navy Colts. They both prove deadly and a force to be reckoned with. The Cowans and the McLeod brothers forge a bond those first few days, sustained in part by Trent's attraction to the 18-year-old Becky Cowan. 

When a missing child is found miles from home with no explanation, relief should follow. Instead, doubt does. Laura and Mark Bennett’s son disappears overnight—and returns the same day. Alive. Unharmed. Different. The details don’t line up. The shoes aren’t his. His memories feel rehearsed. And when Mark begins asking the wrong questions, the answers unravel something far more dangerous than a kidnapping. As an outside investigator quietly reviews records and timelines, a devastating possibility emerges: the child who came home may not be the one who left.