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Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

Smart and sassy human women find true love with their alien warrior mates in this exciting sci-fi romance collection! This three-book omnibus includes the following titles: Damaged, Tempted, and Tamed. This binge-ready collection contains three full-length stand-alone sci-fi romance stories, featuring bronze-skinned alien warriors who will make you swoon.

One devastating event changed the course of humanity. They came in a blink of an eye and without warning, and intentions unknown. But when aliens made landfall, they began destroying everything in their path.

Somewhere within a distant constellation, in adrenaline-filled romps through space, aliens are coupling with human heroines. This science fiction romance collection contains Taken to Heimo, Taken to Kor, and Taken to Lemora.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe-and into the middle of the Thirty Years War-you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.

What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more-this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint to traditional holiday stories!

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear - and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, 23 talented authors, including New York Times best sellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over the ocean of possibility and wondered "What lies beneath?"

A girl from Kansas wins a ride to orbit in a lottery. A physicist sets up a mysterious experiment on the same ship. When the experiment is turned on, the girl from Kansas takes the ship through the mysterious Beyond to a new star. Thus begins an intriguing future history in which humans have a rare talent for exploration that is the envy of all the Galaxy.

Are you a parent with a young child? Are you looking for a gift for a young child? Or are you someone who just wants something nice for your children to listen to before bedtime? Then, The Short Stories Bundle for Kids is a bundle of stories just for you! These whimsical, charming little tales are light hearted, relaxing depictions of family friendly adventures as well as an introduction in sciences. The stories in this bundle are simple, clear, and direct style appropriate for children who like listening to fairy tales and educational material.

Spend an afternoon antiquing, and it’s not hard to figure out why picking has become one of America’s fondest pastimes. It’s treasure hunting while connecting with history. But what if those treasures hunt us back? From old books, vinyl records, antique mirrors, vintage figurines, and a Bob’s big boy piggy bank, curses have no limits.

Plato's dialogue, Critias, recalls the story of Atlantis attempting to conquer Athens. In ancient times, the Earth was divide by the gods - and gods tended the humans in their allotment as shepherds. Atlantis, allotted to Poseidon, becomes corrupt over time, and Zeus must take matters into his own hands.

Dieses Audiobuch enthält zwei Kurzgeschichten der Autorin. Leben™ – Abteilung für Mythen und Legenden. Oder Wie bestellt man einen Drachen. Montage sind in jedem Büro hart. Doch wenn Siegfried von Xanthen schon vor Arbeitsbeginn anruft, geht der Tag bei Leben™ – Abteilung Mythen und Legenden für Rose den Bach runter.

This audiobook contains two short stories. "Life - Divisions of Myths and Legends or How to Order a Dragon" Mondays are hard in any office. When Siegfried von Xanthen is calling before opening hours, the day at Life - Divisions of Myths and Legends goes downhill for Rose. "A Different Perspective" Romans attack, and Freyja flees with the women of her clan while the men fight, including her beloved Thordal. Can Allfather Odin help Freyja to save Thordal's life?

When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity learns that the law is truly a double edged sword. Delisa provides a first glimpse of a problem that does not yet exist, but one day will. we infuse plants with animal DNA, animals with plant DNA. When we start doing it to humans, what do they become?