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IN THE "DOC" SMITH TRADITIONThe planet was fine for big game hunters. And it was the tradition there that one must have a trophy before one could call oneself truly a man.If that were all, it would hardly interest Cap Kennedy because his trophies consisted of planets...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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THE HAND OF DR KAIFENGBy tampering with the genes of humanity to create a super-race - that was the ideal of many scientific Utopians.By tampering with the genes of humanity to create a super-army - that was a dream of many military commanders.By tampering with the...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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PILLAR OF FIREMillions of Years before humanity and other intelligent races learned to roam the Milky Way, the Zheltyana had created an empire among the stars - rose, triumphed, and vanished. All that remained were a few ruins, some artifacts, and the knowledge that...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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THE DAUGHTER OF KAIFENGThe world was haunted. Every sunset the natives went home, locked their doors, and pulled down the window blinds. Ghosts didn't scare Kennedy. As an agent of FATE, it took more than superstition to shake him. But Epidoris was the real thing....
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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QUARANTINED PLANET"On Dephene, the native life -form is peculiar and unique. All protoplasmic life is equal to and one with the mimics." On screen, the shape changed, altered into the shape of a man.Then it changed. It shrank, dropped, lifted a snouted head in the...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Three times had the scientific genius, Kaifeng, slipped through the hands of the men of FATE - and three times those equally fanatic guardians of the fragile structure of interworld peace had tracked him down again.But now Kaifeng had something that the Free Acting...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The things from beyond the Milky Way galaxy found the intelligent races of our universe amusingly slight. To them, possessors of vast cosmic power, the strivings of various humanoids to outdo each other were a source of contemptuous entertainment.They established a...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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This is the strange tale of Horty, a little boy who ran away from home and took refuge in the bizarre world of the carnival. With him went his favourite toy - an old jack-in-the-box whose jewelled eyes sparkled and shone, hypnotic in their brilliance.And among the...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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It came from outer space . . .The Medusa, the intergalactic conqueror, a hive-like being with a consuming appetite to absorb all life in the universe.Now the Medusa had reached Earth.It had taken control of its first human being. Through him it would possess all his...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The Ledom had made a world without war, without fear - a world in which each individual was free to love, to create, to explore . . .The Ledom, a gentle and kindly new race, made their twentieth-century guest, Charlie Johns, welcome to their paradise.Charlie thought he...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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Two ships race in from outer space and crash in the Pacific Ocean. One contains a hunter, entrusted with a vital mission. The other, his quarry - corrupt, evil, a criminal from an unearthly civilisation light years away. Yet both these creatures had one thing in...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, surviving on the...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The Riddle of EnigmaYears of exacting study were coming to an end. All five student scientists, each the best its species had to offer, were one step away from their final degrees. One examination remained: the students were to determine why the tiny planet of Enigma, a...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Moon dust that comes alive in an attempt to destroy the invaders from Earth . . .A diabolical snare set on a fiery star for a desperate inter-galactic fugitive . . . An alien 'primitive' life form that has the last laugh on condescending space-men . . . This is a...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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The Expendables were criminals, offered pardons in exchange for exploring alien worlds. But their mission takes them to Kratos, where the local lifeform is giant, slimy and hostile!
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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The Expendables had struck it lucky at last. After grappling with the revolting Death Worms of Kratos, the deadly Rings of Tantalus and the weirdly anachronistic military society of Zelos, their fourth mission looked an easy one. Argus was an earth-type planet with one...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Expendables
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At ten-thirty in the morning the skies over London were clear. Then an arrow formation of five bright points became visible. They appeared to be moving at an amazing speed in tight circles. They were spiralling down to about five thousand feet, and at that altitude...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Eve: she was the true descendant of the first Woman - still craving the knowledge of life in the new world after the holocaust. Claudius: Only he remembered the world before the One-Day War. Would this memory help him find the truth? Ethan: He had the heart of a lion....
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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An alien craft appears, exploring the universe, approaching Earth. It is not the first. Nigel Walmsley is ordered to destroy it. But he believes it could hold knowledge that could save a world in which pollution and deprivation rule. Belief becomes obsession as he...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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Gateway Essentials
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Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. This last remnant of humanity is led by Killeen, a man elevated to command in desperate times by his luck and daring. ...
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Gateway
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2011-09-29
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