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Summary: When someone--or something--leaves a series of mysterious satellites orbiting around diverse planets in the galaxy, a crew sets out to uncover the origins of the satellites and their potential danger to humankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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Summary: The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fund-raising efforts for The Prometheus Foundation, a privately funded organization devoted to deep space exploration. But when a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, Hutch finds herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: Planetary explorer and alien archaeologist Priscilla Hutchins investigates reports of sentient life on a planet called Deepsix and finds herself on a rescue mission to the planet fated to be destroyed by a collision with a rogue moon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2001
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Summary: After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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Summary: "Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. On a distant planet, the voyagers established a colony they named Margolia. Then they and the colony disappeared from recorded history." "Thousands of years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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Summary: On an Indian reservation in North Dakota, a shooting war breaks out over a space-travel machine. Left by visiting aliens thousands of years ago, it allows men to go the alien world. Washington wants to destroy it, the Indians to use it to emigrate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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Summary: "After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2019
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Summary: A 200,000 word gathering of the best short fiction by Jack McDevitt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1998
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Summary: Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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Summary: "Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2018
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Summary: Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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Summary: In the 21st century civilization has been destroyed. The protagonists are a group of people who make the dangerous journey to a land containing knowledge of the civilization. On the way they encounter its vestiges, including a car and a computer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997
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Summary: Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath try to find a missing physicist whose fringe science theories on endless alternate universes led him to fly interstellar yachts outside the planetary system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 2000
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Summary: A special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon realizes that their mission has become dangerous when they discover the truth about the moonriders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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Summary: The acclaimed classic novel and fan favorite--the far-future story of one man's quest to discover the truth behind a galactic war hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1989