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  Pillar of Fire

  Ray Bradbury

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  Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and philosophical science fiction novella that explores the boundaries between life and death in a sterile, futuristic society that has abolished the very concept of mortality. When William Lantry, a man long dead, awakens in a world where death has been erased from memory and corpses are destroyed rather than buried, he becomes the last ghost of humanity’s forgotten fear. Driven by loneliness and rage, Lantry wages a one-man war against a civilization that refuses to remember its dead. Bradbury’s chilling tale is both a meditation on human emotion and a gothic confrontation between memory, mortality, and progress—a story that challenges what it means to truly be alive in an age without death. Perfect for fans of classic speculative fiction, dystopian futures, and gothic horror.

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  Mr Meek—Musketeer - A Heroic...

  Clifford D. Simak

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  Mr. Meek—Musketeer by Clifford D. Simak - Adventure flamed in Mr. Meek's timorous heart, the surge of battle and singing blades. And so, with a rocket-ship for his steed and a ray-gun for his sword, he sallied forth ... carrying cavalier justice to the resentful shining stars. 
  Now that he'd done it, Oliver Meek found the thing he'd done hard to explain. 
  Under the calm, inquiring eyes of Mr. Richard Belmont, president of Lunar Exports, Inc., he stammered a little before he could get started. 
  "For years," he finally said, "I've been planning a trip...." 
  "But, Oliver," said Belmont, "we would give you a leave of absence. You'll be back. There's no reason to resign." 
  Oliver Meek shuffled his feet and looked uncomfortable, a little guilty. 
  "Maybe I won't be back," he declared. "You see, it isn't just an ordinary trip. It may take a long, long time. Something might happen. I'm going out to see the Solar System." 
  Belmont laughed lightly, reared back in his chair, matching fingertips. "Oh, yes. One of the tours. Nothing dangerous about them. Nothing at all. You needn't worry about that. I went on one a couple of years ago. Mighty interesting...." 
  "Not one of the tours," interrupted Meek. "Not for me. I have a ship of my own." 
  Belmont thumped forward in his chair, looking almost startled. 
  "A ship of your own!" 
  "Yes, sir," Oliver admitted, squirming uncomfortably. "Over thirty years I've saved for it ... for it and the other things I'll need. It sort of got to be ... well, an obsession, you might say." 
  "I see," said Belmont. "You planned it." 
  "Yes, sir, I planned it." 
  Which was a masterpiece of understatement.

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  Dead Conclusion

  Jordaina Sydney Robinson

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  It's Bridget Sway's deathiversary and the afterlife is pulling out all the stops. 
   
   
   
  Bridget Sway is still uncertain about her future as a private investigator. But when the Bureau of Ghostly Affairs invites her and her business partner, Sabrina, to give a presentation at a conference, they can't really say no. 
   
   
   
  Thinking it will be all tea, biscuits, and boring speeches, Bridget isn't expecting too much excitement. Until she finds a dead body. That's not totally out of the ordinary for Bridget, but something about this murder has echoes of the past. 
   
   
   
  Will Bridget be able to solve this last murder as neatly as she solved her first or will her past murder her too?

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  Time Flying - A Time Traveler's...

  Dan Garmen

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  Rich Girrard is happily married, a father, relatively well adjusted and owns half of a very successful tech company. Like most people approaching 50 years old, he had a few regrets, things he’d done, things he wished he hadn’t. When Rich finds himself again living his life in the 1970s, fully aware that he's doing it for the second time, he discovers the process is far more complicated than he first thought, and struggles to change the things in his past he needs to, while trying to remain the man his family will recognize when he returns to them.

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  Outcast

  Vanessa Nelson

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  If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count? 
   
   
   
  Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure. 
   
   
   
  Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past. She's just trying to do her job and live her life. 
   
   
   
  Asked to help local law enforcement with a series of vicious murders, Max is willing to assist but soon realises that she might be next. Can she keep her secret while finding the killer?

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  Escape from Proteus

  Douglas Hiles

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  Entrepreneur Alan Chamberlain has devoted his life to building a sprawling technology empire only to see it come crashing down with one miscalculation. He risks it all on a dangerous quantum physics experiment and ends up teleported 2.5 million light years from earth to the exoplanet Proteus in the Andromeda galaxy. Marooned on this new world he encounters an elusive amphibious woman who affects him in ways he has never experienced. His idyllic life on Proteus is shattered by a forced return to Earth where Alan learns the meaning of love and death.

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