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  The Tomb

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Tomb" is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home. "The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a confessed daydreamer. While still a child, he discovers the padlocked entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family, whose nearby mansion had burnt down many years previously. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable. Dispirited, he takes to sleeping beside the tomb. Eventually, inspired by reading Plutarch's Lives, Dudley decides to patiently wait until it is his time to gain entrance to the tomb. One night, several years later, Jervas falls asleep once more beside the mausoleum. He awakes suddenly in the late afternoon, and fancies that as he awoke, a light had been hurriedly extinguished inside the tomb. Jervas then returns to his home, where he goes directly to the attic, to a rotten chest, and therein finds the key to the tomb. Once inside the tomb, Jervas discovers an empty coffin with the name "Jervas" inscribed upon the plate. He begins to sleep in the empty coffin each night, yet those who witness him sleeping see him asleep outside the tomb, not inside as Jervas believes. Jervas also develops a fear of thunder and fire, and is aware that he is being spied upon by one of his neighbours.

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  Archform: Beauty

  Jr. L. E. Modesitt

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  Four centuries in the future, the world is rich—nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody—but no utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people: a singing teacher, a news researcher, a police investigator, a politician, and a ruthless businessman. 
   
   
   
  Theirs is a society where technology takes care of everyone's basic needs but leaves most people struggling to extract a meaningful life from a world crowded with wonders but empty of commitment and human connection. Alternating the voices and experiences of these five characters in a tour de force of imaginative creation, L. E. Modesitt overlaps, combines, and builds their disparate stories into a brilliant tale of future crime and investigation, esthetic challenge, and personal triumph. 
   
   
   
  In the same way that he has built fantasy landscapes of surpassing fascination, Modesitt creates a believable future, one imbued with a deep understanding of the way politics work and how people act and react when their sense of themselves, of justice, and truth, is exploited by others for power and control. When there's nothing left to need or want, will beauty live on in people's lives or disappear forever?

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  Blood of the Cosmos

  Kevin J. Anderson

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  The titanic conflict continues between galactic civilizations and the life-destroying force of sentient shadows…      After the events in the Hugo-nominated The Dark Between the Stars, the humans and Ildirans have narrowly escaped annihilation by the Shana Rei and their alien robot allies. But civilization in the Spiral Arm is at the risk of extinction from the deadly black clouds that absorb all life.       The last few survivors of the mysterious Gardeners, whose worlds were smothered by the Shana Rei millennia ago, raise countless questions of their own, and these alien refugees may be a disaster in disguise. What is their true intent?      A desperate alliance among empires tests a provocative new weapon that may be powerful enough to combat the deadly shadows … but its horrible failure could bring the human race and its allies to the brink of annihilation.      An epic space opera filled with intertwined plots, colorful ideas, a large cast of characters, and dozens of solar systems, alien races, and strange creatures.

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  Arcane Mirrors Reflecting Twin...

  Hang Nguyen

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  In the hall of arcane mirrors within Mirroria, where reflections twist fates like prisms and mirror mages command echoes of the soul, mage Selene captures the gaze of twin-souled thief Joren, whose eyes hold portals to parallel desires. Their eternal reflection, born in a gazing ritual amid shattered glass, multiplies their love—or fragments it into warring reflections. As they navigate mirrored labyrinths and echo-haunted galleries, stalked by reflection thieves and jealous mages, Selene's arcane weaves bind with Joren's elusive shadow, revealing a mirror codex of unified souls. When a shattering curse spawns doppelganger horrors, they must align their gazes to restore wholeness. In the gleam of twin reflections, where every shard whispers multiplicity and every eye holds infinity, their love becomes the mirror that reflects unbreaking truth.

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  Export Commodity

  Irving Cox Jr.

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  Export Commodity by Irving Cox Jr. - Henig was sent to obtain a soil sample of the planet. It was a routine assignment, but not necessarily the only method for discovering an—Export Commodity 
  Three of the hairless bipeds stood in front of the frame building talking. Concealed by the brush beyond the road, Henig studied them carefully. These were the dominant species on this primitive world, unspeakably grotesque things. The pale, white skinned animals had a culture of sorts—their language, their buildings, their wheeled vehicles testified to that—but an animal society was very different from the rational civilization Henig knew. 
  He was naked and he carried no weapons. That was the logic of the computers. But Henig was a Fleet Lieutenant, not one of the scientists. He put his faith in arms rather than computer logic. Stripped of his weapons, he lost a fundamental part of himself. The computers had said he would be safe, but too many things could go wrong. Too many factors might have been left out of the observer data submitted to the machines. 
  Henig inched cautiously toward the three white things standing near the wooden structure. The telecommunicator, which the surgeons had planted in his skull, caught the sound of alien voices and made a conceptual translation in terms Henig understood. He could have used the same device to communicate directly with the alien minds, but the Scientist-General had warned him against that. 
  "The hairless bipeds," he told Henig, "are only an animal species. They have no civilization. Make no mistake about that, Lieutenant." 
  "And if we decide we need their planet, sir—" 
  "We'll set up reservations for them, so they can't interfere with our operation." 
  "They won't have weapons to match ours," Henig suggested hopefully. 
  "If you go in uniform, Lieutenant, even these witless things would recognize you as an alien.

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  Child of Death Volume 1 -...

  Anexis Matos

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  When the black moon graces the sky, Death's ominous presence descends. 
  Lord Death, diligent in imparting nightly lessons to his daughter, finds his routine shattered by her piercing scream. After eight years of tranquility crumble beneath the pursuit of the mortal realm, a debut author unveils a tale of defiance and revelation. In the face of a grave mistake of Lord Death's own making, an unlikely family grapples with inevitable change in the first book of the Child of Death series.

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