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  The High Crusade

  Poul Anderson

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  In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in North East Lincolnshire. 
   
  The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking conquering planets, and having determined from orbit that this one is suitable, they initiate standard procedure. Their ship carries guided missiles and nuclear weaponry - but they have long since lost the art (and weapons) of hand-to-hand fighting. And this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave - they've launched their invasion against Englishmen! 
   
  In the end, only one alien is left alive - and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. And then . . . ?

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  Swirls - Six Fun Science Fiction...

  Dennis R. Hill

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  Dennis R. Hill's original and creative stories will take you on journeys never imagined.In A Second Journey, Marten Stuart discovers a portal to another planet.  He is surprised to find that he is not the first human to visit, and they who have already colonized the world are headed on an evolutionary journey of cooperation instead of competition. Will he keep this new world a secret?In Death’s Seduction, ninety-year-old Logan Willoughby challenges The Grim Reaper to give him six pre-death adventures.  The first five end in harsh terminations of Willoughby’s life.  Will he finally beat Death during his sixth adventure?In Professor Guinea Pig, Gerald Nash, a medical laboratory aide realizes that he is undergoing medical operations during the night, conducted by mysterious beings.  When he awakes, he has no more than a few barely visible scars to prove that his nighttime experiences are real.  Who can he trust? Are his smiling and loving colleagues actually his enemies? In a bold move to learn the answer, he finally discovers the truth.In Sherry’s Fairies, eighty-one old Joe believes that there are fairies in his late wife’s garden.  His daughter and son-in-law believe he is becoming senile, and want to move him top a retirement home.  Joe fights for his independence, but are the fairies real or only a figment of his imagination?In Spinning Away, James Montgomery finds he is marooned on a moon that has been pulled from its orbit around Earth.  On his lonely ride towards Jupiter, he has only a few Guinea pigs to accompany him.  What act of valor or value is left for him to perform before being lost in space forever?In The Unisphere Thesis, the super deity, Ghod, creates a universe of forbidden life for his college thesis.  His older brother and college professors are not amused. To create living creatures is okay, but not if they become enlightened or empowered through their own development.  Will Ghod be successful at preserving his creation?

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  The Great Fury

  Thomas Kennedy

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
   Oengus, the stolen son of the Celtic Gods, has come of age. He must serve his apprenticeship and as a first step, he is made the God of Inconsequential Things. He must go to New York to recover a sword called ‘The Great Fury’. 
  Oengus finds his task is shrouded in complexity. Morag the Witch is plotting to contaminate the Manhattan Water System. Oengus is supported by the apprentice witch Maedbh and they are targeted by Morag and her crew of the Greyman with the embrace of death, Dearg Due the Vampire and Leanan Sidhe the seductress. 
  Will Oengus recover the lost sword and save New York from a plague of rats?

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  The Dark Light Years

  Brian W. Aldiss

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  A strange alien species forces us to question our definition of civilization in this biting satire from the Grand Master of Science Fiction. 
   
   
   
  What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod—intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain—mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explorer recognizes the intelligence behind their habits, he must reevaluate what it actually means to be "intelligent."

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  The Ghost of Parkview Ranch - A...

  Nicole Simon

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  In the heart of a breathtaking Montana ranch, Melissa's life takes an unexpected turn when a tragic accident lands her into a deep coma. Thrown from her beloved horse, Melissa’s spirit teeters on the edge of the unknown. A handsome cowboy named Richard soon arrives at the ranch seeking work.Intrigued and determined, Richard delves into the mystery surrounding Melissa's condition, uncovering secrets that defy logic and challenge his understanding of the world.Smitten by Melissa’s beauty in a supernatural encounter, Richard investigates to unravel the enigmatic secrets of the ranch, intertwining their destinies in a tale of romance that defies the boundaries of life and death.Love blossoms amidst the supernatural, defying the boundaries of life and death. Their connection deepens, transcending the physical realm as they navigate the complexities of their extraordinary relationship to find enduring love.

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  Sorcerer's Seal - Prophecy of...

  Jeremiah Crowe

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  Beneath the eternal frost of Thaloria, where starlight weaves secrets through ancient pines, the village of Alderwood harbors a mystery that hums in the shadows. Finn Aiverhart, a solitary 16-year-old with eyes that hold the weight of unspoken dreams, stumbles upon a truth hidden in the frost: a pulsating egg, guided to him by the elusive Moon Deer, whose silvery gaze pierces the veil of the night. From it hatches Nimbus, a creature of celestial radiance, its iridescent feathers whispering of powers older than the frozen lake itself. 
  Whispers of the Frostborne—a guardian foretold to wield the Aetherstone’s swirling light—coil around Finn, drawing him into a destiny he fears to embrace. The Aetherstone, a crystal pulsing with ancestral echoes, binds him to Nimbus and to a looming darkness: Nyxumbra, a shadow lord stirring in the ash-choked Umbral Waste, its ember eyes hungering for the spark Finn guards. With his family—Lira, a mage cloaked in fierce love; Aldric, a towering sentinel scarred by loss; and Isla, a sister whose daring hides her own secrets—Finn treads a perilous path through a land of Sky Serpents that dance with storms, Frost Wolves that howl with primal fury, and Shadehounds that slink from the void. 
  As frost scars etch his skin and the Aetherstone’s hum thrums in his veins, Finn battles not just the shadows without but the isolation within. What is the cost of a spark that could illuminate Thaloria—or plunge it into eternal night? In this enigmatic saga of Sorcerer’s Seal: Prophecy of the Frostborne, every step through the frost unveils a truth: in the coldest dark, a single light can defy the tides of fate, but its glow may conceal a deeper shadow waiting to rise.

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