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What happens when science tampers with nature? A riveting, cautionary tale with disastrous results reveals the chilling answer.Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth–and serious illnesses. Over the years, people who have eaten these specially treated foods find themselves unable to fit into a society where ignorance and hypocrisy rule. These «giants,» with their extraordinary mental powers, find themselves shut away from an older, more traditional society. Intolerance and hatred increase as the line of distinction between ordinary people and giants is drawn across communities and families. One of H. G. Wells' lesser-known works, The Food of the Gods has been retold many times in many forms since it was first published in 1904. The gripping, newly relevant tale combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.

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“ After the Flare is spectacularly imagined, well-written, and a pleasure to read. An absorbing novel that explores a compelling, African-centered future world.” – Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it – in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe, Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and thousands of dead satellites about to plummet to Earth, the planet’s only hope rests with the Nigerian Space Program’s plan to launch a daring rescue mission to the International Space Station. Bracket and his team are already up against a serious deadline, but life on the ground is just as disastrous after the flare. Nigeria has been flooded with advanced biohacking technologies, and the scramble for space supremacy has attracted dangerous peoples from all over Africa. What’s more: the militant Islamic group Boko Haram is slowly encroaching on the spaceport, leaving a trail of destruction, while a group of nomads has discovered an ancient technology more powerful than anything Bracket’s ever imagined. With the clock ticking down, Bracket – helped by a brilliant scientist from India and an eccentric lunar geologist – must confront the looming threats to the spaceport in order to launch a harrowing rescue mission into space. In his follow-up to Nigerians in Space , Deji Bryce Olukotun poses deep questions about technology, international ambition, identity, and space exploration in the 21st century.

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The time is 2183. Fifty-six-year-old Saunders Maxwell is a stubborn old space-farer who has spent his entire life in space. He has captained the Moon-Mars shuttle and led exploration missions beyond Mars. When he came to Mars in his forties he helped discover the water source that made the first American Mars colony possible.<br><br>Later he turned to asteroid mining, captaining a small ship and crew of about a half dozen on repeated trips to the asteroid belt, bringing back minerals or even small asteroids so that the Mars colony could harvest them for the needed resources.<br><br>Having just returned from one such four year mission, he and his pilot Harry Nickerson are heading back to Mars when, as they fly over the vast slopes of the giant volcano Olympus Mons, Maxwell spots this strange glint below, a glint that is not natural and should not be there.<br><br>When they land they discover something entirely unexpected and impossible, the body of man who had disappeared on a distant asteroid almost a half century before. Sanford Addiono had been on one of the first manned missions to the asteroid belt when he and a partner had vanished. Nothing was ever heard from them again. Even more baffling, two later missions to the asteroid from which they had been lost found that it was gone as well, no longer in orbit where it was supposed to be.<br><br>Now, 46 years later, Maxwell finds Addiono&#39;s body on the surface of Mars. How Addiono had gotten to Mars from a distant now-lost asteroid orbiting beyond Mars&ndash;without a spaceship&ndash;was a riddle that almost defied an answer.<br><br>That riddle was magnified exponentially by what Addiono had brought back with him. Among his effects was a six-fingered robot hand that had clearly been made by some alien civilization, along with a recorder and memo book describing what Addiono had seen.<br><br>Here was a mystery that would rock humanity, the first alien contact. And at that moment Saunders Maxwell decides that he is going to be the person to solve that mystery, even if it takes him through hell and back.<br><br>Unfortunately, that is exactly where that journey takes him.<br><br>Not that it matters. Saunders Maxwell is a typical human, and for humanity, the journey itself is really all that matters.<br><br>So now I stand on earthside shore,<br>And wonder what I am.<br>I must go out and find my home.<br>The journey&#39;s what I am.<br><br>Chorus:<br>O Pioneer! O Pioneer!<br>Where do you go from here?<br>O Pioneer! O Pioneer!<br>The stars are far too near.<br><br>-A folksong of Mars and the Moon

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The main plot of The Fifth Law revolves around a retirement habitat on an idyllic tropical island where the inhabitants have an average age of 110 years. Global warming and other environmental factors are building to a crisis-level situation at the habitat.<br><br>The story explores human versus robot, robot versus robot, as well as human versus human encounters in various engaging scenarios. For robots to be effective in executing their tasks without harming their human owners, the decades-old Asimov Laws are stringently enforced by the International Agency for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (IARAI). Safeguards against intrusion by rogue robots are also required by IARAI. To augment these laws as well as a more recent Fourth Law, a robot researcher proposes a fifth law that champions &#39;the spirit of brotherhood&#39; amongst robots for ratification by IARAI. Inadvertently, the application of the Fifth Law results in an emergent consciousness in the robots.<br><br>A business tycoon (Jeremy), who has ambitions to develop island resorts, enlists the help of a renowned climate advocate to acquire the retirement habitat. On the side, he also plans to salvage some sunken treasures in the surrounding waters. A voting procedure is set up for approval of sale by the owners. However, the outsiders run into opposition from the habitat&#39;s manager (Timorine), who assembles a ragbag team comprising inhabitants, robots and robot experts. The rivalries between the two groups are closely fought and further complicated by political brinkmanship in the South China Sea. The home team tactically applies experimental robotic technology based on the Fifth Law to overcome challenges in salvaging the sunken cargo. In addition, the centenarians contribute their skills and knowledge to tackle problems as they arise. A fierce underwater battle is fought between the two groups of robots, and Jeremy&#39;s team is forced to retreat. Armed with cash from auctioning the partially recovered cargo, the home team now challenges the tycoon&#39;s proposal. In the vote for ownership of the island, Jeremy is narrowly defeated. Applying power negotiation tactics, the tycoon&#39;s team grabs a 51% stake in the island at a relatively low price. However, it is a pyrrhic victory for the island is soon devastated by a tsunami. The two groups then agreed to re-develop the island together.<br><br>The story presents a panoply of quirky, delightful human and non-human characters over a one-week period in the year 2040. A robotic dog also provides some heart-warming takes on human-robot interactions. The robotic laws, including the proposed Fifth Law, are tested to the brink whilst human ethics slither into shades of grey. The story ends with a discussion on robotic consciousness enabled by the Fifth Law.

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Two Centuries. Two Santas. The Belgian and the Cowboy. Internal dilemmas and external strife aplenty. It is during this era that Mistletoe Green flexes his grip over the North Pole and through the manipulation of the Santas ultimately succeeds in the sealing of the Library. The Elders, banished to the Village must escalate their resistance plans against the FCD and all their evils. Dire times tend to forge the people the future most depends on. And from these crucibles was Santa Christo so tempered, the upheavals of the twentieth century with its wars and technological leaps would serve as the foundation of a legacy that would forever cast him as the greatest Santa. <br><br>About the series, The Magi Charter:<br>For over two thousand years the legend of Santa Claus has endured. His is a mission of peace as outlined in the Magi Charter, given to the first Santa by the Child. From humble beginnings following that First Christmas the Santa lineage has been passed down through the ages. This epic adventure tells the story of those Santas from the founding of the North Pole and the origin of the ancient elves, to our modern times where the world&#39;s problems effect even those in the secluded complex of the North, and concluding in the distant future which finds Santa and the elves committed to their mission on a galactic scale where Christmas traditions are barely recognizable. Even in that era those committed to the Charter must find a way to deliver that which is needed most to those most deserving.

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An action/comedy with astronauts taking off on one journey which turned into many adventures throughout the galaxies<br><br>This is the first book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse &mdash; even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.<br><br>Titles in this series are<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Space Pirates, Allies and Alliens<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Weddings<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Back At It on Two Fronts<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Captain Kirk… Houston<br>* Adventures of Space Cadets 101: ISIS

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This 120 page E-Book of 40,000 words is the fifth book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. <br><br>The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse – even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.<br><br>Titles in this series:<br>1. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Space Pirates, Allies, and Aliens<br>2. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions<br>3. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Weddings<br>4. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Back At It on Two Fronts<br>5. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Captain Kirk … Houston<br>6. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: ISIS

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This 253 page E-Book of 95,000 words is the fourth book in a series about a wealthy family of the future. <br><br>The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse – even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.<br>Titles in this series:<br>1. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Space Pirates, Allies, and Aliens<br>2. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions<br>3. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Weddings<br>4. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Back At It on Two Fronts<br>5. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Captain Kirk … Houston<br>6. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: ISIS

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Time marches on… Santas and Elves come and go at the North Pole complex. For some the reasons they choose to leave are personal, for others it&#39;s a dismissal. Santa&#39;s annual Mission must never fail despite how each passing year adds complexity amidst a world plagued by endless wars and upheavals. The denizens of the North are not secluded from the human world&#39;s problems. The complex is not the utopia that some want it to be. Santa and Elves must come to terms with the turbulence of history and not allow personal issues to disrupt their commitments. Anna, Tetsu, and Hilda will each face challenges that threaten their legacies and centuries old friendships.<br><br>About the series: The Magi Charter<br>For over two thousand years the legend of Santa Claus has endured. His is a mission of peace as outlined in the Magi Charter, given to the first Santa by the Child. From humble beginnings following that First Christmas the Santa lineage has been passed down through the ages. This epic adventure tells the story of those Santas from the founding of the North Pole and the origin of the ancient elves, to our modern times where the world&#39;s problems effect even those in the secluded complex of the North, and concluding in the distant future which finds Santa and the elves committed to their mission on a galactic scale where Christmas traditions are barely recognizable. Even in that era those committed to the Charter must find a way to deliver that which is needed most to those most deserving.

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The John Carter of Mars Collection (7 Novels + Bonus Audiobook Links)<br><br>&quot;In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.&quot; &ndash; Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars<br><br>* Professional formatting, giving you full control over fonts, font sizes, and line spacing<br>* Active table of contents accessed by the &quot;go to&quot; or &quot;menu&quot; button<br>* Links to download full-length audiobooks included FREE!<br><br>The John Carter of Mars Collection includes seven of Edgar Rice Burroughs works:<br><br>A Princess of Mars<br>The Gods of Mars<br>Warlord of Mars<br>Thuvia, Maid of Mars<br>The Chessmen of Mars<br>The Master Mind of Mars<br>A Fighting Man of Mars<br>Bonus: A Glossary of Names and Terms Used In the Martian Books<br><br>Audiobook Links: Links to download free, full-length audiobooks for The John Carter of Mars Collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs (books 1-5) can be found at the end of the book.<br><br>About this Digital Papyrus edition:<br>&quot;Experience the Digital Papyrus Difference!&quot;<br><br>We are devoted book lovers and formatting fanatics. Our team has experience producing thousands of ebooks since 2011 for discerning authors and readers alike. We know what readers expect from their ebook purchases. We avoid distracting formatting inconsistencies and annoying glitches too often found in ebooks.<br><br>We adhere to the highest standards in producing our ebooks&ndash;regardless of the sale price. (Low or value pricing should never be an excuse for second-rate work!)<br><br>We want readers of our ebooks to get lost in the story just as easily as readers of print books. Our promise is a pleasant reading experience.<br><br>10% of all Digital Papyrus profits are donated to charity every month.

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