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by Frank Herbert
Operation Haystack
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  • Fiction
  • 1959
  • Autor: Frank Herbert
It's hard to get a group of fanatics out; it would obviously be even more difficult to determine the genetic line of faithful men. But Orn’s problem was a step harder! When a scout and a research cruiser with a man on board landed on Marak, the doctors did not hope to save. He was alive only because he was in the celibate nursery, which took over most of his vital functions....
Number of pages: ~ 21 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4 out of 5

by Jerome Bixby
Zen
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Twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, the purpose of which were asteroids. We were four years and three months outside Terra, and we arrived at Vesta on schedule. Ten minutes after the landing, we knew that the lump was part of the crust of Planet X - or Sorn, to give it the correct name - one of the few parts that were not ejected from the solar system. This made Vesta special. It meant to calm down. This meant a thorough, long monthly analysis of every square inch of Vesta and many of its cubic, especially by scientists studying life. Fossils, artifacts, living life. A, a surface piece...
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.6 out of 5

by Robert Silverberg
Postmark Ganymede
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  • Fiction
  • 1957
  • Autor: Robert Silverberg
Preston served as a space patrol, but he was transferred to a postal ship. Now he must deliver mail to Ganymede. The new work turned out to be no less dangerous, because among the asteroids pirates were waiting for him, and on Ganymede - ice worms....
Number of pages: ~ 12 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.7 out of 5

by Philip Francis Nowlan
The Airlords of Han
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  • Fiction
  • 1929
  • Autor: Philip Francis Nowlan
Recovering from the gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony “Buck” Rogers helped enslaved America deliver the first blow to freedom against the newcomer Khan. Now he and beloved female warrior Wilma Deering must wage a desperate battle to the finish line against a superior opponent using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays and atomic torpedoes. Climatic conflict involves the battle of ships and rays with special effects, which will challenge even the most outstanding filmmakers of today to successfully reproduce the film....
Number of pages: ~ 55 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9 out of 5

by Randall Garrett
By Proxy
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  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Randall Garrett
Mr. Terrence Elshaw did not match the mental picture that comes to the mind of an ordinary person when he hears the words "news reporter." Automatically, everyone thinks of the general run of serious, beautiful, with hard jaws, even eyes, with gentle voices gentlemen whom everyone sees on the TV screen. No matter which newsletter to subscribe to, news reporters are pretty much all type. And Terrence Elshaw is just not that type....
Number of pages: ~ 27 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 5 out of 5

by H. Thompson Rich
Spawn of the Comet
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  • Fiction
  • 1931
  • Autor: H. Thompson Rich
“There are no seeds that we know, really. But what, in the end, do we know about the types of life that can be found on other planets? ” “Nothing, of course. Only they did not come from the planet. They came from a comet. " “And who can say that a comet is not a decayed planet? Or suppose we take a different theory, that it is an eruption of some sun, ours or another. In any case, who can say that life cannot survive the intense heat? ......
Number of pages: ~ 19 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.2 out of 5

by Randall Garrett
Anchorite
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  • Fiction
  • 1962
  • Autor: Randall Garrett
Not dizzying, not even fast, but very noticeable, a huge mass of jagged rock rotated around its axis. There are two main types of fools: those who know that they are fools, and those who, because they do not know this, are a deadly threat!...
Number of pages: ~ 33 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4 out of 5

by Lester Del Rey
Police Your Planet
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  • Fiction
  • 1956
  • Autor: Lester Del Rey
Bruce Gordon, a former fighter and ex-player, ex-policeman and ex-reporter, has now become an ex-patriot of the Earth. The security sends him to Mars with a knife, a hundred credit cards and a yellow card, which does not give a chance of return. But he knew how to communicate with the commission in the police station of Marsoport, and then found what was not only examples of fine art, but also the official Martian way of life. Thus he joined the system. And then he met Sheila ......
Number of pages: ~ 79 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.8 out of 5

by Richard Wilson
Double Take
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  • Fiction
  • 2009
  • Autor: Richard Wilson
The barn was a disguised spaceship, and that was just the beginning. Before his strange adventure ended, the young Paul Asher discovered that he was walking in circles - indeed very strange circles!...
Number of pages: ~ 13 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.5 out of 5

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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New York Times Bestseller From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out...
Number of pages: ~ 253 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4/5