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What if First Contact doesn't come the way we expect it-or with the sort of aliens we expect?When every side has secrets within secrets to keep, how is anyone supposed to know the truth-or live to tell about it? Is what the Prospector probe reported the greatest discovery of all time ... or the biggest hoax?Bob Hanson, the chief scientist of a major aerospace corporation, has made an incredible discovery. Video images from the space probe he h...

Will our first contact with aliens be the dawn of a new tomorrow -- or the last act in human history? The moon has suddenly acquired its own satellite: a two-mile-across starship that represents a hitherto unsuspected Galactic Commonwealth. The F'thk, a vaguely centaur-like member species for whom Earth's ecology is hospitable, have been sent to evaluate humanity for prospective membership. The F'thk are overtly friendly but very private - "In...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the second Wildside Double . . . "Countdown to Armageddon, " by Edward M. Lerner: Hezbollah has obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to Hezbollah, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back to a turning point in Europe...

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When Brent Cleary, demonstrating a beta-test protective "nanosuit" to potential customers, gets trapped in a massive pipeline explosion, only the nanosuit saves him. Smart nanobots integrated into the suit will do whatever it takes to protect the wearer ....The explosion kills hundreds. It's so destructive that-despite his protective suit-Brent suffers severe injuries. He needs first aid-and lots of it-that the bots scurry to provide ....But o...

Good science and entertaining writing make this a fast, entertaining read."-Publishers Weekly >p> Fools' Experiments is a near-future technothriller-a tale of artificial life, artificial intelligence, and world-threatening hubris. In a nutshell: We are not alone, and it's our own damn fault .... Something demonic is stalking the brightest men and women in the computer industry. It attacks without warning or mercy, leaving its prey insan...

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Computing is mere decades young, a set of technologies we have scarcely begun to develop. It's already been quite a ride. Now: Imagine every gadget around you becoming ever faster, cheaper, tinier, more interconnected, more intelligent . . . especially more intelligent. The stories in Creative Destruction explore what we could face in the next half century or so: artificial intelligence, malicious software to makes us nostalgic for mere viruse...

Computing is mere decades young, a set of technologies we have scarcely begun to develop. It's already been quite a ride. Now: Imagine every gadget around you becoming ever faster, cheaper, tinier, more interconnected, more intelligent . . . especially more intelligent. The stories in Creative Destruction explore what we could face in the next half century or so: artificial intelligence, malicious software to makes us nostalgic for mere vir...

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Gripping. Impossible to put down."- Jack McDevitt "Leave it to Edward M. Lerner to take a notion, run with it, squeeze every ramification out of it, and put it altogether in an irresistible page-turner. Dark Secret is a crackerjack novel-hard science fiction at its best."- Robert J. Sawyer When the experimental ship Clermont is urgently recalled from a long-range test flight, neither Dana McElwain nor Blake Westford, its captain and ...

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