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Two science fiction masters—Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick—team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the hidden history of the United States space program... "Houston, we have a problem...” Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA's public affairs director. Proud of the Agency's history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part o...

Interstellar pilot Priscilla 'Hutch' Hutchins has seen a lot of action. But now, multi award-winning science-fiction master Jack McDevitt gives us the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat tale of how it all began ... Hutch has finally realised her dream: she's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's licence.Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality and the World Space Auth...

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A nominee for the 2015 Nebula Award, COMING HOME is Jack McDevitt's brilliant new novel of interstellar travel, with an 8, 000-year-old mystery finally to be resolved

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En 2255, la era de la navegación interestelar ha tocado a su fin. La academia de Ciencia y Tecnología lleva clausurada mucho tiempo y son las fundaciones privadas las únicas que realizan esfuerzos por continuar con la exploración espacial. Sin embargo, el físico Jon Silvestri insiste en la existencia de un prototipo abandonado tiempo atrás, que resultaría mucho más eficaz para emprender dicha campaña. Priscilla Hutchins, convertida en recaudad...

Encuadernación: Rústica con solapas Colección: Solaris ficciónMiles de años después de que una colonia entera, instalada en la mítica Margolia, desapareciera misteriosamente, llega a manos del marchante de antigüedades Alex Benedict un objeto proveniente, en apariencia, de la Buscadora, una de las naves margolianas. Investigando la procedencia del objeto en cuestión, Alex y su ayudante, Chase Kolpath, siguen una pista mortal hasta dicha nave, ...

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A futuristic space odyssey with a twist from the former naval officer and bestselling author.

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Buried 12 feet below Tom Lasker's North Dakota wheat field is a 42-foot fiberglass sailboat, complete with microwave oven. After digging it up, Tom makes the additional discovery of an object that serves as a doorway to another world--a find that will draw a far-flung collection of people with conflicting motives to the small community.

A Nebula Award finalist for Best Novel from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. Sixth in the acclaimed Alex Benedict series. 'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World

After centuries of searching for extraterrestrial life, it is determined that we are alone in the universe. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find out what happened to her clone-sister, who disappeared along with the rest of her ship's crew after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI mission. The truth may be more terrifying than Kim ever dared imagined.

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Eccentric Sunset Tuttle had spent his life searching for forms of alien life. Twenty-five years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. HC: Ace.

In the 23rd century, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to annihilate the rare, life-supporting planet of Maleiva III. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins must lead a small scientific team from Earth to the surface to glean what they can about the planet's lifeforms. But catastrophe strikes, and the team becomes stranded.

April 8, 2024: Carefully timed to coincide with a rare total solar eclipse, the American Moonbase is about to be opened officially, with Vice President Charlie Haskell on hand to cut the ribbon. But this same eclipse also reveals a giant interstellar comet hurtling toward the Moon and--with only a limited number of shuttles available--Haskell finds himself having to make some very big decisions of life or death for the human race.