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Destiny’s Children 01 – Baxter, Stephen

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Book Preview BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK Coalescentis a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 2003 by Stephen Baxter All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by … Read more

Children of Time – Baxter, Stephen

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Book Preview A Short Story from Gardner Dozois – The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006) Stephen Baxter tells us his “big news is that we moved house last year, to a National Park in Northumberland, near the Scottish border.” Stephen’s next novel, _Transcendent _(Del Rey, December 2005), is his third in the … Read more

Anti-Ice – Baxter, Stephen

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Book Preview I would like to express my thanks to Eric Brown and Alan Cousins who read drafts of the manuscript; to David S. Garnett for his enthusiasm for the concept; and to my agent Maggie Noach, my editor Malcolm Edwards, and the staff at HarperCollins for their hard work on this project. I scarcely … Read more

American Prison – Bauer, Shane

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Book Preview We all want to believe in our inner power, our sense of personal agency, to resist external situational forces of the kinds operating in this Stanford Prison Experiment. . . . For many, that belief of personal power to resist powerful situational and systemic forces is little more than a reassuring illusion of invulnerability. —Philip Zimbardo … Read more

Hitler’s Spy Chief – Bassett, Richard

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Book Preview The would-be biographer of Canaris could hardly choose a more difficult subject. Notwithstanding several excellent biographies on him, notably by André Brissaud and Heinz Hoehne, the mystery of the German admiral who somehow helped Britain win the war remains, even more than fifty years after his death. Despite the thousands of words devoted … Read more

We Were Never Here – Bartz, Andrea

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Book Preview CHAPTER 1 Kristen trotted to the patio’s edge and crouched, long arm outstretched. Her fingers groped along a vine, lifting leaves, exposing the tender stalks beneath. I pictured her tipping over and tumbling off, there and then not there, the afterimage of her silhouette still hanging in my vision. I don’t know why. … Read more

Jennifer Government – Barry, Max

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Book Preview With money we will get men, Caesar said, and with men we will get money. Thomas Jefferson, 1784  … a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth … Read more

Call of the Bone Ships – Barker, RJ

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Book Preview She left her Kept to shipwife be To fly across the shining sea To walk the slate, the shining bone With promises she’d soon come home She flew up high, she flew down low Heave on, crew, heave on. From north to south she flew the storms Heave on, crew, heave on. She … Read more