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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author.The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote.The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking thi...

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Allen Steele

Is there a Bermuda Triangle on the Moon?Billionaire inventor Edison Smith pays for the Lemuria 7 moon mission as a tourist trip, sending media into an uproar. Is it a case of conspicuous consumption? Fodder for the tabloids? Actual, privately funded scientific research? Or something else? It turns out to be all of those things at once, and more.…When Smith, his wife Mary Alice, their daughter Amelia, Amelia's fiancé Todd, and the crew of

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Allen Steele

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Captain Future Omnibus

Raised in secret. Destined to change the Solar SystemIn the Solar Age, humanity has spread across the system—but power, corruption, and murder still follow. Raised in hiding beneath Tycho Crater, Curt Newton was never meant to be part of the wider world. Too dangerous. Too important.When a public ceremony at the Moon's legendary Straight Wall reveals the man responsible for his parents' murder, Curt's life explodes into motion. Ancient alien petroglyphs, wh...

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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the Coyote Universe with this science fiction adventure about a disgraced pilot facing nature's deadliest force."The master of science fiction intrigue." — Washington PostDismissed from the Union Astronautica space fleet for conduct unbecoming, Jules Truffaut faces a bleak future as a grounded pilot on an Earth ruled by a social collectivist regime that denies individual freedoms. Hoping to st...

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Allen Steele

Earth's past and future are altered by twenty-fourth-century time travelers in this "significant work of science fiction" from the author of Arkwright ( Rocky Mountain News).Chrononaut Franc Lu has come a long, long way—from the twenty-fourth century, in fact—to be in New Jersey on the evening of May 6, 1937. Traveling four hundred years into the past, he and his partner have been sent by the Chronospace Research Centre to observe the infamous expl...

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Allen Steele

Short stories and science writing from a Robert A. Heinlein Award winner: "Allen Steele is among the best." — St. Louis Post-DispatchIn Rude Astronauts, Allen Steele presents some of his finest stories—including the Diamondback Jack Trilogy and his first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel"—along with excerpts of the nonfiction science writing with which he made his name. In Steele's universe, the stars are cold, space is big, and it's the ...

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Allen Steele

On mankind's last mission to the moon, a killer comes along for the rideSince the first manned spaceflight in 1944, NASA has conquered the outer atmosphere, explored Mars, and placed nuclear missiles on the moon. But funding for interstellar adventures—military or otherwise—has dried up. Now, NASA is planning a final lunar mission to pack up the remnants of man's first extraterrestrial colony. The nuclear missiles are meant to be shot into the sun, but someone onboa...

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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

"The terrific conclusion to one of the best science fiction trilogies of the last decade." — BaryonEarth is dying. Corporate and political greed have devastated the environment and depleted natural resources. To ensure humanity's survival, people must take to the stars and find new worlds to inhabit.More than two hundred years ago, dissidents from Earth escaped from an authoritarian regime by hijacking a starship and colonizing the planet Coyote. It ...

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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

A Hugo Award–winning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world.The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution—a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followe...

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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

A standalone Coyote Universe story from the Hugo Award–winning author that's "the best first contact novel in a long time" ( Rocky Mountain News)." Spindrift is classic SF in the best sense." —Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevittThe year is 2288. Earth scientists have picked up a transmission originating from outside the solar system. Eager to confirm that the signal may have been sent by an alien civilization, Europe d...

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Allen Steele

The former head of a lunar mining operation returns to the moon and is immediately sucked into a dangerous morass of labor troubles, lies, larceny, and corporate wrongdoing in this wildly entertaining science fiction thrill rideThere is big trouble on the moon. The blue-collar working stiffs of Descartes Station, who mine the surface for minerals and the North Pole for water, have become increasingly dissatisfied with Skycorp's general disregard for its employees' w...

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Allen Steele

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Captain Future

CAPTAIN FUTURE'S GREATEST ADVENTURE ROARS TO ITS BLAZING CONCLUSION!Thrown without warning into a parallel universe where Earth has been destroyed and the solar system has been conquered by invaders from beyond the walls of spacetime, Curt Newton and his companions find themselves trapped in a timeline where everything once familiar is now different … and one of his closest friends is now the most powerful foe he will ever face!From the mom...