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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

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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

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

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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...

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Allen Steele

"This is the story of the last day of my life, and everything that happened after that."Back in print after a decade, A King of Infinite Space is the final volume of Allen Steele's award-winning Near-Space series, and a cult-favorite among readers. Ranging from a Lollapalooza concert of 1995 to the asteroid belt of 2099, it's the tale of a young man who dies, becomes reborn, and crosses the solar system in search of his lost love… and grows to be a better man, despite himself....

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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

The future of an orbiting space colony is threatened by a fugitive and the assassin on her trail in this science fiction adventure from three-time Hugo Award winner Allen SteeleSkycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to serve as a cash cow, bringing the corporate behemoth a substantial return on its investment through food production and tourism. Now that the Church of Elvis is planning a major revival meeting on the colony, the execs a...

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Allen Steele

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The Coyote Universe

An alien philosophy has the power to unite—or divide—humanity on a colonized world in this science fiction adventure from a Hugo Award-winning author.Besieged by overpopulation, dwindling resources, governmental collapses, and environmental destruction, the people living on Earth and its solar system colonies face a dire future. Light years away, the colony planet of Coyote offers humanity the best chance of survival, but its leaders are limiting immigration from E...

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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

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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

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

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...