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  • Kepler's Cowboys

    by David Lee Summers, Steve B. Howell, Jaleta Clegg, L. J. Bonham, Patrick Thomas ...
    NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of new planets.Visiting, much less settling, those worlds will provide innumerable challenges.The men and women who make the journey will be those who don't fear the odds.They'll be Kepler's Cowboys.Saddle up and take an unforgettable journey to distant star systems. Meet new life forms--some willing to be your friend and others who will see ... Read more

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  • A Kepler's Dozen: Thirteen Stories About Distant Worlds That Really Exist

    by David Lee Summers, Steve B. Howell ...
    A Kepler's Dozen presents thirteen action-packed, mysterious, and humorous stories all based on real planets discovered by the NASA Kepler mission. Edited by and contributing stories are David Lee Summers, editor of Tales of the Talisman Magazine, and Steve B. Howell, project scientist for the Kepler mission. Whether on a prison colony, in a fast escape from the authorities, or encircling a binary ... Read more

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  • The NASA Kepler Mission

    by William Borucki, John Troeltzsch, Jessie Christiansen, Susan Mullally, David Ciardi, Calen Henderson, Andrew Vanderburg, Fergal Mullally, Rachel Street, David Summers, Henri Scars Struck, William Chaplin, J. J. Hermes, Ann Marie Cody, Elliott Horch, Rachel Matson, Steven Kawaler, Paula Szkody, George Jacoby, Csaba Kiss, Laszlo Molnar, Andras Pal, Krista Smith, Armin Rest, Peter Garnavich, Dennis Teusch, Chris Stewart, Chris D. Miller, Roger Lapthorne, Dustin S. Putnam, Kipp A. Larson, Doug Wiemer, Katelynn McCalmont-Everton, Colin Peterson, Professor Stephen R Kane ...
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    The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets – especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the habitable zone of their host suns – these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Handbook of CCD Astronomy

    by Steve B. Howell ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers
    Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook of CCD Astronomy is a concise and accessible reference on all practical aspects of using CCDs. Starting with their electronic workings, it discusses their basic characteristics and then gives methods ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Hard SF Renaissance

    An Anthology

    by David G. Hartwell ...
    A major anthology of the "hard SF" subgenre-arguing that it's not only the genre's core, but also its future.Something exciting has been happening in modern science fiction. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"--science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World ... Read more

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  • Lightspeed Magazine, December 2011

    by John Joseph Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Pat Cadigan ...
    Series series Lightspeed Magazine
    Vylar Kaftan returns to Lightspeed with “The Sighted Watchmaker,” a story about a being coming face-to-face with her race’s long-dead creator, and the choice it must make as it guides its own creation to sentience.In “After the Days of Dead-eye ‘Dee,” author Pat Cadigan introduces us to a tough old woman who has been pushed aside one time too many, and the alien who dares to approach her.Andrew ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Pandora's Star

    by Peter F. Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Commonwealth Saga
    “An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert’s Dune or Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.”—SFRevuThe year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contains more than six hundred worlds interconnected by a web of transport “tunnels” known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Crystal Spheres

    by David Brin ...
    In a universe filled with habitable worlds why have we had no contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? David Brin's short story, "The Crystal Spheres," offers a fantastic explanation for the Great Silence. Instead of being late-comers - might humanity have come upon the scene too early? This haunting tale was voted one of the "most beautiful" of the eighties. Winner of the 1985 Hugo Award . ... Read more

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  • Judas Unchained

    by Peter F. Hamilton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Commonwealth Saga
    WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • “An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range.”—San Antonio Express-NewsIn the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Encounter with Tiber

    by Buzz Aldrin, John Barnes ...
    An Apollo 11 astronaut and the Nebula Award–nominated author of Directive 51 present a novel that " conveys the wonder and promise of space" ( Publishers Weekly).Born the year of the Moon landing, Chris Terence spends his life fighting to return humanity to that pinnacle. An engineering student with dreams of spaceflight, he finds upon graduation that the United States no longer has need for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadows of Eternity

    by Gregory Benford ...
    “A fascinating plunge into a new world. I loved the idea of the SETI Library on the moon. Chasing wormholes is also a wild ride!” —Jack McDevitt, bestselling author of Octavia GoneShadows of Eternity is legendary author Gregory Benford’s return to interstellar science fiction as a discovery within the SETI library on the moon turns out to be deadly.Shadows of Eternity is a novel set two centuries ... Read more

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  • The Ninth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

    Classic and Modern Science Fiction

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Kristine Kathryn Kristine Kathryn Rusch Rusch, Dan Simmons, Lester del Rey, Jay Lake, Donald E. Westlake, Janet Kagan, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. ...
    "The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack" contains 27 more works spanning time and space--including 24 stories, 2 interviews, and "A Science Fiction Alphabet." Fun stuff indeed! Included are:INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell SchweitzerTHE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn RuschAIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. CloughFOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del ReyLUVVER, by Mack ... Read more

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