Sean Monaghan
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Startled by an odd noise outside her farmhouse squat, Ruby goes to check it out. What she sees, thows her for a spin.
Visiting Ambrose, a backwater town, Cole Wright enjoys the quiet pace of life.
But the events outside of Ruby's farmhouse set Wright on a collision course. With explosive consequences for everyone involved.
Especially Ruby.
A Cole Wright thriller that cuts to the bone.
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A Captain Arlon Stoddard Novelette
Ortanide. A planet with a unique geography, a rich history and a strange political system.
A political system that defies Captain Arlon Stoddard and his crew.
Restrained in a dank cell by the very people he came to help, Arlon faces the choice of violating the charters he works to uphold.
Or certain death.
A Captain Arlon Stoddard Novelette that pits the crew against possibly their most heinous foe yet.
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Visiting distant planet Endemo, with its mysterious huge alien wall, Matti-Jay and the crew of the Blue Defender expect some quiet sightseeing. But with hidden secrets, the wall, and the locals seem impenetrable. Matti-Jay struggles, racing to unravel the truth as things fall apart around her.Visiting distant planet Endemo, with its mysterious huge alien wall, Matti-Jay and the crew of the Blue Defender expect some quiet sightseeing. But with hidden...
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Ange Campbell sits in the over-cooled air in the bus's quiet interior. Parked in a mountain pass surrounded by banks of snow. The younger passengers dart around the overlook, oblivious to danger.Landslide Country.One six stories from the crisp imagination of award winner Sean Monaghan in this compelling collection.
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Cole Wright finds too many evenings in his tiny cul-de-sac apartment shattered by rumbling engines and squealing tires.His neighbors miss their sleep.Cole needs to do something about it.Unless someone else does something about it first.A Cole Wright story that asks the question 'can we make a difference?'
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The giant stone block of Vaile Max prison stands on the Karnish plains. Impregnable and escape-proof.
Prisoner Cole Dugald waits, release imminent. He wants no trouble.
But when authorities demand help from investigator Flis Kupe, trouble looms. For everyone.
On a collision course with deadly psychopaths, Cole and Flis must team up to survive.
A Karnish River Navigations novel that expands the world with unexpected revelations.
9) Cat Leaps
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Time operative Ari once again finds herself caught at the mercy of a ruthless journalist. At the edge of a jungle, in a rebel-destroyed harvester.
Nasty. Spurious journalists just about wrecked her career before.
Then again, Ari's Margay, Pix, always leaps to her assistance. Even if it means trying all over again.
A twisted time travel story with a heart from the author of "Crimson Birds of Small Miracles".
10) Gretel
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Instead of speeding for the stars, colony ship Gretel reappears in Saturn's orbit.After promising to never return to space, Karl Nathan finds himself confronted with a chilling choice.Saving the passengers, including his brother, will take all his courage.And then some.A deep space adventure from the author of Athena Setting.
11) Tritium Blaze
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Piloting the Echo Star around Jupiter enlivens Live Dricoll's senses in surprising ways. Gigantic and swirling, the planet reminds her of old conversations with her late grandmother.But strange forces lurk, putting more on the line than just her grandmother's legacy.This shapes up like a battle for humanity's future. With Liv stuck right in the middle.
12) Eastern Foray
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A day learning to fly the giant Alman-Kruder aircraft over the canal lands gives investigator Flis Kupe the chance to unwind after some tough assignments. At least until someone fires a smart missile at her.
Kind of changes her day. A whole lot.
And as Flis and fellow investigator Grae begin unraveling the mystery, missiles might become the least of their concerns.
Another episode in the thrilling Karnish River Navigations science fiction series that...
13) Scorpion Bait
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Jerome Miller lies in scorching, gritty sand, staring up out of the rugged ditch. Bleeding and broken. The start of a very bad day, for him. Cole Wright hitches into the town of Gollick, Arizona. Somewhere between Tuscon and Yuma. Looking for a good meal and maybe a bed for the night. Not looking for trouble. Sometimes, though, trouble hides away in those out of the way places. Sometimes trouble just finds him. Sometimes Wright just meets it head...
14) The Eye
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Planet Mapinkura. A pristine, idyllic location, with few problems. Like massive storms. And corporate criminals. Roaming carnivores.
Plunged into the thick of things, Kelly and her team have to work fast to protect their interests.
And the interests of research everywhere.
Because Mapinkura holds her secrets close. The corporates want those secrets. And the limits of their desires mean they stop at nothing.
15) The Tunnel
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Planet Mapinkura. An idyllic, lush, beautiful corner of the galaxy. The perfect quiet backwater for Kelly Barton to get her head together.
Away from corporate interests. Away from her history. Away from those past hurts. And with a bunch of like-minded researchers.
An easy posting with plenty of opportunities.
But Mapinkura hides secrets of its own.
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On his way toward Spokane, Cole Wright rides a rickety old bus. Local service. Regular schedule. Few passengers. Small town to small town. Heartland people.Wright plans to pick up the long distance service when the bus reaches the freeway.Plans, though, have a way of getting interrupted.A standalone Cole Wright story that comes right down to good people in tough circumstances.
17) Tramp Steamers
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Captain Arlon Stoddard and his tireless crew patrol the spaceways.Planet Ulshene's unique trading culture takes some getting used to. Steamers ply the skies, skimming over the endless prairie.Barl Brennan rates his skills as a crewman. But without a job, he faces a tough choice. One that challenges his very core values.Edmond Steverin always drives a hard bargain. He knows desperation when he sees it.Captain Arlon Stoddard and his crew slip undercover...
18) Hard Ground
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Picked over by birds and coyotes, the body on the riverbank looks days old.When Cole Wright rolls into Pointer, Montana, he figures a few days of quiet before heading on. Maybe Canada. Maybe over the mountains and on through Idaho.Turns out, Pointer holds on to people. In very odd ways.Another Cole Wright thriller filled with deception, twists and turns, and a whole lot of mystery.
19) Cold Highway
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A trip north of the border takes Cole Wright into the heart of snowbound Canada. Friendly people, vast distances, tough vehicles, isolation.When a breakdown looms, Wright finds himself caught in the white, compacted landscape. A road thirty feet wide, hemmed in by the piled up ridges left by snowploughs. And an endless forest that could hide just about anything.Unfriendly territory. Dangerous places.A Cole Wright novella that focuses down on a single...
20) Cradle Robbers
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Royd Melgrave slams himself into an emergency vacuum suit as klaxons blast around him. The refinery station seems doomed.When Authority investigators Captain Arlon Stoddard and his crew arrive, the refinery wreck follows an erratic orbit and little evidence remains.What they do find only raises more questions. Questions that might turn things inside out.