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Universal Enigma
Science Fiction Mysteries involving celestial bodies and Artificial Intelligence; Contraptions, Creations and Inventions; Earth and Natural Disasters; and Time Travel. Jack McDevitt and Stanley Schmidt lead off this startling collection in which:
•A group of xenoarcheology enthusiasts face a challenge that upends their moral reasoning.
•When an expose writer visits the new Curilab and falls over the railing, all hands hunt high and low to discover where he has gone.
•An American spy chases a quantum bomb long hidden by the Nazis in the world's smallest desert.
•A team of wildlife researchers track a herd of stampeding elephants in Africa, encountering some strange and perplexing behaviour from the mammals.
•A time-traveling millionaire in roaring 20’s L.A. picks up a stunning, intellectual woman and takes a lonely ride nevertheless.
•And more
For this volume, we demanded strong elements of mystery in our science fiction. Very few authors can make that leap. Join ten masters of mystery and science fiction for a series of short stories and novelettes that will drive you to wonder.
•A group of xenoarcheology enthusiasts face a challenge that upends their moral reasoning.
•When an expose writer visits the new Curilab and falls over the railing, all hands hunt high and low to discover where he has gone.
•An American spy chases a quantum bomb long hidden by the Nazis in the world's smallest desert.
•A team of wildlife researchers track a herd of stampeding elephants in Africa, encountering some strange and perplexing behaviour from the mammals.
•A time-traveling millionaire in roaring 20’s L.A. picks up a stunning, intellectual woman and takes a lonely ride nevertheless.
•And more
For this volume, we demanded strong elements of mystery in our science fiction. Very few authors can make that leap. Join ten masters of mystery and science fiction for a series of short stories and novelettes that will drive you to wonder.
174 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2017
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Ben Parris
25 books25 followersBen Parris' latest novel, AMYNTA OF ANATOLIA (Wade of Aquitaine #3), is about the titanic final battles spanning the millennia between astral travelers and one of their fellows who wants to assassinate them as inferiors. He has already destroyed half the multiverse to do it. Until November 29, 2020 readers can find this extra-large volume among the Goodreads Giveaways and enter for a chance to win one of three first edition signed print copies.
Ben Parris was one of the first 50 authors to have his novel on Amazon Kindle. Within its first year, WADE OF AQUITAINE, literature's first synesthete hero, became one of the original Kindle bestsellers, ranking in the Top Three for War, and Action/ Adventure for a total of 22 weeks. KREINDIA OF AMORIUM (2017) was the followup.
Ben Parris was one of the first 50 authors to have his novel on Amazon Kindle. Within its first year, WADE OF AQUITAINE, literature's first synesthete hero, became one of the original Kindle bestsellers, ranking in the Top Three for War, and Action/ Adventure for a total of 22 weeks. KREINDIA OF AMORIUM (2017) was the followup.
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