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E. Royce / Paperback / 1996 The year is 2063. Earth's first space settlement has just been demolished by an Alien army so violent and blood-thirsty it left almost nothing in its wake. And now it's up to the forces of Earth to defend the planet and save all of mankind... Meet the 58th Marine Squadron -- trained for war in SPACE. Nathan West: Convinced that his girlfriend is being held captive by the Aliens, Nathan is determined to get into space any way he can ... even if it means joining the Marine Space Cavalry. Shane Vansen: She once vowed to do anything to avenge her parents' death. And now she might just get her chance. Cooper Hawkes: Born at age 18, Cooper is an In-Vitro, a futuristic test-tube human grown in a tank. Constantly in trouble, Cooper can't seem to stay out of jail -- until a new law sentences him to a different sort of imprisonment: the Marines. These strangers thrown together by fate. As a team, they will forever change the course of human history...
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D. Anastasio / Paperback / 1996 All her life, Lieutenant Shane Vansen has been haunted by the loss of her parents, who were killed by manmade Artificial Intelligence creatures when she was just a child. Shane despises AIs and has vowed to eliminated any AI who crosses her path. Then she leads her Squadron on a mission to Brunuel, and comes up against her worst nightmare: AIs have just invaded the plane and killed the very humans Shane and the 58th have come to protect. All too soon, she and her closest friends are locked in a desperate struggle against the AI invaders. And Shane's vow, once a personal pledge, becomes a matter of life and death...
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E. Royce / Paperback / 1996 When Lieutenant Cooper Hawkes and the rest of the 58th squadron are rescued from a distant space port by a passing freighter; they quickly discover what special cargo the ship is hauling: thousands of tanks of In-Vitros. And one of those In-Vitros is Cooper's "sister" -- a being created from his gene pool. Finding a relative is something Cooper has always wanted -- but before he can start his family reunioon, the ship is damaged by enemy fire. In order to save the humans on board, the captain is forced to shut down power to the cargo bay -- even though that means destroying all of the unborn In-Vitros. Lieutenant Hawkes refuses to give up his sister without a fight. But is he angry enough to start a space mutiny?
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D. Anastasio / Paperback / 1996 The aliens on the planet Tarturus have a new weapon -- fear. Triggered by electromagnetic lightning storms that interfere with human brain waves, the fear is accompanied by intense physical pain -- and provikes terrible violence. When the 58th Squadron lands on Tarturus, they come face to face with this hideous new alien invention. Before they know what's hit them, they're changing from friends ... to enemies. Their survival has never been so precarious. If they don't figure out a way to get off Tarturus soon, these Marines will be going to war -- with each other! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
