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| WATTPAD EDITOR'S CHOICE |Major Aula Reed is a Canadian fighter pilot, veteran astronaut, and closeted bisexual. She's stationed on the second International Lunar Base or ILUB-2 with seven other crewmates. To be separated from Earth means facing radiation, meteorites, and equipment failure while under constant public scrutiny.For Aula, it also means struggling with memories of ILUB-1: the worst disaster in space exploration since the shuttle era. While she tries not to let her first mission overshadow her second, the Moon is an unforgiving place. It only takes one mistake, no matter how small, for history to repeat itself. This is a story of the near future informed by the lives of today's astronauts, whose triumphs and tragedies are immortalized in the public eye.…

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Euclid Station is not for the faint of heart. There are no laws, only rules enforced by violence or bribary. Noc is a badly scarred smuggler who moves caffiene, one of the most potent stimulents ever made. He may be the ugliest man onboard, but he's paid well and often. Everything is going well until a stranger shows up at the bar who reeks of law enforcement. That's a death sentence. Noc knows something isn't right and has less than 24 hours to figure it out. Because no one's life starts out on Euclid Station, but if often ends there.…

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Lieutenant Cira Vega wakes up, marooned on the wreckage of a once thriving military station, with no memory of who she is or what happened. What she does know is that she's not alone. Something alien is inside her body. Something that moves and thinks for itself. Maybe for them both. Without memories, she can't be certain that she is who her nameplate says she is. The borders of her personality are blurry. Is she still herself, still a person, or a very sophisticated puppet? Whatever the answer, Cira won't surrender her humanity without a fight. She's determined to solve the mystery of what happened on Grenadier Station, why an alien intelligence attached itself to her, and what its true intentions are.…

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Dana, a retired big game hunter, has pitted herself against the most ferocious animals on the planet. When seven men are mauled to death near her home, she realizes that's no longer true. Neither Open North Ltd nor the RCMP can cope, which leaves everyone around Mirror Lake Cree Nation to fend for themselves. Dana's expertise is called upon by an old flame to hunt animals that no human being has ever hunted. The mythical big cats of prehistory have come back to life⎯and they're thriving.…

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By the 23rd century, humanity has colonized its first planet: Mars. Far removed from Earth's military power, resources, and affluence, daily life on the red planet is chaotic and dangerous. Mig is an aging mercenary who relies on dwindling civilian contracts to earn his living. Olivia is a brilliant programmer who struggles with a medical condition she's too poor to treat. They live and work together in the small settlement of New Shanidar, but a chance encounter starts a sequence of events that threatens to destroy their lives, their loyalty to each other, and all hope for a better future on Earth. (Original image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)…

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The war against vampires and the disease that creates them is unlike any other humanity has ever faced. With one bite, people are transformed into enemy combatants. No matter how loyal, how well-trained, or how disciplined someone is, the result is always the same. Each person is plundered for information, then pleasure, and then fed back into the conflict to destroy everything they value. Sergeant Wren Horan leads a squad whose sole purpose is to find and kill such vampires. On one fateful mission, she encounters more than a group of fledglings. She walks into a massacre and faces what she fears most: turning. But when she wakes up, it's not as a mindless fledgling. It's as something else entirely.…

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A life can be brief and small, but the universe proves that it's never meaningless. My first brush with mortality.…

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"We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe atomically." -Neil deGrasse TysonOriginal image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDCHighest rank: #229 05/17/2016…

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Walled eco-settlements are scattered across what's left of the United States. Inside, civilization is kept intact by renewable energy. Possessing "dirty" technology is treason and the new government deals ruthlessly with dissent. When Sharon is caught trading with illegal luxuries, she runs. But on the outside, she has to face the truth about her past and the apocalyptic consequences of complacency.…

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