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Wayland's Principia    by Richard Garfinkle
Price: $4.99 USD. 128260 words. Published on April 4, 2012. .

The aliens sent word, sent science, sent ways of thinking and doing. But not themselves, not until three generations trained as Guests, as alien-thinking humans. When the aliens arrived, their thinking was more alien than even the Guests had anticipated. Now, with civilization collapsing, Guests join the aliens in their ships to see what can be communicated between species with nothing in common.
L'Gem    by Sharon L Reddy
Price: $4.99 USD. 305290 words. Published on May 3, 2012. .

Internal Security wanted a secret weapon. They didn't want witnesses. They abducted the student they thought had made a discovery and bombed the university physics lab. That didn't work well, either. The student they'd abducted was convicted of attempting to murder the others. It was standard procedure. No one got out of Horgen Field prison alive, but if Bard was right, there was a way.
Sirens    by Karen L. Abrahamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 9560 words. Published by Twisted Root Publishing on June 17, 2012. .

When Dana and her two male shipmates crash land on a distant planet, they do what they have always done: work together. One to survey the planet's dangers, one to repair the ship, and one to act as peacemaker. When one of them unwittingly falls under the spell of the native creatures--siren-like beings that destroy the bond between them—can two that were three ever find the balance to escape?
The Creepies    by Elizabeth & William Hicks
Price: $0.99 USD. 10680 words. Published on September 10, 2012. .

A short story by William Raymond Hicks in which a young boy, Bill, and his older brother, Joe, find themselves face to face, in their small home town of Manhattan Beach in the late 1970s, with the possibility of life from outer space and what it implies.
Sword of the Dajjal: A Novel of the Terran Alliance    by C. Scott Saylors
Price: $3.99 USD. 81070 words. Published by Rob Preece on September 30, 2012. .

The Alliance and the Pan Humanic Hegemony have been playing 'The Great Game' of empire for centuries since they split over admitting alien races into the alliance. The Alliance has been able to limit the supply of strategic materials going into the Hegemony but extremists hope to use the 'game' in their own interests. Exciting space action.
The Alien Mind    by Virginia Jennings
Price: $0.99 USD. 57470 words. Published on October 15, 2012. .

Young Rivinaig shares her adventures and trials that began on that fateful day when a group of aliens called the Aruk abducted her and several other children. Another group of aliens called the Aunantet rescue the children and raise them as their own. Their new families teach them how to harness the full capacities of their brains, enabling them to defy the laws of physics as well as the Aruk!
Trust    by David Moody
Price: $2.99 USD. 81830 words. Published on November 5, 2012. .

The most important event in human history takes place in the middle of nowhere. Perspectives are altered. Perceptions are changed. Nothing will ever be the same again. Is this a moment of deliverance for the human race, or the beginning of its end? Tom Winter thinks he knows, but if he's right, then seven billion other people are wrong.
The Vegetarian from Outer Space    by Joab Cohen
Price: Free! 12760 words. Published on November 14, 2012. .

The Toquito,the race of birds that dominates the universe, have discovered a new planet, and the tailless, hairless primates inhabiting the world happen to be the most delicious dish ever served up by the universe. Only Riq, a wayward Toquito, can stop the systematic slaughter of the primates. In his attempt to do so, he discovers that there is more to the primates than anyone had ever imagined.
Postcards    by George Adams
Price: $2.99 USD. 50230 words. Published on December 26, 2012. .

Postcards is a romance-mystery page-turner of 50,000 words. Constrained widower at twenty-six, Adam Peters, thinks he knew his wife, Tracy. He thinks he knows her family, their friends, their world. Then he begins receiving postcards from Julie, an old friend of Tracy she never told him about, from a phase in her life she never told him about. Adam's world falls apart and he comes alive.
I Punch the General    by Irina Flowers
You set the price! 51970 words. Published on January 8, 2013. .

The circumstances on Earth force humanity to search for a new home outside of the galaxy. A highly trained battalion travels to a distant Earth-like planet named Gliese 581 g. The novel tells a story of a young soldier, Keven Wingham, who discovers that he has an unwanted paranormal connection with the locals.