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The Mountain Place of Knowledge    by Marshall Chamberlain
Price: $9.99 USD. 119280 words. Published on January 16, 2010. .

Book I: A place of knowledge inside a mountain in Belize. A scepter instrument that heals and destroys. A race to preserve ancient technology for the benefit of the human race. Two U.N.scientists are dispatched to Belize to determine how to access the mysterious mountain.What lays inside is scientifically unfathomable and brings immediate covert actions by nations bent on acquiring control.
Hotspot    by W. James Stoness
Price: $4.99 USD. 126630 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

The strong earthquakes that disrupted the flow of Old Faithful sent scientists scurrying to find the cause. Little did they expect to find magma flowing into the old magma chamber of one of Earth’s largest dormant volcanoes. The story follows the chaotic events on the Yellowstone Plateau as the surface rises and an eruption of gargantuan size appears to be imminent.
Antarctica's Secrets: Scientists Conspiracy    by Vianka Van Bokkem
Price: $2.99 USD. 5740 words. Published on January 5, 2011. .

Kalei Aneko is a 22 year old reporter dedicated to find and cover real stories. There have been numerous rumors about a military cover up in Antarctica and she intends to find the truth. Will Kalei uncover a military cover up?Or are the Antarctica scientists causing an intentional global warming to receive large amounts of cash to cover “other kind of experiments”.
Growing Up Sam    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $0.99 USD. 3860 words. Published by Olo Books on June 15, 2011. .

Hi. I Sam. I half bonobo, half human. That make people want to kill me. I not care. I play in my steel room. But then something go very wrong. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection "affecting"-- SF Site "strong...In tone the story resembles Flowers for Algernon.... Yuan-Innes pulls off quite a difficult balancing act." --Challenging Destiny
Embryos in Space    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $1.99 USD. 10120 words. Published by Olo Books on June 16, 2011. .

Award-winning author and physician, Melissa Yuan-Innes, explores the strange new worlds of embryo transplantation ("Red"), human-ape genetic engineering ("Growing Up Sam"), and exile (two Shaolin monks banished to outer space in "Iron Monk") in an exclusive collection of her science fiction stories.
Subject #761    by Sheila Guthrie
Price: $0.99 USD. 2850 words. Published on June 30, 2011. .

A new therapy for people suffering from uncontrollable rage is working, and exceeding the wildest expectations of its discoverers. But when scientists and technicians working on the project begin disappearing, one man is left to record the results. If he can. This is a short story that would be about 11 pages in a paperback book.
Reason (Part One of The Arbiter Project Trilogy)    by Marek Storm
Price: Free! 23100 words. Published on July 31, 2011. .

Senator Adam Lucas is desperate for justice when his daughter is brutally murdered at the hands of a serial killer. Hans Richter, a German scientist, is working on a top secret project at a hidden Army base in Eastern New Mexico. The discoveries they make will shock them and inexplicably link them together in a high-stakes game of corruption and lies involving the highest levels of government.
Trinity of the Sands    by Alistair Ainscott
Price: $2.99 USD. 6480 words. Published by Rapid-Dynamix Publishing  on August 3, 2011. .

Los Alamos, 1945. Mort Whitman helps build "the gadget" that will end the war and immolate untold thousands of men-- if it works. As the minds of men mushroom in a dark dream of war, he seeks solace in the white sands of the Jornada del Muerto. But what he discovers there teaches him how justice really works in the New Mexico badlands-- as well as how one man can atone for a nuclear holocaust.
History, And More    by Les Broad
Price: $0.99 USD. 11480 words. Published on August 24, 2011. .

In this series of four unique essays you'll discover the complete history of the world from the Big Bang until yesterday afternoon, why there are more Greek philosophers that Inuit and why, in the author's opinion, we should all be deeply suspicious of the motivation of 'scientists'. You'll probably find it funny, too.
The Boy Who Loved Ants: Edward O.Wilson    by Sara van Dyck
Price: $0.99 USD. 2590 words. Published on September 21, 2011. .

As a boy, famed scientist Edward O. Wilson spent happy days outdoors, hunting for fish, snakes, and bugs. Drawing from Wilson’s autobiography Naturalist, author Sara van Dyck shows how the shy boy who loved ants became a world leader in nature conservation. Written for ages 7 and up, the book includes easy activities for children to explore life in their own backyard. Color photographs.