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In the thirty years since lasers were invented, we have learned to use them for jobs as diverse as eye surgery and missile defense. But the biggest advance is yet to come: one day soon we will be able to beam human beings from place to place on Earth, and even into Space.

Beamriders chronicles the achievements of the men and women who brave death in the development of just such a laser-transport system. Assignments that no one else can accomplish await the survivors: the rescue of a U.S. scientist from a cell beneath the Kremlin; defusing atomic blackmail in Washington; and, strangest of all, a mission to the Far Side of the Moon. On Earth and in Space, nothing can stop THE BEAMRIDERS!

PEACE IS AT HAND--THE PEACE OF DEATH

Just as the US and the USSR have finally settled their differences, American scientists discover that the Solar System is about to pass through a cloud of cosmic dust that will incite the Sun to a paroxysm of fury. All will die. There can be no escape--except, possibly, for a very few. This is their story.

HIS BODY WAS A MIRACLE OF TECHNOLOGY... AND A LEATHAL WEAPON!

From the radioactive rubble of a nuclear power plant, Lance Parker alone survived... burned beyond recognition... totally dependent on others... living with only one wish-the wish to die. From her high-technology laboratory, Lee Grazi created a miracle-a fully automated body for Lance to inhabit. A second skin so realistic that his best friends can't tell the difference... so strong that he can demolish a buidling with his barehands... so fast he can outrun a train... so powerful that even terrorists and criminals cannot escape the avenging force of... MANFAC.

Marooned is a 1964 science fiction thriller novel by Martin Caidin, about a manned spacecraft which becomes stranded in Earth orbit, oxygen running out, and only an experimental craft available to attempt a rescue. The film based on the novel was released in 1969, four months after the Apollo 11 mission.

The first edition of the novel Marooned involved a single astronaut stranded in orbit in a Mercury spacecraft, a rescue mission launched using the then-experimental Gemini spacecraft, and a Soviet Vostok also becoming involved in the mission.

The 1969 re-release of the novel, which coincided with the film, was extensively rewritten to reflect the advancements in the U.S. space program. The plot featured three U.S. astronauts stranded in an Apollo spacecraft after separation from an Apollo Applications Program space station very similar to the later Skylab program missions flown in 1973-74.

The rescue mission in the 1969 edition was flown with a Titan III-C rocket carrying an experimental X-RV lifting body spacecraft, which was never actually flown in space. In this edition, the Soviet involvement in the rescue mission was portrayed as using a Soyuz spacecraft. Caidin chose "Soyuz 11" as the designation of the rescue flight. In 1971, Soyuz 11 mission ended in tragedy when all three cosmonauts perished during re-entry while returning from Salyut 1, the first manned space station.

In the original edition, the Mercury astronaut is Dick Pruett, and the pilot of the rescue mission is Jim Dougherty. In the 1969 version, the names are changed to Jim Pruett and Ted Dougherty, with Clayton "Stoney" Stone and "Buzz" Lloyd added to make up the three-man Apollo crew.

Not all aliens are as cute and cuddly as E.T.....

At last the hopes and dreams of Earth people yearning for contact with the stars are fulfilled - by six of the most ruthless and depraved convicts that a galactic system advanced only in its methods of cruelty and oppression can produce. When they and their technology team up with a band of human desperadoes it's going to be hell on earth!

>PLANET EARTH IS BURNING

Burning with the pure raging fury of countless suns, energy feeding on everything it touches, growing. Project Star Bright, top secret nuclear experiment, is now beyond control. Is this the way the world ends?

He was a wonder of scientific perfection-- but it was lonely as hell at the top. All the resources of NASA, the Pentagon, and Government Money put the pieces of Lt. Col. Steve Austin's shattered body back together again. He came out of it more perfect than human. Better than new. A deadly, unstoppable weapon. Now all he needed was to find some human emotion in the tangle of plastic, wire and atomic metal that was fused to the remains of his flesh. Basis for The Six Million Dollar Man.

When Steve Austin, astronaut, crashed from the skies, he woke to find himself a fragment of a man -- no legs, one arm, one eye. But Science rebuilt his body, giving him physica powers no other man possessed.

Now, the world is threatened by a syndicate that sells nuclear destruction to the highest bidder. And Steve Austin who, from the moon, saw the Earth as fragile and precious, is the one man who can save that world from the ultimate blackmail of our times.

IS THIS A SECRET LINK TO THE CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?

High in the Andes is an impossible highway, more than two miles above sea level, built of rock smooth as marble. Who built it? How were such huge slabes of rock lifted to such hieghts? What forces were used to fuse them into an unsegmented strip? No modern man has explored these mountains; what ancient culture flourished here and performed such marvels? Only Steve Austin can lead an expedition into this hostile land. Only the bionic man can hack his way through the field of razor-sharp grass, scale the sheer rock cliffs and fly the turbulent skies from mountain ledge to mountop where the source of the secret energy is hidden.

MAN-SHIP!

Never before has there been a bionic man like Steve Austin-his human capabilities enhanced by the superb electronic reconstruction of his body. Never before could there be such an aeronautic experiment plugging the perceptions of a man into the controls of a space ship. When the ship rolls, it is Steve Austin rolling in space. When cosmic rays hit the plane's shell, Steve feels them as though they were pelting his own skin. Dangerous! Terrifying! But Steve must accept the challenge to outmaneuver an enemy in the race for space supremacy.