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Retaining a tenuous peace on a distant planet in the far future, humans and aliens work together through a mutually beneficial economic arrangement that is threatened by the arrival of a new group of humans that destabilizes the world's balance.

"We've all asked ourselves the question. Looking up at the night sky, it's almost impossible NOT to wonder: Are we alone in the universe? In [this book], Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely a jumping-off point. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which, top NASA officials told Dr. Wall, is only drawing closer). From the unexpected--do...

They work in complete secrecy. They are battling a powerful extra-terrestrial enemy with extraordinary powers. They are the men and women of S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and they hold humanity's fate in their hands The responsibility seat (aired 8 March 1973): Freelance journalist Jo Fraser comes to Straker's office, looking for a story but she plants a bug and absconds with the tape she has made of his conversations,...

They work in complete secrecy. They are battling a powerful extra-terrestrial enemy with extraordinary powers. They are the men and women of S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and they hold humanity's fate in their hands Identified (aired 16 September 1970) : SHADO - an acronym for Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization - is located beneath a supposed film studio in the English countryside and run by Commander Straker,...

They work in complete secrecy. They are battling a powerful extra-terrestrial enemy with extraordinary powers. They are the men and women of S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and they hold humanity's fate in their hands Exposed (aired 23 September 1970): Colonel Paul Foster is a test pilot whose aircraft is accidentally caught up in a battle between an Unidentified Flying Object and a SHADO rocket. Foster's plane is shot...

They work in complete secrecy. They are battling a powerful extra-terrestrial enemy with extraordinary powers. They are the men and women of S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization) and they hold humanity's fate in their hands. Sub smash (aired 11 November 1970): After an underwater UFO has attacked and sunk a freight ship in the ocean, Straker, Foster and SHADO lieutenant Nina Barry join a submarine crew to find out what they...

"A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from...

Leonie Hastur, headstrong and lovely daughter of the Hastur Clan, most powerful of all the telepathic families who rule Darkover, is being escorted by her twin brother Lorill to Dalreuth Tower for training in the use of her psychic powers. Although this is the event she has long dreamed offor her laran is so strong that she has been able to use it without benefit of training or the need of a matrix crystaland she yearns for the power...