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The lords of creation  by S. M. Stirling

The lords of creation

S. M. Stirling

"Ancient architects once reshaped worlds, turning barren planets into cradles of life. Now, as gigantic, mysterious gates emerge on Venus, Mars and Earth's Atlantic Ocean, humanity stands at the threshold of its most profound odyssey. Physicist and linguist Dr...

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Against a dark background  by Iain Banks

Against a dark background

Iain Banks

Fresh off the bestselling success of Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons, Banks traverses an amazing new universe in his latest space adventure--filledwith incredible characters, exotic adventure, unbounded imagination, and darkwit.

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Nightflyers and other stories  by George R. R. Martin

Nightflyers and other stories

George R. R. Martin

"On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon,...

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The pilot  by Will Wight

The pilot

Will Wight

Sheep, sheep, sheep I have bad news for you. It's finally my turn. Solstice, the secret organization running the Galactic Union, has made an enemy of The Last Horizon. Soon, they will regret it. Varic and Omega have a plan to infiltrate and destroy Solstice's...

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Salvagia  by Tim Chawaga

Salvagia

Tim Chawaga

"Triss Mackey is flying just under the radar, exploiting a government loophole that lets her live quietly aboard the Floating Ghost-her rented, sentient CabanaBoat. In exchange, she dives for recycling, recovered from the flooded area of formerly-coastal...

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These memories do not belong to us  by Yiming Ma

These memories do not belong to us

Yiming Ma

"Decades from now, the world is run by an authoritarian state called Qin. In Qin, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of not only recording but transferring memories between minds. The technology gives birth to a new...

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The silent king  by Guy Haley

The silent king

Guy Haley

"The first phase of the Indomitus Crusade is drawing to a close. Vast swathes of Imperium Sanctus are back under tentative Imperial control. Still the primarch Roboute Guilliman faces wars on every front. His desire to cross the Great Rift to save Imperium...

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Forged in battle  by Marc Alan Edelheit

Forged in battle

Marc Alan Edelheit

"After decades of war, the Union was starting to rebuild. But our allies betrayed us without warning, striking every ship in the system in a cowardly surprise attack. One destroyer remains-trapped far behind enemy lines, with no support and no way home....

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Casthen Gain  by Essa Hansen

Casthen Gain

Essa Hansen

"Sentace Ketch, a skilled culinarian, makes a wrong turn in life and finds himself dropped on the strangest and most dangerous planet in the multiverse. He's here alongside murderers, exiles, and adrenaline-seekers to participate in a battle royale race,...

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Primal link  by Justin Sloan

Primal link

Justin Sloan

"Missions to alien planets have resulted in interactions with strange beings in the past, but never on this level. When Marine Corporal Goshawk becomes part of the search team tasked with locating some missing SEALs, he expected action and plenty of it. After...

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Roadkill  by author Amil (Fiction writer)

Roadkill

author Amil (Fiction writer)

"In a near future where women are an endangered minority, two young friends try to break free from a facility designed for those few who can still give birth. Every year in a secluded seaside village, a maiden is sacrificed to a divine sea serpent. Elsewhere,...

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Star wars. Episode IV, A new hope  by George Lucas

Star wars. Episode IV, A new hope

George Lucas

"The classic adventure that started the Star Wars saga. Luke Skywalker lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine--and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars, adventures that would take him beyond...

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Behind the veil  by John Ringo

Behind the veil

John Ringo

"Truth is stranger than fiction ... and it'll kill you a whole lot faster. When Lynn Raven set out to win the championship for groundbreaking augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter, the worst she thought she'd face was sunburn, mosquito bites, and...

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Automatic noodle  by Annalee Newitz

Automatic noodle

Annalee Newitz

"You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food-the tastiest...

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Mindscape  by Andrea Hairston

Mindscape

Andrea Hairston

"The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to...

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Eternity in Kyoto  by Héctor García

Eternity in Kyoto

Héctor García

"Nathan lives a quiet life surrounded by ticking timepieces and memories. His only passion: antique watches. But everything changes when he discovers an old photograph of Mia, his high school crush who vanished after moving to Japan--and was later declared...

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Seekers in the void  by Glynn Stewart

Seekers in the void

Glynn Stewart

"Captain Cirilo Webster is a loyal officer of the Santiago Corporation, the multistellar megacorporation that controls all travel between the Seventy-Seven human colonies. Finally given command of his first interstellar freighter, he is determined to do well...

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Old guard  by Glynn Stewart

Old guard

Glynn Stewart

"For months, Princess Lorraine Adamant has fled from star system to star system in a desperate attempt to evade the minions of her uncle, the man who murdered her entire family to seize power in the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Thanks to the crew of her ship and...

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The valkyrie stratagem  by Glynn Stewart

The valkyrie stratagem

Glynn Stewart

"A promise of victory. A long journey home. The price of alliances. Lorraine Adamant, Pentarch of the Kingdom of Adamant, has crossed hundreds of light-years to find the allies needed to overthrow her uncle, the man who killed her family and stole her mother's...

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Lost planet  by A. K. DuBoff

Lost planet

A. K. DuBoff

"Powerful players scheming from the shadows. An ancient alien starship. Who can be trusted with the most coveted technology in the Commonwealth? ... Evan and Anya flee Aethos with a target on their backs. Unfortunately, the ship's sentient AI is missing...

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Red country  by Joe Abercrombie

Red country

Joe Abercrombie

"Resolving to avenge the murders of her siblings, Shy South embarks on a dangerous journey with a pair of oxen and her cowardly stepfather to a frontier town gripped by gold fever and feuds before forging a precarious alliance with an infamous soldier of...

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Pebble in the sky  by Isaac Asimov

Pebble in the sky

Isaac Asimov

"Caught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire...

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The cold between  by Elizabeth Bonesteel

The cold between

Elizabeth Bonesteel

"When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent - he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is...

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Dominion genesis  by Jonathan D. Beer

Dominion genesis

Jonathan D. Beer

"It's the gripping tale of an Explorator desperately seeking ancient technologies from humanity's past as she races against time to restore one of the mightiest forge worlds in the Imperium. Explorator Talin Sherax seeks ancient and miraculous technologies...

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Daemonhammer  by Darius Hinks

Daemonhammer

Darius Hinks

"Find out whether the legendary Inquisitor Coteaz can continue to spread the God-Emperor's judgement as his body reaches the limits of its endurance. Zealous and uncompromising, Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz is the scourge of cultist and daemon alike, striking...

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Project Hail Mary  by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...

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The immeasurable heaven  by Caspar Geon

The immeasurable heaven

Caspar Geon

"The galaxy of Yokkun's Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one frontier left, and it's a one-way journey: to pierce the skin of existence and delve the countless younger universes beneath. Running through these universes is the fabled...

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Circadian web  by Alistair Conwell

Circadian web

Alistair Conwell

"Across four disconnected timelines, a freelance writer, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, a Latin tutor, and a science teacher hold subconscious secrets. Events in their lives make them question their deepseated beliefs. Mysterious women could hold the key to finding...

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Teo's Durumi  by Elaine U. Cho

Teo's Durumi

Elaine U. Cho

"Teo Anand, former ne'er-do-well second son of the Anand Tech empire and current solar fugitive, has just crash-landed on the Moon after escaping the latest attempt on his life. But if anyone can help exonerate him, it's his best friend, bold Korean space...

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Portalmania  by Debbie Urbanski

Portalmania

Debbie Urbanski

"If you could go anywhere, where would you go? And what happens to the people you leave behind? From the author of After World comes a genre-busting collection of stories that reveal our lives in a startling new light."--

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Infinite archive  by Mur Lafferty

Infinite archive

Mur Lafferty

"Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn't seen so much as a bar brawl. Used to people dying left and right around her, the lack of murders to solve has left her unexpectedly......

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Persephone  by Kevin J. Anderson

Persephone

Kevin J. Anderson

"The giant ark-ship Odyssey and its ten thousand hibernating settlers have left behind a dying Earth--journeying for fifty years to the nearest star and its lone habitable planet, Proxima b. This new home for humanity is perpetually bombarded by deadly solar...

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Dancing in the purple rain

Dancing in the purple rain

"In a world ravaged by pandemics and poisoned by acid rain, experimental pharmaceuticals are used to genetically engineer the population to adapt to the toxic atmosphere. However, unexpected results have created drug-dependent individuals and powerful...

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Vanguard annihilation  by Jarom Strong

Vanguard annihilation

Jarom Strong

"It looks like I started a rebellion. And the only way to end it... is to burn this empire to the ground. I tighten my grip on the pistol at my side, as my fleet closes in on the vast space station. The Paragon took my home from me. Now I'm going to take it...

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The last voyage  by Brian D. McLaren

The last voyage

Brian D. McLaren

"It's 2056 and international oligarchs have pushed the world to the precipice of ecological, economic, and nuclear catastrophe. But two philanthropists have teamed up to establish a long-term colony on Mars. Could this daring outpost be the next chapter in the...

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Howling dark  by Christopher Ruocchio

Howling dark

Christopher Ruocchio

"Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain...

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Volatile memory  by Seth Haddon

Volatile memory

Seth Haddon

"With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other...

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The long utopia  by Terry Pratchett

The long utopia

Terry Pratchett

"After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. And new challenges emerge. Now an elderly and catankerous AI,...

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The confessions  by Paul Bradley Carr

The confessions

Paul Bradley Carr

"LLIAM is the world's most powerful supercomputer, built to make the toughest decisions for its users. Where to work, who to marry, and even who should live or die. But when LLIAM suddenly goes offline with no explanation, the world is thrust into chaos,...

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Ghost cell  by Zac Topping

Ghost cell

Zac Topping

"Ander Rade is doing his best to stay under the radar after the mess in Atlanta when he's contacted by the Special Activities division for the Genetic Compliance Department. The mission: infiltrate a secret organization of rogue mods known as the Ghost Cell in...

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Ghostdrift  by Suzanne (Science fiction writer) Palmer

Ghostdrift

Suzanne (Science fiction writer) Pa...

"Fergus Ferguson, professional finder, always knew his semi-voluntary exile wouldn't last, but he isn't expecting a friend to betray him. One of the galaxy's most dangerous space pirates, Bas Belos, wants him, and what Belos wants, he gets. Belos needs help...

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Lock in  by John Scalzi

Lock in

John Scalzi

"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked...

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The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman  by Angela Carter

The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman

Angela Carter

"Desiderio, an employee of the city, which is under a bizarre reality attack from Dr. Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his...

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Vanguard Nemesis  by Jarom Strong

Vanguard Nemesis

Jarom Strong

"I stole from the wrong people. Now half the galaxy wants me dead. It was supposed to be a simple salvage job... but in the cargo bay of the abandoned freighter, my crew found a priceless stash of biotech, property of the deadliest corporation in Paragon...

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Moonrising  by Claire Barner

Moonrising

Claire Barner

"In 2073, controversial agronomist Dr. Alex Cole has dedicated her life to mutagenetic food, the only solution to feeding a world torn apart by climate change. When fierce opposition from radical environmentalists wipes out her lab funding, a surprising...

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The long way home  by Patrick Chiles

The long way home

Patrick Chiles

"Everything is relative. Einstein said so. After years of traversing the galaxy as an emergency medic, Melanie Mooney is learning this in a personal way. With each run to a far-flung star system, she is taken ever farther from her former life, and not only in...

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Rendezvous with Rama  by Arthur C. (Arthur Charles) Clarke

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. (Arthur Charles) Clarke

"Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact. It is Mankind's first...

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The winds of fate  by S. M. Stirling

The winds of fate

S. M. Stirling

"In a world where history can be rewritten at will, the threads of destiny intertwine in ways no one could have foreseen. Years after their groundbreaking journey into the past, Artorius and his team stumble upon a devastating revelation: the Chinese...

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The presence malign  by Michael Mersault

The presence malign

Michael Mersault

"The heavy cruiser Salahdiin is the most powerful private warship in the history of the Myriad Worlds, and bears a Letter of Marque, the Imperial charter for legalized piracy. As the most successful fighting captain of the Imperial Fleet, Saef Sinclair-Maru is...

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The Swarm  by Orson Scott Card

The Swarm

Orson Scott Card

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own...

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The murderbot diaries. Vol. 3, Fugitive telemetry ; System collapse  by Martha Wells

The murderbot diaries. Vol. 3, Fugitive telemetry ; System collapse

Martha Wells

"In Fugitive Telemetry, when Murderbot discovers a body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why...

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Only human  by Sylvain Neuvel

Only human

Sylvain Neuvel

"We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong... Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child - a huge metal hand buried beneath the...

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Space trucker Jess  by Matthew Kressel

Space trucker Jess

Matthew Kressel

"Jessian Urania Darger is a kick-ass take-no-shit foul-mouthed too-smart-for-her-own-good sixteen-year-old girl with a chip on her shoulder. She and her daddy have been grifting their way across the verse for years. But when her daddy gets arrested for running...

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Descent into Hellios  by Rick (Navy Commander) Campbell

Descent into Hellios

Rick (Navy Commander) Campbell

"From beyond her grave, a hero's final transmission could turn the tide of a galactic war. Three years after humanity's Final Stand against the Korilian Empire, the Colonial Defense Forces have largely reclaimed the lost colonies. However, as the tide of war...

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After the clearances  by Alison Layland

After the clearances

Alison Layland

"The Seeders, a self-sufficient community, flee to a remote Welsh island to escape the government's repressive Clearances, and cultivate a new way of living. But 13-year-old Seeder, Glesni, suspects her family is hiding something. When Sandy, a vengeful...

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Fuzzy nation  by John Scalzi

Fuzzy nation

John Scalzi

"ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra--as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well turn out to...

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Dancing with destruction

Dancing with destruction

"When does the hunter become the hunted? How does a single image change the story to something... else? In Dancing with Destruction, we get to find out. Nine stories from some of the top authors in military science fiction will tell the tale of the poor,...

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Oaths of damnation  by Robbie MacNiven

Oaths of damnation

Robbie MacNiven

"Discover what happens when a Broken One is freed, and a daemonic conspiracy threatens to unveil the dark rituals of the Exorcists. The Exorcists are a Space Marine Chapter unlike any other. To combat the forces of Chaos, they willingly accept daemonic...

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A rebel's history of Mars  by Nadia Afifi

A rebel's history of Mars

Nadia Afifi

"Kezza, an aerialist in the Martian circus, can never return to Earth but she can assassinate the man she blames for her grim life on the red planet. Her murderous plans take an unexpected turn, however, when she uncovers a sinister secret. A thousand years...

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Clade  by James Bradley

Clade

James Bradley

"Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist. Clade opens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quandary about the wisdom of this. Their daughter proves to be an elusive little girl and then a troubled teenager, and...

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Inferno's shadow  by Taylor Anderson

Inferno's shadow

Taylor Anderson

"Lost in a mysterious world, far from all they knew in 1847 America, Colonel Lewis Cayce and his soldiers must face the unimaginable might of the Dominion once and for all in this gripping alternate history from the New York Times bestselling author of the...

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Sunbirth  by An Yu

Sunbirth

An Yu

"As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations. In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young...

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Condition of war  by Elizabeth Bonesteel

Condition of war

Elizabeth Bonesteel

"Accused of destroying a Corps warship, the crew of the starship Galileo must prove sabotage - or face the wrath of what's left of Central Gov. When the Central Corps warship Capricorn - silent and unresponsive, light-years from her last reported position -...

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Survival tactics  by Elizabeth Bonesteel

Survival tactics

Elizabeth Bonesteel

"Ten genre-spanning speculative tales of worlds both strange and familiar... On a planet that should have been long abandoned, a salvage operator discovers an impossible ecosystem... On an isolated mining outpost on Mercury, a woman dreams of suicide - and...

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Vanguard strike  by Jarom Strong

Vanguard strike

Jarom Strong

"A vast battlecruiser moves silently through space - a ghost ship, abandoned decades ago. There could be treasure inside... or monsters.I'm the sucker who's going to find out. Once I was a hero. An elite soldier fighting for the Paragon military. Now the...

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Broken circle  by John Shirley

Broken circle

John Shirley

"Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites two alien races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Although they...

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Toward the night  by James Swallow

Toward the night

James Swallow

"While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise record a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star - and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una Chin-Riley lead a...

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Powerless  by Harry Turtledove

Powerless

Harry Turtledove

"When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is...

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The man who saw seconds  by Alexander Boldizar

The man who saw seconds

Alexander Boldizar

"Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet - causing another man to...

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Quantum cage  by T. Davis Bunn

Quantum cage

T. Davis Bunn

"A group of physicists achieve something remarkable - a communication link to aliens that possess a groundbreaking enigma with the potential to transform life on Earth. A team of scientists working on a secret NASA-funded project involving quantum theory bring...

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Waybound  by Will Wight

Waybound

Will Wight

"Years ago Lindon left his home as a powerless Unsouled. Now he goes to war with the most powerful beings in the world over the future of Cradle itself. The Weeping Dragon has a grudge to settle and Lindon intends to take out the Dreadgod with his friends by...

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Sleeping worlds have no memory  by Yaroslav Barsukov

Sleeping worlds have no memory

Yaroslav Barsukov

"Refusing the queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished to the border to oversee the construction of the biggest defensive tower in history. However, the use of technology taken from refugees from another reality makes the...

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Fear death by water  by Emily (Writer and script editor) Cook

Fear death by water

Emily (Writer and script editor) Co...

"Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives - while the local lighthouse keeper's daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue. Lauded a heroine,...

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Spectral scream  by Hannah Fergesen

Spectral scream

Hannah Fergesen

"When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and...

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The Antarctica conspiracy  by Derin Edala

The Antarctica conspiracy

Derin Edala

"It hasn't been easy, but under the careful hand of its makeshift crew, the starship Courageous limps towards its destination. With every passing day, the promise of ground under their feet and a new, safe home looms closer. But Aspen and the crew have only...

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Breach of containment  by Elizabeth Bonesteel

Breach of containment

Elizabeth Bonesteel

"Space is full of the unknown ... most of it ready to kill you. When hostilities between factions threaten to explode into a shooting war on the moon of Yakutsk, the two major galactic military powers, Central Corps and PSI, send ships to defuse the situation....

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The end of ordinary  by Edward (Science fiction writer) Ashton

The end of ordinary

Edward (Science fiction writer) Ash...

"Drew Bergen is an Engineer. He builds living things, one gene at a time. He's also kind of a doofus. Six years after the Stupid War--a bloody, inconclusive clash between the Engineered and the UnAltered--that's a dangerous combination. Hannah is Drew's...

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Colossus  by D. F. (Dennis Feltham) Jones

Colossus

D. F. (Dennis Feltham) Jones

"Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavours in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defence system. But Colossus...

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Jerusalem  by Alan Moore

Jerusalem

Alan Moore

"In the half square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different...

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UnWorld  by Jayson Greene

UnWorld

Jayson Greene

"Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex's best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him...

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The folded sky  by Elizabeth Bear

The folded sky

Elizabeth Bear

"Dr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear's next science fiction epic... Information doesn't...

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Vanishing world  by Sayaka Murata

Vanishing world

Sayaka Murata

"As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents 'copulated' in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an...

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Trials of the Jedi  by Charles Soule

Trials of the Jedi

Charles Soule

"In the epic conclusion to Star Wars: The High Republic, the Jedi face their greatest challenge as they confront Marchion Ro and his Nihil forces. As the galaxy reels from war and devastation, a group of nine Jedi, led by Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann, journey to...

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The potency of ungovernable impulses  by Malka Older

The potency of ungovernable impulses

Malka Older

"When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin--who's up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism on the eve of her defense--Pleiti agrees to investigate the matter. Even if she...

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A thousand blues  by Sŏl-lan Ch'ŏn

A thousand blues

Sŏl-lan Ch'ŏn

"2035: In the shadow of a racecourse, two sisters grow up, helping their mother at the local cafe that serves renowned ramen. Family life is fractious, especially when one of them loses their day job to automation. When the sisters discover their beloved...

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The collapsing empire  by John Scalzi

The collapsing empire

John Scalzi

"Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity...

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Alternate peace

Alternate peace

"Alternate histories. It's said that every choice creates multiple timelines, each one exploring what could have happened if a different decision had been made. Most of these alternate histories stem from different outcomes to a pivotal battle, or to an...

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Legends of the wolf  by Chris Wraight

Legends of the wolf

Chris Wraight

"In Blood of Asaheim, Space Wolves Ingvar and Gunnlaugur are reunited after half a century. But as they battle the monstrous Death Guard, long-hidden tensions threaten to tear their pack apart. In Stormcaller the plague-wracked world of Ras Shakeh spirals out...

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The two lies of Faven Sythe  by Megan E. O'Keefe

The two lies of Faven Sythe

Megan E. O'Keefe

"A search for a missing person uncovers a galaxy-spanning conspiracy in this thrilling standalone space opera from award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known...

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