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Space Team: The King of Space Must Die by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt isn't just war. It's space war! Geronimus Krone, the most dangerous man in existence has altered the course of time, appointed himself King of Space, and now rules the galaxy with the help of his four monstrous generals and their armies. Cal Carver and his crew are the galaxy's only hope. But, reeling from their recent loss, they can't stop Krone on their own... -
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Quantum Void by Douglas Phillips
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight months after the astounding discoveries made at Fermilab… Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered four thousand light-years from home... -
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The Champion by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTHE CHAMPION is the fifth book in the Galactic Football League series.Seven centuries in the future, the sport of American football has never been bigger, never been faster, never been more lethal. Trillions of fans from all over the galaxy watch six unique races battle in contests so violent that deaths are part of the stat sheet... -
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Quantum Space by Douglas Phillips
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B06ZY9T5Y5.If you liked the authenticity of The Martian, the page-turning pace of Da Vinci Code, and the inspirational world view of Arthur C. Clarke, you'll love Quantum Space.High above the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, three astronauts on board a Russian Soyuz capsule begin their reentry... -
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![Rescue by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Rescue by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Rescue" is the eleventh of a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii’s nerve mutation makes her a genius and provides her some astonishing athletic abilities. In “Rescue,” President Stockton tells the FBI to tone down its efforts to imprison Ell. Unfortunately, the SCDF, a group of ultraconservative survivalists now has the President in their sights...Categorized as:
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![Company by Hugh Howey]()
Company by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOut here on the edge of sector eight, I can be alone with my thoughts. Sometimes, this isn't a good thing... -
![Visitor by Hugh Howey]()
Visitor by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe worst part about having it all, is having it all taken away... -
![Orion Lost by Alastair Chisholm]()
Orion Lost by Alastair Chisholm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a catastrophic Unknown Event leaves the colony ship Orion stranded deep in space, it's up to thirteen-year-old Beth and her friends to navigate through treacherous and uncharted territory and reach safety... -
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Impact! by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Impact" is the twelfth book in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation that makes her a genius and provides her some astonishing athletic abilities.In “Impact,” Ell’s been taken off the “Most Wanted” list and is resuming somewhat of a normal life. Her old friend Phil Zabrisk is on his way to Mars... -
![Bounty by Hugh Howey]()
Bounty by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI live in a tin can out on the edge of sector eight. Not much is supposed to happen here. Ships are supposed to fly by at twenty times the speed of light. My beacon is supposed to keep them safe. Things don't always go like they're supposed to... -
![Pretender by C.J. Cherryh]()
Pretender by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsExhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader, is missing...Categorized as:
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![Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven, Rick Sternbach]()
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven, Rick Sternbach
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsRanging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...Becalmed in hellHowie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!Wait it outHe was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!The borderland of SolForward possessed the ultimate weapon..Categorized as:
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![Three's a Crowd! by Ray O'Ryan]()
Three's a Crowd! by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZack finds out that two best friends are better than one in this chapter book adventure.Zack is thrilled when he finds out that his best friend on Earth, Bert Jones, is going to visit him on Nebulon. Zack can’t wait to show Bert around the new planet, as well as his new school. But when Bert meets Drake, Zack’s best friend on Nebulon, some jealousy starts to brew... -
![EVA (Field Series Book 4) by Simon Winstanley]()
EVA (Field Series Book 4) by Simon Winstanley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll good thingsmust come to a beginning... Beyond Time: The Boundary.Beyond reason: Human nature.Beyond coincidence: A convergence.Time itself was always the key.Across 64 years, the manipulation of events reaches its conclusion.The outcome shapes the future of Mankind.At the epicentre is a set of coordinatesand three letters...EVA...Categorized as:
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![Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield]()
Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeather wants more than anything to go to outer space, where the stars sparkle with magic and wonder. When a UFO lands behind her house and she meets a friendly alien, it seems that all of her dreams have come true. But soon her new friend has to return home...Categorized as:
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![The Face by Jack Vance]()
The Face by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKirth Gersen tracks Lens Larque across several worlds, most notably Aloysius, the desert world Dar Sai and the more temperate Methel. He eventually learns that Larque is a Darsh, born Husse Bugold. He had been deprived of an earlobe and made a rachepol or outcast from his clan for a crime considered "repulsive but not superlatively heinous... -
![A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt]()
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler’s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life... -
![The Prehistoric Planet by Ray O'Ryan]()
The Prehistoric Planet by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGalaxy Zack blasts back to the past in this outer space chapter book adventure!A baby pterosaur can’t find his way home, so it’s up to the Nebulon Navigators to return him to the Prehistoric Planet. And when Zack’s dad is invited on the journey, Zack finds a way to go along too! But as they blast off on the super shuttle, they hear a strange noise... -
![Hostile Ground by Sally Malcolm, Laura Harper]()
Hostile Ground by Sally Malcolm, Laura Harper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was meant to be an easy mission, a walk in the park. But SG-1's first trip off-world after Colonel O'Neill's return from Edora (STARGATE SG-1: One Hundred Days) proves to be anything but easy. Tapped for a covert assignment, O’Neill must conceal the truth from his team at all costs. So when Dr Daniel Jackson is injured and the mission begins to go awry, tensions quickly reach breaking point... -
![Threads in Time by Hannah De Giorgis]()
Threads in Time by Hannah De Giorgis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty-two-year-old Lyndall Huxley wakes to find herself thousands of years into the future. Something went wrong with the programme for which she volunteered - a programme that employs Einstein’s laws of relativity to send travellers forward in time. The ruins overrun by green woodland in which she wakes are a far cry from the urbanised world she left behind in the 2200's... -
![Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead]()
Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW EDITION - August 2015. Professionally edited and proofed..Swallow the Sky embodies the essence of classic science fiction: real science, adventure, high spirits, and above all, a sense of wonder.Galactic culture is still reverberating from the nanotech disaster that destroyed Earth... -
![Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3 by P.J. Haarsma]()
Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3 by P.J. Haarsma
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHang on to your transport! Wormhole pirates close in on JT and his friends in part three of the cyber-fueled sci-fi adventure.It’s not a good sign: before Johnny Turnbull and his fellow knudniks even land on Orbis 3, a band of wormhole pirates invades their shuttle and deliver a cryptic threat to JT... -
![Wanderer: Origins by Simon Goodson]()
Wanderer: Origins by Simon Goodson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHunted by a powerful Imperial fleet, his friends infected by the Taint, Jess has only one place to turn — the homeworld of his amazing ship, the Wanderer.But his journey will reveal the origins of far more than just the Wanderer, and both the Empire and the Taint will be ready to pounce at any moment... -
![The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance]()
The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHoward Alan Treesong gave a banquet to ten friends. All died in agony, save himself.Howard Alan Treesong went to his old school reunion to teach his former classmates the meaning of terror.Howard Alan Treesong was the most elusive of the five Demon Princes upon whom Kirth Gersen had sworn vengeance. A galaxy-wide guessing game proved his undoing... -
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![Migration by Julie E. Czerneda]()
Migration by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSenior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymn, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale]()
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding into Earth's space. The Earth forces are resisting the Daleks in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance...The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters... -
![Captured by Douglas E. Richards]()
Captured by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIncluded in The California Department of Education’s Recommended Literature for Science and Math and in Missouri State University’s Best New Books to Engage Students in Math and Science This fast-paced, science fiction adventure is a stand-alone sequel to The Prometheus Project: Trapped...Categorized as:
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![Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter]()
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind - all the way to the end of the Universe itself... -
![Feedback by Peter Cawdron]()
Feedback by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwenty years ago, a UFO crashed into the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula. The only survivor was a young English-speaking child, captured by the North Koreans. Two decades later, a physics student watches his girlfriend disappear before his eyes, abducted from the streets of New York by what appears to be the same UFO... -
![The Search for Snout by Bruce Coville]()
The Search for Snout by Bruce Coville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomewhere Snout is waiting.Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: where in the wide, wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts?Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters. But the clues they uncover there only deepen the mystery — and the danger... -
![Ecce and Old Earth by Jack Vance]()
Ecce and Old Earth by Jack Vance
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy; a thousand years past it was set aside as a natural preserve, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation.But now the elite Conservator culture that has developed on Cadwal is facing a conspiracy of humans and aliens to open the planet, and its rich resources, to full commercial use...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson]()
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the planet of Lobos, the Doctor halts a violent war between the native Loba and human colonists. Job done, the TARDIS crew departs – only for Ryan to discover he’s left his phone behind. Again.Upon returning, the Doctor finds that the TARDIS has slipped hundreds of years into the future – and that something has gone badly wrong...Categorized as:
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![Man On The Moon by Simon Bartram]()
Man On The Moon by Simon Bartram
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning with an introduction to the history of mosaics, colour and design are explored in mosaic-making, across the full range of equipment, materials and tesserae on offer... -
![Taking Care of Gods by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu]()
Taking Care of Gods by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne day two billion white beard in white came to earth, claiming that they were the creators of human beings... -
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![The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge]()
The Jamie Drake Equation by Christopher Edge
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright comes another cutting-edge cosmic space adventure for anyone who's ever looked up at the stars and wondered about the universe. An exploration of the constellations, an appreciation of the courage of astronauts, and a loving father-son story. Perfect for fans of Scott Kelly's Astrotwins series... -
![Mammoth Trouble by D. Robert Pease]()
Mammoth Trouble by D. Robert Pease
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNoah Zarc has a life most kids only dream of - traveling through time on an immense spaceship, seeing the wonders of the solar system, and experiencing the vast history of Earth... before everything on the planet was destroyed. His family's mission is to repopulate Earth with life retrieved from the past. Of course, nothing ever goes as planned...Categorized as:
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![Genesis Earth by Joe Vasicek]()
Genesis Earth by Joe Vasicek
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA BOY AND A GIRL ON A VOYAGE TO AN ALIEN STAR Michael Anderson never thought he would set foot on a world like Earth. He only studied planetology to satisfy his parents, two of humanity's most brilliant scientists. But when they open a wormhole to an alien planet—one emitting a signal that can only be a sign of intelligent life—he soon becomes caught up in the mission to explore it... -
![Bootstrap Colony by Chris Hechtl]()
Bootstrap Colony by Chris Hechtl
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Earth was doomed. That is what the aliens had warned Mitch Chambers a year ago. It wasn't like it was anything new, mankind had always been teetering on the edge of extinction. But when aliens visit, you listened. They gave him and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine other people a year to prepare before they are transplanted to another world... -
![The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P. Hogan]()
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P. Hogan
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTHE END OF EXILELong before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. And now Earth's code and scientists were there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race... -
![Trapped by Douglas E. Richards]()
Trapped by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFrom the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the adult thriller, WIRED, THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT: TRAPPED is the first book ina critically acclaimed science fiction series for kids.Ryan and Regan Resnick have just moved to the world's most boring place...Categorized as:
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![Invoking Darkness by Jeanne Cavelos]()
Invoking Darkness by Jeanne Cavelos
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe electrifying space epic reaches an explosive climaxwhen one techno-mage battles the ultimate evil As billions die and the flames of destruction rage unchecked, the Shadows seem poised for absolute victory. Soon the entire galaxy will fall to their evil. But the war isn't over . . . not yet... -
![Journey to Juno by Ray O'Ryan, Colin Jack]()
Journey to Juno by Ray O'Ryan, Colin Jack
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsZack joins his school's Explorer's Club and visits Juno, a newly discovered planet of crystals... -
![Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell]()
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDiscover the new Doctor Who classics. Still reeling from his encounter with the Cybermen, the First Doctor stumbles through the bitter Antarctic wind, resisting the approaching regeneration with all his strength... -
![Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski]()
Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe explosive space epic continues, as the techno-mages come face-to-face with the devastating evil of the Shadows . . . War against the Shadows is inevitable, and the ruling Circle has ordered the techno-mages into hiding. Many are unhappy with this decision--none more so than Galen, the only mage who has faced the Shadows and lived... -
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![dr who the silent stars go by by Dan Abnett]()
dr who the silent stars go by by Dan Abnett
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsscience...Categorized as:
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![Giants' star. by James P. Hogan]()
Giants' star. by James P. Hogan
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA problem in relativity.One: Eons ago, a gentle race of giant aliens fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of Man to fend for themselves.Two: 50 thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into orbit about the Earth...Categorized as:
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![Hello, Nebulon! by Ray O'Ryan]()
Hello, Nebulon! by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGet to know Galaxy Zack—and his new home planet!In Hello, Nebulon!, Zack makes the big move from Earth... -
![Smek for President! by Adam Rex, Άνταμ Ρεξ]()
Smek for President! by Adam Rex, Άνταμ Ρεξ
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this much-anticipated sequel to The True Meaning of Smekday, which inspired the blockbuster feature film Home, Tip and J.Lo are back for another hilarious intergalactic adventure!After Tip and J.Lo banished the Gorg from Earth, the pair is notorious—but not for their heroics. Instead, human Dan Landry has taken credit for conquering the Gorg, and the aliens known as the Boov blame J...Categorized as:
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![I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X by Bruce Coville]()
I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X by Bruce Coville
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKIDNAPPED TO DIMENSION X! When Rod Allbright's cousin Elspeth arrived for a visit the day after school let out for the summer, Rod thought his vacation was ruined. But after they are kidnapped to Dimension X by a monster named Smorkus Flinders, Rod realizes that Elspeth is the least of his problems... -
![Endeavour by Ralph Kern]()
Endeavour by Ralph Kern
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince we first looked at the stars, there has been a silence, no signs of alien life, no one who has tried to speak to us, a mystery that a long dead scientist called: The Fermi Paradox. ‘Where are they?’ Tom Hites and Harry Cosgrove command the first Starship, Endeavour on an epic journey that spans light years and centuries to solve this mystery...
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