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Deep Crossing by E.R. Mason
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSequel to Fatal Boarding. No one on Earth could ever convince Adrian Tarn to take an untested prototype spacecraft deeper into unexplored space than anyone had ever been, to retrieve a mysterious artifact never before seen by humans... -
![Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale]()
Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Clan Worlds Alliance is the larget political body in the known galaxy. At its centre lies Shinden, home to the Clan Assembly and the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, probably the best educational facility of its type anywhere. Students from all over the Clan Worlds go there to study a form of magic based squarely on scientific principles... -
![The Dead Next Door (Will to Live) by T.W. Smith]()
The Dead Next Door (Will to Live) by T.W. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE WORLD ENDS IN DAYSFirst the bombings… cities crumble… infection spreads… Will is alone. His lakeside neighborhood has become a cemetery, the houses now tombstones... -
![Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell]()
Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOcean’s Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him... -
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![Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron]()
Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and that makes him the most important person on the planet... -
![Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens]()
Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship in his sleep, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another... -
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Nightmare by Steven Harper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave... -
![Velvet Glove: Volume V by Sean Michael]()
Velvet Glove: Volume V by Sean Michael
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fifth installment of the Velvet Glove series about an exclusive men's BDSM club, features three works: Three to Heal, Rock Stars and Size Queens and Fits Like a Glove... -
![Gentlemen Prefer Villains by C. Rochelle]()
Gentlemen Prefer Villains by C. Rochelle
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSimonI needed to get the hell out of Big City.The only reason I was living in this American wasteland was because my mother insisted I reconcile with my estranged father. That the idea came to her while drunk on the French bubbly should have been my sign to stay right where I belonged.Anywhere but here. Certainly somewhere more fabulous... -
![The Outrage by William Hussey]()
The Outrage by William Hussey
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we'd gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open minds could be closed again? But then the Outrage happened."Welcome to England, where the Protectorate enforces the Public Good... -
![Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott]()
Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval... -
![The Siege by Mark Alpert]()
The Siege by Mark Alpert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMission: Sabotage.Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability-and freedom comes at a price... -
![Any Job Will Do by John Wilker]()
Any Job Will Do by John Wilker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen someone says they have a job for you, you don’t get picky.Jackson “Jax” Caruso is a war orphan. His parents died when he was young. They were on the losing side of a civil war.He does what he can to survive, taking the jobs that come and not asking too many questions. He has a ship, and a crew of droids to help get him by... -
![Safe Passage by Rachel Ford]()
Safe Passage by Rachel Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGo big or go home. For privateer Captain Magdalene Landon, it's all about going big. For Kay Ellis, it's about getting home. Together, they're about to architect the most daring heist in the galaxy. Kay knows too much. She knows it’s a matter of time before a Conglomerate hitman finds her. She’s desperate for safe passage back to Union space... -
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![Expedition by Alexander Elliott]()
Expedition by Alexander Elliott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe humans of Earth planned for a long intergalactic journey. What they didn’t plan on was running into the neighbors. In 2096 Captain Christopher Perry led the starship Expedition on a centuries-long search for a suitable world to colonize... -
![Gabriel by Tracy St. John]()
Gabriel by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe never believed in love at first sight, especially love that was forbidden. Then he met a Kalquorian clan.After fleeing Earth’s Mercy Colony six years before, Gabriel Rossi and his sister Iliana have carved out a decent life on a remote Adraf space station. Each avoids contact with other humans as much as possible. Gabriel’s life is adequate, but he yearns to be free to love as he was born to... -
![Doctor Who: The Star Beast (Target Collection) by Gary Russell]()
Doctor Who: The Star Beast (Target Collection) by Gary Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this brand-new adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
![Superior by Jessica Lack]()
Superior by Jessica Lack
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA superhero's intern falls in love with a supervillain's apprentice in this star-crossed LGBT YA story from The Book Smugglers. Here's the thing about being a superhero intern: there's a lot less crime fighting than you think there will be, what with the whole liability issue and the administrative headache of constantly monitoring the Heroic Help Hotline... -
![Potential Energy by Kim Fielding]()
Potential Energy by Kim Fielding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen interstellar smuggler Haz Taylor loses his ship, his money, and his tattered reputation, drinking himself to death on a backwater planet seems like his only option. Then the Coalition offers him a contract to return a stolen religious artifact. Sounds simple enough, but politics can be deadly—and the artifact’s not enthusiastic about being returned... -
![Burndive by Karin Lowachee]()
Burndive by Karin Lowachee
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of the acclaimed and bestselling debut novel Warchild comes a new action-packed adventure about a young man's journey into adulthood amid interstellar war... -
![Cartas desde el desierto by Manu Carbajo]()
Cartas desde el desierto by Manu Carbajo
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEn un futuro no muy lejano, La Mili vuelve a ser obligatoria para todos los jóvenes que cumplan dieciséis años. Hacerla implica muchas cosas, pero hay una a la que todos temen: El Desierto. El peor sitio al que te pueden mandar es un lugar tan árido y aislado que nadie sabe decir con exactitud dónde está... -
![A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright]()
A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'A compelling, mind-bending future that's finally come home to the present' – Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetWhen Commander Rallya of the patrol ship Bhattya hires Rafe as their new Web officer, she knows she is taking a risk... -
![Transition by Vonda N. McIntyre]()
Transition by Vonda N. McIntyre
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second book in the Starfarers saga, praised by Ursula K. Le Guin as "the most important series in science fiction". Vonda N. McIntyre is also the author of several nationally bestselling Star Trek titles, including novelizations of three Star Trek movies... -
![Metaphase by Vonda N. McIntyre]()
Metaphase by Vonda N. McIntyre
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Three in the bestselling Starfarers series, reissued to coincide with the debut of Nautilus, also in mass market paperback. Though civilized worlds have shunned them both, humankind and the reclusive, alien squidmouth hope to find friendship in each other... -
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![Dreamer by Steven Harper]()
Dreamer by Steven Harper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate with one another by their thoughts alone — over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream... -
![Almost Perfect by James Goss]()
Almost Perfect by James Goss
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEmma is 30, single and frankly desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it's made her almost perfect.Gwen Cooper woke up this morning expecting the unexpected. As usual... -
![Pilot Error by Dan Moren]()
Pilot Error by Dan Moren
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s been six months—six endless months—since former starfighter pilot Eli Brody helped Simon Kovalic and his team of Commonwealth covert operatives take on a terrorist organization on his home planet of Caledonia. But instead of being swept up in a new life of intrigue and excitement, Eli has instead been tasked with sharpening his rusty piloting skills on routine asteroid mining missions... -
![The House That Jack Built by Guy Adams]()
The House That Jack Built by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJackson Leaves - an Edwardian house in Penylan.Built 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented. Left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob's late aunt.It's an ordinary sort of a house. Except for the way the rooms don't stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions... -
![Bay of the Dead by Mark Morris]()
Bay of the Dead by Mark Morris
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the city sleeps, the dead start to walk...Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen yacht is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains... -
![The Mighty Orinoco (Extraordinary Voyages, #45) by Jules Verne, Julio Verne]()
The Mighty Orinoco (Extraordinary Voyages, #45) by Jules Verne, Julio Verne
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela... -
![A Different Light by Elizabeth A. Lynn]()
A Different Light by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a future world, cancer has been all but eradicated. Jimson Alleca can live another 20 years with drugs and a peaceful lifestyle -- if he stays in space-normal. But he's willing to risk it all to make the jump into the Hype, the shimmering "not space" for one year among the stars... -
![The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders]()
The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel doesn’t actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex…When Ythna is sent to serve the Beldame Thakkra, she is only a child, but as she grows, so does her love of her mistress. When tragedy strikes, Ythna has no idea what to do, or how to save herself from Obsolescence, until she meets the mysterious Jemima Brookwater. Ms... -
![Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger]()
Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the early 21st century, scientists have found a way to create a brand new universe...one million-millionth the size of our own...
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