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Dawn of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere will be hell to pay.Evelyn’s parents have been missing for more than thirty years, and at last Evelyn has a clue as to their fate. Investigating won’t be easy, even for someone as powerful as she is, yet she won’t be deterred... -
![MX Hub by Daniel Schinhofen]()
MX Hub by Daniel Schinhofen
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEverything had changed for Zander Greaves over the last few weeks. He’d gone from being a private military contractor with his squad in the Middle East to being isekai-ed into a different multiverse.He lost his friends and his lover, Selda, in the same hour of his arrival, sparking in him the mission to kill every single Entoma he could to repay them for his loss... -
![Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale]()
Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNava’s second year at the Sonkei Alliance School of Sorcery begins with a strange new student who seems to have a real invisible friend and just gets stranger. By the time she’s going off-world to rescue a friend during her summer break, events have conspired to make her question a lot of things, including her very nature. Just how alien is Death’s Handmaiden... -
![To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers]()
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsIn her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves. Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features... -
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![The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis]()
The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLinden A. Lewis returns with this next installment of The First Sister Trilogy, perfect for fans of Red Rising, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Expanse.Astrid has reclaimed her name and her voice, and now seeks to bring down the Sisterhood from within... -
![The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey]()
The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now.Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell... -
![Deep Crossing by E.R. Mason]()
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... -
![Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn assassin's shot has shattered the Opah family and endangered Lancer Andira Tal. Now criminal forces are racing law enforcement to find the man who could topple Tal's government.With the net closing around them, Tal and Salomen Opah discover the power of their tyree bond, a power Alsea has not seen in a millennium... -
![Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble... -
![Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee]()
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMachineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades older... -
![Wizard by John Varley]()
Wizard by John Varley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionOne of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane.. -
![Zero Day Threat by R.M. Olson]()
Zero Day Threat by R.M. Olson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour ex-convicts. One charismatic mastermind. And the most dangerous heist the System has ever seen.Jez is a damn good pilot, and she’s always worked alone. Until she got picked up for smuggling, that is.Now she’s lost her ship, lost her job, lost her reputation, and is on the run from the law... -
![Space Murder by N.L. Haverstock, Nikki Haverstock]()
Space Murder by N.L. Haverstock, Nikki Haverstock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor everything there is a season…Once the star student of her training class, Captain Liz Laika is now an outcast, a casualty of family scandal. Now stuck in the worst post in the Fleet, she should keep her head down. But when a Cerulean passenger is found decapitated, and Liz is framed for the murder, she has no choice but to fight for her life... -
![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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![Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer]()
Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for fans of Aurora Rising, The Hunger Games, and Three Dark Crowns, this electrifying duology closer is jam-packed with tension and thrills that will hook readers from its first page.Alyssa Farshot never wanted to rule the empire. But to honor her uncle’s dying wish, she participated in the crownchase, a race across the empire’s 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne... -
![Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax]()
Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Battered Hearts. One Perfect Love Ace and Thrasher share a special bond. They’ve never acknowledged that connection and have never fully acted on it. The Humanoid Alliance kill cyborg males like them, deeming the warriors to be defective. Now that Ace and Thrasher have escaped, they don’t trust the cyborg council and their brethren to react any differently... -
![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... -
![Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer]()
Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this duology opener.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades... -
![Demon by John Varley]()
Demon by John Varley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionThe satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed... -
![The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White]()
The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series.The crew of the legendary Capricious may have gone legitimate, but they're still on the run... -
![Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFame is overrated.Having rescued thousands of people from being sacrificed, Evelyn could use some peace and quiet. Life has other plans. She quickly finds herself drawn into assisting a deity with a small problem, only to return and find that her great grandmother has learned of her existence... -
![Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells]()
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThis short story is told from the point of view of Dr. Mensah and follows the events in Exit Strategy.Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’s Murderbot novel, Network Effect... -
![System Collapse by Martha Wells]()
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure!Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits... -
![Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells]()
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover.. -
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![The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton]()
The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and found family. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship... -
![Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke]()
Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear.Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent... -
![The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale]()
The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaya Trevorny’s world came to an end in the student welfare office of Abertine University. The colony where she had grown up, her family, was gone, dead under circumstances the authorities seemed keen to hide. To find the truth, Kaya must team up with a mercenary and a rag-tag group of smugglers. And the truth is something which will change her life forever... -
![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... -
![Nightmare by Steven Harper]()
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... -
![Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke]()
Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPirate and mercenary Weiss Kyakh works as a reluctant double agent for the Supreme Constellations. Her mission is to infiltrate a cutthroat band of space pirates along with a sentient bio-android, Madisyn Pimm. Pimm's sole purpose is to bring pirates to justice. Weiss soon realises that Madisyn has her own secrets... -
![Partners - Book One by Melissa Good]()
Partners - Book One by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations... -
![The Lowest Depths of Shame by Niall Teasdale]()
The Lowest Depths of Shame by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAneka and Ella have secured the end of the Herosian War. The Herosians are in disarray, disorganised and vulnerable. It seems that it is just a matter of time until everything can return to something near normal. There are worlds to liberate, but the Jenlay Navy has help from Old Earth and no one expects there to be any problem... -
![The Greatest Heights of Honour by Niall Teasdale]()
The Greatest Heights of Honour by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAneka Jansen, born on Earth in the twentieth century seems to have been revived after a thousand years of relative peace only to find herself in the middle of a war. As the Herosians manoeuver themselves into a better position for victory, their actions hidden behind subterfuge and high technology, there seems to be little anyone can do to stop the coming war... -
![Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen]()
Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRandy likes space, robots, and baseball, but he can't ace everything . . . or can he? Chris Van Dusen knocks one out of the park with a comical ode to ingenuity.Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. He tries . . . but whiffs every time... -
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![Fallen Star by Morgan Hawke]()
Fallen Star by Morgan Hawke
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIsabeau Fallon, the Fallen Star is one of the finest thieves on Dyson's Ring station--until she's caught by the Skeldhi hunter, Sobehk. Trapped and altered into a skeldhi-human hybrid sex-pet known as a "rehkyt," her past is a closed door -- until it literally comes back to haunt her in the form of E'sey Khan... -
![Titan by John Varley]()
Titan by John Varley
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsWhen Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and his crew are captured by Gaea, a planet-sized creature that orbits around Saturn, they find themselves inside a bizarre world inhabited by centaurs, harpies, and constantly shifting... -
![The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry]()
The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMaster Khadaji and the Matadors are determined to bring down Marcus Wall and the Galactic Confederation. But Wall has plans of his own and will do whatever it takes to remain in power... -
![A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy by Alex White]()
A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy by Alex White
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series. The crew of the legendary Capricious are rich enough to retire in comfort for the rest of their days, but none of it matters if the galaxy is still in danger... -
![Leviathan by Erik Schubach]()
Leviathan by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world... -
![The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez]()
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time."This is when your life begins."Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time... -
![Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather]()
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith... -
![Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre]()
Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she’s been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them... -
![Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Vengeance (Star Wars: The High Republic by Cavan Scott]()
Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Vengeance (Star Wars: The High Republic by Cavan Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion to Quest of the Jedi storytelling from the #1 New York Times best-selling High Republic initiative! An enthralling and relentlessly paced young adult adventure set in the world of the High Republic, 150 years before stories of Phase Light of the Jedi... -
![Prelude to War by T.S. Paul]()
Prelude to War by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWith the destruction of the Earth ship Colossus the 3rd interstellar war is about to begin. The Cabal plan to reveal their political intentions to the Galaxy, but before they can, they have to eliminate their enemies first. Athena and her whole family are in their sights along with anyone that stands in the way of progress and control... -
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![Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston]()
Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe highly awaited sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once, Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom... -
![The Winter War by Niall Teasdale]()
The Winter War by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Jenlay, Herosians, and Torem have lived in peace for almost five hundred and thirty years. The Lorenti Federation was founded specifically to stop anything like the Xinti War happening again and, through all that time, a woman named Winter has sat at the top of the Federal Security Agency ensuring that the peace is kept... -
![Honor Lost by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre]()
Honor Lost by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpace renegade Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller—a creature that can devour entire planets is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous godking’s way.Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again... -
![A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThis new collection of short fiction by the only science fiction author to win the National Book Award celebrates her understanding that narrative is the shining thread with which we create our common humanity...Categorized as:
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![Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells]()
Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin the fight for the people and power of Tanegawa’s world in this thrilling sequel to Hunger Makes the Wolf War is coming to Hob Ravani's world... -
![ShipCore by Erios909]()
ShipCore by Erios909
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn space, isolation is a slow killer. Company quickens the pace.Waking up adrift in an ancient battleground, Alex is left dazed and confused with no clue how she ended up trapped aboard a failing vessel. With only a mysterious voice in her head to guide her she must act in order to survive...
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