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  • Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao...
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    dystopia  humor  military  war  action-adventure  ai  audiobook  book
  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault...
  • Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...
  • Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Content: Falling free Labyrinth Diplomatic immunity Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times.Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job...
  • Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...
  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...
  • The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead...
  • Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Cordelia and Arol Vorkosigan's plans for a peaceful married life (after all the bloodshed and trials recounted in SHARDS OF HONOR) are soon shattered by the polital tumult on Barrayar. Resisting enormous pressure, they struggle to keep their family alive while while protecting the child Emperor from enemies who would murder him and assume absolute power over all of Barrayar...
  • Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Our heroes are back… kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy’s best hope for survival.First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed...
  • Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test...
  • Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zander and Felix's relationship has been to the brink and back: the Human-Stin War, imprisonment and an actual death/resurrection. Zander's death, to be specific, and the experience has left him…changed. The mysterious race known as the Guardians chose to revive him and appointed him as their emissary...
  • Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...
  • Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day...Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • Alone by Scott Sigler

    Alone by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom...
  • Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game.The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin...
  • Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth...
  • Starlight by Lisa Henry

    Starlight by Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brady Garrett is back in space, this time as an unwilling member of a team of humans seeking to study the alien Faceless and their technology. It’s not the first time Brady’s life has been in the hands of the Faceless leader Kai-Ren, and if there’s one thing Brady hates it’s being reminded exactly how powerless he is...
  • Relentless by Lauren Dane

    Relentless by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the erotic universe created by hot new talent Lauren Dane, passion knows no rank... Fifteen Families rule the Federated Universes-and Abbie Haws has spent her life battling the system. She's always been too driven to pay much attention to love. But when she meets Roman Lyons, Head of House Lyons, who stands for everything she hates, Abbie's attraction catches her off-guard..
  • Darker Space by Lisa Henry

    Darker Space by Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Brady Garrett is back on Earth. He’s living with his partner Cam and they’re raising his sister Lucy together. Life is better than some feral reffo from Kopa has any right to hope, and Brady knows it. He’s even grateful for it, most of the time. He loves Cam, even though he’s afraid that he’s not good enough for him, and he’s still having nightmares about the alien Faceless...
  • The Englor Affair by J.L. Langley

    The Englor Affair by J.L. Langley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In hiding who he was, Payton found himselfand the man he would grow to love. After his brother is kidnapped, Prince Payton Townsend masquerades as an Admirals assistant in order to track the culprits through the tangled mysteries of the planet Englor. He finds way more than he bargained for in the form of Marine Colonel Simon Hollister. Simon is no ordinary soldier...
  • The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

    The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    “The perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” —TeenVogue.comA New York Times bestseller!Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when a senator’s daughter is summoned to the galactic court as a hostage, but she’s really the galaxy’s most dangerous weapon in disguise.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful...
  • Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise that Amy had been hoping for...
  • Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker...
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    humor  military  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook
  • Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions...
  • Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    For Alien Super-Being Exterminator Katherine "Kitty" Katt, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work. It's been five months since Kitty joined Centaurion Division, working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri. She and Jeff Martini have grown closer and life looks rosy...
  • Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge...
  • Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Talk is cheap when lives are in jeopardySirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best—by mouthing off and kicking butt.And her tactics are needed more than ever...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • My Regelence Rake by J.L. Langley

    My Regelence Rake by J.L. Langley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sebastian Hastings, Viscount Wentworth, is captain of the Royal Guard by day and scandalous rake by night. To protect the royal family of Regelence from the plots of the Intergalactic Navy, Sebastian makes it his priority to personally oversee their safety. Prince Colton Townsend is done pining after the roguish viscount and focuses his attention on his second love—horses...
  • Exin Ex Machina by G.S. Jennsen

    Exin Ex Machina by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody novels.**Exin Ex Machina is a new entry point for the AMARANTHE series--newcomers are welcome**When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization's salvation, or to its doom...
  • Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination...
  • Diplomatic Relations by J.L. Langley

    Diplomatic Relations by J.L. Langley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dalton Fairfax, Lord Ashbourne, has always flaunted the rules of Regelence high society. Despite being the heir to the Marquess of Ravensburg, and cousin to the Townsend princes, Dalton found his calling in the military, first in the Intergalactic Navy and now the Regelence Special Regiment...
  • Sub Zero by Angel Martinez

    Sub Zero by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Returning to the frozen planet Aren died on was bound to have complications... A Science Fiction Mystery from Angel MartinezMajor Aren Dalsgaard's newest assignment is to investigate a series of murders on the frigid planet, Drass, where relations between the Treaty settlers and the indigenous inhabitants have taken a nasty turn...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  crime  fiction
  • Dark Space by Lisa Henry

    Dark Space by Lisa Henry

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Brady Garrett needs to go home. He's a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn't get home he'll lose his family, but there's no way back except in a body bag. Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat...
  • Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

    Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars—is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly...
  • Hover by Melissa West

    Hover by Melissa West

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them...
  • Chaos Station by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Chaos Station by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "You're not real. Felix Ingesson is dead."The war with the alien stin is over, but Felix Ingesson has given up on seeing his lover, Zander Anatolius, ever again. Zander's military file is sealed tighter than an airlock. A former prisoner of war, Felix is attempting a much quieter life keeping his ship, the Chaos, aloft...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  military  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  aliens  angst
  • The Sentinel by Eden Winters

    The Sentinel by Eden Winters

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Since the day he was dropped off at a Federation camp by parents who used him to gain political favor, cybernetic killing machine Soldier Fourteen existed only to carry out his orders. But when commanded to kill a baby girl, he defies his commander and deserts the Federation, seeking a place in the universe for himself and the defenseless innocent he’s promised to protect...
    Categorized as:
    children  dystopia  military  sad  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Prisoner 374215 by Angel Martinez

    Prisoner 374215 by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The cracks had opened wide one day, let the monsters out, and swallowed every bright thing. While the cell is sparse and cold, at least this one has a bed. The figure resting there is too thin; too still, the prominent bones the result of long starvation, the stillness the product of too much anguish and abuse. He watches, though...
  • Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it -- trouble keeps finding her...
  • Jailmates by Lesli Richardson

    Jailmates by Lesli Richardson

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This wasn’t in the contract. Simon Quigley had no idea what to expect when he agreed to do this for the money, but the eight-foot-tall pink alien isn’t what he was expecting. For starters, Simon’s straight.And Mohrn isn’t a girl.The contract? It’s unbreakable...
  • Incursion by Aleksandr Voinov

    Incursion by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fighting with your back to the wall is all well and good—as long as you’ve chosen the right wall. When the local authorities ask Kyle Juenger to hunt a shape-shifting Glyrinny spy, he can’t refuse. After all, he can use the reward to replace his paralyzed legs with cyberware, and maybe even to return to his home planet...
  • The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space, annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonization...
  • Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach

    Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible...
  • My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley

    My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins goes undercover to investigate the theft of an IN weapons stash, the mission raises painful memories from his past. Using a title he fled nearly two decades earlier, Nate once again becomes the Earl of Deverell, heir to the Duke of Hawthorne, in order to navigate the ins and outs of a Regency world...
  • Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean. Kieran has led the boys safely up to this point, and now that the girls are back, their mission seems slightly less impossible: to chase down the New Horizon, and save their parents from the enemy ship. But nothing is truly as it seems…Kieran’s leadership methods have raised Seth’s hackles— and Waverly’s suspicions...
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