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  • Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey

    Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper...
  • Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

    Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Listen to Jorgen's story along with Cytonic...
  • We Will Build by Michael Anderle

    We Will Build by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The World Needs Protecting - Before they can build in space they have to GET into space.There is a 'false queen' attacking vampires in Asia - Bethany Anne sends her Own to look into that...
  • Life Goes On by Michael Anderle

    Life Goes On by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It is finished... Sweat dripping off her brow as the threads started long ago start to fuse together. It’s time to make plans, hide the truth, and get the HELL off her throne.But, how to accomplish creating a Federation, when those coming together want to gut her Empire?Anyone who understands the Queen Bitch, knows she won't accept that condition without a fight...
  • The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...
  • The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    This is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...
  • Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A mysterious entity may be the key to a starship’s survival—or a terrifying new threat—as the Odyssey One series continues… The Empire has set its sights on its next target: human Terrans. As effective allies of the Priminae, the denizens of Earth have proven themselves enemies to the Empire, and now the Imperial forces know more about the Terran home world than ever before...
  • Zero Recall by Sara King

    Zero Recall by Sara King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress...
  • Excalibur Lost: a Space Opera Novella by Glynn Stewart

    Excalibur Lost: a Space Opera Novella by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A broken speciesA broken manA lost legend…Only dreams and stories remain of the worlds humanity once called home, but scattered refugees live in the corners of the empire of their conquerors, the Sacred Council of Races...
  • Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One man leaves the life of a lawman behind him and works to clean up a new area in space. On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down. Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan. He's taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good...
  • Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the starship Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. He’s got a long way to go before he can rest. How can he when the entire world is under siege?   By demonic aliens. By a brutal thug who calls himself King. By an unknown and powerful threat that may be responsible for the end of humankind. The road may be long. The odds may be bad...
  • Fury of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Fury of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A looming alien horde. A buried alien weapon. One last chance to save humanity. Liam Hoffen and his crew may have squashed a few alien bugs, but they’re nowhere near ready for the coming swarm. Left for dead on a backwater planet, Liam must crawl through ancient alien ruins in search of an advanced weapon...
  • Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the highly anticipated Nyxia Triad series finale, Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they’re ever to make it home alive.Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel’s initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago’s plan...
  • Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré...
  • Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them...
  • Odysseus Awakening by Evan Currie

    Odysseus Awakening by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Defy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire’s next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech—the transition drive—humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark...
  • Pursuit of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Pursuit of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A world-shattering invasion. A long-dead rumor. A death-defying risk to save humanity. If the Kroerak Empire had a soft spot, Liam Hoffen would have found it by now. After years of fighting the blasted bug invaders, he’s all but thrown in the towel. To make matters worse, intercepted enemy plans show the empire’s next attack could wipe them off the map...
  • Incursion at Elea Station by Jamie McFarlane

    Incursion at Elea Station by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An alien invasion. A home-world destroyed. Can an embattled captain survive a daring fight to save the remnant of his colony? Privateer Liam Hoffen can’t wait to reunite with his family. But after he emerges from a 20-year stasis, he’s shocked to discover a hostile enemy has razed his home and exiled his people...
  • Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners

    Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This hard Sci-Fi novel is the sixth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s come up with a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time...
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • Andromeda Rising by Jay Allan

    Andromeda Rising by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Hero is Born The Gut. An industrial hell. The foulest and most decrepit slum on Parsephon. A nest of human misery, where hope is word long forgotten, and the dead are carted away every day. It is the worst pit in the Confederation’s great industrial machine known as the Iron Belt...
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In 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...
  • The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    New York Times Best-Selling Author.The Big Showdown with an Alien Empire, to Keep the Earth Free—and Maybe Free the Galaxy as Well. The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny...
  • Angles of Attack by Marko Kloos

    Angles of Attack by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war...
  • Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being saved from annihilation by the Old Gator’s daring plan, Gabriel and the crew of the Magellan find themselves in the most unlikely of places: a captured enemy starship. While learning to control the alien vessel introduces a new set of challenges, the secrets they discover within may prove to be the edge they so desperately need...
  • Formation (Forgotten Space Book 2) by M.R. Forbes

    Formation (Forgotten Space Book 2) by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After narrowly escaping destruction, Nicholas and his crew find themselves flung far across the universe with no way home. When a distress call from a nearby planet catches their attention, they decide to investigate with the hope the signal is somehow connected to their arrival.It isn’t long before the truth of Foresight’s mission comes into clearer focus, and Nicholas doesn’t like what he sees...
  • Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For fifty years they hunted us. For fifty years they enslaved us. For fifty years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the Universe. We’ve won our first battle. We’ve earned our first taste of hope...
  • Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, aliens invaded Earth. A violent war followed. The enemy won. Some of us escaped... ...most of us didn’t. On Proxima they flourished - the invasion forgotten. On Earth we floundered - the horror began. Their world is advanced, peaceful, and secure. Our world is broken, savage, and overrun. A new invasion is coming. A hunger that has swallowed half the universe...
  • Point of Origin by M.R. Forbes

    Point of Origin by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A starship lost. A creator found. A frantic race to save them both. For Colonel Mitchell “Ares” Williams, there is no giving up. There is no going back. The Goliath may have fallen into enemy hands, but the war must go on. After all, he and the Riggers have what they need to locate the Creator, the man responsible for the alien threat and the key to unraveling their unstoppable attack...
  • The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff

    The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former space marine Torin Kerr returns for one final adventure to save the Confederation in the last book in the military science fiction Peacekeeper trilogy.Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. From the good, from the bad. From the heroics, from the betrayal...
  • Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

    Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the starship Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him.He expects to die any second.He's already been attacked by demonic aliens, rogue soldiers, and even the people he thought were his friends.He's survived.Barely.Outcast. Forsaken. He's entered a strange new world. A world he knows nothing about. A world he's never stepped foot on before...
  • Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala

    Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart...
  • 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...
  • Home World by B.V. Larson

    Home World by B.V. Larson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. When the Earth is invaded by a rival empire, James McGill’s legion must defend the Home World. The top brass has complex plans, but none of that matters much to McGill, who chooses his own unique path...
  • Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance...
  • ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

    ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik’s story between Starsight and Cytonic.“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace...
  • Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson...
  • Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The highly anticipated conclusion to the bestselling Ravening Series. The first book in this series, Ravenous, is free. Hunted by alien enemies and desperate to survive the invasion, Bethany and Cade are forced into situations they never imagined were possible...
  • The Edge of Infinity by M.R. Forbes

    The Edge of Infinity by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SERIES FINALE! A new beginning… A final battle for the fate of humankind… A future on the edge of infinity... Colonel Mitchell “Ares” Williams has been through it all, the story of his life an eternity in the making...
  • Citadel by John Ringo

    Citadel by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Of all the hosts of Eurotas the Troias were the most fell. For they were born of Winter.Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu...
  • Alien in Flames by January Bell

    Alien in Flames by January Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'll do anything to keep Earth safe— even marrying the alien king.When I joined the Earth Federation after the Roth alien invasion, I was put through the most intense spy training on the planet. I took a vow to do whatever necessary to protect humanity, and I meant every word.So when the opportunity presents itself to make myself the queen of the Roth and steer intergalactic history? I'm all in...
  • Ender's Game Alive: The Full-Cast Audioplay by Orson Scott Card

    Ender's Game Alive: The Full-Cast Audioplay by Orson Scott Card

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dramatization written by Orson Scott Card, based on his bestselling novel and the upcoming theatrical film release. 70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion...
  • Wulf by Ava Ross

    Wulf by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s a rough Vikir warrior. She’s a mostly proper librarian. Can an Earthling woman and a green-scaled alien find love together in the stars?After she’s kidnapped by blue-skinned aliens, Taylor escapes and bails from an alien space station in a shuttle she has no clue how to drive. She crash lands on a nearby planet made up mostly of jungle...
  • Tate's Torment by Hannah Walker

    Tate's Torment by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a rare day out goes disastrously wrong, the men have to fight for the survival of one of their own. Their actions spark an appearance by the Conclave, leaving the Avanti's future in the hands of those who choose to destroy them. Tate will give up everything to save his friends, even if it means losing Dariux and a love he never imagined he would find...
  • Freedom's Fray by Bobby Adair

    Freedom's Fray by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    War in the heavens for freedom on EarthTime to take the fight to the enemy, if they can find the Trog Fleet.The Free Army missed their opportunity to catch the vulnerable Trog Fleet docked together on Ceres with empty magazines after their latest assault on Earth.Now Dylan Kane needs to scout their bases to see where they're hiding...
  • Noa's Ark by C. Gockel

    Noa's Ark by C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First contact didn’t go as planned… Time Gate 8, one of humanity’s portals between the stars, has been overrun by a mysterious alien intelligence, and the planet Luddeccea is now cut off. Haunted by those she left behind, Commander Noa Sato is on a desperate mission to save her homeworld...
  • AL:ICE Resurrection by Charles W. Lamb

    AL:ICE Resurrection by Charles W. Lamb

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Colonel Jake Thomas has a mess on his hands. The losses on Klinan have gutted an already short-staffed defense force, and his people are scrambling to prepare for a possible attack, directly on earth. Combined with the seemingly erratic behavior of Sara, his number one go to girl, he is struggling to keep up...
  • Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space—before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing...
  • 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...
  • Mission One (Titan Chronicles #1) by Samuel Best

    Mission One (Titan Chronicles #1) by Samuel Best

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Five months to Titan. Four brave crew members. One incredible mystery.Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's sixth moon in five months, he gets his chance.Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan, or go back home...
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