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She is the Principle: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA teenage boy with a terminal condition, a group of school bullies, and an incognito Empress with a short temper…Kirian Larsen knows he won’t live to see adulthood. Dex and his gang only care that he’s a human living on “their” planet.Their determination to make his life harder bothers Kirian less than their efforts to do the same for their other victims... -
![The Legend of ZERO: Forgotten by Sara King]()
The Legend of ZERO: Forgotten by Sara King
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's been 819 years since Congress abandoned humanity to a Stone Age fate on an Earth infested with man-eating monsters, and now the galactic government, in all its benevolence, has come back to force humanity back into citizen status in its great collective......Except this time, thanks to Prime Commander Dobbs, humanity has a surprise for our alien conquerors...Categorized as:
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![Blackout by Edward W. Robertson]()
Blackout by Edward W. Robertson
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final book in the post-apocalyptic BREAKERS series...Categorized as:
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![Dead Soul by Michael R. Hicks]()
Dead Soul by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree years after the brutal first contact encounter with the alien Kreelan Empire, the Confederation is desperate for a victory. With over a dozen worlds under siege by legions of Kreelan warriors, President McKenna orders her military leaders to deliver a victory, no matter the cost, to give humanity hope... -
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![A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson]()
A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe enigmatic Garak—Cardassian-in-exile on space station Deep Space Nine—refers to himself as just a simple tailor, but everyone knows that there's more to him than that... -
![Endure by M.R. Forbes]()
Endure by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe journey of the starship Pioneer continues in the fourth thrilling installment of the Forgotten Starship series.The ship is in dire straits, deep behind enemy lines and on the verge of capture. While Tyson fights to prepare a defense, other forces work to ensure his ultimate failure as they seek to claim one of Pioneer’s few remaining secrets... -
![Beyond the Great Dying by N.S. Austin]()
Beyond the Great Dying by N.S. Austin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B073ZW5F7Z In Beyond the Great Dying, Novelist NS Austin blends science fiction, humor, hope and gritty, realistic characters to create a post-apocalyptic world that is both strange and all too believable. Political intrigue, romance and unusual creatures combine to deliver an action-packed adventure for the last surviving humans on earth... -
![The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden]()
The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Last Revocater is book five of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones. With Goliath continuing its rampage through the network of portal worlds, Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona go on with their search for Logan Griff and the crystal. But first they must embark on a final, dangerous relic hunt inside a crashed alien wreck... -
![Apocalyptic Pirates 2 by Eric Vall]()
Apocalyptic Pirates 2 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe meteor storm has finally ended, but the apocalypse has just begun.Radioactive dragons are prowling the Earth, and they’re getting better and better at hunting us all down no matter where we go.Now more than ever, pirates like me and my women need to keep on our toes... -
![The Forgotten: The Complete Trilogy by M.R. Forbes]()
The Forgotten: The Complete Trilogy by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome things are better off forgotten.Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him.That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it... -
![The Dregs of Empire: A Tale of the Sun Eater by Christopher Ruocchio]()
The Dregs of Empire: A Tale of the Sun Eater by Christopher Ruocchio
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRETURN TO THE WORLD OF THE SUN EATER IN THIS SPIN-OFF ADVENTURE SET AFTER THE EVENTS OF BOOK FIVE!For thousands of years, the icy planet of Belusha has served the galactic Sollan Empire as its most notorious prison planet... -
![Legend of the Sword by Michael R. Hicks]()
Legend of the Sword by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSix months after the alien Kreelan Empire launched its invasion of human space, the Confederation of Humanity is rapidly growing. The planet of Saint Petersburg, however, would rather see the Confederation destroyed. With a secretly built navy, they have lured the Confederation fleet into a trap, even as the Kreelans prepare another devastating attack... -
![Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf]()
Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth's first interstellar mission -- An alien colony in ruins -- Their fight for survival has only just begun.When Jack Harrison climbed down the short ladder from the airlock and stepped onto the debris covered soil, the ground crackled with the sound of dried leaves and twigs... -
![The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin]()
The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. His novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures... -
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![Relapse by Edward W. Robertson]()
Relapse by Edward W. Robertson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNew to the series? Get the first three books for just $0.99: amazon.com/dp/B00E9YL3HM/____Anson's army has driven Raina from the mainland, but the war is far from over. From the safety of Catalina Island, she launches a guerrilla campaign, meaning to weaken him cut by cut.She finds herself matched at every step by his grimly determined lieutenant, Lowell...Categorized as:
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![Star Force: Lost Destiny by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Lost Destiny by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Humans are the hunted...Two siblings are abandoned on an alien world as children when their father is killed, then taken in by one of his business associates and sheltered on their remote farm. Kept isolated from everyone else on the cruel, primitive world, their adoptive Calavari parents ensure that Esna and Teren obey their father's dying wish..Categorized as:
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![The Incarnator by Roman Prokofiev]()
The Incarnator by Roman Prokofiev
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the shattered fragments of the Black Moon collapsed onto planet Earth, splitting continents apart and flooding them with raging oceans, Darkness descended onto our world. The eruptions of hostile energy from behind the Edge distorted the laws of the physical world, creating new life forms which now threaten to take over the planet... -
![Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden]()
Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOrion Rises is book two of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Kicked out of the Relic Guardian Force, Hudson Powell has started down the path to becoming a relic hunter. Fortune awaits inside the mysterious, alien hulks found on every planet throughout the vast network of portal worlds... -
![Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden]()
Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGoliath Emerges is book three of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. News has spread of Hudson and Liberty’s unique ability to discover new portals; now every relic hunter wants a slice of the action.Starting out from Deimos Station near Mars, Hudson and Liberty take the Orion to a new portal world... -
![Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright]()
Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 bestselling horror sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews concludes here with Yesterday’s Gone: Season Six. The wait is over. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors woke to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Now they are home. But they're not alone. The Darkness has killed nearly everyone on the planet...Categorized as:
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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... -
![Revelation by Kyle West]()
Revelation by Kyle West
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive... -
![Revelation: Ascendancy: Book 1 by D. Ward Cornell]()
Revelation: Ascendancy: Book 1 by D. Ward Cornell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst Contact, told from the alien's perspective. Newly edited and released. Michael Baker is a 35 year old, natural born, American citizen from Texas, a successful entrepreneur and amateur astronomer. The scientific community mocks him when he publishes the time and coordinates where a supernova will occur. When it occurs, people start wondering who Michael is... -
![Welcome to the Occupied States of America by Peter Cawdron]()
Welcome to the Occupied States of America by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAshley Kelly is your typical American teenager—or she would be if it wasn’t for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Seven years after the invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spent seven years learning to walk again, and she’ll be damned if she’s going to lie down for anyone, human or otherwise... -
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![Vorpal Blade by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor]()
Vorpal Blade by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe sequel to Into the Looking Glass. William Weaver, PhD. and SEAL Chief Adams are back and Bill got himself a ship! The former SSBN Nebraska has been converted, using mostly garage mechanics and baling wire, into a warp ship ready to go "out there...Categorized as:
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![Invasion Day by Scott Moon]()
Invasion Day by Scott Moon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Osage is a dangerous man with a dangerous past, but these days he’s just trying to keep his head down, driving big rigs. One night he saddles himself with a hitchhiker, a nuisance who’s more than she seems. And that’s when everything changes.No one was ready for an alien invasion. Death is raining from the sky and the only question left is do you run, fight, or submit... -
![Scythian Dawn by P.K. Lentz]()
Scythian Dawn by P.K. Lentz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGalactic overlords keep Earth mired in a permanent Dark Age. Empires are dust. Only nomadic cultures thrive. One barbarian war band will fight back. A new Dawn will rise.Born to Scythian royalty, Arixa rejected palace life at age nineteen to recruit her own war band, the Dawn, and ride the steppe in defense of the capital...Categorized as:
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![Invasion: Book 3: Total War by J.F. Holmes]()
Invasion: Book 3: Total War by J.F. Holmes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first day of a war is easy, compared to what follows. Plans become undone, victory is in doubt, and your friends start falling, one by one. You have to have the heart to endure mind numbing loss, excruciating pain, overwhelming grief, and a tiredness that goes down to your soul... -
![Invasion: Book I: Resistance by J.F. Holmes]()
Invasion: Book I: Resistance by J.F. Holmes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn space, when you lose the high ground, you lose the war. Eleven years before, General David Warren was the best and brightest, in charge of defending the Earth from an attacking fleet. Overmatched in battle, the Earth forces were devastated, and the enemy moved into the high ground and proceeded with orbital bombardment... -
![Cyborg Strike by David VanDyke]()
Cyborg Strike by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCyborgs, genetic engineering, and military action. Under the threat of impending alien invasion, when the Professor and the rogue Septagon Shadow cyborg program surface in Russia, the world has a problem...Categorized as:
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![White Sands by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
White Sands by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJeff and his little brother David were normal kids; they loved video games, fighter planes, and learning to hunt with their Dad. Little did they know, their lives were about to change.The boys and their father find themselves stranded in the desert when a military jet comes careening out of the sky and crashes directly into their car... -
![Instinct by Ike Hamill]()
Instinct by Ike Hamill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSurviving the end of the world wasn’t enough. Driving away an alien invasion wasn’t enough. Faced with certain death, Robby’s group is on the move once more. They’re headed west, hoping to find other people who have escaped the apocalypse. To live, they’ll have to uncover ancient memories. They’ll have to use every Instinct... -
![Retribution by Dean M. Cole]()
Retribution by Dean M. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s 2016. Air Force Fighter Pilots Jake Giard and Sandra Fitzpatrick saved the world … twice!But That Was Yesterday.Independence Day meets The X-Files when Air Force fighter pilots Jake Giard and Sandra Fitzpatrick join a decades-old global conspiracy to integrate humanity into a galactic government...Categorized as:
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![Genesis by Paul Antony Jones]()
Genesis by Paul Antony Jones
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power struggles threaten to tear apart the fragile last vestige of human society.Emily Baxter remains haunted by vivid dreams of Earth’s new masters...Categorized as:
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![Captives by Edward W. Robertson]()
Captives by Edward W. Robertson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOnce, Walt Lawson saved the world. Lately, he's lived in peaceful anonymity with his girlfriend Carrie. This morning, she's been kidnapped.Walt has a single lead: the van that took her. Its trail points him up the coast to San Jose, where survivors have banded together against the gangs who've overrun the north...Categorized as:
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![Star Force: Earth Evacuation by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Earth Evacuation by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEarth's naivety has come to an end. The peace that they thought was their birthright is shattered when their true birthright returns in the form of an alien invasion bent on their total destruction...and from the Dinosaurs no less... -
![The Body Electric by David Mack]()
The Body Electric by David Mack
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe climax of a new trilogy by the national bestselling author of Star Trek: Destiny! At the center of the Galaxy, a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the Machine must be stopped…but he has no idea how... -
![The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson]()
The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space.The ship's captain--immortal, obsessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying... -
![Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda]()
Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fascinating debut of the prequel series to The Trade Pact UniverseThis prequel to The Trade Pact Universe series begins in a time before the Clan had learned how to manipulate the M?hir to travel between worlds. Aliens have begun to explore the world of Cersi, upsetting the delicate balance between the Clan and the two other powerful races who coexist by set rules... -
![Revelation by Jeremy Laszlo]()
Revelation by Jeremy Laszlo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHaving learned of the destruction of their world, Jack, Sam, and Will are forced to flee the security of their Grandparent’s home with blood thirsty beasts hot on their trail. Leaving the dark rider and the answers he likely had behind, they again are forced to fend for themselves as they are pursued relentlessly... -
![The Demon Plagues by David VanDyke]()
The Demon Plagues by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTen years after Infection Day, DJ Markis struggles to unite a shattered world in the face of nuclear attack and extraterrestrial plagues, while others grasp for power and dark technologies. Skull mounts a one-man campaign to thwart the fascist Unionists, while Spooky Nguyen and his team gamble their lives to change the course of the Second Cold War... -
![Last Stand: Warlords by William H. Weber]()
Last Stand: Warlords by William H. Weber
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTormented by a past he can’t forget, John Mack is about to face the toughest fight of his life. The tiny town of Oneida, Tennessee, still reeling from the Chairman’s violent overthrow, stands in the crosshairs of Russian and Chinese armies threatening to push across the Mississippi river...Categorized as:
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![Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole by Andrew Smith]()
Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole by Andrew Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Andrew Smith comes the stunning, long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking Printz Honor Book Grasshopper Jungle.It’s been sixteen years since an army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises forced Arek’s family underground and into the hole where he was born; it’s the only home he’s ever known... -
![Kyre by Ava York]()
Kyre by Ava York
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe was looking for resources. What he found was his mate. Ship's engineer and all-around fix-it warrior Kyre is focused on one thing: Finding the rare mineral he needs to boost the comms signal so his crew can get the rest of the intel for their mission.But in the desert, he finds so much more. His mate, fiesty and strong.And very, very pissed off... -
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![The Reaper Plague by David VanDyke]()
The Reaper Plague by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith a homicidal alien spacecraft inbound at high speed, Skull and Raphaela fly to meet it in a desperate bid to buy time for the Earth. In the meantime Brigadier Spooky Nguyen presses to build the world's first space battleship while Colonel Muzik and Master Sergeant Repeth fight a life-and-death battle to return civilization to the nuked and plague-ridden nation's capital...Categorized as:
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![Diffusion by Stan C. Smith]()
Diffusion by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat would you sacrifice to bring to light the greatest discovery in human history?Quentin Darnell was only a boy when his anthropologist parents were overcome by a professional failure so crushing it led to his father's suicide...Categorized as:
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![Rebirth by Jeremy Laszlo]()
Rebirth by Jeremy Laszlo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaving located the City of Angels, Jack, Samantha, Will and Tammy plan to destroy the alien creation. Seeking revenge for all the damage done to their worlds, and all the lives lost to the invaders, the companions seek out those responsible. Fighting their way to the enemy, they discover the reason for the invasion, and the truth about both their past and their future... -
![Infinity: A Bridger's Origin by Stan C. Smith]()
Infinity: A Bridger's Origin by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInfinite worlds. Extreme danger. One fearless woman.Passerina Fowler just wants to be a professional fighter. She has struggled for years to make a name for herself. But then her life abruptly changes when she's discovered by a recruiter from SafeTrek Bridging, a company that transports clients to alternate versions of Earth...Categorized as:
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![Outside Context Problem by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
Outside Context Problem by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a UFO crashes near a top secret military base, the American Government realises that aliens have been spying on the human race for years. But even as they rush to unlock the technological secrets in the alien craft, the aliens launched the first step in their plan to invade the Earth and enslave the human race... -
![Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad]()
Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Plague's origins were mysterious, but its consequences were all too obvious: quarantined cities, safe-sex machines, Sex Police, the outlawing of old-fashioned love. Four people hold the fate of humanity in their hands..Categorized as:
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