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  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    A lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time...
  • 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...
  • Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

    Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again...
  • The Martian by Andy Weir

    The Martian by Andy Weir

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 95 ratings
    Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there...
  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future...
  • Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

    Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system...
  • Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey

    Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace...
  • Dust by Hugh Howey

    Dust by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Wool  introduced the world of the silo.  Shift  told the story of its creation.  Dust  will describe its downfall. The residents of Silo 18 have a new mayor and the chance of a new beginning. But just as they regain their footing, their gravest threat emerges: Silo 1, and the men who brought Earth into ruin. But power, politics, and the survival of the human race are complex...
  • Who Takes No Risk by Ryk Brown

    Who Takes No Risk by Ryk Brown

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Part 2: Episode 7 Old allies go dark… New worlds join the fight… A rescue from an enemy held world… A lone operative with a dangerous plan… The Karuzari finally have the support of an industrialized system, but they need time to build their forces. Unfortunately, time is the one thing they may not have...
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she..
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted...
  • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare...
  • I Am Justice by Ryk Brown

    I Am Justice by Ryk Brown

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Part 2: Episode 9 A chance to gain resources… A need to prepare a defense… A trap about to be sprung… An opportunity for justice… As his sister faces a critical moment, Captain Scott must chase his friends to regions he has yet to travel. Sometimes, you just have to take risks for those you care about. Sometimes, quite often...
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks...
  • Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets...
  • Sanctuary by Ryk Brown

    Sanctuary by Ryk Brown

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Part 2: Episode 8 A family nearly destroyed… A loved one in need of help… A fleet in need of a home port… An Alliance struggling to be reborn… Captain Scott has lost his entire family, save his sister, who needs better medical care than the Aurora can provide...
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new, enlightened life which could easily be put aside for the old forces of barbarism...
  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all...
  • Destroyer by Joshua Dalzelle

    Destroyer by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A relentless enemy… An old wolf's last hunt… The future of two species hanging in the balance… The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik invasion, reports are coming in of a new, more powerful class of ship that's striking deep into Terran space...
  • Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

    Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge...
  • Iron & Blood by Joshua Dalzelle

    Iron & Blood by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Black Fleet Saga continues… A human planet has been invaded. The enigmatic Darshik have landed troops on a frontier world and have begun subduing major cities even as their blockade repels all attempts by the fledgling United Terran Federation to mount a counteroffensive...
  • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor...
  • Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova...
  • Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereHere, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov...
  • Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

    Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse seriesThe gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world...
  • The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die by Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Chaos and Order comes the conclusion of the Gap series. As the crew attempts to pursue the pirate ship Soar and her captain, their hopes turn to Angus Thermopyle. Angus, Morn Hyland, and her son, Davies, race home, unaware that Warden Dios and The Dragon are locked in a final confrontation that may alter the fate of humankind forever. HC: Bantam...
  • Rescue by Ryk Brown

    Rescue by Ryk Brown

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A leader left behind... An Alliance falling apart... Friends stranded on an enemy-held world... A chance to rediscover long forgotten truths... The new threat will require an immediate response. But first, Jessica and the Ghatazhak must execute a daring rescue in order to secure their future. But to do so, they need the one man they have been trying to protect. The question is..
  • The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

    The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly to Earth.But humanity must get a foothold on Mars...
  • Return of the Archon by Joshua Dalzelle

    Return of the Archon by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Listening length: 9 hoursEach member of Omega Force carries his own baggage. Most of them are running from their pasts or simply trying to forget them. One member of the small mercenary crew is not who he claims to be, however. When his former life collides with his current one, the team is drawn into a conflict that could have profound consequences for the future of an entire species...
  • The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to prevent-- or facilitate --the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void...
  • Old Man's War by John Scalzi

    Old Man's War by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate...
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end...
  • A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

    A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition can be found here. After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches...
  • The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Neutronium Alchemist 1: Consolidation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Humanity is in incredible peril. The minds of those long dead are taking over the bodies of the living, in increasingly alarming numbers. Joshua Calvert is desperately trying to recover a "doomsday weapon", an instrument that might blast the dead back into oblivion--but in the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the human race...
  • SpecOps by Craig Alanson

    SpecOps by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The sequel to 'Columbus Day'. Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return...
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  • Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    This daring story of humanity’s future introduces one of the great masterworks of science fiction: the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, bold ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of people to save civilization from a relentless tide of darkness and violence—beginning with one exceptional man...
  • The Naked God 1: Flight by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Naked God 1: Flight by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    This breathtaking climax to the acclaimed saga of "The Reality Dysfunction" and "The Neutronium Alchemist" finds the Confederation on the verge of collapse, as more and more star systems fall to the Possessed. An alien god may hold the solution to the crisis--if Joshua and Syrinx can discover it in time...
  • Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

    Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship...
  • Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win...
  • Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

    Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Desperate to avert defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds & biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion - gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended and life went on...
  • The Enemy Within by Joshua Dalzelle

    The Enemy Within by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The quadrant is burning. Violent, deadly uprisings are breaking out, seemingly at random, all across the Confederation’s sphere of influence. The response by the powerful Confederation Fleet has been swift and decisive, but for every planet they restore order to, another erupts into chaos...
  • The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together...
  • We Few by David Weber, John Ringo

    We Few by David Weber, John Ringo

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man-and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat . . . until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded on Marduk with only their feet to get them half way around the entire planet. So far, they've traversed a continent, crossed a sea full of ship-eating monsters, taken over an enemy spaceport, and hijacked a starship...
  • How Firm a Foundation by David Weber

    How Firm a Foundation by David Weber

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know...
  • Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy caliber weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instill fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war...
  • The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity...
  • Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought...
  • March to the Sea by David Weber, John Ringo

    March to the Sea by David Weber, John Ringo

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Bad Neighborhood "Always Faithful." That was the IMC motto, and the Marines of Bravo Company, Bronze Battalion, of the Empress' Own Regiment, lived by it...even if they did occasionally wonder why they bothered. After all, Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a real piece of work...
  • Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi

    Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potential—and its own purpose—in a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years...
  • Savage Homecoming by Joshua Dalzelle

    Savage Homecoming by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ever since he joined Omega Force, Captain Jason Burke has lived with the underlying fear that one day Earth would be discovered. His desire to keep Earth’s existence and location a secret has driven him to extremes, and kept him far away from his homeworld for a long time.But now Jason’s greatest fear is realized, and a fleet of alien ships has attacked his planet...
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