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  • The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than the aliens may have expected...
  • Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Arkan Kythelian is the last man standing.He's well aware of that fact. The rest of his First Division brothers have succumbed to the Mating Fever, falling for those gentle, alluring creatures—humans.He should probably be more bothered by it, but he's a little preoccupied right now. See, he's just detected the presence of a group of terrified humans onboard a Kordolian slave-trader ship...
  • The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

    The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment...
  • Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips

    Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can a passionate woman awaken a frozen warrior? Sara’s life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped by brutal aliens. Even after she’s rescued by an Imperial ship, she can’t return to Earth. The only person who seems concerned about her future is the icy alien warrior who interrogates her...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sadie has been kidnapped by the Tor, the vindictive alien race who destroyed Thalassic City. As her past, present, and future collides, her worst nightmare looks set to become her shocking new reality.A deliberate pawn in leader Griselda’s vengeful game, Sadie is horrified to learn the truth about her heritage and the destiny that’s already been mapped out for her...
  • Cloud Rebel by Connie Suttle

    Cloud Rebel by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Larentii are observers only; their policy is never to involve themselves in the turmoil of other races. Corinne is now one of them. What will she do to protect those she cares for on Earth? Will she risk her life to save them? The Larentii Rebel has arrived...
  • Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With war looming in outer space and the Earthen government forced into hiding, the battle for ultimate world domination is only just beginning.Having accepted her identity, Sadie sets out on a daring quest with her friends, which takes them deep into alien territory...
  • House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings...
  • Mary and the Minotaur by Honey Phillips

    Mary and the Minotaur by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A grumpy, secretive alien. A sweet, not-as-naive-as-she-seems human. A nefarious plot.Although Mary has never had an easy life, she has always tried her best to maintain an optimistic outlook. But when she is abducted by aliens, it is difficult to find anything positive in the experience.When she is temporarily abandoned by her kidnappers, she hopes to escape their clutches forever...
  • 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...
  • The Coordinate by Marc Jacobs

    The Coordinate by Marc Jacobs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling cross-continental Dan Brown-style action adventure that blends sci-fi and ancient conspiracies seamlessly... Logan West and Emma James grew up together but are now high school seniors going in totally opposite directions after graduation. When they are assigned to work together on one last history project, they hardly expect the monotony of high school life to change...
  • The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a captive of aliens, Paisley is forced to work as an engineering assistant on an ancient wrecker starship. She knows she has to keep her head down and her behavior humble in order to survive. When the crew responds to an automated distress call from an Akrellian warship that shouldn’t be malfunctioning, she senses a threat, but she knows no one will listen to her warnings...
  • Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain...
  • Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An alien prince. A pregnant slave. Deb is ripped away from her comfortable life on Earth and sold as a slave to a vicious alien. Six months later, all she has to live for is the child now growing inside her. Her child’s safety is worth any price, even submitting to the disturbingly attractive alien who has just purchased her. Rastrath hides a sharp mind behind a careless facade...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • Privateers in Exile by Jamie McFarlane

    Privateers in Exile by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A scouting mission gone bad. A life-changing loss of time. Can a privateer team navigate a bloody revolution to find their way home? Liam Hoffen is used to straightforward missions going off the rails. But when he emerges from a crash-landing, one look tells him he’ll need more than a simple repair job...
  • When She Dances by Ruby Dixon

    When She Dances by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    I never expected to spend my days as a dancing girl… but it beats the alternative. In the window of a filthy space station cantina, I gyrate my hips and hope for better days.When I’m bought by the most intimidating alien on Three Nebulas Station, those better days are on their way. Zakoar of the Broken Back is a cyborg who deals in black market prosthetics...
  • Vartan by Alana Khan

    Vartan by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born in space. Raised as a pet. LyraI’ve never worn clothes, held a fork, or made a decision in my life. When my old master dies, I’m put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder. I expected my life to continue in the way it had always been—kneeling at my master’s feet—but instead, I’m told I’m now free.I should feel grateful, but I’m terrified. Pleasing him becomes my new desire...
  • Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith

    Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He is a monster who discovers he had a heart; she is a woman who wants to remain unknown…Jarmen D’ju has no memories of his previous life. They were stolen in the lab that changed him into a monster. Though he was rescued, he knows he will never truly have the life he wants. As a being of half organic material and half cybernetic engineering, Jarmen will always need to hide...
  • Silver by Linda Nagata

    Silver by Linda Nagata

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Lost Ship – A New World Urban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet. Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his...
  • Draekon Holiday by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Holiday by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Day Two-Hundred-Something on the Prison Planet... ...And things are finally settling down. Life is slowly getting back to normal. Babies that won't sleep through the night? Check. Pregnancy cravings? We've got those, too. Fresh starts? Check. A new chapter in our lives? Check again. And people are leaving. Wait, what? If this is our last chance to be together, it's time to celebrate...
  • The Line of Polity by Neal Asher

    The Line of Polity by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved...
  • The Skinner by Neal Asher

    The Skinner by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner...
  • Chained by Evangeline Anderson

    Chained by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Maggie Jordan is not supposed to be having adventures. Her mission is to go to Gaia, a new, unpopulated world, and study the native life forms there...
  • Ticees by Shae Mills

    Ticees by Shae Mills

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ripped from her world during a chance encounter with an alien landing party, Chelan MacKay suddenly finds herself on board the galactic battleship RIBUS 7. Korba, an ebony-clad god of war, the Iceanean Commander of RIBUS 7, is irresistibly drawn to her. Defying all the laws that govern his people, he risks all to make her his...
  • Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Moire Cameron, former NASA explorer and web pilot, now has a working ship, a loyal crew, an unexpected son, and a valuable Earthlike planet to protect from the clutches of Toren. Then Ennis, the only one to discover her secret, is captured by Toren--and Moire discovers crucial information that could help end the crab-human war...
  • Freddy Anderson's Home by John Ricks

    Freddy Anderson's Home by John Ricks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's a hard life when you're a super genius capable of many things, including using your mind in ways that others only dream of. Freddy Anderson used that ability working to save the world from a world ending disaster. However, the human race is now at war. Aliens have attacked and captured many of our top people including Freddy Anderson and are headed back to their home world...
  • Kol by Vi Voxley

    Kol by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forever is no time at all, sometimes. Jackie Hooper is all out of time. An incurable illness at her side, she's trying to make the best of the opportunities she has left. Getting abducted by a Nayanor warlord was not on that list of things to do. But then again, spending your last moments with the hottest man in the universe can't be all bad..
  • Jax-Xon: An Alien Rescue Romance by Alana Khan

    Jax-Xon: An Alien Rescue Romance by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stranded on a primitive planet after a fiery crash, human Tara must overcome all odds to survive. Can she find love and thrive?Tara—Stolen from her bed with her four-year-old in her arms, Tara survives a cataclysmic crash and is rescued by a tribe of huge, green males on a lush, forested planet. Her mantra, "I don't do men," is challenged when she meets sexy, muscular Jax-Xon...
  • Ragnar by Vi Voxley

    Ragnar by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When you take what you want, you can't let it slip away again. Selena Gordon is done with running, or so she hoped. Fleeing from an abusive relationship is a reality she has to face, but when it comes to the possibility of giving another man control over her, she's ready to stand her ground. No man, Nayanor or not, can make decisions for her ever again...
  • Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Struggling to discover her role in a terrifying new world where everything has changed, she must decide who she can trust.Sierra Walker has been missing for 30 years. Her family thought she was dead, only when Sierra turns up, she hasn’t aged a day. But Earth has changed drastically.Biological warfare has decimated the planet...
  • Hostile Ground by Sally Malcolm, Laura Harper

    Hostile Ground by Sally Malcolm, Laura Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was meant to be an easy mission, a walk in the park. But SG-1's first trip off-world after Colonel O'Neill's return from Edora (STARGATE SG-1: One Hundred Days) proves to be anything but easy. Tapped for a covert assignment, O’Neill must conceal the truth from his team at all costs. So when Dr Daniel Jackson is injured and the mission begins to go awry, tensions quickly reach breaking point...
  • Beast Unburdened by Robin O'Connor

    Beast Unburdened by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AbigailMonsters are real. And so are aliens…The beast was terrifying. Eight foot tall, covered in green scales with horns that would make a bull jealous. When they threw me into his cell, expecting him to knock me up so they could sell his offspring, the last thing I expected was to find a gentle giant.Okay, okay, not that gentle...
  • Alien Commander by Sadie Carter

    Alien Commander by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s not searching for a mate, just a place to feel safe… Sophie came to Zerconia under false pretences. She doesn’t want a mate. She has crap judgement in men. And really, what does she need a man for? Mind-blowing orgasms? She’ll buy a vibrator. Someone to take care of any creepy-crawlies? She’ll get a really good bug spray...
  • Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm

    Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A classic science fiction adventure from the backlist of Megan Lindholm, who also writes as Robin Hobb. Generations ago humanity abandoned Earth. Now they have returned. Far from home, the Human race tries to atone for killing Terra thousands of years ago...
  • Consider by Kristy Acevedo

    Consider by Kristy Acevedo

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As if Alexandra Lucas’ anxiety disorder isn’t enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear from the sky, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet they say is on a collision course with earth...
  • Bull Headed by Ella Maven

    Bull Headed by Ella Maven

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are you afraid of the dark?KiniWhen I open my eyes, I’m certainly not in my apartment with its pink walls and fluffy pillows. I’m in a cage surrounded by things that are not human. And I’m definitely not on Earth. I’m wearing some sort of weird suit, and the only way I can breathe is through a complicated helmet...
  • Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith

    Sherlock Holmes in Orbit by Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation...
  • Push by Eve Silver

    Push by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s either break the rules or die.Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she’s pulled into the Game, where she - and her team - will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee.But rules don’t mean answers, and without answers, it’s hard to trust. People are dying...
  • Revealed by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Revealed by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After a mysterious cameo from Charles Lindbergh, it’s up to Jonah to save his town in the seventh book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well.It’s morning as usual at the Skidmore household—until Charles Lindbergh, the famous historical pilot, appears in their living room...
  • Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick

    Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Inspiration for the Upcoming TV Show   Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, over the course of his career Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best from across his career...
  • Roar! by Zeta Star

    Roar! by Zeta Star

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Without Roar – you try pronouncing it, okay? -- I’d be dead in that pod. And when he purrs and does that thing with his... I think I’ll keep him.Abducted by space lizards? Check.Experimented on? Check.Rescued by seven feet of hot, alien male? Check!Roar’s a bit shy, furry with claws and a metal arm, and his best friend is a spaceship named Killer. That’s a little scary...
  • Dark Matters by Michelle Diener

    Dark Matters by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    DARK MATTERS . . . taking matters into her own handsA time bomb, waiting to go off . . .Lucy Harris is on the run, not sure where she can turn to for help, or if help is even available. But even as her abductors chase her down, she realizes they don't just want to recapture her, they want to erase her...
  • Cavas by Laurann Dohner

    Cavas by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the fifth book in The Vorge Crew series.Career military man Cavas Vellar has joined his older brother, Cathian, aboard The Vorge for one purpose -- to rescue their youngest littermate. Their father has resorted to having him kidnapped to hide one of his most vile secrets. They need to go down onto a planet full of criminals, find Crath, and rescue him...
  • Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

    Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years...
  • Melting Iron by Laurann Dohner

    Melting Iron by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** Being a female mechanic on a space station for eight years has taught Dawn a lot of tough life lessons that have hardened her heart. She’s got a temper and a mouth to match her red hair and has never backed away from a challenge. Then she’s kidnapped and blackmailed into agreeing to be a cyborg’s personal sex slave...
  • Ring by Stephen Baxter

    Ring by Stephen Baxter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise...
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