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Retaliation by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPart 2: Episode 10 A ship unable to defend itself… A captain determined to revive her… Worlds dependent on them both to survive… An enemy bent on their destruction… With the Aurora unable to fight, the Karuzari Alliance must find a way to not only repair their flagship, but to make the enemy pay dearly. Sometimes, you just have to make do with what you've got... -
A Price Too High by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPart 2: Episode 12 …An enemy in retreat …A new world to protect …A new potential ally on the horizon …A new chance to go on the offensive The Dusahn have taken a massive blow, and with the Aurora’s improved jump range, Captain Scott and the Karuzari Alliance can finally keep them at arms length... -
The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsHumanity 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... -
Starman's Saga: The Long, Strange Journey of Leif The Lucky by Colin Alexander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the year 2069, humanity’s last chance for peace is the first ever interstellar mission. A multi-national crew of the most talented scientists and pilots has been chosen based on their expertise and skill. The final spot aboard the craft is assigned as a prize in a global “BerthRight” lottery, and Leif Grettison is the “everyman volunteer” who won. However, Leif isn’t really an “everyman... -
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Space Team: The King of Space Must Die by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt isn't just war. It's space war! Geronimus Krone, the most dangerous man in existence has altered the course of time, appointed himself King of Space, and now rules the galaxy with the help of his four monstrous generals and their armies. Cal Carver and his crew are the galaxy's only hope. But, reeling from their recent loss, they can't stop Krone on their own... -
Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed with humor, geek references and thought-provoking storylines”, and performed by “a true master story teller and actor” returns as the Bobs face their deadliest challenge yet...Categorized as:
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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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Ep.#3.3 - Liberty and Truth, Peace and Prosperity (The Frontiers Saga - Part 3: Fringe Worlds) by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEpisode 3.3A new foe arises…An ugly truth emerges…A long lost friend returns…An iconic ship flies into battle…Captain Scott and the crew of the Aurora face the reality of a galaxy that is, in many ways, worse off than the one they left behind. But in doing so, they discover a new mission for the Aurora’s namesake, her captain, and her crew... -
Ep.#3.11 - "The First Ranger" by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPart 3: Episode 11Sacrifices are made…Training is endured…Wrongs are righted…Heros are born…The Free Fleet’s plans are finally coming together. Now, there is a new force for good in the galaxy, and they’re known as ‘Rangers’."The First Ranger" is the 11th episode in Part 3 of the Frontiers Fringe Worlds...Categorized as:
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Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragments by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Triton continue their misadventure near Ossimi Ring Station. They are forced down different paths and a fight for freedom that will cost them dearly begins. New opportunities, dangers and experiences await them all, as the Order of Eden stirs, advancing their own agenda...Categorized as:
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Ep.#1 - "Aurora: EV-01" (The Frontiers Saga - Part 3: Fringe Worlds) by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA new ship...A new crew...A new crisis...A friend at risk... The Confederated Systems Alliance has spread to dozens of systems, creating the first true interstellar alliance dedicated to bringing peace and prosperity to all inhabited worlds. Unfortunately, some see this new alliance as a threat to their own seats of power, and would do anything to stop it... -
Plains of Utopia: Colony Six Mars (Colony Mars Series Book 6) by Gerald M. Kilby
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsXenon Hybrid, the Red Planet’s ceremonial head-of-state, has not been seen for many years after withdrawing to an isolated enclave in the far north where he steadily built up a following of citizens seeking out an alternative lifestyle. They bother no one, and no one bothers them...Categorized as:
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Fall of the Core by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA freelance reporter struggling to get into the 'big time'...A rookie officer starting her career in public safety...A cargo ship captain trying to outlive a terminal illness that has no cure...A bounty hunter returning a long-hunted fugitive to Earth...A terrible plague that threatens to destroy the human race...The 25th century is not starting off very well... -
Osiris by Ralph Kern, Michael Kramer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeyond the apocalypse, humanity's future is being decided.It's been three months since the cruise ship M/S Atlantica arrived in a hostile new world.The survivors dream of building a home, but just as their hopes rise, they learn the true cost of saving thousands of people from catastrophe.Conrad Wakefield, the architect of the Locus project, killed billions...Categorized as:
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TFS Navajo by Tori L. Harris
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly a few short months after Humanity’s first interstellar flights, the first shots have been fired in what will eventually become known as the Alliance Wars. Terran Fleet Command teeters on the edge of chaos in the aftermath of Chairwoman Crull’s removal from power, while in space, Earth’s defense falls squarely on the shoulders of Admiral Kevin Patterson...Categorized as:
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Uncommon Purpose by P.J. Strebor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollowing the bloody war between the Athenian Republic and the Pruessen Empire, an uneasy peace has settled over the region of space known as The Tunguska Fault. The Telford family’s independent trading vessel, the Belinda is captured by Pruessen slavers and the crew forced into a life of brutal servitude. Their desperate bid for freedom succeeds but a tragic price is paid...Categorized as:
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EVA (Field Series Book 4) by Simon Winstanley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll good thingsmust come to a beginning... Beyond Time: The Boundary.Beyond reason: Human nature.Beyond coincidence: A convergence.Time itself was always the key.Across 64 years, the manipulation of events reaches its conclusion.The outcome shapes the future of Mankind.At the epicentre is a set of coordinatesand three letters...EVA...Categorized as:
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Mu Arae (Adrian Tarn (standalone) Book 5) by E.R. Mason
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLegend told of a rogue planetoid once inhabited by an extremely advanced society that vanished without explanation. It was said that anyone bold enough to find this runaway planet might be rewarded with technology beyond imagination. But, this ghost planet was traveling at nearly the speed of light and only known to pass through a single set of coordinates once every thousand years... -
Surface Tension by Gerald M. Kilby
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA devastating dust storm. A colony on the edge of extinction. Only one person can save them. But first they need to start a revolution. In the midst of the most devastating dust storm in the history of Mars, the survival of the half million people who call it home is hanging in the balance...Categorized as:
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Between Mountain and Sea: Paradisi Chronicles by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetween Mountain and Sea, a science fiction coming of age novel, introduces Mei Lin Yu, a young New Eden girl, and Mabel, her ancestor who took the journey to New Eden from Earth over a century and a half earlier. This work is part of the Paradisi Chronicles. Mei Lin Yu should have been looking forward to the next stage in her life...Categorized as:
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Jezero City by Gerald M. Kilby
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.When a colonist dies in tragic circumstances, just a few sols before a major terraforming experiment, Dr. Jann Malbec begins to suspect that all is not what it seems. Her fears begin to grow when every attempt she makes to investigate the death is thwarted by the ruling council on Mars...Categorized as:
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Homeward by Jerry Aubin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife on the Ship has changed, and for Zax it means a return to the top. The Pilot Academy finally beckons and Zax battles for position against a competitor who brings a fascinating advantage. Meanwhile, his friendship with Kalare remains strained as he refuses to drop his suspicions about the Flight Boss and the officer's knowledge of the mysterious humans...Categorized as:
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Blood in the Water by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTaylor Anderson’s enthralling New York Times bestselling series of alternate history continues as game-changing revelations upend the Grand Alliance in a potentially cataclysmic war. Ever since the USS Walker came from another world war to defy the terrifying Grik and diabolical Dominion, Matt Reddy and his crew have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians... -
Jacinto's Remnant by Karen Traviss
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction–and now have to face the consequences of their actions.After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde...Categorized as:
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Empire's Ashes by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTyler Barron is about to lead his fleet into a trap. He is sure the enemy is laying in wait, but he has no choice. After four years of unexpected calm along the front line, the Senate and the Hegemonic Council are demanding action, and the Pact’s commanding admiral has no choice but to set out on a mission to liberate the enemy-held regions of the Hegemony...Categorized as:
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century by Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card...Categorized as:
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Planetfall: A Story of the Dark by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDenholm Carew enjoys a life most would envy. Scion of a wealthy family on New London, he can have almost anything he wants. But what he wants more than anything is the freedom to make his own way and build his own legacy to pass down to his children. Together with his wife, Lynelle, he sells everything to buy shares in colonial company and settle the newly discovered world of Dalthus IV...Categorized as:
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Inadvertent Adventures by Loren K. Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the distant future, humans have remained depressingly human. Even in the advanced civilization of the Confederated Star Systems, sometimes the unluckiest events can lead to surprising new opportunities. For Sterling Albert Stevenson, being beaten and robbed, then shanghaied, was such an opportunity... -
Warpworld by Kristene Perron, Joshua Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn his first crossing through the warps, Seg discovers a world rich in vita – fuel to save his dying world. Cold, brilliant and desperate to prove himself as a Cultural Theorist, Seg breaks away from the recon squad sent to protect him, to scout out prime vita sources. But to find his prize he must face his biggest fear: water... -
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Una McCormack
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFictional autobiography of the iconic Star Trek character, told in his own words and telling the story of his life, including his difficult childhood, his adventures on the Enterprise, and his death and resurrection on the Genesis Planet. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock tells the story of one of Starfleet's finest officers, and one the Federations most celebrated citizens... -
NFI: New Frontiers, Incorporated by Jack L. Knapp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew Frontiers, Incorporated, has developed the first practical interplanetary spaceship drive... -
Burnt Worlds by S.J. Madill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe commander of HMCS Borealis has a problem. Several, actually, the most pressing of which is that he’s not even supposed to be in charge. Disaster struck during the testing of a new jump drive, leaving the ship crippled and Lieutenant Dillon the highest-ranking officer still alive... -
Hostile Ground by Sally Malcolm, Laura Harper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt 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... -
Suddenly Astronaut by Andrew J. Morgan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Ben sat in the single seat at the front of the craft. Beyond it was the instrument panel, and beyond that, thick windows that looked out into the blackness of space." Benjamin Forrest is about to celebrate his 13th birthday 365 million miles from Earth. He lives on board the Jove orbital research platform circling Jupiter with his parents and forty-nine other families...Categorized as:
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Threads in Time by Hannah De Giorgis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty-two-year-old Lyndall Huxley wakes to find herself thousands of years into the future. Something went wrong with the programme for which she volunteered - a programme that employs Einstein’s laws of relativity to send travellers forward in time. The ruins overrun by green woodland in which she wakes are a far cry from the urbanised world she left behind in the 2200's... -
Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW EDITION - August 2015. Professionally edited and proofed..Swallow the Sky embodies the essence of classic science fiction: real science, adventure, high spirits, and above all, a sense of wonder.Galactic culture is still reverberating from the nanotech disaster that destroyed Earth... -
Intrinsic by Philip C. Quaintrell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first volume in Philip C. Quaintrell’s Terran Cycle quadrilogy is a fantastic galaxy-spanning epic, which explores the origins of mankind. Kalian Gaines has a secret; he just doesn’t know it yet. He looks like us, he lives like us... but he is not one of us...Categorized as:
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Migration by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSenior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymn, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth...Categorized as:
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Inhuman by David Simpson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInhuman not only ties the first four books together, it also broadens the mystery, introduces a new villain, one that has been lurking in the background throughout, and that will trump any villain in the history of suspense literature, film, or science fiction. V-SINN is its name, and, and in this epic thriller, it may just be too much for the post-humans to handle...Categorized as:
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How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAn astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhilarating short story by James S. A. Corey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse series. Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future... -
Rivals by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeavy lies the crown With great assets comes great responsibility. Daniel Hunt is beginning to learn this better than most. With a friend's life in the balance, Daniel will do anything to save her and bring those who harmed her to justice. Information about the Relics on Earth is about to be revealed and with it a discovery that puts everyone in jeopardy...Categorized as:
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Firebird by Kathy Tyers
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHer death was expected but something more powerful kept her alive.Lady Firebird was born a princess of the royal family of Naetai. Because of her birthplace in the family, however, her life is expendable. Honorable suicide is the highest calling she could hope to attain. When she is chosen to lead an attack on the neighboring planet of VeeRon her death is expected... -
Aspho Fields by Karen Traviss
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor the first time, fans of the blockbuster Gears of War video games get an in-depth look at Delta Squad’s toughest fighters–soldier’s soldier Marcus Fenix and rock-solid Dominic Santiago–as well as a detailed account of the pivotal battle of the Pendulum Wars.As kids, the three of them were inseparable; as soldiers, they were torn apart...Categorized as:
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Fortune's Folly by Sara King, Lance MacCarty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFortune has a secret. Humanity, in its struggle to escape its own planet's demise, began sending colony ships from Earth almost seven hundred years ago in the desperate hope a handful would find some place habitable to human life and be able to continue our species. Only one ship survived. It only survived because it found a vast swath of alien planets, all terraformed, all utterly abandoned...Categorized as:
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Arrival by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Eden Project was a dream. To start the first extra-solar colony… To avoid the mistakes of our past… To start anew.Three generations, born and raised on a starship hurtling through space. To never know an open sky… To never feel the wind on their face… To never witness the sun rise or set...Categorized as:
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Stark's Crusade by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Barnes & Noble ReviewStark's Crusade is the concluding volume of a popular military science fiction trilogy written by former U.S. Navy officer John G. Hemry. The first two books, Stark's War and Stark's Command, began chronicling the life of Sergeant Ethan Stark, a living military legend who is sent to the moon to take back control of what America believes is its property...Categorized as:
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Paradox 2 - Beyond Eternity: Volume 2 by Phillip P. Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMan hielt sie für tot – doch am Ende von Zeit und Raum kämpfen sie für die Zukunft der Menschheit. Nach der fehlgeschlagenen Expedition der Helios wachen David und seine Kameraden an einem fernen Ort in einer fernen Zeit wieder auf und erhalten von den Fremden einen gefährlichen Auftrag: Mit einem Nachbau der Helios sollen sie das Universum umrunden. Der Lohn: Eine Perspektive für die Menschheit...Categorized as:
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The Solar War by John French
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSiege of Terra Book 1After years of devastating war, Horus and his forces have arrived at Terra. But before they can set foot on the Throneworld, they must first break the defences of the Sol System...Categorized as:
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Quantum Incident by Douglas Phillips
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPrologue to the Quantum Series (1 Quantum Space, 2 Quantum Void and 3 Quantum Time)2012. The long sought Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Scientists rejoice in the confirmation of quantum theory, but a reporter attending the press conference believes they may be hiding something...Categorized as:
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Bleak by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReyanne Harper is an elementary school teacher in a not-so-normal world. Destructive hail storms and earthquakes, food shortages, and significantly rising sea levels are becoming the new norm. But there is a plan to save the human race. A plan Reyanne unknowingly helped to formulate...Categorized as:
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