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  • Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed...
  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault...
  • Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot...
  • Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

    Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson

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

    Dark Age by Pierce Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo...
  • All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor

    All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble.They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition...
  • Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec)...
  • 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...
  • Blockade Runner by Jamie McFarlane

    Blockade Runner by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Trapped in a far-off galaxy, Liam Hoffen receives news that a massive Kroerak fleet has found its way to Earth. Knowing an invasion is imminent stuns our explorers, but there’s nothing they can do when they discover the interplanetary Trans Loc system has been shut down to stem the tide of invading bugs...
  • Corsair Menace by Jamie McFarlane

    Corsair Menace by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Deep in debt and stranded, a suicide mission may be this crew’s only hope… Liam Hoffen thought saving the world would cut him and his friends some slack. Instead, they’re bankrupt, shipwrecked, and fugitives on a backwater planet. So much for gratitude… But, after discovering an ancient Kroerak ship, Liam sees an opportunity to locate the home world of the vicious alien species...
  • Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Captain Jason Burke has begun to suspect that the random attacks on his ship and crew over the last couple of years may not be so random after all. Evidence is mounting that there is something on the Phoenix ... something that powerful factions will stop at nothing to get their hands on...
  • 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...
  • Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leave no man behind. On Detron, a simmering protest boils over and turns deadly when militants hiding among the demonstrators deliberately shoot down a group of legionnaires, executing one survivor and taking two for ransom. The only Republic asset the captured leejes can rely on is a lone marine sniper who defies orders in a desperate attempt to save them...
  • Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel digital novella that gives readers a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN–and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.AIDAN is the AI you’ll love to hate...
  • 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...
  • It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose...
  • Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

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

    Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children...
  • Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The latest installment in the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan. Miles and Cousin Ivan travel to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of nobility doing their diplomatic duty. But when the Empress of Cetaganda dies naturally, and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally, Miles and Ivan finds themselves in the thick of it...
  • 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...
  • Fury of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Fury of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

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

    Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

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

    Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Cordelia and Arol Vorkosigan's plans for a peaceful married life (after all the bloodshed and trials recounted in SHARDS OF HONOR) are soon shattered by the polital tumult on Barrayar. Resisting enormous pressure, they struggle to keep their family alive while while protecting the child Emperor from enemies who would murder him and assume absolute power over all of Barrayar...
  • Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Homeworld by Evan Currie

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

    The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    [A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog...
  • 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...
  • Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Our heroes are back… kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy’s best hope for survival.First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed...
  • Incursion at Elea Station by Jamie McFarlane

    Incursion at Elea Station by Jamie McFarlane

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

    March Upcountry by David Weber, John Ringo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Prince Roger MacClintock is a spoiled young princeling hardly worth the space he takes up. Now he must become a man, or the entire galaxy will suffer arrested adolescence...
  • ...Till It's Over! by Robert M. Kerns

    ...Till It's Over! by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Claim an inheritance.It's a simple goal, right?Nothing is simple when Cole returns to Centauri, the seat of Coleson Interstellar Engineering.  Challenges at every turn, with no idea who he can trust.  And then...the Solar Republic gets involved...
  • Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

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

    Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

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

    Olympus by Ivan Kal

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    -NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of March 17, 2016 The year is 2081. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear war. An age of technological advancement. A find at the bottom of the Ocean. A man driven by a dream. The time for humanity to reach to the stars is now. A find provides Tomas Klein with the tools to speed up his timetable and execute his plans...
  • Sanctuary by Ivan Kal

    Sanctuary by Ivan Kal

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    -NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of March 23, 2016 A new start, six hundred light-years from Earth. Tomas Klein founder of Olympus had brought his people to a new world, freed them from constraints of Earth and its governments. But a new world brings new dangers. Tomas Klein will need to set aside past regrets and rise up to the challenge...
  • Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Captain John Duggan, it seems like war never ends. Each success brings another mission and more death. Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps’ newest warship – a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology...
  • Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why...
  • Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

    Forsaken by M.R. Forbes

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

    Invasion by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    War…like none that has come before. The Hegemony has launched the invasion Tyler Barron and his Confederation comrades have feared, and all the Rim is ablaze with the fires of war and destruction. The Hegemony has brought its vast fleets, its advanced technology, and its endless legions of grim cyborg warriors to impose its system of rigid genetic hierarchy over all humanity on the Rim...
  • Haven Ascendant by Robert M. Kerns

    Haven Ascendant by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Nothing is ever easy...Tensions rise as the Coalition pursues its war of conquest.  Who will be their next target?The Provisional Parliament in the old Commonwealth sinks deeper into fascism as people flee their worlds in droves.  They head straight for Beta Magellan.Only time will tell when Cole must face the next major choice: get involved in the war or let it pass him and Beta Magellan by...
  • Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    HONOR BETRAYEDThe People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious.But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington...
  • Home World by B.V. Larson

    Home World by B.V. Larson

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

    Path of the Fury by David Weber

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A space adventure with a strong female character in the tradition of Sassinak and Generation Warriors--by the bestselling author of Mutineers' Moon. The "invincible", planet-wrecking pirates made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home world and murdered her family...
  • Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber, Eric Flint

    Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber, Eric Flint

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sequel to national bestsellers Crown of Slaves and Torch of Freedom, Cauldron of Ghosts is the return of Secret agent Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat in the Wages of Sin, the classic tie-in series set in David Weber's Honorverse...
  • Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

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

    In Enemy Hands by David Weber

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Honor Harrington's career has its ups and its downs. She's survived ship-to-ship battles, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will stop at nothing to ruin her, and somehow she's survived it all.But this time she's really in trouble...
  • Chasing the Dragon by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Chasing the Dragon by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They all want the Dragon dead. The Dragon was trained from his youth to operate as a lethal killing machine. He has tangled with crime lords, dangerous insurgents, even Nether Ops… and none of these forces has been able to bring the elusive warrior to heel. Enter the notorious bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs. Rechs takes on the job as a favor to an old Savage Wars buddy...
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