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Beyond: Volume Two by Kit Rocha
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis bundle contains Book #4, Book #5 and Book #6 in the bestselling, award-winning BEYOND series.Catch up before the final book comes out at the end of 2016!Beyond Jealousy - Beyond, Book FourWhen Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O'Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone's sweet little sister... -
![Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale]()
Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNava’s second year at the Sonkei Alliance School of Sorcery begins with a strange new student who seems to have a real invisible friend and just gets stranger. By the time she’s going off-world to rescue a friend during her summer break, events have conspired to make her question a lot of things, including her very nature. Just how alien is Death’s Handmaiden... -
![Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn elite warrior. A split-second decision that launches a legend.Lead Guard Fianna Vellmar is the daughter of a champion, raised from childhood to work hard and be the very best. When she is given the opportunity to compete at the highest level and earn her place among Alsea’s elite warriors, a stunning turn of events forces her to choose between life and glory, mercy and pride... -
![Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA caste Prime with a personal grudge that may bring down the government. A captured soldier seeking peace with his former enemies. A rural landowner thrust into the highest levels of political power.As Alsea looks to the future, its foundations are cracked by the past... -
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![Outcaste by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Outcaste by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRahel Sayana is desperate to escape the life her parents have planned for her. She runs away to the dangerous port city of Whitesun and becomes an outcaste: a person of no caste and few rights. From backbreaking labor on the docks to fighting off bullies, Rahel learns the lessons that propel her to the life of her dreams. Happiness does not last... -
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Sea Wolf by Anna Burke
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them.Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o’ War is rarely dull as hurricanes, swarms of jellyfish, and man-eating squid pose daily doses of danger... -
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Wizard by John Varley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionOne of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane.. -
![Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale]()
Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArtificial life is a hot-button topic in the summer of 2061. BioTek Microtechnologies have revealed Eve, the first real bioroid, and the rights of AIs and other infomorphs are on everyone’s mind, at least partially because MarTech now has the capability to digitise the human brain... -
![Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale]()
Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Clan Worlds Alliance is the larget political body in the known galaxy. At its centre lies Shinden, home to the Clan Assembly and the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, probably the best educational facility of its type anywhere. Students from all over the Clan Worlds go there to study a form of magic based squarely on scientific principles... -
![Genesis by Charles R. Case]()
Genesis by Charles R. Case
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cutting-edge starship and a pint-sized black cat; these are the weapons of a War Mage. Twins, Sara and Cora Sonders, are newly minted Captains in the United Human Confederation’s Fleet. But their first assignment might turn out to be their last. Thirty years ago, the Elif came from the stars. Their ships filling our skies. Unlike all the movies had taught us, they really did come in peace... -
![The Dead Next Door (Will to Live) by T.W. Smith]()
The Dead Next Door (Will to Live) by T.W. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE WORLD ENDS IN DAYSFirst the bombings… cities crumble… infection spreads… Will is alone. His lakeside neighborhood has become a cemetery, the houses now tombstones... -
![Redemptio Animae by Sydney Gibson]()
Redemptio Animae by Sydney Gibson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCatriona “Kit” Witmer was a shooting star in the Secret Service. When a high profile detail goes horribly wrong, her career is derailed, leaving her to fall into a bottle. Forced to pick up low level celebrity security details to keep herself afloat, Kit is set on a path of self-destruction and increasing isolation... -
![Partners - Book Two by Melissa Good]()
Partners - Book Two by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations... -
![Zero Day Threat by R.M. Olson]()
Zero Day Threat by R.M. Olson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour ex-convicts. One charismatic mastermind. And the most dangerous heist the System has ever seen.Jez is a damn good pilot, and she’s always worked alone. Until she got picked up for smuggling, that is.Now she’s lost her ship, lost her job, lost her reputation, and is on the run from the law... -
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![Darkness Falls by K.C. Luck]()
Darkness Falls by K.C. Luck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf the lights go out forever, can love survive?When four women from different walks of life are brought together by fate to witness the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other. Jackie Scott wields incredible influence as a magazine executive in Seattle... -
![Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler]()
Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn’t been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers... -
![Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron]()
Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and that makes him the most important person on the planet... -
![Electric Angel by Plum Parrot]()
Electric Angel by Plum Parrot
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEnter a frighteningly familiar dystopian world with the first book of a new series from the author of Falling with Folded Wings and Victor of Tucson.In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence... -
![Demon by John Varley]()
Demon by John Varley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionThe satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed... -
![The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White]()
The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series.The crew of the legendary Capricious may have gone legitimate, but they're still on the run... -
![Stray Cat Strut 5 by RavensDagger]()
Stray Cat Strut 5 by RavensDagger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCyborg samurai Cat LeBlanc takes charge when aliens overrun a city—only to discover humans may be the greater threat—in this cyberpunk adventure.A small city mostly populated by well-to-do retirees, Burlington, Vermont, is now home to the Antithesis... -
![Stray Cat Strut 4 by RavensDagger]()
Stray Cat Strut 4 by RavensDagger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale.The megacity of New Montreal has become ground zero for the Antithesis. Having burrowed deep beneath every continent on Earth, the aliens have emerged in massive waves, destroying all sentient creatures in their path... -
![Warrior's Valor by Gun Brooke]()
Warrior's Valor by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother thrilling saga in the Supreme Constellations romantic sci-fi adventure series.Environmental activist Dwyn Izontro and law enforcement officer Emeron D'Artansis instinctively dislike everything about each other, even though the attraction between them is unmistakable... -
![Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke]()
Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear.Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent... -
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![Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke]()
Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things.Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long and hard about her choices. All of fifteen seconds. Then, she created ‘the Plan... -
![Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke]()
Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPirate and mercenary Weiss Kyakh works as a reluctant double agent for the Supreme Constellations. Her mission is to infiltrate a cutthroat band of space pirates along with a sentient bio-android, Madisyn Pimm. Pimm's sole purpose is to bring pirates to justice. Weiss soon realises that Madisyn has her own secrets... -
![Titan by John Varley]()
Titan by John Varley
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsWhen Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and his crew are captured by Gaea, a planet-sized creature that orbits around Saturn, they find themselves inside a bizarre world inhabited by centaurs, harpies, and constantly shifting... -
![The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry]()
The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMaster Khadaji and the Matadors are determined to bring down Marcus Wall and the Galactic Confederation. But Wall has plans of his own and will do whatever it takes to remain in power... -
![Stray Cat Strut 2 by RavensDagger]()
Stray Cat Strut 2 by RavensDagger
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young warrior discovers her true potential as a cybernetic samurai battling conspiracies and aliens in this original, action-packed cyberpunk series.There’s always a need for heroes in the city of New Montreal... -
![Prelude to War by T.S. Paul]()
Prelude to War by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWith the destruction of the Earth ship Colossus the 3rd interstellar war is about to begin. The Cabal plan to reveal their political intentions to the Galaxy, but before they can, they have to eliminate their enemies first. Athena and her whole family are in their sights along with anyone that stands in the way of progress and control... -
![Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald]()
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods...Categorized as:
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![Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye]()
Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world of the future built its policies on public-opinion samplings! But Rien Reactions, Inc. realized that old-fashioned public-opinion polls were too slow, inaccurate and unstable on which to base a conforming society... -
![Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells]()
Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin the fight for the people and power of Tanegawa’s world in this thrilling sequel to Hunger Makes the Wolf War is coming to Hob Ravani's world... -
![Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon]()
Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations... -
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![In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson]()
In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe latest Romance from Claire Highton-Stevenson Ren Dyer is at the pinnacle of her career. Newly appointed as head of the protection team for Home Secretary Andrea Fielding, she is a woman focused only on her job. Andrea Fielding is a woman who is looking for love and finding it in all the wrong places... -
![The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown]()
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNess Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet... -
![Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer]()
Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSequel to Villains Don't Date Heroes! Night Terror, the greatest villain Starlight City has ever known, finally had it all. A beautiful girl she couldn’t get enough of. The city finally sort of liked her after she saved it from a giant robot attack. Now it was time to live happily ever after, right? Yeah, right... -
![Once Upon A Galactic Time by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere]()
Once Upon A Galactic Time by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBASICALLY, I DIEDMy name is Storm Redfield: Navy Commander, Special Forces.Born on Earth in the year 2057, I don’t belong in the 23rd Century. Nevertheless, that’s where I end up following the worst betrayal of all by my own people. During my time asleep, humanity has become a spacefaring civilization. We are no longer alone in the universe, and the galaxy is at peace… More or less... -
![Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott]()
Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval... -
![Nanoshock by K.C. Alexander]()
Nanoshock by K.C. Alexander
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCyberpunk fallen angel Riko is back, in KC Alexander’s outrageous sequel to the savage Necrotech. As Riko works to rebuild her shattered cred, following the events of Necrotech, she’s stuck fighting off every jerk looking to raise their standing on the streets... -
![Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather]()
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames... -
![SybirPunk vol.1 by Michał Gołkowski]()
SybirPunk vol.1 by Michał Gołkowski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrzyszłość - sterylnie czyste miasta, uporządkowane społeczeństwa i służąca ludzkości zaawansowana technologia...... No nie, sorry, ale nie.Przyszłość to NeoSybirsk: rozpadająca się, sklecona na sznurek i szmatę cywilizacja pokryta węglowym pyłem. Cuchnące zaułki, w których można stracić życie za butelkę wody... -
![T-Minus Two by K.G. MacGregor]()
T-Minus Two by K.G. MacGregor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the boldest conquest of our time—the colonization of Mars. Of the thousands who clamored for a one-way ticket to the Red Planet, only a fraction remain in the running. Now they're converging on Hawaii’s Big Island for a nail-biting competition to be the first to launch. Mila Todorov has prepared for this moment throughout her young life... -
![Requiem for the Conqueror by W. Michael Gear]()
Requiem for the Conqueror by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis rich and exciting trilogy follows the search of one man--raised to be the ultimate general, the penultimate killing machine--for his own humanity and for the son he's never known. A son who is now his sworn enemy.. -
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![Mark of Faith by Rachel Harrison]()
Mark of Faith by Rachel Harrison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt long last - the Adepta Sororitas are back!With the birth of the Cicatrix Maledictum the Imperium of Mankind suffers as never before. Conflict and corruption is rife on every front and precious little hope remains, save for those who hold to their faith when faced with destruction.. -
![Safe Passage by Rachel Ford]()
Safe Passage by Rachel Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGo big or go home. For privateer Captain Magdalene Landon, it's all about going big. For Kay Ellis, it's about getting home. Together, they're about to architect the most daring heist in the galaxy. Kay knows too much. She knows it’s a matter of time before a Conglomerate hitman finds her. She’s desperate for safe passage back to Union space... -
![Valhalla by Ari Bach]()
Valhalla by Ari Bach
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title Violet MacRae is one of the aimless millions crowding northern Scotland. In the year 2330, where war is obsolete and only brilliant minds are valued, she emerges into adulthood with more brawn than brains and a propensity for violence. People dismiss her as a relic, but world peace is more fragile than they know... -
![Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg]()
Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to the land of Egalia, where gender roles are topsy-turvy as "wim" wield the power and "menwim" light the home fires...Categorized as:
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![The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei]()
The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor... -
![The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor]()
The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag we mounted in the centre of our own landscape.A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233...
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