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  • A Hop, Skip and a Jump by Mackey Chandler

    A Hop, Skip and a Jump by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lee has a lot going for her, tons of money, true friends who will stand by her, an unexpected bonus of extended life from advanced medial treatments, and a start at unraveling some of the pesky secrets in the stars. But there is so much to do to take advantage of all these opportunities that she's overwhelmed. Keeping all they've gained may not be easy...
  • Secrets in the Stars by Mackey Chandler

    Secrets in the Stars by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Lee Anderson and her parents discovered a new world teeming with life, it was the dream of every explorer: they were rich beyond their imaginations. But tragedy struck when a herd of creatures overran their camp and killed her parents. The only other adult in her life had been their partner Gordon, who adopted her as parent. Which didn’t turn out to be easy, because he wasn’t human...
  • Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A mysterious entity may be the key to a starship’s survival—or a terrifying new threat—as the Odyssey One series continues… The Empire has set its sights on its next target: human Terrans. As effective allies of the Priminae, the denizens of Earth have proven themselves enemies to the Empire, and now the Imperial forces know more about the Terran home world than ever before...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Destiny's Cradle by Paul Crawford

    Destiny's Cradle by Paul Crawford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Teenagers Ben Canterbury and Tessa Nyera are harvesting cotton on a warm afternoon when a hole opens up in a nearby meadow—like the doorway to another dimension. The hole disgorges a naked man, barely conscious and clutching a human leg bone, and then vanishes...
  • The Long Voyage of the Little Fleet by Mackey Chandler

    The Long Voyage of the Little Fleet by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the first book of this series "Family Law", Lee's parents and their business partner Gordon found a class A habitable planet. They thought their quest as explorers was over and they'd live a life of ease. But before they could return and register their claim Lee's parents died doing a survey of the surface...
  • Omnia by S.H. Jucha

    Omnia by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alex Racine, who led an elite group of humans and SADEs (self-ware digital entities), left the newly discovered planet of Celus-5 under difficult circumstances. Few of the Harakens with Alex thought there was little he could do to bring peace to the embroiled planet...
  • Allora by S.H. Jucha

    Allora by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Until the Confederation created Allora, it had produced SADEs (self-aware digital entities) for hundreds of years with enormous consistency and harnessed their capabilities to power the society. But this particular, young SADE was disturbed by her confinement...
  • Celus-5 by S.H. Jucha

    Celus-5 by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For the Sojourn’s initial mission, the Haraken explorer ship undertakes the investigation of Celus-5, a world identified by Willem, a SADE (self-aware digital entity), and his team of scientists, as the best prospect for a new colony.What should be a routine survey mission becomes a disaster. To the Harakens’ surprise, they discover, not one, but two alien species engaged in conflict...
  • Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a Méridien starship entered the Hellébore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they’re not alien; they’re human...
  • De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross'El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man's land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best...
  • Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With the war officially over, and years of fighting weighing on her, Sorilla has officially put in her papers and called in every chit she's owed. It's time to hang up her power armor, lay down her rifle, and try to build something for herself rather than for other people. The War, however, is only over when the powers that be say it is...
  • The War Ship: Rise of the Jain, Book Two by Neal Asher

    The War Ship: Rise of the Jain, Book Two by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination...
  • Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund

    Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle... the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo--the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict...
  • The Technician by Neal Asher

    The Technician by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Theocracy has been dead for 20 years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hitlist...
  • Sol by S.H. Jucha

    Sol by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sol’s warships paid the ultimate price for threatening the Haraken and New Terran worlds. Now, Haraken President Alex Racine and his Méridien partner, Renée de Guirnon, are engaged in a desperate gamble to stop a war between their worlds and United Earth’s (UE) massive forces before it starts...
  • Rando Splicer by Joel Shepherd

    Rando Splicer by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Separated from her ship, Major Trace Thakur is stranded on the reeh-occupied world of Rando. The native corbi have suffered beneath reeh tyranny for 800 years, and many have given up hope...
  • 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...
  • Polity Agent by Neal Asher

    Polity Agent by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut downbecause something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun...
  • Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield

    Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke Tavares has dreamed of joining the vast gaming guilds of the hypernet. After recently graduating high school, his parents have given him the same ultimatum as his siblings; he has one month to get a job to pay for his air, gravity, and water aboard the Dahlia.The freighter needs more hands, but Luke doesn’t want to be a trader-ship engineer...
  • Protector by C.J. Cherryh

    Protector by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay. But there's far a darker business going on in the background--a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent...
  • The Long-Range War by Christopher G. Nuttall

    The Long-Range War by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The gloves have finally come off ... The Tokomak, the unquestioned masters of the galaxy, have dispatched a massive fleet to crush the Solar Union - and the fledgling Galactic Alliance - before the human race and its alien allies can tear the galactic order asunder. Hundreds of thousands of starships under the command of an alien tactical genius, bent on exterminating the entire human race ..
  • The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    New York Times Best-Selling Author.The Big Showdown with an Alien Empire, to Keep the Earth Free—and Maybe Free the Galaxy as Well. The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny...
  • Intruder by C.J. Cherryh

    Intruder by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power.But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over...
  • Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity’s journey to the stars—and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos.The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth’s greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey’s sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the planet...
  • Deep Black (Infinite Sky #1) by Samuel Best

    Deep Black (Infinite Sky #1) by Samuel Best

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two crews return to Titan. Who will survive?Titan. Sixth moon of Saturn. A deadly enigma harboring the greatest secret in the history of humankind.In the wake of the first mission, two companies with very different goals plot a return to that distant moon. Their ships are safer, their technology has improved…and they want answers...
  • Méridien by S.H. Jucha

    Méridien by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Méridiens are fleeing to their far colonies—and they have reason to run. Over the course of decades, they have lost hundreds of ships, billions of people, and seven Confederation colonies to an alien enemy: an advancing swarm of silver ships transported in the bowels of a gigantic, spherical vessel...
  • Into the Stars by James Rosone

    Into the Stars by James Rosone

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The stars are within mankind’s reach……But what awaits in the void may end humanity…Mars and the Moon have been colonized, piracy runs rampant in the asteroid belts, and a thriving society grows in the depths of space. Humanity prepares to embark upon its greatest journey—the colonization of Alpha Centauri...
  • Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf

    Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Earth's first interstellar mission -- An alien colony in ruins -- Their fight for survival has only just begun.When Jack Harrison climbed down the short ladder from the airlock and stepped onto the debris covered soil, the ground crackled with the sound of dried leaves and twigs...
  • Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two years after the initial invasion of Hayden's World, the newly reinforced Hayden Militia is in a state of stalemate with the remaining enemy forces but neither side is content to leave things at that.The alien alliance has dispatched their varsity to clean up the resistance on Hayden while the USF has officially activated Task Force V, the latest and most advanced combat ships built by humans...
  • Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners

    Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “Invaders” is about events that occur several years after those in the novel “Disc.” GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries...
  • Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh

    Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    "One of the best long-running SF series in existence" (Publishers Weekly) continues with the second novel in a brand-new Foreigner sequence. The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power...
  • Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr...
  • Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio

    Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin...
  • 1st to Fight by Rick Partlow

    1st to Fight by Rick Partlow

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I retired from the USMC, and now I write about space marines. I never thought I’d actually become one. As a sci-fi author with a hit TV show, I have a few ideas about what alien invaders are supposed to look like. In my stories, they’re technologically advanced monsters, with tentacles, and no faces. Turns out I was right about the technology. And about how angry they’d be...
  • Oracle by Douglas E. Richards

    Oracle by Douglas E. Richards

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A breathtaking near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have been downloaded over a million times. An interstellar war is racing toward an unsuspecting Earth. Can one young woman stop it before it's too late? LA detective Anna Abbott can see brief, cryptic visions of the future. She just doesn't know it yet. But others do...
  • Citadel by John Ringo

    Citadel by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Of all the hosts of Eurotas the Troias were the most fell. For they were born of Winter.Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu...
  • Accord of Honor by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Accord of Honor by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War over energy resources devastated the Earth and her colony on the moon. A new agreement was reached between the nations of the world: The Lunar Accord. Designed to end the possibility of war in space for all time, it bars nations or individuals from arming ships in space. Twenty peaceful years have passed since the Accord was signed...
  • The Infinity Brigade #1 Stone Cold by Andrew Beery

    The Infinity Brigade #1 Stone Cold by Andrew Beery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death of a World/Birth of a Marine... By any reasonable definition, this was a bad day. My parents and sister were on Mars when the planet died. I watched it happen and could do nothing. That type of thing changes a man...
  • Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the human colony of Cloud is mercilessly attacked and its people imprisoned in a slave camp, Major Jaime Graham struggles to bring Bolo protector Hector, who has been reprogrammed by their enemies, back to the good side. Original...
  • The Commander by C.J. Williams

    The Commander by C.J. Williams

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lucas Blackburn had a peaceful job as an Airport Director in an out of the way community in central Nevada. He wanted to live quietly and let old scars heal. But then a spaceship landed. The lone occupant, a guy named Sam, gave Luke the keys and said it was up to him to stop a massive alien invasion that was on the way. Luke wanted to believe it was a hoax. The problem was, Sam had the proof...
  • Espero by S.H. Jucha

    Espero by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trouble infiltrated the Harakens’ capital city of Espero, in the form of New Terra criminal gangs who grew wealthy and powerful on the moons of Ganymede, hiding behind the cover of an ill-conceived mining charter. The gangs brought stims and addictive hallucinogenic drugs to Espero, distributing them to the young on the planet...
  • Eye of the Storm by John Ringo

    Eye of the Storm by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In an instant the world changed for Lieutenant General Michael O'Neal. Having reached the end of their usefulness his beloved Corps, the last remaining ACS, are destroyed at the order of the Darhel, by their own Fleet. His staff are shot before his eyes, and he is arrested on the charge of war crimes...
  • Libre by S.H. Jucha

    Libre by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The saga of the Rêveur continues in this second novel in The Silver Ships series.The surviving Méridiens have returned to Confederation space, aided by their recently discovered cousins, the New Terrans. They expect a celebration after their 71-year absence. Instead, they’re shocked to find the silver ships have destroyed half the Confederation...
  • Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

    Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them."--Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years...
  • Call to Arms by Joshua Dalzelle

    Call to Arms by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow up to the #1 Bestseller “Warship.” Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space … barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier...
  • Gust Front by John Ringo

    Gust Front by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Thanks to human valor and alien technology, the Posleen were fought to a standstill. But the invasion of Earth is just months away Only these shell-shocked survivors can save the Earth from utter devastation...
  • The Heart of Matter by Evan Currie

    The Heart of Matter by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    After an epic maiden voyage that introduced Earth to a larger universe—and a cosmos full of terrifying new enemies—Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC spacecraft Odyssey have spent months cooling their heels under their admiral’s watchful eye...
  • Heirs of Empire by David Weber

    Heirs of Empire by David Weber

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45,000 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuultani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet...
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