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A Bright Shore: The Eden Chronicles-Book One by S.M. Anderson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA military Sci-Fi political thriller set a short decade from now. In 2031, holding to the concept of Individual Liberty can get you killed. Western Civilization is in collapse, a process led and driven by the world's leading supposed democracies, our own included...Categorized as:
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Quantum Void by Douglas Phillips
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight months after the astounding discoveries made at Fermilab… Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered four thousand light-years from home... -
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Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead... -
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Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of enemies across the globe in a desperate battle for freedom …War has engulfed the—other earth...Categorized as:
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![Abysm by G.S. Jennsen]()
Abysm by G.S. Jennsen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the quest to be the masters of their own fate, will humanity rise to become liberators or follow the path of their ancestors into darkness? Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano risked everything to learn the hidden purpose behind the Metigen’s multiverse portal network, but nothing could have prepared them for the answer... -
![The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov]()
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun--and of Earth itself... -
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Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES. Sequel to national bestseller Neogenesis. Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of the Interior’s infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to ground on the back-water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed as its weather... -
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Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNational bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for. The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent...Categorized as:
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![Invisible Sun by Charles Stross]()
Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun--the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State--as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.A inter-timline coup d'état gone awry.A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin...Categorized as:
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Dark State by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent...Categorized as:
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Vertigo by G.S. Jennsen
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhere do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?The year is 2322 and humanity is under attack. An engineered war between rival superpowers escalates even as the shadowy Metigen armada begins attacking colonies on the frontiers of settled space... -
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The Order by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsWhen two galactic forces collide—one spreading chaos, the other demanding order—New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, defends Earth with characters from three of his fan favorite novels: The Others, Flux, and Exo-Hunter.Mysterious gateways are appearing throughout the universe, bridging violent civilizations, leading to war, and sowing chaos... -
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Bright Light: Star Carrier: Book Eight by Ian Douglas
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling military science fiction author Ian Douglas brings us the eighth—and penultimate—Star Carrier novel, Bright Light, combining the best action, adventure, and hard science into this universe-spanning series There’s no more time . . . There’s always more time . . . Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life... -
![The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge]()
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFun science meets humor and heart in this adventure about a boy who is searching for his mother . . . in a parallel universe.Stephen Albie Bright leads a happy, normal life. Well, as normal as it gets with two astrophysicist parents who named their son after their favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. But then Albie's mother dies of cancer, and his world is shattered... -
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![Reckoning by W. Michael Gear]()
Reckoning by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sixth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the Donovanian sky. The Corporation has returned. Donovan's wealth is a lure for the powerful families who control the Board... -
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Ring by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMichael 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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Empire Games by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world...Categorized as:
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![Ceasefire: Team Orion Nebula by Kayla Stonor]()
Ceasefire: Team Orion Nebula by Kayla Stonor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsShe wants him dead. He wants her in bed. Qui are the enemy. Kill them all. Save the human genome! Sworn to destroy the shapeshifting alien warlords who invaded Earth, Ahnna Sokovik must now partner with her nemesis in a nightmare reality show, the GREAT SPACE RACE... -
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The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G...Categorized as:
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Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits...Categorized as:
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![The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson]()
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it--a stunning sci-fi debut that's both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. CARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS...Categorized as:
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![Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans]()
Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun... -
![The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch]()
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
![Entanglement by Martha Wells]()
Entanglement by Martha Wells
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Dr Rodney McKay unlocks an Ancient mystery on a distant moon, he discovers a terrifying threat to the Pegasus galaxy. Determined to disable the device before it's discovered by the Wraith, Colonel John Sheppard and his team navigate the treacherous ruins of an Ancient outpost. But attempts to destroy the technology are complicated... -
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![Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr]()
Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their inhabitants erased. Only a handful of nomadic tribes remain, none of whom remember the ones who went before.An expedition from Earth has been excavating one of the planet's many ruins, and attempting without success to find the cause of its people's disappearance... -
![The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls...Categorized as:
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![Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain]()
Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA space-opera, a philosophical quest, a steampunk adventure of epic proportions.This is the story of M... -
![Conquistador by S.M. Stirling]()
Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way."1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence...Categorized as:
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![The Empire of Time by Crawford Kilian]()
The Empire of Time by Crawford Kilian
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsDoomsday had occurred on April 22, 2089. These societies were technically far ahead of the 1990s, and the broken bits of their technologies were as tantalizing and mysterious as a cassette tape would have been to Leonardo da Vinci. Jerry Pierce was the Intertemporal Agency’s most experienced operative – a time-traveller on the old subway train that whisked him back and forth through the ages... -
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Colossus by Ryan Leslie
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsFor fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES...Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life—Clay is devastated. No amount of rationalization can explain Karla's actions... -
![The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt is the middle of the twenty-first century.After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading farther into the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.And new challenges emerge.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world...Categorized as:
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Transition by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light...Categorized as:
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![World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter]()
World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising...Categorized as:
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![Invictus by Ryan Graudin, Райан Гродин]()
Invictus by Ryan Graudin, Райан Гродин
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTime flies when you're plundering history.Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature...Categorized as:
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![Red Tide: The Chinese Invasion of Seattle by Chris Kennedy]()
Red Tide: The Chinese Invasion of Seattle by Chris Kennedy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnalysts have long predicted that China would go to war to reintegrate the province of Taiwan. It isn't a matter of "if;" it's a matter of "when." For decades, the only thing that has kept China from invading Taiwan is the American promise to defend it, even if that means World War III. To date, China has not been ready to go that far...Categorized as:
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![The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate...Categorized as:
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![Hell's Gate by David Weber, Linda Evans]()
Hell's Gate by David Weber, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another, all of them Earth, and in the process, the Union has become the most powerful, most wealthy civilization in all of human history...Categorized as:
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![The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison]()
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrand new adventure of slippery Jim DiGriz, the SF superhero the TLS compared to James Bond and Flash Gordon and the Daily Telegraph, called the Monty Python of the spaceways... -
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Mainline by Deborah Teramis Christian
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsReva, the assassin, always gets her man, and anyone caught in the crossfire won't live to tell about it. But don't tell that to bodyguard Yavobo. His alien physiology and resistance to pain make him a walking machine of destruction. And when Reva takes out his boss, Yavobo swears a blood oath to track down and kill the assassin.384 pp... -
![Spectre by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens]()
Spectre by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRetired and happily married, Kirk believes his adventuring days are over. But as he returns to Earth for the first time since his apparent death upon the Enterprise-B, events elsewhere in the galaxy set in motion a mystery that may provide Kirk with his greatest challenge yet...Categorized as:
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![Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams]()
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence...
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