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  • Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao...
  • 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...
  • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch...
  • Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe...
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It's time to risk it all!The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy.Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...
  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...
  • 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...
  • Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie...
  • Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas

    Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No one messed with Gunner. No one. He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan

    Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their chemistry is off the charts. But Axx can't feel love.Minutes after being kidnapped from Earth, Brianna must breed with sexy gladiator Axxios. Their chemistry is amazing, but he can't feel love for any female.Brianna despairs for a loveless future, but when they rescue Axxios's twin, Braxxus is everything Brianna hoped for in a male. Strong, intelligent, and loving...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • Alone by Scott Sigler

    Alone by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom...
  • Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Elise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron—the wildest of all the Kindred worlds...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones...
  • Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre… The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred’s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence’s trained tongueless assassins...
  • Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kenzie and her friends find themselves trapped on a strange planet, they must risk everything to save themselves and Earth in this thrilling final book in the addictive Sanctuary trilogy!Fall down seven times, get up eight. These are the words Kenzie has always lived by. The problem is, she’s fallen down too many times to count...
  • Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore

    Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A forgotten past, a tormented present, and a future in jeopardy. She’s been abducted from Earth, experimented on in the Grutex labs, and thrown into the path of not just one massive alien mate, but two. As a Filipina nurse living in America, she isn’t a stranger to adapting to unusual situations, but nothing could have prepared her for what’s to come...
  • Divided by Evangeline Anderson

    Divided by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    How does a girl who's about to take her vows as a nun wind up with two hot warriors to pick from?That's Becca Malone's problem. After eating a piece of bonding fruit cake, she wound up with Far and Truth, Twin Kindred warriors who were separated at birth and never formed a proper Twin bond. Because the twins hate each other, Becca feels free to choose between them..
  • The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

    The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It was her last chance:Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • Shark Bite by Naomi Lucas

    Shark Bite by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Netto was a Cyborg, a protector, and a contracted mercenary. His specialty was the water: shallows, salt water, and open oceans across the universe. He was also a freak forged from the DNA of a bull shark—blue-grey skin, a body built with power, and a double-set of razor-sharp teeth...
  • Storm Surge by Naomi Lucas

    Storm Surge by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book two of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as the Stranded in the Stars series, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.Everybody feared the man with the metal band over his mouth. Stryker was part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. He was known as the Creeper, the quiet, the man with half a face...
  • Exin Ex Machina by G.S. Jennsen

    Exin Ex Machina by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody novels.**Exin Ex Machina is a new entry point for the AMARANTHE series--newcomers are welcome**When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization's salvation, or to its doom...
  • An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole

    An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N’Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council’s newly elected leader and helping a kidnapped Faloii man escape, sixteen-year-old Octavia knows that conflict is looming...
  • Sub Zero by Angel Martinez

    Sub Zero by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Returning to the frozen planet Aren died on was bound to have complications... A Science Fiction Mystery from Angel MartinezMajor Aren Dalsgaard's newest assignment is to investigate a series of murders on the frigid planet, Drass, where relations between the Treaty settlers and the indigenous inhabitants have taken a nasty turn...
  • Heart's Prisoner by Olivia Riley

    Heart's Prisoner by Olivia Riley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    He's not like anything Lana has ever encountered.Asset X: Massive, deadly, a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior. And a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases--Lazris.And Lana has been assigned to "study" him...
  • Sovereign by Addison Cain

    Sovereign by Addison Cain

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There is no Quinn without Que. Her only family murdered, the males of her species governing the prison designed to contain her, she mourns. Que had been her world, but it is Sovereign who enters her body day and night. No man has loved a woman more, and no woman has hated a man with such passion.She cannot help it...
  • Sought by Evangeline Anderson

    Sought by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    This Book is a Super Plus length novel--129,000 words longOne Woman, Two Hot Guys, A Galaxy of Problems...Kat O’Connor is no pushover. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life...
  • Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth...
  • The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike

    The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It is 200 years in the future. Paige Christian, 18, has been given the chance to join the crew of the Traveler--a special spaceship/time capsule designed to circle the solar system and study the changes on earth throughout two centuries. But an awful thing happens to the earth--and the Traveler...
  • Perdition by Ann Aguirre

    Perdition by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    WELCOME TO HELLThe prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate’s most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid.Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona “Dred” Devos controls one of Perdition’s six territories, bordered on both sides by would-be kings eager to challenge her claim...
  • Wild Blood by Naomi Lucas

    Wild Blood by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator. Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death...
  • Signal to Noise by Talya Andor

    Signal to Noise by Talya Andor

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's been three years since the Incursion; three long years since Bastian and his twin brother Theo became the sole survivors on the planet Noise. Their distress calls have gone unanswered, and they are running out of supplies. They have no one but each other. And when the long-awaited rescue finally arrives, it brings with it complications that make being alone and forgotten look easy...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more.Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  paranormal  book  dark  drama  fiction  futuristic  horror
  • A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole

    A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. The secrets of the jungle’s exotic plants and animals are protected fiercely in the labs by the Council of N’Terra, so when the rules suddenly change, allowing students inside, Octavia should be overjoyed...
  • Immunity by Erin Bowman

    Immunity by Erin Bowman

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Survivors of a deadly planetary outbreak take on a new, sinister adversary in the white-knuckle sequel to Contagion.Thea, Coen, and Nova have escaped from Achlys, only to find themselves imprisoned on a ship they thought was their ticket to safety. Now the nightmare they thought they’d left behind is about to be unleashed as an act of political warfare, putting the entire galaxy at risk...
  • Alien: Echo by Mira Grant

    Alien: Echo by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An original young adult novel of the Alien universeOlivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.Just settled on a new colony world, they discover an alien threat unlike anything they’ve ever seen...
  • Last Call by Naomi Lucas

    Last Call by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Allie has been alone for years. Stranded on an unknown, uninhabitable planet billions of miles away from Earth, being the only survivor of a disastrous crash landing, she has little hope left for rescue. Each day she is consumed with the task of foraging for food, finding shelter, and avoiding predators. But the nights are the worst.
  • Below by Kaitlyn O'Connor

    Below by Kaitlyn O'Connor

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three quarters of her crew are deep sea miners, geneoids, humans designed with aquatic traits that have created creatures of such beauty that Victoria can-t help but be drawn to them, particularly the merman, Raphael...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  futuristic  horror  mermaids
  • Heat by R. Lee Smith

    Heat by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Earth. A world quarantined since its discovery by the Far-Reachers of Jota's history. And where the fortunes of slavers and chemists have been made ever since.It was to Earth that Kanetus E'Var, the son of Jota's most ruthless slaver, escaped to make Vahst, a powerful drug manufactured from the human brain...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dystopia  paranormal  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

    Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sirantha Jax doesn’t take chances… she jumps at them…Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. Jax has worked for the Farwan Corporation her entire career...
  • Punishing Tabitha by Evangeline Anderson

    Punishing Tabitha by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sergeant Tabitha Bryce just wants to make a name for herself. But as the youngest junior officer in her crew, she doesn’t get much of a chance to shine. Taking a gamble, she stages a daring one-woman sting. But her plan backfires and she finds herself being stripped naked and sold as a sex slave. To her mortification, it is her stoic, unobtainable captain who buys her freedom...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  adult  alpha-mc  bdsm  book  fiction  futuristic
  • The Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair

    The Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's Men In Black meets CSI: Miami! He's a Florida cop. She's an intergalactic zombie hunter. Saving Earth is the least of their problems... Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he'd seen it all. Then a mummified corpse and a room full of futuristic hardware sends Guardian Force commander Jorie Mikkalah into his life...
  • Thirst by Addison Cain

    Thirst by Addison Cain

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Human, fragile, available... ...should I pay the exorbitant price the insectoid flesh dealer demands. Pretty even in her strangeness. The alien creature is everything I require to satiate my seeding frenzy. Her protected species engineered to survive my needs. Built to serve them again and again. One look at her trapped in containment, and already my tentacles display...
  • The Last Star by Rick Yancey

    The Last Star by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    The enemy is Other. The enemy is us.They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves...
  • The Tomb by S.A. Bodeen

    The Tomb by S.A. Bodeen

    Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Your world is as you see it to be. Until it isn't.These are the first words Kiva's best friend, Seth, says, after years of silence.Kiva thought she was growing up in ancient Alexandria. That's what she and all her classmates had been led to believe by their parents. It turns out she was living in virtual reality, in a sleep chamber in deep space...
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson

    Feed by M.T. Anderson

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge...
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