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  • For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

    For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece...
  • 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...
  • Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

    We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street...
  • Duty's Reward by M. Tress

    Duty's Reward by M. Tress

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Finishing up his first year as a cadet-adept, Desmond’s life is going pretty well as far as he’s concerned.Three beautiful and exotic women love him and have agreed to entwine their lives together. His powers as an Adept have continued to grow as he practices and refines weaving the threads of mana into the world. All while he continues to defy the expectations set by his origins...
  • Prime Valkyrie by Michael-Scott Earle

    Prime Valkyrie by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Adam has one mission: Hunt down the Magate Order and recover his kidnapped crew before they are lost forever. Unfortunately, his life has been bound to the Prime Valkyrie, and if Adam doesn’t submit to her powerful father, he’ll be executed...
  • Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you get when you mix Firefly, Mass Effect, and Shadowrun together? You get Star Justice. The latest action packed series from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael-Scott Earle. ***Following the hint given by Persephone, the crew arrives at planet Y-114-a...
  • Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the highly anticipated Nyxia Triad series finale, Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they’re ever to make it home alive.Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel’s initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago’s plan...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Starship's Mage: Omnibus by Glynn Stewart

    Starship's Mage: Omnibus by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In a galaxy tied together by the magic of the elite Jump Magi, Damien Montgomery is a newly graduated member of their number. With no family or connections to find a ship, he is forced to service on an interstellar freighter known to be hunted by pirates...
  • Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The World of KinsmenFamily is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield..
  • Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

    Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the bestselling, internationally published author of Behind Blue Eyes!One hundred years ago humanity won the war against Artificial Intelligence, but at a horrible price...
  • Honor's Challenge by M. Tress

    Honor's Challenge by M. Tress

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A little over four months has passed since Desmond McLaughlin was physically yanked from his home and thrown to the mercy of a conquering alien empire when they demanded he be handed over for training as he was an ‘Adept’, one of the few able to harness the power of magic in the universe...
  • To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening...
  • Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Captain Alisa Marchenko finally has a lead on finding her daughter, but her passengers want her to take them on their quest instead. Even though the Star Nomad is her ship, they have power she cannot fight, and she finds herself with no choice but to accept another detour. But the ancient relic they seek has the ability to destroy worlds and is coveted by many...
  • Ipseity by Tony Corden

    Ipseity by Tony Corden

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In 'Nascent', she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves...
  • 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...
  • The Derelict Duty: A Space Adventure by James Haddock

    The Derelict Duty: A Space Adventure by James Haddock

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prologue: The Blaring klaxon jolted me out of a sound sleep. I threw my covers off and was halfway to my Vac-suit locker before I was fully awake. It felt like I had just fallen to sleep having just finished a long EVA shift. It would be just like Dad to have an emergency drill after an EVA shift to see if I had recharged my suit...
  • Rogue Starship by David Alastair Hayden

    Rogue Starship by David Alastair Hayden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When renowned archeologist Gav Gendin finds an Ancient starship, and a stasis chamber with a living member of the extinct alien race inside, he knows something strange is going on. Visions and dreams aren't the normal way archeologists uncover artifacts, but that's what guided him to the Ancient ship.The discovery should be the greatest triumph of his career...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • Burning Bright by Michael-Scott Earle

    Burning Bright by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The crew of Persephone only has 300 days to find help for the planet of Uraniel. They return to Queen’s Hat Station with hopes of recruiting more people for their ship, or finding any leads about the super-powered aliens threatening the galaxy.But Elaka Nota is waiting for them on Queen’s Hat, and the conflict sets the crew of Persephone on a path that will change their friendship forever...
  • Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Now that she’s retrieved the Staff of Lore, Captain Alisa Marchenko can finally dedicate herself and her ship to finding her kidnapped daughter. Her scant clues lead her to Cleon Moon. Unfortunately, since the fall of the empire, mafia clans have taken over the domed cities on the harsh moon, and exploring there isn’t easy...
  • Interstellar by Greg Keyes, Jonathan Nolan

    Interstellar by Greg Keyes, Jonathan Nolan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE END OF EARTH WILL NOT BE THE END OF USFrom acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception), this is the chronicle of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. At stake are the fate of a planet... Earth..
  • 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...
  • Resurrection by Tony Corden

    Resurrection by Tony Corden

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...
  • Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson...
  • Silver by Linda Nagata

    Silver by Linda Nagata

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Lost Ship – A New World Urban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet. Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his...
  • Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down...
  • The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she’s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn’t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she’s craved for years...
  • 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...
  • An Officer's Duty by Jean Johnson

    An Officer's Duty by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jean Johnson—the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny novels—returns to the world she introduced in A Soldier’s Duty with a terrible vision of the future... Promoted in the field for courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in the Space Force Navy—once she undertakes her Academy training...
  • Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The mysterious and powerful Starseers have Captain Alisa Marchenko's daughter, and she will do whatever she must to get her back, even if it means traveling to their stronghold and confronting them personally. Unfortunately, her strongest ally, the cyborg Leonidas, may become a liability since the cyborgs and the Starseers have a long history of hating each other...
  • Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete...
  • Into the Black by Evan Currie

    Into the Black by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This edition of Odyssey One has been completely edited and remastered to correct the typos and content issues that reviewers commented on in the original edition. Beyond the confines of our small world, far from the glow of our star, lies a galaxy and universe much larger and more varied than anyone on Earth can possibly imagine...
  • Basic Training by August Aird

    Basic Training by August Aird

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carter Ash wakes up with no memories in a virtual basic training. All the recruits will die within the next six weeks. Lucky for them, they’ve all got three lives.He’s assigned to a squad with his goofy friend and another captivating cadet, Iris. They have to keep each other alive as long as possible because when they die, they get assigned their permanent character class...
    Categorized as:
    magic  litrpg  harem  sci-fi  steamy  fiction  audiobook  futuristic
  • Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there's a catch.They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis...
  • Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

    Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Having survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been lost. Accompanied by marines, Ripley is going to find out why...
  • The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright

    The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith...
  • Live Free or Die by John Ringo

    Live Free or Die by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    First Contact Was Friendly When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief...
  • Asylum by Kali Argent

    Asylum by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a male dominated world, Alliance Commander Olivia Jacobson has spent most of her adult life clawing her way up the ranks, but her dream of commanding her own post has always been just beyond her grasp. With the discovery of a new planet, a new race, and the relocation of Alpha Station: X21, her dream is finally within reach...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary, Books 1, 2, and 3 before reading this story. Shalia’s Diary Book 4 picks up immediately where Book 3 left off. Shalia feels ready for a little fun when the Kalquorian transport docks for shore leave at the Xniktix Space Station...
  • Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After being implicated in a murder she didn’t commit, Isla Blevins seeks sanctuary on the one planet where the Alliance can’t reach her. On Earth, she’s the heiress to a fortune, but on Xenthian, she’s an outsider without a single credit to her name. Heartbroken over the loss of her mother, afraid she could be next, and not knowing who to trust, she can’t imagine how things can get much worse...
  • Titan's Fury by Rhett C. Bruno

    Titan's Fury by Rhett C. Bruno

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Independence comes at a high cost.When Malcolm Graves finds himself in the clutches of the Titanborn, his plan to take Kale Trass down hits a wall. With the only family he has left threatened, he’s forced back into the service of another employer, only this time it’s not a corporation giving the orders...
  • Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With an asteroid heading to Morganti, Kale volunteers to retrieve the Star Breaker, a weapon that has the ability to shatter anything in it's way. When he takes possession he feels a familiar presence, a star's Avatar is trapped within the sphere. Carella has been waiting for her freedom, and when her sphere collides with the asteroid, she is naked, free, and in the mood to blow something up...
  • Revolution by Kali Argent

    Revolution by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    By all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  magic  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  dark  dragons
  • Love on Impact by Alana Khan

    Love on Impact by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abducted by space pirates to breed human women, Zoriss is one angry male when he hits atmosphere. After breaking his bonds and stealing an escape pod, he crash lands in remote Idaho. When Lumina rescues him, their bodies communicate beautifully, but with translator troubles, could he ever grow to trust her? Lumina It’s been ninety years since the last man was born on Earth...
  • Alien Guardian's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Alien Guardian's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can their interstellar romance prevent a galactic war? Where no human has gone before Isabella Parker is en route to Vortex Station in response to a mysterious message on her datapad...
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