Books like 'Dark Victory'
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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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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... -
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![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...Categorized as:
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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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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... -
![Bright Light: Star Carrier: Book Eight by Ian Douglas]()
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... -
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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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![Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson]()
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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![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...Categorized as:
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![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 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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![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... -
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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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![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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Eon by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad... -
![Thunder of Time by James F. David]()
Thunder of Time by James F. David
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous Period into the world of the twentieth century. Entire neighborhoods and cities were replaced by dense primeval jungles and modern humanity suddenly found itself sharing the earth with fierce dinosaurs... -
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Preserver by William Shatner
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the Mirror Universe the tyrannical Emperor Tiberius, once captain of the ISS Enterprise, had great success turning captured alien weaponry to his advantage. Until, that is, his failure to seize the tantalising advances of the ancient First Federation. Now, in the more peaceful universe of the United Federation of Planets, Tiberius sees his second chance... -
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The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsNORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable... -
![The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez]()
The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMars is supposed to be dead.…Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason... -
![Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen]()
Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this dark, dangerous, roller coaster of a debut, a young man sets out on a single-minded quest for revenge across a breathtaking multiverse filled with aliens, mind-bending tech, and ships beyond his wildest imagining. Essa Hanson’s is a bold new voice for the next generation of science fiction readers. Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone... -
![The Trade of Queens by Charles Stross]()
The Trade of Queens by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States...Categorized as:
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![The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.. -
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![The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind..Categorized as:
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