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Pass of Fire by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter being transported to a strange alternate Earth, Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have learned desperate times call for desperate measures, in the return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.Time is running out for the Grand Human and Lemurian Alliance... -
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Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government... -
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Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet Perelandra when it is invaded by a dark force...Categorized as:
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The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA desperate widow in need of a helping hand… even a cybernetic one. Hattie came to Mars with high hopes. Hopes that she and her husband would be able to claim a plot of land, to create a home, perhaps even to start a family - all of the things that were now impossible on a troubled Earth... -
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Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there...Categorized as:
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Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIt’s not easy to tread lightly wearing steel-toed boots.Sirantha Jax isn’t known for diplomatic finesse. As a “Jumper” who navigates ships through grimspace, she’s used to kicking ass first and taking names later—much later. Not exactly the obvious choice to sell the Conglomerate to the Ithtorians, a people whose opinions of humans are as hard as their exoskeletons... -
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Fate of the Jedi: Backlash by Aaron Allston
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsRepercussions from the dark side's fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now Masterless Sith apprentice... -
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The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFor the safety of mankind, the aliens called Moties have been quarantined for 25 years (see THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE) and are now poised to break out of their solar system and spread rapidly into humanity's space...Categorized as:
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There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTime travel is impossible! There is no machine that can take you into time, past or future. But what if you are born a time traveler? Jack Havig did not know how he could cross the centuries merely by willing himself to. But the fact remained, he could... -
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Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA fateful encounter between star-roving races by the author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series!After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed mass suicide. So the Terran government made a law--no further contact would be allowed with sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy... -
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Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years and ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter a season that lasts for 15 years the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell...Categorized as:
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Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful world of Macalandra...Categorized as:
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Fallen Empires by Mike Maihack
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe penultimate installment in Mike Maihack's thrilling graphic novel series starring a young Cleopatra and her adventures in space!Cleo goes into hiding after a mysterious death at Yasiro Academy, and she and her friends set out to uncover the spy who must be working within the school's ranks...Categorized as:
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The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help... -
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Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1 by Greg Pak
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA new era of Firefly starts here, as the secret history of the Unification War is revealed at last!From Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers) comes a new era of Firefly, as the definitive story of the Unification War is told at last! Captain Malcolm Reynolds thought he could outrun his past, but when a simple heist goes wrong, he’s forced to confront it...Categorized as:
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Firefly: New Sheriff in the 'Verse Vol. 1 by Greg Pak
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMEET SHERIFF MAL REYNOLDS. Soldier. Scoundrel. Maybe even hero. Mal Reynolds has been all these things, but now the captain of the spaceship Serenity has a new job - SHERRIFF. After the shocking conclusion of Mal’s journey with Boss Moon, Mal hands himself into the Alliance...but it turns out he’s not the one they want...
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