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Who Can Own the Stars? by Mackey Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Kingdom of Central's sovereign, Heather Anderson, set L1 as a limit for armed ships to respect, de-militarizing the Solar System. Now that the Earth nations are experimenting with star drives they want to challenge this limit anew. The USNA starship, Constitution is intercepted violating the L1 limit and brings them to the brink of war again... -
Degrees of Separation by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife. Luck. Love. Lowport. Life, so the wags tell us, is what happens while we're making other plans. Luck. . .or, as some have it, chance. . .Luck is what makes Life interesting; introducing spicy bits of chaos – good, bad, and neutral. Without Luck, there is no savor – no adventure – in Life. Love. Ah, Love... -
Legends Untold by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Stassi and her teammates, only one thing is certain: Heads. Will. Roll. With rebellions rising and the Inquisition marching towards England, the stakes are higher than ever for the Atlic Syndicate’s runners. Their target is sixteen-year old Lady Jane Grey, one of history’s most tragic figures. When Stassi and the gang arrive, Jane has just begun her ill-fated reign as Queen of England... -
The Last Dancer by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Manhattan-based Unification government controls the earth, but rebellion brews in Occupied America as the American Revolution's tricentennial approaches... -
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The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFew of the telepaths survived the massacre by the United Nations Peaceforce. Seven years later, the last telepaths, Denice and Trent, are marked by the Peaceforce, and will die unless Trent can carry out his plan to avenge the deaths of his friends... -
Doctor Who: Spare Parts by Marc Platt, Peter Davison
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity... -
Morning Star (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Pierce Brown, Stewart Crank
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRed Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star... -
Temporal Contingency by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTemporal Contingency is the fourth book in the Big Sigma Series. Trevor “Lex” Alexander’s life has been less than blessed. In the past year he’s had to battle corrupt corporations, deranged techno-terrorists, and a robotic scourge. Now he’s received the opportunity to finally return to the racing career that had been cut short by some poor decisions... -
Future Reshaped by Daniel Pierce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Bowman never leaves a job unfinished. When Jack and the girls discover a cache of cutting edge technology, he-- and his women-- will use it to explore the grim landscape of an ever-growing world. On a reconnaissance flight over open desert, a chance encounter will reveal that there is a lot more to the planet than he expected... -
ASIN: B08MDG7DZK by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMica and Malisa Flores learn that their missing mother, Ivy, isn’t missing at all. Her sudden disappearance three years before has left the sisters devastated. They are given a mysterious journal written by their long-lost mother. Their mother was pushed back 17,000 years into the past, into the Paleolithic era... -
Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.Marcus Warnoc has a little problem... -
Doctor Who: The Holy Terror by Robert Shearman, Colin Baker
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day - just every few years or so. And when the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers from heaven, they quickly become vital to opposing factions in their struggle for power...Categorized as:
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La Jetée: ciné-roman by Chris Marker
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLa Jet�e is the book version of the legendary 1964 science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse. Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film almost entirely of still photographs... -
The A.I. War: The Big Boost by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Long-Awaited Sequel to The Long Run and The Last Dancer.In 2072, the United Nations Space Force began building the Unity . . . at Halfway.The Unity was seven kilometers long... -
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Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things.Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long and hard about her choices. All of fifteen seconds. Then, she created ‘the Plan... -
A Fighting Chance by William C. Dietz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe all-new, thrilling conclusion to the Legion of the Damned series from the national bestselling author of When Duty Calls. Earth has fallen. And the men, women, and cyborgs of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final stand against an alien aggressor.. -
The Terminator by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created THE TERMINATOR... -
Shadow of the Swan by M.K. Wren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Lord Alexand DeKoven Woolf was born destined to lead the Concord, the Two System's ultimate empire, but to prevent it from imploding into a Third Dark Age, he surrendered his birthright of power to become Alex Ransom, leader of the outlawed Society of the Phoenix, and in the process, he surrendered the one woman he has ever loved, the Lady Adrien Eliseer... -
House of the Wolf by M.K. Wren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe triumphant conclusion to the magnificent saga of an empire that spans the stars... Jael, the son of a thief, became the servant of the highest destiny of all... Lady Adrien Eliseer, a woman of fragile beauty and tragic legacy, hid behind a veil of secrets and carried the burden of an unspeakable dream... -
Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy by Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor the first time in one stunning volume, here is the complete, epic story arc: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. Experience the sweeping tale of good and evil, of myth and magic, of innocence and power-and witness the tragic transformation of Anakin Skywalker from mere slave to one of the greatest, most powerful, and feared villains of the galaxy: Darth Vader... -
The Gabble And Other Stories by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMost of Neal Asher's stories are set in a galactic future-scape called 'The Polity', and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe... -
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMultiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now... -
How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAn astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhilarating short story by James S. A. Corey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse series. Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future... -
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Crusade by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe book, the cup, the sword; ancient alien relics buried on Earth have been recovered. But before they can be put to use, two old friends must be saved. Angelica and Jax codenamed Angel and Spartan have been gone since the end of the Voy invasion. With no communication received from the two original members of the Pack Protocol, the search begins... -
Emerald Eyes by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the government created 250 telepathic infants to train as warriors, the children were nurtured as only the most valuable of slaves can be. But now these rare children have come of age, and they demand the same freedom as all men and women--and possess a unique power with which to fight for it... -
The Navigator by P.M. Johnson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEARTH HAS CHANGED. The old world order collapsed following the meteor impacts of 2031 when fire rained down from the skies, instantly vaporizing millions. Billions more died during the Long Winter and resource wars that followed. Over one hundred years have passed since those devastating events and new societies have formed around the globe...Categorized as:
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The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn all-new Star Trek e-novella featuring the Department of Temporal Investigations!The dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations have their work cut out for them protecting the course of history from the dangers of time travel. But the galaxy is littered with artifacts that, in the wrong hands, could threaten reality... -
Timediver's Dawn by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe author of The Fires of Paratime returns readers to the world of witches, high technology and space travel, of science and superstition--a world so short of energy resources that all fuels are grown or captured from the sun. It is on this world that a lone man must achieve the impossible... -
Adrift by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fifth 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.The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled... -
The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories By Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith an Introduction by James Tiptree, Jr."More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --Wall Street JournalMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet... -
Chromed: Upgrade by Richard Parry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s 2150AD. There hasn’t been a corporate war… until now.Mason Floyd is an augmented syndicate enforcer at the top of his game. His job is asset protection and acquisition, no questions asked.Company tech is stolen on Mason’s watch. Rival megacorps want it, and they don’t mind killing him to get it. Framed for the theft, Mason runs...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: Seeing I by Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to face what's just happened between her and the Doctor. He's searching for her, and for answers... -
Trapped by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile the artificial intelligences of the galaxy attempted to wipe out humanity, a designer slave, Aspen, escaped into the underworld. Some time later, mankind is slowly regaining control, destroying artificial intelligences by any means but leaving a chaotic, lawless galaxy behind as a result...Categorized as:
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The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJalian, a silver-eyed huntress from 700 years in the future, travels back to the 20th century in an attempt to save her world from the ravages of nuclear destruction. A stunning tour-de-force of love and adventure sweeping along a timeline of infinitely possible worlds... -
Insider X by Dave Buschi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFacility 67096. It shapes our thoughts. Shapes our world. Manipulates us. And it seeks one thing. The destruction of everything we hold dear.Marks and Lip, one a former Marine, the other a cyber specialist for the NSA, are our answer to Facility 67096. What is Facility 67096? It controls the Web. Has controlled it ever since the beginning... -
Before Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, Forget Tomorrow!In a world where all seventeen-year-olds receive a memory from their future selves, Logan Russell's vision is exactly as he expects—and exactly not... -
Three Feet of Sky: Book One by Stephen Ayres
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf humanity created an afterlife, would you be accepted?Adam Eden confronts a world of predatory psychopaths, an annoying concierge, and a naked neighbour ... with a peculiar talent.After years of destitution, Adam Eden's life is finally on the up. But, whilst out celebrating his recent good fortune, Adam unwittingly chooses death over embarrassment... -
Мова by Віктар Марціновіч
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар... -
Mozart in Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Mozart in Mirrorshades" is a short science fiction story by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner first published September 1985 in Omni... -
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent...Categorized as:
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The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233–2371), in his own words. From his birth on the U.S.S... -
Cyberpunk City Book One: The Machine Killer by D.L. Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Altered Carbon, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash.Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space... -
Ragnar's Claw by William King
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the death world of Fenris come the Space Wolves, the most savage of the Emperor's Space Marines. Ragnar's Claw is the storming tale of Ragnar's first mission as a young Blood Claw warrior... -
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Doctor Who: The Story of Martha by Dan Abnett, Steve Lockley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor a year, while the Master ruled over the Earth, Martha Jones traveled the world telling people stories about the Doctor. She told people of how the Doctor has saved them before, and how he will save them again.This is her story. It tells of Martha's travels from her arrival on Earth as the Toclafane attacked and decimated the population through to her return to Britain to face the Master...Categorized as:
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The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops...Categorized as:
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Wings of Hell by David Sherman, Dan Cragg
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one captures the action and sacrifice of war better than real combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg. Now their blazing space epic Starfist continues as Marines of the Confederation’s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) go head-to-head against the deadly Skinks... -
A World of Hurt by David Sherman, Dan Cragg
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith its down and dirty depiction of warfare written by men who know what it’s like to be under fire, the Starfist saga is a runaway success across America. Now, in the explosive new Starfist adventure, packed with fierce action and danger, Marines at war in future space find themselves pitted against a faceless, insatiable foe bent on destroying them. And that’s just for starters...Categorized as:
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Trapped by James Alan Gardner
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife under the thumb of the Spark Lords -- the League's Earthly representatives -- is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and the other teachers at a third-rate private school for second-rate rich kids. But all that changes when a female student is found murdered by an unknown alien organism, and her boyfriend, the prime suspect, goes missing... -
Shadowrun 32: Wolf and Raven by Michael A. Stackpole
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTogether with a group of cyborg bounty hunters and computer wizards, soldier of fortune Wolfgang Kies assists Elf Lord Dr. Richard Raven in keeping humanity safe from preying monsters--both magical and technological. But crimelord Etienne LaPlante interferes with their vigilantism, preparing to strike at Raven and those who serve him...
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