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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsA lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time...Categorized as:
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Morning Star by Pierce Brown
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 74 ratings#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red 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 conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star.Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war...Categorized as:
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Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsAs a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution...Categorized as:
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Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsDefeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot...Categorized as:
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![A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers]()
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsLovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow... -
![Starsight by Brandon Sanderson]()
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsAll her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing.Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her... -
![Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter]()
Not Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed with humor, geek references and thought-provoking storylines”, and performed by “a true master story teller and actor” returns as the Bobs face their deadliest challenge yet... -
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Earth Flight by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIt'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 ratingsAs 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...Categorized as:
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![Craved by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee]()
Craved by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSAMWhen a legendary PIP model shows up in my shop, I jump on the chance to work on the sentient shuttle, until I meet Pip’s owner. The surly hunter hates humans and has earned himself the nickname Loose Cannon...Categorized as:
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Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 84 ratings"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""I live for you," I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future...Categorized as:
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![Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff]()
Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast...Categorized as:
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Without Law 5 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTav and his allies have a new and unwelcome neighbor: a rogue unit of murderous National Guard who intend to take control of the area, its resources, and its people for themselves. Assaulting even a small military base is no mean feat, so Tav will have to train his girls to be weapons of war in addition to just survivors. The Guard are unable to live in peace, so Tav must prepare for war... -
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Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsThey call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society... -
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![The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness]()
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsWe 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...Categorized as:
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![Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen]()
Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 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...Categorized as:
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![The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera]()
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race...Categorized as:
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![The Toll by Neal Shusterman]()
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsIt’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead... -
![The Solar War by A.G. Riddle]()
The Solar War by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWe thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything... -
![March to the Sea by David Weber, John Ringo]()
March to the Sea by David Weber, John Ringo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Bad Neighborhood "Always Faithful." That was the IMC motto, and the Marines of Bravo Company, Bronze Battalion, of the Empress' Own Regiment, lived by it...even if they did occasionally wonder why they bothered. After all, Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a real piece of work... -
![Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel]()
Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 21 ratings"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can." Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes:Kate announces she is engaged—and not to Matt...Categorized as:
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![Xenofall by Kyle West]()
Xenofall by Kyle West
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the final battle looming, the fate of the humanity will be decided. Alex Keener, Elekim, will face down Askala, the Radaskim Xenomind.But as Askala unleashes her final fury, the road to Ragnarok can only be paved with grit...and lives.In this explosive conclusion to The Wasteland Chronicles, Alex will rise to the mantle of Elekim.. -
![Without Law 9 by Eric Vall]()
Without Law 9 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpring is here, and Tav and his clan of survivors set out to clean up from the destruction of Vermont's winter With no gasoline, they will have to find new ways to travel, and they will cross paths with survivors who were strong enough to make it through the bitter cold. And these new enemies will do whatever it takes to survive the spring... -
![Without Law 2 by Eric Vall]()
Without Law 2 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the EMP hit, the small world around a liberal arts college in the Vermont mountains changed drastically. But Tav had trained his whole life for this. Now this ex-Army Ranger has to serve again, but this time it’s a group of four beautiful women and one gentle old man who need his help to survive this lawless world. And Tav isn’t going to let them down... -
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![Earth Star by Janet Edwards]()
Earth Star by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSequel to Earth Girl.18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets...Categorized as:
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![Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell]()
Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL HAS RETURNED -- IN THE YEAR 2351 When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter... -
![Three's a Crowd! by Ray O'Ryan]()
Three's a Crowd! by Ray O'Ryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZack finds out that two best friends are better than one in this chapter book adventure.Zack is thrilled when he finds out that his best friend on Earth, Bert Jones, is going to visit him on Nebulon. Zack can’t wait to show Bert around the new planet, as well as his new school. But when Bert meets Drake, Zack’s best friend on Nebulon, some jealousy starts to brew... -
![The Shaman of Karres by Eric Flint, Dave Freer]()
The Shaman of Karres by Eric Flint, Dave Freer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaptain Pausert just can’t catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire—and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters... -
![Dissolution by Michele Notaro]()
Dissolution by Michele Notaro
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war... -
![The Seventh Element by Wendy Mass]()
The Seventh Element by Wendy Mass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don't have long to wait—six books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save our planet are six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy. But the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy...Categorized as:
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![Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall (The Alien Skill Series, Book 1) by Rae Knightly]()
Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall (The Alien Skill Series, Book 1) by Rae Knightly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA BOY WITH AN ALIEN POWER.“The thing is, it wasn’t meteors that fell into the woods that night. It was alien spacecraft.”THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 2019 SILVER MEDAL WINNER - AUTHOR ACADEMY AWARDS 2019 FINALIST.When UFOs crash into the fields next to his grandfather’s house, twelve-year-old Ben Archer becomes a cumbersome witness in the eyes of the government...Categorized as:
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![The Countdown Conspiracy by Katie Slivensky]()
The Countdown Conspiracy by Katie Slivensky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbassador, you are go for launch in T- minus 5…4…3…2…. Get ready to blast off with this high-action, high-stakes middle grade adventure that’s perfect for fans of Chris Grabenstein and Peter Lerangis!Miranda Regent can’t believe she was just chosen as one of six kids from around the world to train for the first ever mission to Mars... -
![Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield]()
Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeather wants more than anything to go to outer space, where the stars sparkle with magic and wonder. When a UFO lands behind her house and she meets a friendly alien, it seems that all of her dreams have come true. But soon her new friend has to return home...Categorized as:
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Darkness by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vegas Exodus is at a standstill...Besieged by the Xenoswarm in the town Pyrite, they must shelter in either Bunker 108 or Bunker 84 if they are to survive the winter.But in Bunker 84 lurks a darkness that could end the Exodus. And it may also be that the denizens of Bunker 84, known as "The Community," are not as isolated from the events of the Wasteland as it first appears... -
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![Extinction by Kyle West]()
Extinction by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the Radaskim...As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late. But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has her own plans to end humanity before that can ever happen.Only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims.. -
![I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted]()
I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA funny and heartwarming middle-grade historical fiction novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing.It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts...Categorized as:
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![Favour the Bold by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
Favour the Bold by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn all-new story of The Empire’s Corps! Earth has fallen. The Core Worlds have collapsed into chaos. War is breaking out everywhere as planetary governments declare independence, entire sectors slip out of contact and warlords battle for power. The remnants of the once-great Empire are tearing themselves apart... -
![Traitor by Jonathan Yanez]()
Traitor by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you're the king of the mountain,everyone wants to see you fall.He’s secured all three Relics. All problems solved, right?Wrong. Monsters from the Gate roam deserted Earth and Daniel Hunt is first in line to chase them down.Meanwhile, an invisible enemy increases its hold on the human race; infecting one-by-one as it spreads across the population...Categorized as:
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![Infinity Riders by Kekla Magoon]()
Infinity Riders by Kekla Magoon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don’t have long to wait—six books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only things that can save our planet are six essential elements scattered throughout the galaxy...Categorized as:
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![The Fall of the Sky Lords by John Brosnan]()
The Fall of the Sky Lords by John Brosnan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis final volume of "The Sky Lords Trilogy" finds Jan Dorvin encased in an underwater cell, the prisoner of the sexually indeterminate Eloi. Far above, the struggle against the mighty airships continues, as Ashley, a rogue computer personality, once again joins forces with Milo Haze... -
![The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm]()
The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA kid raised on Mars learns that he can't be held back by the fears of the grown-ups around him.Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping... -
![Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon]()
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFor forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old... -
![Nyxia by Scott Reintgen]()
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever... -
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The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“The perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” —TeenVogue.comA New York Times bestseller!Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when a senator’s daughter is summoned to the galactic court as a hostage, but she’s really the galaxy’s most dangerous weapon in disguise.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful...Categorized as:
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![Shades of Earth by Beth Revis]()
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAmy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise that Amy had been hoping for...Categorized as:
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![Ep.#1 - Aurora: CV-01: The Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown]()
Ep.#1 - Aurora: CV-01: The Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsEpisode 1A world recovering from a devastating plague… A brutal enemy threatening invasion…A young man seeking to escape the shadow of his father…A ship manned by a crew of fresh academy graduates…A top-secret experimental propulsion system…A questionable alliance with a mysterious green-eyed woman…What destiny has in store for the crew of the UES Aurora, is far greater than any of them could... -
![Into the Dark by Claudia Gray]()
Into the Dark by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNot everyone who hears the call to adventure wants to answer it....Jedi Padawan Reath Silas loves adventure—reading about it, that is, not living it. Content to spend hours browsing the Jedi Archives on Coruscant, Reath dreams of being one of the great scholars of the Jedi Order...Categorized as:
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![We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey]()
We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsImagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! From the creator of the Tapper Twins, New York Times bestselling author Geoff Rodkey delivers a topical, sci-fi middle-grade novel that proves friendship and laughter can transcend even a galaxy of differences. The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year... -
![Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan]()
Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thrilling conclusion to the Sky Chasers series Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon—and take down their enemies before it's too late.Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have scattered, and their home ship has been destroyed...Categorized as:
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![Light Years by Kass Morgan]()
Light Years by Kass Morgan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsReeling from the latest attack by a mysterious enemy, the Quatra Fleet Academy is finally admitting students from every planet in the solar system after centuries of exclusivity...
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