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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...
  • 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...
  • Tane by Anna Hackett

    Tane by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens reaches its endgame, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Tane Rahia is good at one thing—fighting. Before the alien invasion, he fought as a mercenary in the worst jungle hellholes...
  • The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey

    The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Fall of Koli is the third and final novel in the breathtakingly original Rampart trilogy - set in a strange and deadly world of our own making.The world that is lost will come back to haunt us . . .Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood...
  • Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    SciFi’s favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good...
  • Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen Tom Raines grew up with nothing, some days without even a roof over his head...
  • Spinward Fringe Broadcast 11: Revenge by Randolph Lalonde

    Spinward Fringe Broadcast 11: Revenge by Randolph Lalonde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alice's career moves on to the next phase in Haven Fleet, sending her into real action and real danger. All the while she wonders where her father, Jacob Valent and his ship, the Revenge, have gone. If only she knew her father is busy taking an opportunity to strike the Order of Eden behind the front lines, slowing their journey home while taking a big risk for a big reward along the way...
  • Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take.Yet here I am at Sanctuary...
  • Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    THE KENNEDY STARES INTO THE ABYSSThe world's last floating nuclear supercarrier looks into the face of oblivion – as her thinned, exhausted, and beleaguered crew face the largest herd of dead ever recorded. Soon, the ship's five-acre flight deck will become the scene of a furious and desperate set-piece battle – like no combat any modern army has seen since Stalingrad...
  • Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy caliber weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instill fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war...
  • Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...
  • Darkness United by K.C. Luck

    Darkness United by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive? Twice now, Taylor, Jackie, Lexi, and Anna have faced the darkness brought on by a catastrophic solar storm. With the help of Sam, Laura, and a group of faithful friends, they have rebuilt their lives in a world without power. But when new threats arise, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as continue to rely on each other...
  • The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE OPERATORS FACE THEIR DEMONSMission complete, Alpha team enjoys their first chance to breathe and tend to their humanity. But the darkness leaves them alone with their demons - and those who have found love may yet learn that it is fatally incompatible with duty...THE CARRIER FACES UNIMAGINED THREATSThe JFK steams for Africa, despite rumours of lone Zulus still wandering below decks...
  • Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test...
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • Evasion  (Scattered Stars: Evasion Book 1) by Glynn Stewart

    Evasion (Scattered Stars: Evasion Book 1) by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A captain on the run from the horrors of his pastA girl on the run from the trap of her presentA ship that will bring them togetherCaptain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki was once a nova fighter pilot for a nation he truly believed in. Betrayal and failure sent him into exile and flight...
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves. Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features...
  • Alien Surgeon’s Seduction by Mina Carter

    Alien Surgeon’s Seduction by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She was his the moment she stepped aboard. He'll fight everyone, even the emperor himself, to keep her... Like most Lathar, First Healer Isan K'Vass didn't expect to ever find his mate. The genetic plague that had ravaged their race meant they had no females, and his tainted bloodline meant he would be last in line for one of the rare human females. Or it should...
  • Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being saved from annihilation by the Old Gator’s daring plan, Gabriel and the crew of the Magellan find themselves in the most unlikely of places: a captured enemy starship. While learning to control the alien vessel introduces a new set of challenges, the secrets they discover within may prove to be the edge they so desperately need...
  • Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For fifty years they hunted us. For fifty years they enslaved us. For fifty years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the Universe. We’ve won our first battle. We’ve earned our first taste of hope...
  • The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff

    The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former space marine Torin Kerr returns for one final adventure to save the Confederation in the last book in the military science fiction Peacekeeper trilogy.Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. From the good, from the bad. From the heroics, from the betrayal...
  • Manu by Anna Hackett

    Manu by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival… When former berserker Manu Rahia lost his leg on a mission, he was forced to leave his squad...
  • Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti

    Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Tace Justice was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After Scorpius, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly... and so did he. The Vanguard medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he's lost the line between right and wrong...
  • Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti

    Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before the Scorpius Syndrome tore through North America and nearly wiped out the population, Vivienne Wellington was the FBI’s best profiler. The bacteria got her anyway. But she survived. She recovered. And when she woke up from a drug-nightmare of captivity, her skills as a hunter of men had gone from merely brilliant to full-on uncanny. Her mysterious rescuer wants her to put them to the test...
  • Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series.Includes:Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company...
  • Hemi by Anna Hackett

    Hemi by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, a big, tough, tattooed former mercenary is finally going to chase down his woman.Camryn McNab knows love is a lie. Okay, maybe not for everybody--her fellow soldiers on Squad Nine have managed to fall in love in the middle of a vicious alien attack. But it's not for her. She comes from two people incapable of love...
  • Ash by Anna Hackett

    Ash by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, will the bad boy berserker catch the geeky tech genius? Computer genius Marin Mitchell is doing her part to help humanity survive the raptor invasion, working tirelessly to decrypt alien data. She spends her days working and drooling over a certain tattooed, biker berserker from Squad Three. But Marin knows the rules: geeks do not snag sexy bad boys...
  • Dom by Anna Hackett

    Dom by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival… Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • Levi by Anna Hackett

    Levi by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, a bad boy berserker collides with a spunky mechanic on a dangerous sabotage mission. Levi King has always lived rough. Raised by a biker dad, he fought for everything he had—including being president of the Iron Kings motorcycle club. But when the aliens invaded, he lost it all...
  • Independents by Michele Notaro

    Independents by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I’ve wanted to do is keep my family safe. All I’ve wanted was to protect them from the evils of the world… but I’ve failed. I’ve failed so badly, and now all of them are suffering… I’m suffering… We’ve lost so many, and now that we’ve lost one of our own, I don’t know how to keep going. I don’t know how to protect them anymore...
  • Renegades by K. Gorman

    Renegades by K. Gorman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Shadows have taken over half of the system, and Karin is the only one who can fight back.Genetically engineered from birth, Karin Makos’s powers have made her the Alliance’s most wanted person. With her sister still missing, and only a cryptic notebook left behind for clues, the mystery of her past is going to take a lot more time and resources than they have to unravel it...
  • Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She survived. That's not good enough.When Ebola struck Manhattan, Ava Panic was a bright high school sophomore. Two years later, Ava's still kicking. Also hitting, biting, and gouging eyes.Nine out of ten didn't make it. Half the survivors are feral teens like Ava. During the Starve, their gangs terrorized the city...
  • Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Endless Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betrayal and desperation are a dangerous combination in this thrilling continuation of the Surviving Ashes series by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne... Berke Daniels has learned to live as if there is no tomorrow, because he knows firsthand it can all be taken away in a moment...
  • The Devil's Due by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    The Devil's Due by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Live like the dead, or sleep like the dead? Dick makes his choice.... Dick is finally clean - mind and body - from his poisonous addiction, only to be sent reeling again upon awakening and discovering Steve and Jamie have startling secrets of their own...
  • Blood Ties by K. Gorman

    Blood Ties by K. Gorman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Together again, and ready to bring the system to its knees.Karin Makos has spent the last two months running from one thing or another—but all that's about to change. Her sister's back, and Nomiki's ready to grab their problems by the horns, throw them on their backs, and rip into them with her modified carbon steel blades...
  • Wolves by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Wolves by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Listening time 9 hours 25 minutesThey dive so humanity survives. Now they take to the sea.In the fourth installment of the award-winning and USA Today bestselling Hell Divers series, the Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez...
  • Wulf by Ava Ross

    Wulf by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s a rough Vikir warrior. She’s a mostly proper librarian. Can an Earthling woman and a green-scaled alien find love together in the stars?After she’s kidnapped by blue-skinned aliens, Taylor escapes and bails from an alien space station in a shuttle she has no clue how to drive. She crash lands on a nearby planet made up mostly of jungle...
  • Building Victoria by M.D. Cooper

    Building Victoria by M.D. Cooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Intrepid is drifting slowly between the stars. After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base. Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge a new lives for themselves ..
  • Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler

    Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn’t been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers...
  • Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey

    Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nick Angriff’s ultimate enemy finally takes the stage and the 7th Cavalry will never be the same. Operation Overtime has come through its first winter in post-Collapse America in better shape than expected. Food is plentiful, the city of Prescott is healing, and there’s even a battalion of new recruits for the Marines...
  • Griff by Anna Hackett

    Griff by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Squad Three berserker Griff lived through hell long before the alien invasion. Once, he’d been a dedicated cop, but then in a gut-wrenching betrayal, he ended up behind bars in a supermax prison...
  • Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it...
  • Finn by Anna Hackett

    Finn by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on... For Hawk pilot Finn Erickson, flying is in the blood. Since the aliens decimated the planet, he spends most of his time flying Hell Squad into combat. With communication to other survivor bases cut off, he has no idea if his family is still alive and feels their loss keenly...
  • Devlin by Anna Hackett

    Devlin by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a spy and a soldier find themselves locked in an alien cage and told…mate or die. A covert mission gone horribly wrong. Cool, composed spy, Devlin Gray is used to bad situations, but locked in the bowels of an alien facility with tough, sexy soldier Taylor and told to mate is bad. Very bad...
  • The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff

    The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The "rousing military adventure"(Locus) continues with a brand-new Valor novel. Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to pirates...
  • 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...
  • This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman

    This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sheltered all her life in a corporate satellite in Earth's outer orbit, Jamisia must face the truth about her origins and her role in the power struggle between the Guerans who dominate intergalactic transportation and the rest of Earth's far-flung and genetically mutated colonies who are trying to break the Guera Guild's monopoly...
  • Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game.The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin...
  • Valor's Trial by Tanya Huff

    Valor's Trial by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The rousing military adventure (Locus) continues with a brand new Valor novel. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marines marine. She's survived more deadly encounters and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive than anyone in the Corps...
  • All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern...
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