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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... -
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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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Tarkin by James Luceno
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 25 ratings"Of power, I could tell you much. One must seize the moment, and strike." --Grand Moff Wilhuff TarkinHe’s the scion of an honorable and revered family. A dedicated soldier and distinguished legislator. Loyal proponent of the Republic and trusted ally of the Jedi Order... -
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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... -
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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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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...
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