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Ep.#3.3 - Liberty and Truth, Peace and Prosperity (The Frontiers Saga - Part 3: Fringe Worlds) by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEpisode 3.3A new foe arises…An ugly truth emerges…A long lost friend returns…An iconic ship flies into battle…Captain Scott and the crew of the Aurora face the reality of a galaxy that is, in many ways, worse off than the one they left behind. But in doing so, they discover a new mission for the Aurora’s namesake, her captain, and her crew... -
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Star Force: Origin Series by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Origin Series is empire building at its finest, with 100 episodes and over 2.5 million words in the military science fiction serial detailing the rise of Star Force from corporate entity into an interstellar empire over the course of more than a millennium...Categorized as:
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Ep.#3.11 - "The First Ranger" by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPart 3: Episode 11Sacrifices are made…Training is endured…Wrongs are righted…Heros are born…The Free Fleet’s plans are finally coming together. Now, there is a new force for good in the galaxy, and they’re known as ‘Rangers’."The First Ranger" is the 11th episode in Part 3 of the Frontiers Fringe Worlds...Categorized as:
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![Fall of the Core by Ryk Brown]()
Fall of the Core by Ryk Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA freelance reporter struggling to get into the 'big time'...A rookie officer starting her career in public safety...A cargo ship captain trying to outlive a terminal illness that has no cure...A bounty hunter returning a long-hunted fugitive to Earth...A terrible plague that threatens to destroy the human race...The 25th century is not starting off very well... -
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![Invasion Force by T.R. Harris]()
Invasion Force by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo planet is safe from the invading horde.From international bestselling science fiction author T.R. Harris, here is the 21st volume in his Epic 29-book-long saga of Human Superiority throughout the galaxy, and the foolish aliens who get in our way: The Human Chronicles Saga - Invasion ForceAdam Cain is an Alien with an Attitude...This time it's serious ....The Klin... -
![Scorched Earth by T.R. Harris]()
Scorched Earth by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when the Adam Cain—the Alien with an Attitude—gets really pissed off?Hint: It ain’t pretty.The scorched earth in the title doesn’t refer to the Human’s homeworld... -
![Star Force: Origin Series by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Origin Series by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Origin Series is empire building at its finest, with 100 episodes and over 2.5 million words in the military science fiction serial detailing the rise of Star Force from corporate entity into an interstellar empire over the course of more than a millennium...Categorized as:
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![Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven, Rick Sternbach]()
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven, Rick Sternbach
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsRanging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...Becalmed in hellHowie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!Wait it outHe was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!The borderland of SolForward possessed the ultimate weapon..Categorized as:
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![Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
![The Copernicus Deception by T.R. Harris]()
The Copernicus Deception by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdam Cain is an Alien with an Attitude… His Adventures Continue. When Adam and Riyad journey to the planet Visidor to help free their alien friends Kaylor and Jym from vindictive local law enforcement, they thought all it would take would be wowing the locals with their celebrity. After all, they’d just saved the galaxy from the evil Sol-Kor menace... -
![Wanderer - Extinction by Simon Goodson]()
Wanderer - Extinction by Simon Goodson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJess and the Wanderer race to save the Universe from extinction. Will saving everything just mean handing it to the Taint? The destruction of the Universe has started and only Jess and the Wanderer have the slightest chance of stopping it, but that's only the start. Jess must also find a way to stop the all-consuming Taint once and for all... -
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Hiding by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaking herself unseen was Daphne’s skill until a forest encounter made her want to be noticed by the new Ambassador of the Nine. Daphne has spent her adult life since the Tokkel invasion fighting for jobs to support herself. With her parents dead, her family consists of one... -
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Planetfall: A Story of the Dark by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDenholm Carew enjoys a life most would envy. Scion of a wealthy family on New London, he can have almost anything he wants. But what he wants more than anything is the freedom to make his own way and build his own legacy to pass down to his children. Together with his wife, Lynelle, he sells everything to buy shares in colonial company and settle the newly discovered world of Dalthus IV...Categorized as:
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Designing by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA reclusive inventor meets a man who will give her wings. Well, he will let her use his.Ula has hidden from her own people in an effort to cease pressure from local government to create weapons against the Nine. When a man with wings comes knocking, she slams the door in his face... -
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Supernova by Doug Dandridge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExodus: Machine Wars: Book 1: Supernova is the launch of a new chapter in the Saga. Not all the action occurs on the main front. Space is too big for that kind of restriction. The Klassekians are a gifted race, with an ability which could help the Empire in its war against the Ca'cadasans. Just entering space, the species is still torn apart by religious and nationalistic schisms... -
![Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead]()
Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW EDITION - August 2015. Professionally edited and proofed..Swallow the Sky embodies the essence of classic science fiction: real science, adventure, high spirits, and above all, a sense of wonder.Galactic culture is still reverberating from the nanotech disaster that destroyed Earth... -
![Wanderer: Origins by Simon Goodson]()
Wanderer: Origins by Simon Goodson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHunted by a powerful Imperial fleet, his friends infected by the Taint, Jess has only one place to turn — the homeworld of his amazing ship, the Wanderer.But his journey will reveal the origins of far more than just the Wanderer, and both the Empire and the Taint will be ready to pounce at any moment... -
![The Long Night of Centauri Prime by Peter David, J. Michael Straczynski]()
The Long Night of Centauri Prime by Peter David, J. Michael Straczynski
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this first novel of a new trilogy based on the Hugo Award-winning TV series, the malevolent beings are reshaping the Centauri Republic into a secret seat of power from which to launch deadly strikes against Interstellar Alliance President John Sheridan and the Earth itself... -
![Kutath (The Faded Sun, #3) by C.J. Cherryh]()
Kutath (The Faded Sun, #3) by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen the Mri, a proud and noble race of warriors serving as mercenaries in exchange for a planet to call home, confront the human enemies of their employers, they encounter a method of warfare alien to their system of honor. No match for the Mri one to one, despite their similar physiology, the humans fight without honor, driving the Mri to extinction with superior numbers and firepower... -
![Molly Fyde and the Land of Light by Hugh Howey]()
Molly Fyde and the Land of Light by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I need you to help me rescue your father_" With those words, Molly Fyde-and the rest of the known universe-will never be the same. What began as a simple task to retrieve her father's spaceship, has turned into more than Molly bargained for. Setting off to reconnect with her past, she is about to meet it in a way she never expected: Head-on. Her father is alive... -
![Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh]()
Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station--and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts...Categorized as:
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![The Ship Errant by Jody Lynn Nye]()
The Ship Errant by Jody Lynn Nye
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the sequel to The Ship Who Won, written by Nye with Anne McCaffrey, Carialle and Keff, the brainship and brawn who discovered intelligent life on the planet Ozran, now serve as couriers for the "globe-frogs", to return their new friends from whence they came. But to get there, they must transit a sector where Carialle experienced a trauma so intense it nearly destroyed her mind... -
![A Hole in Space by Larry Niven]()
A Hole in Space by Larry Niven
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Perfect Crime: The invention of displacement booths produced one hell of a crime wave. If a man in, say, Hawaii could commit murder in, say, Chicago and be back in the time it would take him to visit the men's room, he would have a perfect alibi. And the police would have a problem... -
![Shon'jir by C.J. Cherryh]()
Shon'jir by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSten Duncan had saved the lives of the last two of humanity's deadliest enemies, during the takeover of their planet Kesrith. Sten therefore felt responsible for them and for their future -- if any. For though the two mri were brother and sister, they represented different power-castes of their ancient warrior-race. Niun was the last of the bred samurai... -
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![Meru by S.B. Divya]()
Meru by S.B. Divya
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist S. B. Divya.For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy...Categorized as:
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![The Human Division Extras by John Scalzi]()
The Human Division Extras by John Scalzi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContains:- After the Coup (2008)- Hafte Sorvalh Eats a Churro and Speaks to the Youth of Today... -
![Life of a Miner by Jamie McFarlane]()
Life of a Miner by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo young orphans, Priloe and his sister, Milenette, managed to escape a lifetime of enslavement with a lot of help from Liam Hoffen, Privateer. As grateful as Priloe might be, he can't imagine why Hoffen would give up his family to go careening around the stars, when family is all he's ever wanted... -
![The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir by Karin Tidbeck]()
The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir by Karin Tidbeck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAward-winning author Karin Tidbeck presents a science fiction adventure of a mysterious spaceship on an interstellar voyage in The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir.Life on the transdimensional ship Skidbladnir is a strange one. The new janitor, Saga, finds herself in the company of an officious steward-bird, a surly and mysterious engineer, and the shadowy Captain... -
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Galactic Champion by Dante King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMajor Jacob Berger’s career takes the next step when he becomes captain of the Revenge, a reverse-engineered Xeno starship. When the starship is attacked in hyperspace, Jacob is gifted power from interdimensional beings. Jacob soon finds himself stranded on an alien planet with only one task: find the Revenge’s missing crew members...Categorized as:
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![To Do or Die by Mike Shepherd, Mike Moscoe]()
To Do or Die by Mike Shepherd, Mike Moscoe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the national bestselling author of the Kris Longknife series comes an all-new Jump Universe novel. Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence "Trouble" Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. One bully strongman is intent on keeping power no matter what the new rules are for peace...Categorized as:
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![Seeing by Viola Grace]()
Seeing by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeeing while her eyes are tied is a blessing and a burden. She is obsessed and determined to find those who have been lost. Vida has been looking for her parents since the Tokkel took them six years ago. Her sister has given up on her obsession and removed herself from the pain of her twin’s hunt... -
![Invoking Darkness by Jeanne Cavelos]()
Invoking Darkness by Jeanne Cavelos
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe electrifying space epic reaches an explosive climaxwhen one techno-mage battles the ultimate evil As billions die and the flames of destruction rage unchecked, the Shadows seem poised for absolute victory. Soon the entire galaxy will fall to their evil. But the war isn't over . . . not yet... -
![Casting Shadows by Jeanne Cavelos]()
Casting Shadows by Jeanne Cavelos
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe spectacular space epic continues, as the techno-mages face the growing threat of the Shadows . . .As Elric and his student Galen watch with taut anticipation, dragons, angels, and shooting stars rain from the sky, heralding the arrival of the techno-mages on the planet Soom... -
![Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski]()
Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe explosive space epic continues, as the techno-mages come face-to-face with the devastating evil of the Shadows . . . War against the Shadows is inevitable, and the ruling Circle has ordered the techno-mages into hiding. Many are unhappy with this decision--none more so than Galen, the only mage who has faced the Shadows and lived... -
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![The Six Directions of Space by Alastair Reynolds]()
The Six Directions of Space by Alastair Reynolds
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn original novella by the modern master of space opera, limited to only 1000 signed hardcover copies.What if Genghis Khan got his wish, and brought the entire planet under the control of the Mongols? Where would he have gone next?A thousand years after Khan's death, Yellow Dog is the codename of a female spy working for a vast Mongol-dominated galactic empire... -
![Terradox Quadrilogy: The Complete Box Set by Craig A. Falconer]()
Terradox Quadrilogy: The Complete Box Set by Craig A. Falconer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA planet that shouldn't exist. An adventure you'll never forget. Grab all four books in the thrilling TERRADOX series for one low price, in this great value 1600-page sci-fi box set! With Earth in turmoil under the iron fist of a despotic Global Union, a small group of exiles flees for the safety of a distant research station. They were heading for Venus. Somewhere else found them first...Categorized as:
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![Wine Dark Deep by R. Peter Keith]()
Wine Dark Deep by R. Peter Keith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hard science-fiction space opera.Equal parts The Martian, Star Trek, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Expanse.The First Book in the Epic Odyssey of the Spaceship Ulysses and its Crew!When the solar system’s key asteroid mine is seized by revolutionaries, it puts the secret mission of the spaceship Ulysses in jeopardy...Categorized as:
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![Стеклянное море by Sergei Lukyanenko, Сергей Лукьяненко]()
Стеклянное море by Sergei Lukyanenko, Сергей Лукьяненко
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsТретья книга лучшей российской «космической оперы»!Увлекательная история землянина, заброшенного в глубины космоса и возглавившего галактическую войну!История, в которой есть место для всего, что только может быть создано фантазией в свободном полете, – бластеров и звездолетов, странных союзников и необыкновенных врагов, вампиров, что не прячут своих клыков, и атомарных мечей, что острее косы... -
![Final Frontier by Diane Carey, Leonard Nimoy]()
Final Frontier by Diane Carey, Leonard Nimoy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCommander George Samuel Kirk was aboard the Enterprise under the command of Captain Robert April before his famous son was born. Starfleet has just been founded and the Enterprise has just been built, and is sent on its first mission...Categorized as:
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![Reach For Infinity by Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan]()
Reach For Infinity by Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReach For Infinity (Infinity Project, Vol 3) The latest in the Infinity anthology collections edited and comissioned by multiple award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan. What happens when humanity reaches out into the vastness of space? The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder... -
![The Merchants of Souls by John Barnes]()
The Merchants of Souls by John Barnes
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of GlassSpecial agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again--but now he must... -
![Proxy by Mindee Arnett]()
Proxy by Mindee Arnett
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProxy is an action-packed introduction to a world like nothing readers have seen before, and it sets a spark to the powder keg that will explode in Mindee Arnett's sci-fi thriller Avalon.If you need something stolen from any star system in the Confederation, you need look no further than the Shades... -
![The Black Shore by Greg Cox]()
The Black Shore by Greg Cox
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter weeks of lonely journeys through a desolate region fo the Delta Quadrant, the crew of "Voyager" is badly in need of shore leave, so the planet Ryolanov seems just what the doctor ordered. Full of warm sunlight and gracious, hospitable people, Ryolanov is a veritable oasis amidst the endless reaches of uncharted space... -
![BattleTech Legends: I am Jade Falcon by Robert Thurston]()
BattleTech Legends: I am Jade Falcon by Robert Thurston
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor years, Star Commander Joanna has had to live with the shame of the Jade Falcon defeat at Twycross, and the nightmares of the heroic Aidan Pryde flaunting his bloodname in her face.Now, with the arrival of the new Star Colonel Ravill Pryde, who will lead them against the Wolf Clan, Joanna must once again fight for her chance to recapture the glory of her victory at Tukayyid... -
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![Annihilation Aria by Michael R. Underwood]()
Annihilation Aria by Michael R. Underwood
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn exuberant space opera that dares us to lose ourselves in battle songs and nonstop action!A woman who can wield a weapon like a song and her voice like a weapon. A man who can out-think any problem. A pilot who can outmaneuver the best of them. Lahra, Max, and Wheel live and work aboard the Kettle, salvaging artifacts from dangerous galactic ruins to keep scraping by... -
![Training Daze by Mike Shepherd]()
Training Daze by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn exciting military Science Fiction novella set between Mike Shepherd’s third and fourth Kris Longknife novels. Kris Longknife dodges assassins, gains an unwelcome (though rather handsome) bodyguard, and puts together a training squad to travel from planet to planet, preparing crews for the newest, fastest, and deadliest fighting ship...Categorized as:
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![None but Man by Gordon R. Dickson]()
None but Man by Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA classic of science fiction from SF legend Gordon R. Dickson, winner of three Hugo awards, a Nebula award, and an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.The long period of civil unrest known as the Frontier Rebellion has come to an end. The Old Worlders of Earth and the colonists of the Pleiades Planets at the edge of known space have at last formed an uneasy peace... -
![Wheelworld by Harry Harrison]()
Wheelworld by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unforgiving planet where the sun is about to rise and will not set for another four years; where an ancient peasant hierarchy still rules a society equipped with the highest technology; where the people are as dependent on visiting ships as they are on the very air that they breathe; home for some, but for Jan Kulozik it is an eternal prison... -
![The Wreck of The River of Stars by Michael Flynn]()
The Wreck of The River of Stars by Michael Flynn
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMichael Flynn has written the best SF in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein of the last decade. His major work was the Firestar sequence, a four-book future history. "As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen," said Harry Turtledove... -
![The Winds of Gath by E.C. Tubb]()
The Winds of Gath by E.C. Tubb
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mercenary, a galactic traveller, a survivor: Earl Dumarest is tired and wants to go home. But in a decadent universe where life is cheap and starflight precious, where emotionless conspirators and mind-controlling churches spin webs of intrigue to ensnare whole galaxies, Dumarest's goal seems impossible...Categorized as:
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