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Critical Mass by Craig Alanson
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth... -
Sentienced to Death by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAccidental space adventurer Cal Carver has had a rough few months. He's fought spider-dragons, battled space clowns, and been repeatedly tortured by the galaxy's oldest assassin. And don't even get him started on the squirrel-tits. Now all that's behind him, Cal just wants to kick back and relax. The universe, however, has other ideas... -
Captain Caveman by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBob and the crew are off to deliver a shipload of lost property to its rightful owners. What dangers, seen and unseen, will they find at this lost colony? Will there be new crew members, waiting to be found? Find out in Bob and Nikki’s latest adventure... -
Book Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStart series with first book, Date Night on Union Station The Stryx offer EarthCent help in reaching out to the wide-spread human communities, but as usual, it comes with a catch or two. Kelly see an opportunity to increase her book hoard, just as publishing on Union Station begins to take off and Donna's daughters enter a friendly competition... -
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Tiona by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Tiona” picks up six years after the end of Vaz. Tiona, Vaz’s daughter, is starting grad school in physics, has a “bad boy” musician boyfriend, and does her own strange variety of charity work at a homeless shelter.Her professor has her start work on a project to try to achieve high temperature superconduction by doping the graphene membranes her lab partner has figured out how to precipitate... -
The Life of the Mind by John Scalzi
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPart one of the four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things.A down-on-his-luck Colonial Union starship pilot finds himself pressed into serving a harsh master-in a mission against the CU. But his kidnappers may have underestimated his knowledge of the ship that they have, quite literally, bound him to piloting... -
Changeling by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis novella set in the Liaden Universe first appeared in Absolute Magnitude #14, Summer 2000. It was then re-issued in chapbook form. It tells the story of Ren Zel dea'Judan, Clan Obrelt, who becomes first (space) pilot in an obscure clan of shopkeepers. Not all the other clans, however, are happy that Obrelt should field a pilot... -
A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume 3 by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBOOK 3 in the multivolume Liaden Universe ® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans... -
Dragon Ship by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFirst Class courier pilot Theo Waitley was already known as a nexus of violence - and then she inherited the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship designed to serve a long dead trader... -
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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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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Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAssistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed like it might be enough to make his family's fortune, and his own, too... -
Disc by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“Disc” picks up right after Vaz and Tiona’s invention of an apparently reactionless drive in “Tiona.”Tiona and her brother Dante want to license the rights to the new thrusters to big aircraft and car companies, using the money from the licenses to develop a private space industry... -
Eidolon by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis chapbook contains two original stories: "Shadow Partner," and "Persistence." Each story features a well-known member of Clan Korval, portrayed as others see them... -
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Misfits by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore Miri Robertson met Val Con yos'Phelium she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier. Before she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier with the Gyrfalks, she was "Redhead," a young recruit in Lizardi's Lunatics. Meanwhile, there was a weatherman, Ichliad Brunner. A weatherman's job is to observe and predict... -
Two Tales of Korval by Sharon Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChapbook with two short stories:To Cut an Edge: Val Con, a rookie scout, meets Edger the knife-making Clutch Turtle.A Day at the Races: Young Val Con and Shan run rings around prim and proper Kareen... -
Courier Run by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo new Liaden Universe® adventures! Novelette "Kin Ties" explores the ties that bind beloved kin -- and desperate enemies. Short story "Guaranteed Delivery" is a tale of love, leadership, and insurance fraud. Both stories appeared in slightly altered form on the authors' Splinter Universe website... -
Duty Bound by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPilot of Korval and Breath's Duty, two stories featuring Daav yos Phelium and including Er Thom, Clonak, and Shadia. Answers several Liaden Universe mysteries... -
Certain Symmetry by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis chapbook contains two short stories set in the Liaden Universe."The Wine of Memory" features Moonshadow and Lute as they come off a rough road into a surprising visit to an old friend.In "Certain Symmetry," Pat Rin yos'Phelium, cousin to Val Con, becomes involved in a matter of Balance that takes him to unexpected places... -
Prelude to War by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gang is back, and this time pitted against the most-dangerous enemy the galaxy has ever faced. Among the challenges our heroic trio encounters are a five-thousand-year-old mutant genius and a one-trillion-strong race of ravenous trans-dimensional invaders... -
Stalwart by Mike Shepherd, Lee Moyer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe foolish Iteeche clans that hauled Grand Admiral Kris Longknife back to the Iteeche Capital and interrupted her campaign against the rebels, are dead. Very dead. Their clans are disgraced and their palaces in ruin. However, while Kris was handling that noise, the rebels took back one of the planets she had recently captured, Arteccia, and are planning to take more... -
Kris Longknife's Successor: Grand Admiral Santiago on Alwa Station by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the third book with Grand Admiral Sandy Santiago serving as Kris Longknife's Relief, then Replacement, and now Successor on Alwa. She has all the challenges a gal could ask for. Granny Rita is on the rampage, and the cats have gone on strike... -
The Apex Predator by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Apex Predator … The Human Chronicles Saga Part Two Book 2 of 3 In this alien universe, Humans are the Supermen – stronger, faster and more coordinated than nearly all the other aliens in the galaxy. It’s this unique concept that has made The Human Chronicles Saga one of the most-popular science fiction series on the market today... -
A Galaxy to Conquer by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn A Galaxy to Conquer, all the great forces in the galaxy clash for one final, epic battle to determine who will come out on top. And racing the clock is Adam Cain and his team of aliens and SEALs out to rescue Riyad Tarazi from a Kracori prison ahead of the approaching conflagration... -
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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... -
Alien Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSequel to Date Night on Union Station - read that book first!Five years after the events of Date Night on Union Station, Kelly has settled into married life and her job as the EarthCent ambassador. The only fly in the ointment is that most of the aliens on Union Station refuse to talk to her... -
Cain's Crusaders by T.R. Harris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAdam Cain -- the alien with an attitude -- is back for more exciting adventures among the stars.This is the exciting continuation of The Human Chronicles Saga, the story of Human Superiority among the stars. You see, in this universe, WE are the Supermen. The baddest, the toughest, and the meanest creatures around... -
Kris Longknife's Replacement: Admiral Santiago on Alwa Station by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKris Longknife has been ordered back to human space.Sandy Santiago is a woman with a whole lot of problems. She's ordered to replace Kris Longknife, but can any mere mortal fill the shoes of a Longknife . . . and Kris Longknife most of all. Follow Sandy as she's introduced to the mess on Canopus Station. Watch her as she meets cats (with nuclear weapons!) and birds and vicious alien raiders... -
The Shattered Sphere by Roger MacBride Allen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStriving to retrieve a stolen planet Earth and restore it to its proper solar system, an unlikely band of human scientists, dictators, and professional troublemakers face two enemies in the powerful Charonians and the mysterious Adversary. Reprint... -
The Genocidal Healer by James White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhysician, heal thyselfSurgeon-Captain Lioren of the Monitor Corps was a hard-driving perfectionist who expected the same high standards to be met by all who worked with him. But while on a First Contact mission on the planet Cromsag, where plague had reduced a peaceful civilization to barbarism and war, Lioren's perfection was his undoing... -
Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted offering by one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers' minds far beyond ordinary limits... -
Exiles at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAntor Trellig, head of a ruthless interstellar syndicate, had seized a super computer with godlike powers, which could make him omnipotent. The Council offered master criminal Mavra Chang any reward if she stopped Trellig - and horrible, lingering death if she failed. But neither Trellig nor Mavra had taken the Well World into consideration... -
Ally by Karen Traviss
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil. Civil war on Umeh—ignited by outsiders—threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of a grossly overpopulated planet. On Bezer'ej, the handful of native aquatic creatures who survived extermination must take extraordinary and terrible steps to ensure the future of their kind . . -
The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis, Don Perrin
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsXris, Mag Force 7's cyborg leader, burns with a personal vendetta against the traitor who made him part machine. Now, revenge is at hand. There's just one problem--the Knights of the Black Earth, a deadly fanatical group bent on assassinating the King and throwing the galaxy into chaos. Xris and Mag Force 7 must now join forces with the enemy to battle this devastating threat... -
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Redemption by Andrew Beery
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2123 was not my best year… Let me state for the record... Dying is not fun and is definitely overrated. This was the year the newly formed Galactic Coalition of Planets faced it greatest threat since the D'lralu invasion. The almost omnipotent Heshe sought to redeem themselves for past sins. The problem with this type of redemption was the price others sometimes pay for your salvation.. -
A Miracle of Rare Design by Mike Resnick
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the planet called Medina, Xavier William Lennox met with disaster. Lennox became fascinated by the secretive golden-skinned natives of Medina. But on his first visit, he was caught by a high priest while spying on a sacred ritual in a village forbidden to all aliens. Now, Lennox is determined to find out what the aliens want so much to hide... -
Man-Kzin Wars XIV by Larry Niven
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe perennially best-selling series set in Larry Niven’s Man-Kzin universe continues with entry #14 including hard-hitting and thought-inducing tales from a host of talented contributors Hal Colebatch, Matthew Joseph Harrington, Alex Hernandez, Jessica Q. Fox, and more... -
Star Surgeon by James White
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the second installment of the Sector General series, about a huge multi-species hospital on the edges of the galaxy. Sector General is a hospital station -- a place where all kinds of patients and medics from all worlds are welcome... -
Yellow Eyes by John Ringo, Tom Kratman
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Posleen are coming and the models all say the same thing: Without the Panama Canal, the US is doomed to starvation and defeat. Despite being overstretched preparing to defend the US, the military sends everything it has left: A handful of advanced Armored Combat Suits, rejuvenated veterans from the many decades that Panama was a virtual colony and three antiquated warships... -
The Well of Stars by Robert Reed
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn The Well of Stars, Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years... -
The Forgotten Engineer by T.S. Paul
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHas an alternate cover.Ensign Athena Lee was on her first engineering assignment. She was helping to build a secret space station. There was a war on and this new station was vital. When the engineering fleet was attacked and destroyed she was left lost and alone. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. She was going to have to Engineer her way home... -
Diuturnity's Dawn by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the climactic third novel of the Founding of the Commonwealth, bestselling author Alan Dean Foster continues the spectacular space adventure that traces the perilous early years of this remarkable universe. . . . From the beginning, contact between humankind and the thranx has been tenuous at best... -
The Run to Chaos Keep by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMany different beings in the galaxy shared one legend: demons. When an expedition to an unexplored planet discovered two gigantic horned creatures in suspended animation, they realized, just before dying horribly, the truth behind the legend... -
Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings16-year old boy finds an alien crash-landed on a farm and ends up being recruited to join the Federation of Sapients - and adventuring out among the stars.First book of a trilogy, although ends in a way that does not require continuation to the other books. Sequels are "Being Human" and "Human to Human". Finalist for the 1989 Philip K. Dick Award. Nominated for the John W. Campbell Award... -
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Kris Longknife's Maid goes on Strike by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou knew it had to happen sooner or later. Abby goes on strike. Of course, it took a lot to drive her to that extreme. Just saying... -
Among the Kicking Birds by Mike Shepherd, Mike Moscoe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrincess Kris Longknife is Viceroy for the Royal US government to the aliens of Alwa. She commands a fleet and an industrial base, and the humans manning the ships and working the factories would like some vacation time. They'd also like a stake in the Alwa they are defending. So Kris finds herself approaching natives for land... -
Galactic Empires 1 by Brian W. Aldiss
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeen a Long Time (Lafferty), The Possessed (Clarke), Protected Psecies (Fyfe), All the Way Back (Shaara), The Star Plunderer (Anderson), Foundation (Asimov), We're Civilized! (Clifton and Apostolides), The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal (Smith), The Rebel of Valkyr (Coppel), Brightness Falls from the Air (Seabright), Immigrant (Simak), Resident Physician (James White), Age of Retirement... -
Nova War by Gary Gibson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFound adrift near a Bandati colony far away from Consortium space, Dakota and Corso find themselves prisoners of the Bandati. It becomes clear to them that the humanity's limited knowledge of the rest of the galaxy - filtered through the Shoal - is direly inaccurate... -
Limits by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratings• The Lion in His Attic - (1982)• Spirals - (1979) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle• A Teardrop Falls - (1983)• Talisman - (1981) - Larry Niven and Dian Girard• Flare Time - (1978)• The Locusts - (1979) - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes• Yet Another Modest Proposal: Roentgen Standard - (1984)• Folk Tale - (1984)• The Green Marauder - (1980)• War Movie - (1981)• The Real Thing - (1982)• Limits -... -
Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFirst contact isn't all fun and games.Ariel Blum is pushing thirty and doesn't have much to show for it. His computer programming skills are producing nothing but pony-themed video games for little girls. His love life is a slow-motion train wreck, and whenever he tries to make something of his life, he finds himself back on the couch, replaying the games of his youth.Then the aliens show up...
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