Books like 'Once Upon a Time in Gravity City'
Readers who enjoyed Once Upon a Time in Gravity City by Artie Cabrera, Christopher J. Valin, Michael Bunker, Steve Beaulieu, K.J. Heritage, Stephen Lomer, Caroline A. Gill, Monica Enderle Pierce, D.K. Cassidy & Michael Ezell also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Stronghold: A Darkstar Mercenaries Novella by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAbbey's thrown in the deep end.Tarak creates an alliance with a furry being.Ami has her father wrapped around her tiny little finger.It's just another day in the life of our fearsome Kordolians and their human mates. A light-hearted peek into Tarak and Abbey's life on Earth.Sanctuary is a 22000 word "slice-of-life" novella set in the Dark Planet Warriors/Darkstar Mercenaries universe... -
![Vengeance by Jennifer Foehner Wells]()
Vengeance by Jennifer Foehner Wells
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive years have passed since Darcy Eberhardt left Raub for dead on Ulream. Darcy and her ragtag multispecies crew have used those years well, searching for her lost love, Adam, throughout the disreputable fringes of galactic society—though the odds are stacked against them. Along the way, they liberate the vulnerable and accumulate allies, some of them dubious...Categorized as:
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![Aeson: Blue by Vera Nazarian]()
Aeson: Blue by Vera Nazarian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAeson's secrets revealed at last!Before Gwen won Aeson's heart…Before they joined forces to protect two planets and humanity itself…Aeson faced death on his own.And lost.Young Imperial Crown Prince Aeson Kassiopei. Intelligent, well-educated, perfectly isolated in his lofty rank, responsibilities, and privilege of the divine Imperial Dynasty... -
![Dumber Than Dead by Steven Campbell]()
Dumber Than Dead by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHank is getting married!The space station Belvaille has become home to a species of actors. The newest edition to the Post Colmarian Confederation Colmarian Confederation are the Damakan race. As a species they are capable of “broadcast empathy.” Their acting skills are so powerful they are able to make people believe their portrayals are literally happening—even over remote transmission...Categorized as:
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![Hunted by the Alien Assassin by Ella Maven]()
Hunted by the Alien Assassin by Ella Maven
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI always take out my target... until her.Bosa: I have many talents and they're all for hire. My best skill is hunting the dregs of the galaxy, and when I find my prey... let's say no one ever hears from them again. My latest target is a human trafficker and the kicker is... she's human. Selling her own kind? I'll relish this... -
![Hyperspeed Dreams by Anna Carven]()
Hyperspeed Dreams by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLodan Vorkan has been called many things in his lifetime—perfectionist, control-freak, monster.As one of the Kordolian Military’s infamous First Division, he’s one of the most feared warriors in the Nine Galaxies.As a pilot, his skill is unmatched.He doesn’t like the unpredictable, and humans are exactly that.One by one, he’s seen his brothers fall to these confounding creatures...Categorized as:
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![Dark Cover by Jeffrey Burger]()
Dark Cover by Jeffrey Burger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space." ~Carl Sagan Secret, alien operatives have spent decades infiltrating humanity; government, military and key positions in the populous to prepare the world's population for control and mass slavery... -
![First Light Chronicles Limbo by Randolph Lalonde]()
First Light Chronicles Limbo by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second part of the First Light Chronicles Series. The First Light crew have emerged from hyperspace into a war zone. Forced to choose a side, Captain Jonas Valent committed them to a fight for freedom against an unknown enemy. The Vindyne Corporation is hell bent on taking the agricultural jewel of the Gai-Ian solar system, Concordia... -
![Starfree Port by Randolph Lalonde]()
Starfree Port by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third book in the First Light Chronicles Series. The crew of the First Light enjoy the first safe harbor since they departed Freeground. While repairs are under way some of the crew get a chance to know each other better, including Captain Jonas Valent and Commander Ayan Rice... -
![Her Alien Mates by Susan Hayes]()
Her Alien Mates by Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe dreamed of being free to make her own decisions. When it comes to a mate, why must she pick just one?Haven colony has everything a newly freed cyborg could hope for. After a life of violence and forced obedience, Shadow can finally make her own choices. But freedom comes with its own challenges – and hers includes a pair of sexy as fraxx aliens who both lay claim to her heart...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... -
![Stalked by the Alien Assassin by Tiffany Roberts]()
Stalked by the Alien Assassin by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAn alien assassin. A tempting human female he can’t resist. But what can a killer offer to the woman he longs to claim?Avery Watson moved to Denver to escape her controlling mother. Sure, it’s not easy, and she has to budget every penny, but it’s honest work... -
![Operation Shield by Joel Shepherd]()
Operation Shield by Joel Shepherd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPart military SF, part cyberpunk, part grand-scale space opera, and part techno-psychological thriller, the Cassandra Kresnov novels transcend the recently narrow segmentation of the science fiction genre.In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe... -
![On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett]()
On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a vicious coup, cyborg Axton Saros, Prime of the planet of Centax, is trying to rebuild his world. Still recovering from his captivity and dark guilt, he won’t let anything get in his way. But a priceless artifact, stolen during the attack, is still missing and Axton wants it back... -
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![The Orphan in Near-Space by Laer Carroll]()
The Orphan in Near-Space by Laer Carroll
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Kuznetsov, orphan of some cataclysmic stellar event a big fraction of a million years ago, or maybe several times that, is now a captain in the U.S. Air Force, the part informally called the Space Force. She is leading a crew of four friends and fellow Space Force officers doing research.She can travel routinely to the World Space Station to carry out that research and does so... -
![Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz]()
Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTwo hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa... -
![Rika Redeemed by M.D. Cooper]()
Rika Redeemed by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRika is a Marauder. After years of drifting aimlessly after the war with the Nietzscheans, she has finally found a home with the Marauders—a mercenary outfit comprised of Genevian veterans. Back in the war, Rika hated her government, but always fought for the woman next to her. Now she fights for her teammates in Basilisk, an elite spec-ops team that takes on the toughest missions...Categorized as:
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![Rika Triumphant by M.D. Cooper]()
Rika Triumphant by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith her own company of mechs, Rika is now responsible for the defense of Thebes, the alliance she had a hand in destroying... -
![The Skypirate by Justine Davis]()
The Skypirate by Justine Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDax, a skypirate hunted to the ends of the universe by the cruel interstellar Coalition, can't escape the allure of Captain Califa Claxton. A chance to destroy the Coalition awaits them, and in the white heat of their explosive union a new bond may be forged - souls joined by a magnificent love... -
![Caged by Elin Wyn]()
Caged by Elin Wyn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo Past. No Trust. No Way Out.Zayda Caiden relies on no one. An Imperial spy, her mission was betrayed - but she doesn't know the identity of the traitor.And there's certainly no reason to trust the giant of a man dumped at the prison clinic, even if he makes her burn with feelings she thought long buried.Mack has no memory, no real name... -
![The Cyborg Next Door: In the Stars by Bianca D'Arc]()
The Cyborg Next Door: In the Stars by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs he really just a heartless machine? When aliens attack, she’ll discover the cyborg secret… Chiron is a cyborg - a man who has been turned into a machine after tragedy. Common wisdom says he’s just a robot now, with no feelings and no memory of his past life, but his next-door neighbor, Roxy, is starting to suspect that’s not exactly true... -
![Guiding by Viola Grace]()
Guiding by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested.Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived... -
![Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair]()
Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil aliens, an amorous cyborg and an unexpected trip to an alternate universe: just another day in the life of Captain Tasha Sebastian. And tomorrow's even better. . -
![Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke]()
Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things.Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long and hard about her choices. All of fifteen seconds. Then, she created ‘the Plan... -
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![Light of Battle by Viola Grace]()
Light of Battle by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJiska has grown up as her people’s fiercest general. When peace breaks out, she is reassigned to Citadel Lowel and given a partner who needs a bodyguard. After a few minutes in his presence, she knows why. She is assigned to protect him, even if she wants to kill him.Deskin is a Negotiator specializing in hostage situations... -
![Enigma by D.L. Harrison]()
Enigma by D.L. Harrison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlicia Jones is concerned about a few things. The bug threat, the quick rise in technological superiority for Earth, and what technology or scientific theory she’s going to focus on next.After a personal tragedy she starts going through the motions, almost directionless as the treaty worlds debate strongly about what to do with the Bug threat... -
![A Hunter's Dream by Viola Grace]()
A Hunter's Dream by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIris has used her ability to dream her target’s location to gain recognition and to be the most efficient hunter she could be. The psychic knives that appear at the ends of her hands help her to stun rather than kill prey when a death is not necessary. Nothing escapes her, not livestock, not lost people. Anything that runs, she can hunt... -
![Delovoa by Steven Campbell]()
Delovoa by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollection of short stories featuring Delovoa and his life pre-Belvaille... -
![Through Uncharted Space by Anna Hackett]()
Through Uncharted Space by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA deep-space convoy master who demands everyone follow his rules...and the stowaway scam artist who’s never met a rule she wouldn’t break. Dare Phoenix runs his convoy with absolute control. In uncharted space, lives depend on it. When one plain, dowdy woman comes aboard, his gut tells him that something is off about her... -
![The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois, William Gibson]()
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois, William Gibson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection... -
![The Eons-Lost Orphan by Laer Carroll]()
The Eons-Lost Orphan by Laer Carroll
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Doe remembered nothing about her past when she awoke naked in a park. She was unhurt and seemed 14 years old, a small pretty blond. In the hospital and later in an orphanage her intelligence was found to be so high it could not be measured. She liked people and made friends easily. She was also incredibly agile and tough. She was adopted by a professor and his retired school-principal wife... -
![Rika Outcast by M.D. Cooper]()
Rika Outcast by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBegin Rika's journey in Rika Mechanized, a novella prequel leading up to the events of Rika Outcast.Rika is mech-meat, a cyborg killing machine, created by the Genevian military and cast aside when the war was lost.Now she slings cargo on Dekar Station, falling deeper in debt as she struggles to make enough money to keep her cybernetic body functioning...Categorized as:
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![Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund]()
Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien civilization... -
![Dominion by John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard]()
Dominion by John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDOMINION is the epic follow-up to CONQUEST and EMPIRE in the Chronicles of the Invaders series by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Fans of Pittacus Lore and Veronica Roth will be entranced.They have cheated death.Defied their people.Changed beyond recognition.Their love has survived the impossible.But now they must learn to trust again: the future of their worlds depends on it... -
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![Calling The Change by Michelle Diener]()
Calling The Change by Michelle Diener
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe rescued her despite impossible odds—Garek has rescued Taya and the rest of his village from the sky raiders, but their return home doesn't bring easier times. The sky raiders aren't simply going to go away—they still need the shadow ore they came for, and they want the ships Garek stole from them back. But they aren't the only threat . . -
![Shadow Crossing by Catherine Spangler]()
Shadow Crossing by Catherine Spangler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelie Cameron has spent her most of her life as a smuggler, skirting the law. She’s given that up for more legal delivery runs, but she misses the adrenaline rush of danger. When a routine delivery goes haywire, throwing her into the company of a handsome pilot—an android, or so she thinks—Celie finds herself embroiled in galaxy-spanning intrigue and deception... -
![Viper by Mikayla Lane]()
Viper by Mikayla Lane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs one of the first to arrive and assist the Valendrans on Earth, Viper fle’ te’ Trugh had thought he was prepared for the mission he was sent on. He was terribly wrong. Caught by the rogue band of Relian’s his team had been tracking, and a concussion that prevented his ability to communicate on the Shengari’ his hopes for rescue or escape are dwindling... -
![Deep Core by F.X. Holden]()
Deep Core by F.X. Holden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility. He likes the quiet life. Visiting with his ma. A burger at Fatty's. Surfing the Shifting Sea. Staying in flow... -
![The General by Kelly Lucille]()
The General by Kelly Lucille
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeneral Tolis Smoke grew up in the military minded Order of Intergalactic Peace. The military order, along with the two men he called brothers, the only constants in his life... -
![Cyborg Revealed by Mina Carter]()
Cyborg Revealed by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSometimes the best place to hide, is in plain sight…Johnny makes a living on the strip circuits. His most popular routine? The Aries 7000. Bronzed and oiled, he pretends to be the scourge of the universe, one of the deadly and outlawed zodiac cyborgs. But Johnny isn’t really a stripper playing a cyborg... he’s a cyborg playing a stripper... -
![The Albino Knife by Steve Perry]()
The Albino Knife by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIT TAKES MORE THAN DEATH TO KILL AN EVIL MANHer father is a hero, a legend, the man who changed the history of the galaxy. The Man Who Never Missed--a man she never met. The Confederation defeated, Emile Khadaji disappeared, and now she must find him.Her mother is a pawn in a dead man's game, bait in a trap to lure her father out of hiding... -
![Collecting by Viola Grace]()
Collecting by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCollecting the tools needed for survival is her talent, but a male of the Water Folk is something she is dying to add to her collection.Emharo has spent her time collecting biological samples from the world around her and giving them to her family for analysis. She can find anything you need—you just have to ask... -
![The Academy by Jonathan Yanez]()
The Academy by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen cyber bullying goes extraterrestrial... And Earth’s about to be blindsided with annihilation...It’s up to Emma to rise up.Her problems go far beyond carb-counting mean girls. She’s got ears pointy enough to pass for an elf and a stuttering problem brought on by anxiety. A mother not of this world is about to enter her life with dire news...Categorized as:
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![My Favorite Earthling by Susan Grant]()
My Favorite Earthling by Susan Grant
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWarrior Queen Keira is as famous for her beauty as she is for avoiding marriage. But when an upstart little planet called Earth threatens her worlds with its fleet of spaceships, the fate of her people lies in her hands. She must bind herself to a barbarian from the rogue world—or face the destruction of her own...Categorized as:
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![Pathfinder by Laura E. Reeve]()
Pathfinder by Laura E. Reeve
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWars may end. But vengeance is forver. Reserve Major Ariane Kedros needs a shot at redemption-and the mysterious aliens known as the Minoans need an extraordinary human pilot with a rejuv-stimulated metabolism like Ariane for a dangerous expedition to a distant solar system. But there's a catch. The Minoans have to implant their technology in Ariane's body, and it might not be removable...Categorized as:
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![Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill]()
Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMars roarsDurango has lost his crew and his father, but he still has his second-in-command, Vienne, for now, anyway. And they have a mission: discover everything—absolutely everything—about the secret government project his father was desperate to cover up. Not to mention that Durango's determined to prove himself to Vienne even if he dies trying...Categorized as:
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![Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl]()
Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsJory Rask is a professional shockball player. The fastest runback in the game, she is loved across Terra. But Jory Rask has a secret that she's lived with for twenty-four years. In a xenophobic world that despises aliens, she is not quite human..Categorized as:
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![Taken by Erica Conroy]()
Taken by Erica Conroy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRespect the enemy, fear his daughter.Peace negotiations are easy right? Not when you’re learning a language composed of hisses, growls and other guttural sounds. And that’s not even the tough part for recently divorced diplomat Viktor Jacobs. No, that would be matching wits with the fiercely intelligent daughter of the opposing side... -
![The Rapture Effect by Jeffrey A. Carver]()
The Rapture Effect by Jeffrey A. Carver
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a galaxy-spanning novel of adventure and philosophical conflict, set in the year 2165, a fleet of colonizing starships from Earth approaches the planet Argus, 138 light-years from Earth... -
![Dangerously Hers by A.M. Griffin]()
Dangerously Hers by A.M. Griffin
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***Pre-Order SALE ~ 0.99 *** Regular price ~ $2.99*** Loving Dangerously, Book Three Jess hates aliens. After the invasion that destroyed Earth, the extraterrestrial bastards sold her to a brothel as a sex slave. She may have escaped but the old memories and fears still linger in the dark corners of her mind...
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