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Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsWe are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system... -
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Dust by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. The residents of Silo 18 have a new mayor and the chance of a new beginning. But just as they regain their footing, their gravest threat emerges: Silo 1, and the men who brought Earth into ruin. But power, politics, and the survival of the human race are complex...Categorized as:
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Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsAbaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark... -
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Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsThe sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets... -
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Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period."**William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order...Categorized as:
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsOn the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all... -
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Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsA high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire... -
![Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds]()
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains... -
![The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren]()
The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAboard a notorious gangster's luxurious starliner, Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of the war...Categorized as:
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Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBased on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin... -
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The Churn by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey...Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton's was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate and the upcoming Cibola Burn, Beloved of Broken Things deepens James S. A... -
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No Way by S.J. Morden
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the sequel to the terrifying science fiction thriller, One Way, returning home from Mars may mean striking a deal with the very people who abandoned him. They were sent to build a utopia, but all they found on Mars was death.Frank Kitteridge has been abandoned... -
![Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan]()
Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRichard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember... -
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Dark Intelligence by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed . . .Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs... -
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![Pandemic by A.G. Riddle]()
Pandemic by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAround the world, a deadly outbreak spreads.The CDC and WHO race to stop it, but they soon learn that this pandemic hides a dark secret. It may be the start of a scientific experiment that could alter the human race forever--and reveal a shocking truth about our future.Experience the groundbreaking novel that will change everything you think you know about pandemics--and how to survive one...Categorized as:
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Starfish by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness... -
![7th Son: Descent by J.C. Hutchins]()
7th Son: Descent by J.C. Hutchins
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAs America reels from the bizarre presidential assassination committed by a child, seven men are abducted from their normal lives and delivered to a secret government facility. Each man has his own career, his own specialty. All are identical in appearance. The seven strangers were grown--- unwitting human clones---as part of a project called 7th Son...Categorized as:
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![Outpassage by Janet E. Morris, Chris Morris]()
Outpassage by Janet E. Morris, Chris Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWAR AND MYSTERY BEYOND THE STARS Sgt. “Det” Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he’s out-system, he isn’t about to tell anyone he’s seeing aliens again. Paige Barnett has lost everything, even her name, because she knows too much about the rebellion spreading through the Earth-Space mining colonies... -
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us... -
![More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon]()
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThere's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles... -
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The Heavenfield by I.G. Hulme
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Heavenfield is the first book of the Heavenfield series.A dark science-fiction thriller set within a British experimental research facility, the Heavenfield features clandestine Government agencies, supernatural forces and alternate realities.When Dr... -
![The Dispatcher by John Scalzi]()
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsOne day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life... -
![Transition by Iain M. Banks]()
Transition by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light... -
![The Cure by Douglas E. Richards]()
The Cure by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsErin Palmer had a devastating encounter with a psychopath as a child. Now a grad student and scientist, she's devoting her life to studying these monsters... -
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![Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross]()
Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKrina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys...Categorized as:
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![Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett]()
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns... -
![The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate... -
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Semiosis by Sue Burke
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools.Forced to land on a planet they aren't prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive... -
![The Test by Sylvain Neuvel]()
The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAward-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The TestBritain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death... -
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Infected by Scott Sigler
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAcross America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim... -
![The Warehouse by Rob Hart]()
The Warehouse by Rob Hart
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsCloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities...Categorized as:
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Chimera by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe final book in Mira Grant's terrifying Parasitology trilogy.The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob... -
![The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey]()
The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author James S. A. Corey . . . Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room... -
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CyberStorm by Matthew Mather
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsSometimes the worst storms aren't caused by Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren't in the ones in our heads...Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters start appearing on the world’s news networks... -
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![Afterparty by Daryl Gregory]()
Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIt begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass... -
![The White Plague by Frank Herbert]()
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race—one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women...Categorized as:
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![Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear]()
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsMolecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality. The shocking evidence: a "virus-hunter" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Side by Anthony O'Neill]()
The Dark Side by Anthony O'Neill
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon.Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals, murderers, sex fiends, and adventurous tourists...Categorized as:
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![The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw]()
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade... but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir... -
![Darwin's Children by Greg Bear]()
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsEleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA—a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence...Categorized as:
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![Zeroes by Chuck Wendig]()
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFive hackers—an Anonymous-style rabble-rouser, an Arab Spring hacktivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll—are detained by the U.S. government, forced to work as white-hat hackers for Uncle Sam in order to avoid federal prison... -
![Promenade of the Gods by Kōji Suzuki]()
Promenade of the Gods by Kōji Suzuki
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt begins with a woman's search to find her husband, who disappears after watching a TV show. She enlists the aid of her husband's best friend, and together they discover that the famous female personality of the TV show disappeared after the same evening's broadcast as well. The duo's search leads to a battle within a religious cult... -
![Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston]()
Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsGeorge Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane - he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to "improve" people - make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them compliant to his will.Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government's ultra-secret bio-hazard agency...
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