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The Lunar Chronicles: Books 1-4 by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis ebook bundle includes Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter books from The Lunar Chronicles series... -
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Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever... -
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残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋，把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵，沉入沼泽，沉入深渊，我想埋下腐烂的根系，长出见血封喉的荆棘，刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past... -
![The Fifth Science by Exurb1a]()
The Fifth Science by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out into the galaxy: warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone dead... -
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![Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale]()
Freedom, Humanity, and Other Delusions by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNava’s second year at the Sonkei Alliance School of Sorcery begins with a strange new student who seems to have a real invisible friend and just gets stranger. By the time she’s going off-world to rescue a friend during her summer break, events have conspired to make her question a lot of things, including her very nature. Just how alien is Death’s Handmaiden... -
![Universo Star Wars by Tricia Barr, Daniel Wallace]()
Universo Star Wars by Tricia Barr, Daniel Wallace
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."Ultimate Star Wars is a comprehensive, wonderfully detailed encyclopedia of the entire Star Wars galaxy that explores characters, creatures, locations, vehicles, technology, and more... -
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The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLinden A. Lewis returns with this next installment of The First Sister Trilogy, perfect for fans of Red Rising, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Expanse.Astrid has reclaimed her name and her voice, and now seeks to bring down the Sisterhood from within... -
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Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA traitor. A prisoner. A fugitive.Wanted by the Regime. Destined to save the planet.Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche, reeling from the murder of his only heir, makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks...Categorized as:
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House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom visionary author C. T. Rwizi comes the epic journey of four people on a distant planet who face the ultimate test of loyalty, friendship, and duty in the rising tide of war.A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet.Life here is easy—for the rarified and privileged few... -
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Wizard by John Varley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionOne of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane.. -
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ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik’s story between Starsight and Cytonic.“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace... -
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Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVishnu’s Leviathan: a half-beast, half-machine warship famed for its speed and might. The great prize that armies across the galaxies will kill to possess.Admiral Anoushka was once a ghost. Now she's the universe's most brutal commander with a debt to a godlike AI. To repay it—and to complete her long revenge—she’s set her sights on the leviathan... -
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Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for fans of Aurora Rising, The Hunger Games, and Three Dark Crowns, this electrifying duology closer is jam-packed with tension and thrills that will hook readers from its first page.Alyssa Farshot never wanted to rule the empire. But to honor her uncle’s dying wish, she participated in the crownchase, a race across the empire’s 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne... -
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Chaos by Laurie Roma
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatra Tesera is a female Dragon Warrior on a mission. Unsatisfied with the life her family wishes for her back on her home world, she seeks something more for her own future. When the opportunity to visit Earth arises, Katra is eager for the excitement and adventure of traveling the stars... -
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![Rika Infiltrator by M.D. Cooper]()
Rika Infiltrator by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRika's Marauders continue their inexorable advance on the Nietzschean Empire... -
![The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA compelling heroine…a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune…and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end. Strongly recommended... -
![Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron]()
Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and that makes him the most important person on the planet... -
![Golden Son (Part 1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation): Red Rising Saga, Book 2 by Pierce Brown]()
Golden Son (Part 1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation): Red Rising Saga, Book 2 by Pierce Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGolden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies... -
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Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this duology opener.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades... -
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Demon by John Varley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsISBN moved from less recent editionThe satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed... -
![The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White]()
The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series.The crew of the legendary Capricious may have gone legitimate, but they're still on the run... -
![Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker]()
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present... -
![Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke]()
Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear.Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent... -
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Salvation by Caryn Lix
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Kenzie and her friends find themselves trapped on a strange planet, they must risk everything to save themselves and Earth in this thrilling final book in the addictive Sanctuary trilogy!Fall down seven times, get up eight. These are the words Kenzie has always lived by. The problem is, she’s fallen down too many times to count... -
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![The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale]()
The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaya Trevorny’s world came to an end in the student welfare office of Abertine University. The colony where she had grown up, her family, was gone, dead under circumstances the authorities seemed keen to hide. To find the truth, Kaya must team up with a mercenary and a rag-tag group of smugglers. And the truth is something which will change her life forever... -
![Family by M.C.A. Hogarth]()
Family by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsXenotherapist Vasiht'h always thought himself as lucky to have befriended one of the rare and fascinating Eldritch, a man who's served as partner in their counseling practice for years without Vasiht'h ever really learning anything of his background.. -
![Midnight Wings: A Science Fiction Retelling of Cinderella. by Ariele Sieling]()
Midnight Wings: A Science Fiction Retelling of Cinderella. by Ariele Sieling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn El's fantasies, she pilots a fighter jet for the intergalactic fleet. In reality, she's a mechanic whose social grid ranking guarantees she'll never advance beyond the lowest grunt work, and a slave in all but name to her cruel and self-centered stepmother and stepsisters... -
![Shadow of the Swan by M.K. Wren]()
Shadow of the Swan by M.K. Wren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Lord Alexand DeKoven Woolf was born destined to lead the Concord, the Two System's ultimate empire, but to prevent it from imploding into a Third Dark Age, he surrendered his birthright of power to become Alex Ransom, leader of the outlawed Society of the Phoenix, and in the process, he surrendered the one woman he has ever loved, the Lady Adrien Eliseer... -
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The Significant by Kyra Anderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I... -
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Ragnarok by Ari Bach
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsValhalla: Book Two After a year spent hunting for Mishka and Wulfgar, V team is no closer to finding them. If they're going to locate their nemeses, they're going to have to break some rules. As they begin their most dangerous mission yet, the stakes grow higher than they ever imagined as they uncover not only the subjects of their hunt, but the greatest threat the Earth has ever known... -
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Nightmare by Steven Harper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave... -
![Falling for the Alien Prince by Hannah Davenport]()
Falling for the Alien Prince by Hannah Davenport
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTalk about being cast back into the dark ages where women are assigned protectors! Everything we fought for—destroyed with the arrival of the Andores. And then Colonel Petroff, alien liaison, informs me that I am to marry Jyan, the Andore leader. Over my dead body! I will kill him first or die trying. But then I meet Murda, leader of the Tizuns and enemy of the Andores... -
![Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke]()
Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPirate and mercenary Weiss Kyakh works as a reluctant double agent for the Supreme Constellations. Her mission is to infiltrate a cutthroat band of space pirates along with a sentient bio-android, Madisyn Pimm. Pimm's sole purpose is to bring pirates to justice. Weiss soon realises that Madisyn has her own secrets... -
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Partners - Book One by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations... -
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![Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders]()
Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPromises Stronger Than Darkness marks the final installment of the international bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders's absolutely heart-stopping YA series, Unstoppable.They're the galaxy's most wanted—and our only hope... -
![The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe first part of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained clones called azis, is a major power center. Reseune's lead scientist, the fierce and cruel Dr. Ariane Emory, has dominated Cyteen's political scene for decades... -
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Titan by John Varley
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsWhen Cirrocco Jones, captain of the spaceship Ringmaster, and his crew are captured by Gaea, a planet-sized creature that orbits around Saturn, they find themselves inside a bizarre world inhabited by centaurs, harpies, and constantly shifting... -
![The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry]()
The Machiavelli Interface by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMaster Khadaji and the Matadors are determined to bring down Marcus Wall and the Galactic Confederation. But Wall has plans of his own and will do whatever it takes to remain in power... -
![Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby]()
Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she's earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test... -
![The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman]()
The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the far reaches of our galaxy, the artist will face the ultimate censorship.Mikk of Vyzania, the galaxy's greatest performance master, commanded stages on all the myriad worlds. His sublime, ethereal performances were unforgettable, drawing on the most treasured traditions of every culture, every people, throughout inhabited space... -
![The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez]()
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time."This is when your life begins."Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time... -
![The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOnce a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling... -
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China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars...Categorized as:
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![Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre]()
Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she’s been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them... -
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Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSuccessful in its efforts to create a glittering interstellar empire, founded on the use of an ultra-advanced computer and bioengineering technology, humankind becomes the prey of its own creation, the Aristoi... -
![Prelude to War by T.S. Paul]()
Prelude to War by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWith the destruction of the Earth ship Colossus the 3rd interstellar war is about to begin. The Cabal plan to reveal their political intentions to the Galaxy, but before they can, they have to eliminate their enemies first. Athena and her whole family are in their sights along with anyone that stands in the way of progress and control... -
![Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston]()
Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe highly awaited sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once, Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom... -
![Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson]()
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor by Juno Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the planet of Lobos, the Doctor halts a violent war between the native Loba and human colonists. Job done, the TARDIS crew departs – only for Ryan to discover he’s left his phone behind. Again.Upon returning, the Doctor finds that the TARDIS has slipped hundreds of years into the future – and that something has gone badly wrong... -
![Honor Lost by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre]()
Honor Lost by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpace renegade Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller—a creature that can devour entire planets is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous godking’s way.Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again... -
![Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells]()
Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin the fight for the people and power of Tanegawa’s world in this thrilling sequel to Hunger Makes the Wolf War is coming to Hob Ravani's world...
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