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  • Network Effect by Martha Wells

    Network Effect by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel...
  • Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The exciting conclusion to the Star Kingdom series!Even though Professor Casmir Dabrowski has been fighting for months to help the kingdom and humanity as a whole, few people in positions of power have appreciated his unorthodox methods. Now he's a captive of the king and being taken back to his home world without his friends or the crushers he relies upon to protect him...
  • Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr...
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang

    Exhalation by Ted Chiang

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereThe universe began as an enormous breath being held.From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others — the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival — comes a ground-breaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories...
  • A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

    A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow...
  • For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

    For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece...
  • Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue...
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

    We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street...
  • Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

    Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall...
  • Legends Never Die by Joshua Dalzelle

    Legends Never Die by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jason Burke is a broken man. The loss of his friend and crewmate on an ill-fated mission to a Pillar World has left him in a downward spiral of rage and self-destruction...
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    ai  action-adventure  adult  aliens  audiobook  book  cyborgs  epic
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks...
  • The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

    The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together...
  • Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    SciFi’s favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good...
  • Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life is complicated along the Hadrian Line. Decisions made on the border will decide the fate of the entire Human Sector.Nora is adjusting to her new role as a player in the games of the powerful. She's gained some interesting enemies and some even more dubious allies. She has also been presented with a unique opportunity, courtesy of Jonah...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector...
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    ai  romance  sci-fi  space  aliens  space-opera  fantasy  fiction
  • Resolve by Jenny Schwartz

    Resolve by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The unmissable conclusion to the science fiction series that has it all—ancient aliens, rogue AIs, beleaguered royalty, semi-repentant pirates, and the chance to go where no humans have gone before (well, not for five hundred years)—all wrapped up in the possibility of a happy-ever-after for everyone (bad guys excluded)...
  • Asylum by Lindsay Buroker

    Asylum by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Asylum is a stand-alone novel in the Star Kingdom universe. It introduces new heroes, but old fans will enjoy visits with Casmir, Kim, Qin, Laser, Oku, and other favorites from the original series.A young woman with cybernetic upgrades, Mari Moonrazor has decided to flee the restrictive machine-worshipping cult she was raised in...
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars...
  • Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova...
  • The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

    The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment...
  • Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel digital novella that gives readers a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN–and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.AIDAN is the AI you’ll love to hate...
  • The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

    The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants...
  • Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One man leaves the life of a lawman behind him and works to clean up a new area in space. On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down. Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan. He's taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good...
  • It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose...
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end...
  • Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Unforgiven by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the starship Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. He’s got a long way to go before he can rest. How can he when the entire world is under siege?   By demonic aliens. By a brutal thug who calls himself King. By an unknown and powerful threat that may be responsible for the end of humankind. The road may be long. The odds may be bad...
  • Earth Unrelenting by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Unrelenting by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A fugitive captured. A hero forsaken. A secret revealed. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Three days. That’s what they promised. But on Earth the danger is unrelenting, and promises are hard to keep. Now Sheriff Duke is the one on the run, chased by an unexpected enemy eager to finish what they started. An enemy with an agenda that begins with killing him but ends with something worse...
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    ai  adult  aliens  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Tiona by Laurence E. Dahners

    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...
  • Duty Calls: The adventure continues by James Haddock

    Duty Calls: The adventure continues by James Haddock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Duty Calls continues the story of Nic, Mal, Jazz and Jade as they fight to hold what belongs to them. The Corporations are becoming more aggressive in their effort to steal their inventions. Our four friends are matching the corporate's aggression blow for blow. The fight has already turned deadly, and the Corporation has shown they aren't afraid to spill blood...
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    ai  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  futuristic  military  space
  • Earth Unknown by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Unknown by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A terrible discovery.A secret that could destroy human civilization.A desperate escape to the most dangerous planet in the universe... Earth.Two hundred years ago, a fleet of colony ships left Earth and started a settlement on Proxima Centauri...Centurion Space Force pilot Nathan Stacker didn't expect to return home to find his wife dead...
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    ai  adult  aliens  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  conspiracies  dystopia
  • Renegade Lost by J.N. Chaney

    Renegade Lost by J.N. Chaney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A lost ship. An unknown civilization.The Renegade Star is stranded, its engines totally shot, surrounded by the unknown. Floating in the dead of space, they receive a strange transmission from a nearby planet, warning them to stay away or face the consequences...
  • The White Fleet by Jay Allan, Jeffrey Kafer

    The White Fleet by Jay Allan, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The war is over, but the struggle continues. Tyler Barron and his spacers have set out into the unknown, deep into the Badlands, seeking to discover the empire's old tech and the secrets of its tortured history before Gaston Villieneuve and the resurgent Union can beat them to it. The White Fleet is a vast force, powerful, and crewed by the toughest veterans from the war...
  • Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

    Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Desperate to avert defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds & biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion - gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended and life went on...
  • The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead...
  • The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together...
  • Line War by Neal Asher

    Line War by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Asher is brilliant at conveying the vastness of space, the strangeness of alien life, and the sweep of planetary horizons.”—SFX MagazineFrom the mind of Neal Asher and his Polity universe comes Line War, which has Agent Cormac once again on the trail, investigating an attack of his AI masters...
  • Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

    Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the bestselling, internationally published author of Behind Blue Eyes!One hundred years ago humanity won the war against Artificial Intelligence, but at a horrible price...
  • Damnation by M.R. Forbes

    Damnation by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The enemy is everywhere. Our existence hangs by a thread.On Earth we’re dying - the ships have landed.On Proxima we’re ignorant - the sabotage nearly complete.Our strongholds are routed.Our defenses crippled.Our wills are broken.Our hope is gone...… or is it?Three heroes.Two battlefronts.One desperate chance for victory...
    Categorized as:
    ai  adult  aliens  book  dystopia  fiction  first-contact  futuristic
  • Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been months since Rose McKenzie was taken far from Earth. She's trying to make a place for herself amongst the Grih, with help from her Grihan lover, Captain Dav Jallan, and the dangerous and loyal Sazo, a powerful artificial intelligence who's integrated with an infamous Class 5 battleship...
    Categorized as:
    ai  action-adventure  adult  aliens  animals  book  cyborgs  fiction
  • Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Alien mysteries. Parental responsibilities. The scout ship Kangaroo has jumped into trouble.Nora Devi intended to leave her old life behind. But when a quick detour to acquire the funds for a new identity goes awry, she finds herself plunged ever deeper into the troubles she hoped to avoid.The Human Sector is a stash of fuel cells just waiting for a spark to explode...
  • Earth Undefeated by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Undefeated by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    3 enemies... 2 cities... 1 sheriff... BOOM! For Sheriff Duke, the danger has reached the final countdown. Captured, tortured, beaten but undefeated, it's sixty seconds to midnight and the only way to save his wife and daughter is through the fugitive he left home to hunt. The real enemy isn't what they seem and the history of the forgotten Earth is about to be rewritten..
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    ai  adult  aliens  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  dystopia  fiction
  • The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    New York Times Best-Selling Author.The Big Showdown with an Alien Empire, to Keep the Earth Free—and Maybe Free the Galaxy as Well. The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny...
  • ...Till It's Over! by Robert M. Kerns

    ...Till It's Over! by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Claim an inheritance.It's a simple goal, right?Nothing is simple when Cole returns to Centauri, the seat of Coleson Interstellar Engineering.  Challenges at every turn, with no idea who he can trust.  And then...the Solar Republic gets involved...
  • House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings...
  • No Planet for Good Men by M.R. Forbes

    No Planet for Good Men by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Sheriff Duke StoryEarth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own...
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    ai  adult  aliens  apocalyptic  audiobook  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, aliens invaded Earth. A violent war followed. The enemy won. Some of us escaped... ...most of us didn’t. On Proxima they flourished - the invasion forgotten. On Earth we floundered - the horror began. Their world is advanced, peaceful, and secure. Our world is broken, savage, and overrun. A new invasion is coming. A hunger that has swallowed half the universe...
  • Olympus by Ivan Kal

    Olympus by Ivan Kal

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    -NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of March 17, 2016 The year is 2081. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear war. An age of technological advancement. A find at the bottom of the Ocean. A man driven by a dream. The time for humanity to reach to the stars is now. A find provides Tomas Klein with the tools to speed up his timetable and execute his plans...
  • The Derelict Duty: A Space Adventure by James Haddock

    The Derelict Duty: A Space Adventure by James Haddock

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prologue: The Blaring klaxon jolted me out of a sound sleep. I threw my covers off and was halfway to my Vac-suit locker before I was fully awake. It felt like I had just fallen to sleep having just finished a long EVA shift. It would be just like Dad to have an emergency drill after an EVA shift to see if I had recharged my suit...
  • Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Excession by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
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