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  • Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted...
  • Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

    Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Abaddon'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...
  • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare...
  • 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...
  • The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

    The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Mary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program...
  • Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

    Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The 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...
  • 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...
  • Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win...
  • 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...
  • Unparalleled by D.S. Smith

    Unparalleled by D.S. Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Waking up in a strange house, with no memory of how or why he is there, Stuart Milton finds his life has changed beyond recognition. His pregnant wife is missing, but his only living relative, his brother, is incapable of substantiating his claim. Lost in a world of confusion that is spiralling out of his control, Stuart finds temporary salvation in a psychiatrist assigned to his case...
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  • Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi

    Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potential—and its own purpose—in a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

    The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life...
  • After Atlas by Emma Newman

    After Atlas by Emma Newman

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed...
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    crime  law-enforcement  adult  ai  audiobook  book  cults  cyberpunk
  • Apex by Ramez Naam

    Apex by Ramez Naam

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous...
  • The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn

    The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Smuggler Jordan McKell has partner Ixil, an alien whose two "ferrets" ride his shoulders and telepathically exchange simple messages. They take a job on the odd-shaped ship Icarus. But the ragtag crew was found at taverns, the secret cargo sealed tight, the employer missing, and a saboteur is aboard...
  • Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

    Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The 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...
  • Oracle by Douglas E. Richards

    Oracle by Douglas E. Richards

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A breathtaking near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have been downloaded over a million times. An interstellar war is racing toward an unsuspecting Earth. Can one young woman stop it before it's too late? LA detective Anna Abbott can see brief, cryptic visions of the future. She just doesn't know it yet. But others do...
  • Emergence by Niall Teasdale

    Emergence by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emergence: noun. 1. The process of becoming visible after being concealed. 2. The process of coming into existence or prominence. 3. In philosophy, art, and systems theory, a process where complex systems can exhibit properties none of its constituent parts possess. Sometimes, when something emerges, you’re better off not knowing...
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    crime  law-enforcement  adult  ai  alpha-mc  book  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale

    The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fox has undergone a pretty big change in her life. For one thing, her batteries need charging each night, but her confidence has taken a hit too. When you’re questioning the choices you’ve made, a good way to start is at the beginning. Fox returns to Topeka where people are dying due to faulty implanted organs...
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    crime  law-enforcement  adult  ai  alpha-mc  book  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • Dominance by Niall Teasdale

    Dominance by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the new private policing contracts coming in at the start of the 2062, Fox Meridian can finally relax and devote all her time to her new position as the terrorism liaison for Palladium Security Solutions. She may have no boyfriend and no life, but at least she’s back doing what she wants to do: investigate crimes...
  • The Reporter by Scott Sigler, Mur Lafferty

    The Reporter by Scott Sigler, Mur Lafferty

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Reporter follows Yolanda Davenport, a reporter for Galaxy Sports Magazine, as she searches for the truth about Ju Tweedy's involvement with the murder of Grace McDermott - the incident that drove Ju to join the Ionath Krakens. The Reporter takes place between week three and week six of the 2684 Galactic Football League season, the season that encompasses The All-Pro...
  • Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes

    Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When recording every aspect of your life has become the law, what happens when your connection to the world is severed? With the advent of BioNarratus’s Vitasync neurochip, serious crime has all but disappeared. Without a lifelog you can’t get a bank account, medical insurance, or a job...
  • The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren

    The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aboard 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...
  • Thousandth Night by Alastair Reynolds

    Thousandth Night by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue, ambition, and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu, it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery, grandeur, and inconceivable immensity of the universe...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  hard-sci-fi  killer  mystery
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . .
  • All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern...
  • The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    On a rescue mission gone wrong, Miles Vorkosigan is captured by the enemy Cetagandans and thrown into a dome-shaped prisoner of war camp that seems a literal Circle of Hell.  Against impossible odds, Miles organizes thousands of angry and dispirited prisoners into military formation that may offer the only chance for escape...
  • Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete...
  • The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From 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...
  • The Gangster by Scott Sigler

    The Gangster by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE GANGSTER is the sixth book in the Galactic Football League series.The ongoing mental battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and the promise of ultraviolence hangs on their every word...
  • Inescapable by Niall Teasdale

    Inescapable by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Starting a new job is never easy, but taking up her new role as head of Palladium Security Solutions’ investigative department, Fox Meridian is left wondering whether she is really cut out for this one. Board meetings are boring, politics sets her teeth on edge, and there’s no sign of a need for a detective anywhere...
  • DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale

    DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A serial killer has murdered eleven people over the last four years, the link between the crimes unnoticed until Fox Meridian’s AI personal assistant, Kit, makes the connection. The only thing which seems to connect the victims is LifeFit, a plug-in application which allows users to find virtual exercise companions over the most popular social network in the world, LifeWeb...
  • Fox Hunt by Niall Teasdale

    Fox Hunt by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A spree killer with a purpose? A creative dispute taken to extremes? It’s up to Tara ‘Fox’ Meridian to untangle the mess before more people die. Fresh back from a training visit to Luna City on the Moon, Fox Meridian is called to the murder of the main writer on an internet video show, Murder is My Business. Business has become very cutthroat...
  • The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere

    The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone is keeping watch over the machine. Should it ever have been built? The lure of the find behind the loose hearthstone at Hazleton House was too great. The schematic excited Evan, Reenie and Ivy for different reasons but it is Kayla who actually begins building it. Her ability to focus to the exclusion of all else is just one of the effects of her Asperger's. The scribbled initials E.W...
  • Blowback by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Blowback by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Moon, shaken by the Anniversary Day tragedies, deals with devastation. The Earth Alliance believes another attack imminent, but no one knows where or when it will strike. Just like no one knows who ordered the attacks in the first place.The Moon’s chief security office, Noelle DeRicci, does her best to hold the United Domes government together...
  • No Way by S.J. Morden

    No Way by S.J. Morden

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 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...
  • Kill Process by William Hertling

    Kill Process by William Hertling

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women...
  • Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Richard 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...
  • Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now...
  • Pandemic by A.G. Riddle

    Pandemic by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Around 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...
  • The Vanished Seas by Catherine Asaro

    The Vanished Seas by Catherine Asaro

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MAJOR BHAAJAN RETURNS. Book three in the Skolian Empire Major Bhaajan series by Catherine Asaro.SURVIVE THE CITY OF CRIES Bhaajan grew up in the Undercity, a community hidden in the ruins buried beneath the glittering City of Cries. Caught between the astonishing beauty and crushing poverty of that life, and full by wanderlust, she enlisted in the military...
  • Before Mars by Emma Newman

    Before Mars by Emma Newman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth--and she'll be on Mars for over a year. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her best to fit in with the team...
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