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  • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor...
  • Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets can get a girl killed. Cherry Pendit knows to keep hers close. But what if it’s whispering to her? What if it’s warning her of danger on the galactic horizon, and only she can save her clan?To save the people she loves, Cherry will have to risk her life to rescue a man she’s never met.A hunted man, a man abandoned on a derelict space station, on the far side of a black hole...
  • Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternative cover edition ASIN B00CKXWOM2Cassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she’s never really fit in...
  • The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zach Croft wants to forget the Prescott colony ever happened.He wants to forget the crimson sand dunes, violent dust storms, and meteor impacts. He wants to forget the sight of his neighbors bleeding from their eyes as boils ravaged their bodies. He wants to forget the fact that his best friend was left to die.Most of all, he wants to forget that, without Prescott, humanity is doomed...
  • Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale.” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author It was meant to be a simple trip to take care of business. But by the time we get home, none of us will ever be the same...
  • Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Framed for a crime she didn't commit, a wrongly-imprisoned space captain's only chance at freedom is to abduct a fearsome alien war commander. Sub-Captain Eve Traynor knows a suicide mission when she sees one. With deadly insectoid aliens threatening to invade Earth, the planet’s only chance of survival is to get the attention of the fierce Eon Warriors...
  • Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They call him the Mad Horde King for a reason. Now, she’s his…Over a year ago, I was ripped away from my human village to serve the Ghertun, a brutal enemy alien race. With the lives of my family at risk, I am tasked to deliver a message to the one place no human has ever gone before: the capital city of Dakkar.Before I succeed, however, I am captured by a Horde King...
  • Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garth is intent on filling the hours aboard the fourth deep space mission with pleasure, in the form of his curvy human female, Tamzin. With his prime upon him, he knows he as to breed a son with Tamzin soon. So what better way to pass the time? Yet soon he learns another side of himself, a softer side, and he begins to feel less like a primal hunter, as his love for his female grows...
  • Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rebel alien roaming the far reaches of the galaxy. An Interstellar Bride on the run for her life. When her life crash lands into his on a remote planet, they'll need each other to survive.The Interstellar Brides Program guarantees it can match any female on Earth, even a cynical, street-wise, and very jaded Zara, who just wants to start over. But when she arrives on her new home planet..
  • Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirteen years ago, Earth Force—a space-military agency—discovered a connection between brain structure and space travel. Now they’ve brought together the first team of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as high-level astronauts.Twelve-year-old Jasper is part of this team being sent out into space...
  • The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Commander Karter is a Prillon Warrior. His first duty is to protect his people, to defend the Coalition worlds from a fate too terrible to comprehend. Battle is his life. His heart. He fights. He has never once been selfish enough to believe he deserved an Interstellar Bride. Until he's matched at the worst possible time!Astronomer Erica Roberts has always dreamed of seeing the stars...
  • Merrick's Maiden by S.E. Smith

    Merrick's Maiden by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Merrick Ta’Duran is the powerful leader of the Eastern Mountain Clan on the Prime world of Baade. His people, known as the Ghosts of the Forests, live high in the Eastern mountains. Merrick feels the weight of responsibility as the males within his clan become desperate to find mates among the few remaining females...
  • Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space—before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ariel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fiancée unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love...
  • The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

    The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They’re young, they’re fast and strong, and they’re totally without normal human qualms.The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous...
  • Wray by M.K. Eidem

    Wray by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Emperor Wray Vasteri is the ruler of the Tornian Empire, his House has ruled the Empire ever since the great infection struck over five hundred years ago and he fears he will be the last. The number of compatible females is dwindling faster than anyone knows and if compatible females aren’t found soon their entire civilization will cease to exist...
  • Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother’s side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it takes to bring peace to those she has pledged her life to protect, including fighting against the creatures that came to their world almost six years before...
  • Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five...
  • The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up...
  • Grim by M.K. Eidem

    Grim by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    King Grim Vasteri is the most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He has been sent by his Emperor to find and retrieve compatible females for their dying civilization...
  • Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some men ask for what they want. Some men take. Quinn Ford has nothing left to lose. After the Nayanors took her sister, little else seemed to matter. Now that they're after her, well, maybe she can do something about it, get back her sister and get home...
  • Kol by Vi Voxley

    Kol by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forever is no time at all, sometimes. Jackie Hooper is all out of time. An incurable illness at her side, she's trying to make the best of the opportunities she has left. Getting abducted by a Nayanor warlord was not on that list of things to do. But then again, spending your last moments with the hottest man in the universe can't be all bad..
  • Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Struggling to discover her role in a terrifying new world where everything has changed, she must decide who she can trust.Sierra Walker has been missing for 30 years. Her family thought she was dead, only when Sierra turns up, she hasn’t aged a day. But Earth has changed drastically.Biological warfare has decimated the planet...
  • His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Staunchly loyal Eryn Lockwood heads up security on the USIF Odyssey, an all-female research ship charged with finding a new world to call home. Her team is guarding a group of scientists exploring an uninhabited planet when they are set upon by a band of powerful alien warriors...
  • Alien Soldier's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Alien Soldier's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can their interspecies romance achieve the impossible? Wanted: distracting assignment for third-wheel researcher Kelly Graham feels like an intruder since her bestie and fellow scientist Jillian Archer married sexy alien warrior General Vinz...
  • Found by Harmony Raines

    Found by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Karalian warrior, Rikka, is devoted to his species and the Hier Council who rule them. He knows his loyalty is to the Karal first, his mission second and everything else is expendable. But sent into deep space with a female from Earth, it is not only a new planet Rikka finds...
  • The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling new perspective of the world created in the explosive, national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series. It’s two hundred years earlier—the age of the First Salik War. And the battle against humanity has been engaged. The V’Dan always believed they were the chosen race, destined to make a mark on the galaxy...
  • On a Barbarian World by Anna Hackett

    On a Barbarian World by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When an independent deep-space scout crash-lands on an unknown alien world, the last thing she expects is to find herself claimed by a barbarian warrior. Aurina Phoenix spends most of her time zooming through uncharted space and gathering intel for her family’s deep-space convoy, but her life takes an unexpected detour when a meteor shower brings down her ship...
  • The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters...
  • Snowscape by Patrick Ness

    Snowscape by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Snowscape is set after the end of Monsters of Men, so that’s when you should read it.That’s all I’ll say, I don’t want to give anything away...
  • Nikhil by M.K. Eidem

    Nikhil by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    As the Squad Leader of the Elite Warriors, Nikhil Kozar was the largest warrior in the Kaliszian Empire. When a shuttle crashes on one of their planets the search and rescue mission turned into something much more complicated.Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Wharton had agreed to guide a group that had wanted an adventure on her mountain...
  • Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

    Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award...
  • Her Rogue Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Her Rogue Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    No rules. No laws. No mercy. She belongs to them now. An Earth member of the medical recovery team on Transport Station Zenith, Harper meets two mysterious strangers from an unknown world. With intense eyes and even more intense desires, it's easy for the two sexy-as-sin aliens to prove how good it can be with them...
  • Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner

    Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her...
  • Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles...
  • Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    PeytonI was having a cold coffee with my best friend Vivian when the whole world went upside down.Now there are gazelle-glowing-like-a-light-bulb aliens running around eating everybody, and enormous dark purply colored aliens that have a strong resemblance to bats, dive bombing from the sky. One of the bats says I'm his and I need to ease his mating rage. Yeah, not happening...
  • Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A broken pilot falls for a man who might be a walking weapon. They may need to save far more than each other.A mysterious distress call draws the crew of the Hermes to what appears to be an empty, drifting ship. Empty, except for the gore-spattered corridors and one survivor locked in a holding cell...
  • Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us....Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state...
  • Blacklisted by Gena Showalter

    Blacklisted by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date.High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair, they sneak into the hottest nightclub in town -- which caters to the rich and famous, both human and alien...
  • Override by Heather Anastasiu

    Override by Heather Anastasiu

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe.Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement...
  • Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

    Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet — Perelandra — when it is invaded by a dark force...
  • Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination...
  • Drifters' Alliance, Book 2 by Elle Casey

    Drifters' Alliance, Book 2 by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 2 of DRIFTERS' ALLIANCE, an ongoing Science Fiction Space Opera series.Captain Cass and her crew are drifting, waiting on word from the Alliance that they’re ready to meet...
  • Raff by Laurann Dohner

    Raff by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is the fourth book in The Vorge Crew series.Lilly left Earth seeking adventure, and learning about aliens sounded cool. She just didn’t expect to meet any in person -- until her ship is attacked by alien pirates. Now she’s meeting plenty of them. Scary ones who want to do very bad things to her...
  • Exile by Chris Ward

    Exile by Chris Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Live together, die together ...Having narrowly escaped the Governor's savage Huntsmen, Marta Banks and the other surviving Tube Riders are on the run in northern France...
  • Dream Dancer by Janet E. Morris

    Dream Dancer by Janet E. Morris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shebat came to the empire of the Kerrions from nowhere, brought by a renegade son into that vast family regime and its endless territorial possessions. Now she stood to inherit the majesty and riches which lay before her, stretching enticingly deep into the infinities of space...
  • Gridlinked by Neal Asher

    Gridlinked by Neal Asher

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix...
  • Rock Hard Alien by January Bell

    Rock Hard Alien by January Bell

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    No one expects to be abducted by aliens. I didn't expect to fall for the huge alien warrior who rescues me, either. I just wanted to check on my grandma’s chickens. Next thing I know, I’m being abducted by aliens and thrown in a cell with a huge, muscled alien who’s twice my size. Apparently, he wouldn’t let me go, and he doesn’t intend to any time soon...
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