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Wistful Ascending by J.C.M. Berne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA superhero space opera for grownups. For fans of Invincible and Marvel Cinematic Universe films.If Thor and Harry Dresden combined in a transporter accident.The il’Drach have conquered half a galaxy behind the civilization-ending Powers of their mixed-species children.Half-human Rohan, exhausted by a decade fighting for their Empire, has paid a secret and terrible price for his freedom...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: The Giggle (Target Collection) by James Goss]()
Doctor Who: The Giggle (Target Collection) by James Goss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this thrilling third adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble...Categorized as:
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![When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith]()
When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars...Categorized as:
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![Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
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![The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth... -
![The Wrath of Darth Maul by Ryder Windham]()
The Wrath of Darth Maul by Ryder Windham
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe most anticipated Star Wars biography yet!One of the most feared villains of all time.One of the most iconic characters of the Star Wars saga.One incredible story...Categorized as:
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![The Dirdir by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen]()
The Dirdir by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGetting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order — for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple... -
![The Pnume by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen]()
The Pnume by Jack Vance, H.R. Van Dongen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pnume are native to Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin... -
![Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Weapons & Technology by W. Haden Blackman]()
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Weapons & Technology by W. Haden Blackman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s more to the arms, artillery, and exotic equipment of the Star Wars galaxy than Jedi lightsabers and blasters. Species such as the tree-dwelling Wookiees, the amphibious Gungans, and the deadly Yuuzhan Vong have yielded a staggering array of unique weapons and devices...Categorized as:
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![Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov]()
Before the Golden Age 1 by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s, #1 of 4Contents:* The Man Who Evolved / Edmond Hamilton; * The Jameson Satellite / Neil R. Jones; * Submicroscopic / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Awlo of Ulm / Capt. S.P. Meek; * Tetrahedra of Space / P. Schuyler Miller; * The World of the Red Sun / Clifford D. Simak. Originally 26 stories published in one hardcover volume... -
![Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris]()
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
![Twilight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker]()
Twilight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle.Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them.At best, a difficult mission... -
![The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a desolate sector of space floats the Well World: the ancient Markovian supercomputer that first created and now maintains the Universe.While attempting to repel an insidious intergalactic invasion, Mankind resorts to a weapon of such awesome destructive power that it undermines the Well World's control of time and space and threatens the very existence of the Universe... -
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Galactic Patrol by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Galactic Patrol's Lensmen are the most feared peacekeepers in the Galaxy. The "Lens," a telepathic jewel matched to the ego of its wearer, is the ultimate weapon in the war against the merciless pirate Boskone and his forces of lawlessness... -
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![Children of the Lens: Special Edition by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
Children of the Lens: Special Edition by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space. Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was...Categorized as:
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![Quest for the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker]()
Quest for the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWelcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. The Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.Exiles at the Well of Souls left Mavra Chang captured by the Olborn and partially converted into a beast of burden... -
![Servants Of The Wankh by Jack Vance]()
Servants Of The Wankh by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMarooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.Monsters of land and sea lay before them, and beings both human and alien who might rob, kill or enslave them... -
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The Weapon Shops of Isher by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops... -
![Subspace Explorers: Special Edition by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
Subspace Explorers: Special Edition by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBursting right through the four-dimensional travel zone of subspace, Tellurian psiontists make an amazing discovery on the other side. Beyond the bounds of subspace, a parallel universe is cruelly ruled by a violent, murderous empire, the Justiciate, where psiontists are ruthlessly hunted down and fed to giant eagles... -
![Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson]()
Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
![The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton]()
The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFlung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future!Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces... -
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The Pawns Of Null A by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsGilbert Gosseyn, the null-A genius of the Earth-Venus war, never realized that this interplanetary war was but a borrowed incident in a greater conflict until he was thrust onto the galactic battlefield as a mere pawn. But in picking Gosseyn as "expendable," those cosmic opponents unleashed forces they had never dreamed existed. One was the entrance of a powerful third party in the war... -
![Skylark of Valeron by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
Skylark of Valeron by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEdward E. Smith.Skylark of Valeron. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 252 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket... -
![The Deluge Drivers by Alan Dean Foster]()
The Deluge Drivers by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt looked as if Ethan Fortune was stuck on the icy world of Tran-ky-ky, never to enjoy the warm comforts of civilization again. But when the scientists at the outpost of Brass Monkey detected an odd atmospheric phenomenon, things began to heat up... -
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![Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper]()
Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work...Categorized as:
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![Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster, Tim White]()
Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster, Tim White
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEthan Fortune was simple salesman -- knowledgeable and civilized . . . a sophisticated traveler between many worlds. But he had certainly never thought of himself as a hero.Skua September, on the other hand, never thought of himself as anything else... -
![The Deathworms of Kratos by Richard Avery, Edmund Cooper]()
The Deathworms of Kratos by Richard Avery, Edmund Cooper
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Expendables were criminals, offered pardons in exchange for exploring alien worlds... -
![The Purity Plot: Family d'Alembert Book 6 by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Goldin]()
The Purity Plot: Family d'Alembert Book 6 by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Goldin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat is happening on Purity - an obscure planet peopled only by religious introverts? Hitherto the hairshirt brigade have turned their backs on the rest of the Empire. But now, inspired by the aggressive zeal of sinister evangelist Tresa Clunard, the Puritans are preparing to fight a holy war. Time, once more, for SOTE's crack agents, the Family d'Alembert, to spring into action... -
![Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
![Destination: Universe! by A.E. van Vogt]()
Destination: Universe! by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollection of short stories. First published in 1952... -
![City of the Chasch by Jack Vance]()
City of the Chasch by Jack Vance
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomeone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai. It was Adam Reith's misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed... and Adam escaped to the surface with his life and nothing else.Tschai was a vast planet and previously unexplored... -
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Dirge by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChosen by Science Fiction Chronicle as One of the Best Books of the Year Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written an exciting Humanx Commonwealth adventure that delves deeper into the fragile early years when humans made first contact in this unforgettable world . . . In the second half of the twenty-fourth century, diplomatic relations proceed cautiously between thranx and humans... -
![Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster]()
Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between a misfit artist and a petty thief... -
![Predator: Incursion by Tim Lebbon]()
Predator: Incursion by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPredator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then when Lt... -
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![The Howling Stones by Alan Dean Foster]()
The Howling Stones by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise. Its vast oceans were dotted with thousands of lush islands containing vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran was also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child, for each island was inhabited by a different tribe of aboriginal natives whose customs and tribal rites varied from island to island... -
![Deathworld 2 by Harry Harrison]()
Deathworld 2 by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe stakes were slavery - or the life of Jason dinAlt.The planet was unknown... a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave. Inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler... -
![Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak]()
Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr Patrick Cory is a scientist who, unable to save W.H. Donovan's life after a plane crash, keeps his brain alive thru an illegal experiment. The story provides an examination of evil impossible to forget. Donovan is more than one of the world's richest men. He's a megalomaniac even before Cory keeps his brain alive in the tank... -
![The Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
The Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFinding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr... -
![The Ninety Trillion Fausts by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Ninety Trillion Fausts by Jack L. Chalker
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree teams pursue horned creatures known as demons through a gate into another spacetime continuum, and fight each other all the way. But they now must join forces to save the 90 trillion beings of the gallaxy in danger of losing their lives--and souls... -
![Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson]()
Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
![The Magnificent Wilf by Gordon R. Dickson]()
The Magnificent Wilf by Gordon R. Dickson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEarth is contacted by Galactic Civilization and diplomat Tom Parent and his wife Lucy, a linguist, must represent Earth to the galaxy. There's only one tiny catch -- Lucy is, or may be, a Wilf. And you know what that means... -
![The War Against the Rull by A.E. van Vogt]()
The War Against the Rull by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a story that postdates the novel and makes this book the first complete edition of the saga of the war between humanity and the alien shapechangers... -
![The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Fredric Brown]()
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Fredric Brown
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYes, I'm Max Andrews. I'm one of the guys who fought and bled and worked to get to Mars. I figure what I gave up in those early years bought me the right to pilot the next big jump.I've lied and stolen for that right. I'd have killed, too, but I didn't have to. Instead, I let a woman give her life so I could have my chance, my door to space... -
![Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the mist-shrouded planet of Venus, advanced civilizations blessed with eternal youth co-existed with cities haunted by the living dead, while bloodthirsty man-beasts stalked the luminous nights. Earth man Carson Napier knew how to survive the planet’s many perils-but now a merciless tribunal had condemned Carson’s beloved princess Duare to death... -
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![The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future... -
![The Wizard of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
The Wizard of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fifth and final adventure of Carson Napier among the exotic people and beasts of Amtor is Burroughs' THE WIZARD OF VENUS. Sequel to his fabulous four Venus novels, it is an adventure not to be missed as Napier encounter a new kind of science and anew kind of alien deviltry... -
![The Galaxy Primes by E.E. "Doc" Smith]()
The Galaxy Primes by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to Earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered... Here is E. E... -
![Quest For The Future by A.E. van Vogt]()
Quest For The Future by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWorlds of differing probabilities and the constant search for immortality are the twin themes of this mind-toppling story. Expanding the enigmas of time, van Vogt carries the reader to the furthermost edges of past and future and outwards to a place where time loses all meaning... -
![Black on Black by K.D. Wentworth]()
Black on Black by K.D. Wentworth
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRescued from a slave market by a human trader and raised as his son, one question has haunted Heyoka Blackeagle through the years: who — and what — is he? He feels human, indeed he feels like a somewhat alienated member of his father's tribe... -
![The Stone God Awakens by Philip José Farmer]()
The Stone God Awakens by Philip José Farmer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs populations spiral out of control on earth the technology to "stone" people becomes available. While stoned your molecules cease to vibrate & you do not age. Seven families can share the same apartment with each group living one day of the week & remaining stoned in the wardrobe, neatly out of the way the rest of the time. Then a natural disaster brings civilization down...
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