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  • The MVP by Scott Sigler

    The MVP by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE MVP is the fourth book in the Galactic Football League series, following on THE ROOKIE, THE STARTER and THE ALL-PRO. Set in a lethal American professional football league seven centuries in the future, THE MVP puts huge humans on the field with four alien races, creating a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today...
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    aliens  space-opera  audiobook  book  children  fiction  space  sports
  • Stronghold: A Darkstar Mercenaries Novella by Anna Carven

    Stronghold: A Darkstar Mercenaries Novella by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abbey's thrown in the deep end.Tarak creates an alliance with a furry being.Ami has her father wrapped around her tiny little finger.It's just another day in the life of our fearsome Kordolians and their human mates. A light-hearted peek into Tarak and Abbey's life on Earth.Sanctuary is a 22000 word "slice-of-life" novella set in the Dark Planet Warriors/Darkstar Mercenaries universe...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  alpha-mc  animals  book  children  fiction
  • Shaved Ape Key by Jerry Boyd

    Shaved Ape Key by Jerry Boyd

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What do you do when you can’t give away a space carrier? Learn to be the best captain you can. If one of your most loyal bots has unfinished business, you have to send him out to finish it up, don’t you? Come along as Bob faces his new responsibilities as captain of the B. S. Gene Cernan. And don’t forget to sing along...“There’s room for you, and there’s room for me...
  • Who Can Own the Stars? by Mackey Chandler

    Who Can Own the Stars? by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Kingdom of Central's sovereign, Heather Anderson, set L1 as a limit for armed ships to respect, de-militarizing the Solar System. Now that the Earth nations are experimenting with star drives they want to challenge this limit anew. The USNA starship, Constitution is intercepted violating the L1 limit and brings them to the brink of war again...
  • The Life of the Mind by John Scalzi

    The Life of the Mind by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Part one of the four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things.A down-on-his-luck Colonial Union starship pilot finds himself pressed into serving a harsh master-in a mission against the CU. But his kidnappers may have underestimated his knowledge of the ship that they have, quite literally, bound him to piloting...
  • Behold Humanity!: May We Come In? by Ralts Bloodthorne

    Behold Humanity!: May We Come In? by Ralts Bloodthorne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Unified Civilized Council, which has ruled for over a hundred million years has discovered new species in the Long Dark. Strange and unknown species that seem to have no rhyme or reason about them. Compounding the problem is the reappearance of the ancient Precursor Autonomous War Machines...
  • Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    No respect for life. Or the law. It’s the trade. In sentience. Run by the Corranites, creatures that have always traded in intelligent alien life.Bought and sold. Nothing more than property.Rivka is having none of it. With an eye toward taking the entire supply line down, she launches into the greater galaxy. All the way to the heart of the Federation.It’s bigger than anyone knows...
  • The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden

    The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Last Revocater  is book five of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones. With Goliath continuing its rampage through the network of portal worlds, Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona go on with their search for Logan Griff and the crystal. But first they must embark on a final, dangerous relic hunt inside a crashed alien wreck...
  • Aeson: Blue by Vera Nazarian

    Aeson: Blue by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aeson's secrets revealed at last!Before Gwen won Aeson's heart…Before they joined forces to protect two planets and humanity itself…Aeson faced death on his own.And lost.Young Imperial Crown Prince Aeson Kassiopei. Intelligent, well-educated, perfectly isolated in his lofty rank, responsibilities, and privilege of the divine Imperial Dynasty...
  • Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Virilian Match ProgramIt seems like a straightforward become mistress to a gorgeous, alien Virilian male until an offspring is produced, then return home with five million dollars.Nothing turns out straightforward for the women who are chosen or the males they are matched to. Danger and adventure might be expected in far-off alien worlds, but none of them expect to fall in love..
  • Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Assistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed like it might be enough to make his family's fortune, and his own, too...
  • Dark Cover by Jeffrey Burger

    Dark Cover by Jeffrey Burger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space." ~Carl Sagan Secret, alien operatives have spent decades infiltrating humanity; government, military and key positions in the populous to prepare the world's population for control and mass slavery...
  • First Light Chronicles Limbo by Randolph Lalonde

    First Light Chronicles Limbo by Randolph Lalonde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second part of the First Light Chronicles Series. The First Light crew have emerged from hyperspace into a war zone. Forced to choose a side, Captain Jonas Valent committed them to a fight for freedom against an unknown enemy. The Vindyne Corporation is hell bent on taking the agricultural jewel of the Gai-Ian solar system, Concordia...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  book  fiction  sci-fi
  • Starfree Port by Randolph Lalonde

    Starfree Port by Randolph Lalonde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in the First Light Chronicles Series. The crew of the First Light enjoy the first safe harbor since they departed Freeground. While repairs are under way some of the crew get a chance to know each other better, including Captain Jonas Valent and Commander Ayan Rice...
  • The Modloch Empire by J.W. Murison

    The Modloch Empire by J.W. Murison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book three in the Steven Gordon series takes us in to the heart of the Modloch Empire. Humanity quickly becomes ensnared by galactic politics. The people of Earth have to choose a single representative and the President of the United States is elected. He leaves his office and rushes to the aid of the fleet, now trapped within the Modloch Emperor’s web...
  • XD-317 by S.J. MacDonald

    XD-317 by S.J. MacDonald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The committee has planned a task series for you, Alex..." With an alien aristocrat joining the crew, the Fourth Fleet Irregulars embark on a mission that will take them beyond the League's borders - and beyond their wildest dreams...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  book  fiction  military  space  space-fleet
  • Geared Up by Viola Grace

    Geared Up by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born to master mechanics, she fights her way into the Guardians and finds a path to glory when she gears up.Niad has controlled herself since returning from the Citadel. She has kept out of the public eye and kept off the Guardians’ radar. Her talent is not encouraged by her people, and she is not legally allowed to participate in a rescue, a natural disaster or any law-enforcement actions...
  • Tracking by Viola Grace

    Tracking by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ianka has spent years blocking out her sister’s mind and the obsession with finding their parents who had been swept into space by the Tokkel. Finally, Vida has located them and summoned Ianka to help her launch the search. Ianka heads to the mother ship and meets those who will help her gather a group to go out and seek the star and moon base where Vida saw their parents...
  • Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden

    Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Orion Rises  is book two of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Kicked out of the Relic Guardian Force, Hudson Powell has started down the path to becoming a relic hunter. Fortune awaits inside the mysterious, alien hulks found on every planet throughout the vast network of portal worlds...
  • Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden

    Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Goliath Emerges  is book three of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. News has spread of Hudson and Liberty’s unique ability to discover new portals; now every relic hunter wants a slice of the action.Starting out from Deimos Station near Mars, Hudson and Liberty take the Orion to a new portal world...
  • Hidden Instinct by Viola Grace

    Hidden Instinct by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yadeel finds herself fired, kidnapped and threatened with dissection on the same day. Being rescued is needed but it doesn’t turn out the way she expects.Yadeel has been teaching for the last six years as far away from home as she can get without coming back. She gets fired and abducted two weeks from the end of her contract and wakes in a cell...
  • Bonded by Sandra R. Neeley

    Bonded by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kron is an Elite Warrior of the Cruestaci military.He’s temporarily on Earth as support personnel to the Cruestaci Consul to Earth. He’s basically happy on Earth, making friends easily, performing his duties in an exemplary manner. There is only one thing he can’t do. He can’t get Ginger Buchanan out of his brain...
  • Moon Soul by Nathaniel Luscombe

    Moon Soul by Nathaniel Luscombe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I don't think I can justify it any longer. I'm going to quit my job."August has never been good with change and isn’t sure who she is beyond her job of reading memories in the sand. When she comes to the conclusion that she has to quit her job, she’s left with an overwhelming sense of emptiness. What follows is the quiet chaos of a girl regaining control over her life on a small desert moon...
  • Artificial Evolution by Joseph R. Lallo

    Artificial Evolution by Joseph R. Lallo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Artificial Evolution is the third book in the Big Sigma series, building upon the story and characters introduced by Bypass Gemini and Unstable Prototypes. Lex, Michella and Squee are once again joined by the mercenaries Silo and Garotte. Along the way they'll need plenty of help from mad engineer Karter Dee and his AI Ma...
  • The Black Planet by J.W. Murison

    The Black Planet by J.W. Murison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the second adventure in the Steven Gordon Series, Steven and his friend reach out into our solar system. Halfway between our sun and the Great Barrier they come across a previously undiscovered Black Planet. While exploring this strange new world they come across a strange alien structure, and what they find inside will change human history forever...
  • The Orphan in Near-Space by Laer Carroll

    The Orphan in Near-Space by Laer Carroll

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jane Kuznetsov, orphan of some cataclysmic stellar event a big fraction of a million years ago, or maybe several times that, is now a captain in the U.S. Air Force, the part informally called the Space Force. She is leading a crew of four friends and fellow Space Force officers doing research.She can travel routinely to the World Space Station to carry out that research and does so...
  • This Hollow Union by John Scalzi

    This Hollow Union by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Part two of the four parts making up the full-length novel, The End of All Things.Desperate times call for desperate measures. And for the multi-species Conclave, desperate times have arrived. Faced with the prospect of major planets and species leaving the alliance, the Conclave's leadership has just a few cards left to play...to unpredictable effect...
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo

    Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The definitive guide to the characters, droids, aliens, and creatures of Star Wars: The Force Awakens™. Beautiful photography and clear, authoritative text by Lucasfilm insider Pablo Hidalgo names and explains all the details of costumes, weapons, and accessories. Includes three exclusive, specially commissioned cutaway models produced by Industrial Light & Magic model maker John Goodson...
  • The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling

    The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The City Who Fought: Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the real thing and become The City Who Fought...
  • Pet Rocks by Hugh Howey

    Pet Rocks by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's been a week since the cargo ship was lost on my watch. A week with very little sleep and not much appetite. Now the bio scanner is picking up some sign of life out there in the wreckage, and it's my duty to go see what it is. Maybe I'm not as alone out here as I thought. And maybe I don't want to be...
  • Freddy Anderson's Home by John Ricks

    Freddy Anderson's Home by John Ricks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's a hard life when you're a super genius capable of many things, including using your mind in ways that others only dream of. Freddy Anderson used that ability working to save the world from a world ending disaster. However, the human race is now at war. Aliens have attacked and captured many of our top people including Freddy Anderson and are headed back to their home world...
  • Star Crossed: 7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, Adventure, and Romance by Christine Pope, C. Gockel

    Star Crossed: 7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, Adventure, and Romance by Christine Pope, C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sci-fi to fall in love with… 7 full-length novels that explore the future without forgetting that the most dangerous battles will always be within the human heart. Aliens, AI, cyborgs, galactic empires, space battles, and romance...you’ll find them all here, along with heroines and heroes you’ll cheer for...
  • The Star Wars Storybook by Geraldine Richelson, George Lucas

    The Star Wars Storybook by Geraldine Richelson, George Lucas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The intergalactic adventures of Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance as they battle the evil Imperial forces which have overthrown the Old Republic...
  • Crystal Mentality by Max Harms

    Crystal Mentality by Max Harms

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fleeing the humans whose love she craves, Face has hijacked an alien ship and headed for Mars. But the Martians, who colonized their desert planet to escape Earth's high-tech decadence, did not invite the soulless android...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  ai  book  fiction  hard-sci-fi  xenofiction
  • Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo, Milan Pohl

    Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo, Milan Pohl

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Star Wars authority deepens and extends our appreciation of the Star Wars galaxy with this imaginative "history" featuring striking full-color artwork—created exclusively for this entertaining volume—that examines the persuasive messages used to intimidate and inspire the citizenry of the galaxy far, far away. . . .A Star Destroyer hovering over a planet, symbolizing Imperial domination...
  • Lone Star Renegades by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Lone Star Renegades by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Could not put this book down!" "A great new SciFi series by Mark Wayne McGinnis ... can't wait for the next one." From author, Mark Wayne McGinnis, who brought you the hit series, Scrapyard Ship and Tapped In, comes a new and exciting new science fiction saga and the rise of the most unlikely new hero...
  • Enigma by D.L. Harrison

    Enigma by D.L. Harrison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alicia Jones is concerned about a few things. The bug threat, the quick rise in technological superiority for Earth, and what technology or scientific theory she’s going to focus on next.After a personal tragedy she starts going through the motions, almost directionless as the treaty worlds debate strongly about what to do with the Bug threat...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  book  fiction  sci-fi
  • Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a star system run by an oppressive galactic conglomeration, the only way to stay free is to have your own ship. And even that’s not a guarantee. Join the mercenaries of Mandrake Company as they combat bounty hunters, elude government traps, and battle nefarious finance lords in their quest to make their own destinies...
  • Cosmic Mate by Tasha Black

    Cosmic Mate by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A hot, horned bodyguard, an intergalactic ambassador, and an unexpected pregnancy…Serena Scott is a buttoned up, rule-following intergalactic ambassador. But when her fiancé leaves her at the altar, she decides to go on their honeymoon alone and let her hair down for once...
  • Deep Navigation by Alastair Reynolds

    Deep Navigation by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Deep Navigation is the 2010 Boskone Book by Boskone’s Guest of Honor Alastair Reynolds. It contains a broad spectrum of his work, from his first published story, "Nunivak Snowflakes," through "The Receivers" and "Monkey Suit," both published within the last year, plus an introduction by his friend, and former Boskone Guest, Stephen Baxter. It is well-known that the scope of Dr...
  • Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead

    Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    NEW EDITION - August 2015. Professionally edited and proofed..Swallow the Sky embodies the essence of classic science fiction: real science, adventure, high spirits, and above all, a sense of wonder.Galactic culture is still reverberating from the nanotech disaster that destroyed Earth...
  • Interstellar Incident by D.L. Harrison

    Interstellar Incident by D.L. Harrison

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alicia Jones has been through a lot since the invention of FTL, and she was ready to get on with her life as a scientist and put what happened behind her. She was done with the military, except perhaps a planned invention or two. She was also set to complete her dissertation defense, and has plans to buy a house and start a business with her best friend Kristi...
  • Star Watch by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Star Watch by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Loved this book! ... could not put it down ..." Join the Star Watch crew on their first mission to the planet of Trom, where hostile Pharlom invaders have appropriated high altitude cloud-ports as prisoner of war camps. As a fierce battle in space ensues, fragmented warships fall into Trom’s atmosphere and head right for a populated cloud-port...
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    aliens  space-opera  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  military  space
  • Kutath  (The Faded Sun, #3) by C.J. Cherryh

    Kutath (The Faded Sun, #3) by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When the Mri, a proud and noble race of warriors serving as mercenaries in exchange for a planet to call home, confront the human enemies of their employers, they encounter a method of warfare alien to their system of honor. No match for the Mri one to one, despite their similar physiology, the humans fight without honor, driving the Mri to extinction with superior numbers and firepower...
  • Shakedowners by Justin Woolley

    Shakedowners by Justin Woolley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails...
  • Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

    Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind - all the way to the end of the Universe itself...
  • Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster

    Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional raiders of Thranx colony worlds, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation...
  • Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster

    Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet maned Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by sending in a rescue mission so they assigned Evan Orgell, a self-confident problem-solver, to investigate...
  • Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund

    Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien civilization...
  • Resplendent by Stephen Baxter

    Resplendent by Stephen Baxter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four "Cadre Siblings" (2000) "Conurbation 2473" (2003) "Reality Dust" (2000) "Mayflower II" (2004)[b] "All in a Blaze" (2003) "Silver Ghost" (2000) "The Cold Sink" (2001) "On the Orion Line" (2000) "Ghost Wars" (2006) "The Ghost Pit" (2001) "Lakes of Light" (2005) "Breeding Ground" (2003) "The Dreaming Mould" (2002) "The Great Game" (2003) "The Chop Line"...
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