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A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler’s glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life... -
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsFour hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change... -
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Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThis is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas...Categorized as:
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Darkness Falling by Ian Douglas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas comes the next chapter in his grand space odyssey, Andromedan Dark, Darkness FallingLord Commander Grayson St. Clair has guided the Tellus Ad Astra to a part of the universe no human—and possibly no race known to Man—has ever seen. Far from the worlds they know, the colony ship is on its own, facing . . . something that seems to have no weakness...Categorized as:
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Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities and target historians...Categorized as:
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Deepsix by Jack McDevitt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity—a life-supporting planet—is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix... -
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The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate... -
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Nomad by Matthew Mather
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSomething massive is coming...And it's heading for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter, Jessica, who's vacationing in Italy with his wife. "Something's coming," he tells them. "A hundred times the mass of the sun... -
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Odyssey by Jack McDevitt
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKnown for combining galaxy-spanning adventures with the genuine novel of ideas (Washington Post Book World), multiple Nebula Award-finalist McDevitt returns to the world of Chindi and Omega and humanity's struggle with its own existence... -
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsOn The Skids In The Transhuman FutureJules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century...
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