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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...
  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future...
  • Death's End by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu

    Death's End by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal...
  • All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor

    All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble.They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition...
  • Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor

    Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by best seller Dennis E. Taylor.More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender’s fate—whatever the cost...
  • Destiny's Cradle by Paul Crawford

    Destiny's Cradle by Paul Crawford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Teenagers Ben Canterbury and Tessa Nyera are harvesting cotton on a warm afternoon when a hole opens up in a nearby meadow—like the doorway to another dimension. The hole disgorges a naked man, barely conscious and clutching a human leg bone, and then vanishes...
  • Quantum Space by Douglas Phillips

    Quantum Space by Douglas Phillips

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B06ZY9T5Y5.If you liked the authenticity of The Martian, the page-turning pace of Da Vinci Code, and the inspirational world view of Arthur C. Clarke, you'll love Quantum Space.High above the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, three astronauts on board a Russian Soyuz capsule begin their reentry...
  • Omnia by S.H. Jucha

    Omnia by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alex Racine, who led an elite group of humans and SADEs (self-ware digital entities), left the newly discovered planet of Celus-5 under difficult circumstances. Few of the Harakens with Alex thought there was little he could do to bring peace to the embroiled planet...
  • Allora by S.H. Jucha

    Allora by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Until the Confederation created Allora, it had produced SADEs (self-aware digital entities) for hundreds of years with enormous consistency and harnessed their capabilities to power the society. But this particular, young SADE was disturbed by her confinement...
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  • Celus-5 by S.H. Jucha

    Celus-5 by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For the Sojourn’s initial mission, the Haraken explorer ship undertakes the investigation of Celus-5, a world identified by Willem, a SADE (self-aware digital entity), and his team of scientists, as the best prospect for a new colony.What should be a routine survey mission becomes a disaster. To the Harakens’ surprise, they discover, not one, but two alien species engaged in conflict...
  • Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a Méridien starship entered the Hellébore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they’re not alien; they’re human...
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  • Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund

    Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle... the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo--the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict...
  • Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton

    Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it...
  • The Solar War by A.G. Riddle

    The Solar War by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    We thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything...
  • Sol by S.H. Jucha

    Sol by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sol’s warships paid the ultimate price for threatening the Haraken and New Terran worlds. Now, Haraken President Alex Racine and his Méridien partner, Renée de Guirnon, are engaged in a desperate gamble to stop a war between their worlds and United Earth’s (UE) massive forces before it starts...
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  • Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Homeworld by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them...
  • Columbus Day by Craig Alanson

    Columbus Day by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other...
  • Protector by C.J. Cherryh

    Protector by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay. But there's far a darker business going on in the background--a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent...
  • Tracker by C.J. Cherryh

    Tracker by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Tracker is the sixteenth installment of CJ Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series.It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space—a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over­thrown and their world in chaos...
  • The Long-Range War by Christopher G. Nuttall

    The Long-Range War by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The gloves have finally come off ... The Tokomak, the unquestioned masters of the galaxy, have dispatched a massive fleet to crush the Solar Union - and the fledgling Galactic Alliance - before the human race and its alien allies can tear the galactic order asunder. Hundreds of thousands of starships under the command of an alien tactical genius, bent on exterminating the entire human race ..
  • Intruder by C.J. Cherryh

    Intruder by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power.But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over...
  • Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity’s journey to the stars—and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos.The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth’s greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey’s sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the planet...
  • Angles of Attack by Marko Kloos

    Angles of Attack by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war...
  • Deep Black (Infinite Sky #1) by Samuel Best

    Deep Black (Infinite Sky #1) by Samuel Best

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two crews return to Titan. Who will survive?Titan. Sixth moon of Saturn. A deadly enigma harboring the greatest secret in the history of humankind.In the wake of the first mission, two companies with very different goals plot a return to that distant moon. Their ships are safer, their technology has improved…and they want answers...
  • Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf

    Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Earth's first interstellar mission -- An alien colony in ruins -- Their fight for survival has only just begun.When Jack Harrison climbed down the short ladder from the airlock and stepped onto the debris covered soil, the ground crackled with the sound of dried leaves and twigs...
  • Home World by B.V. Larson

    Home World by B.V. Larson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. When the Earth is invaded by a rival empire, James McGill’s legion must defend the Home World. The top brass has complex plans, but none of that matters much to McGill, who chooses his own unique path...
  • The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

    The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun--and of Earth itself...
  • Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners

    Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “Invaders” is about events that occur several years after those in the novel “Disc.” GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries...
  • Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh

    Deceiver by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    "One of the best long-running SF series in existence" (Publishers Weekly) continues with the second novel in a brand-new Foreigner sequence. The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power...
  • Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh

    Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war...
  • Wizard by John Varley

    Wizard by John Varley

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    ISBN moved from less recent editionOne of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane..
  • Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson...
  • Emergence by C.J. Cherryh

    Emergence by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The nineteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space...
  • Inheritor by C.J. Cherryh

    Inheritor by C.J. Cherryh

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race...
  • Accord of Honor by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Accord of Honor by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War over energy resources devastated the Earth and her colony on the moon. A new agreement was reached between the nations of the world: The Lunar Accord. Designed to end the possibility of war in space for all time, it bars nations or individuals from arming ships in space. Twenty peaceful years have passed since the Accord was signed...
  • The Infinity Brigade #1 Stone Cold by Andrew Beery

    The Infinity Brigade #1 Stone Cold by Andrew Beery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death of a World/Birth of a Marine... By any reasonable definition, this was a bad day. My parents and sister were on Mars when the planet died. I watched it happen and could do nothing. That type of thing changes a man...
  • Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the human colony of Cloud is mercilessly attacked and its people imprisoned in a slave camp, Major Jaime Graham struggles to bring Bolo protector Hector, who has been reprogrammed by their enemies, back to the good side. Original...
  • Espero by S.H. Jucha

    Espero by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trouble infiltrated the Harakens’ capital city of Espero, in the form of New Terra criminal gangs who grew wealthy and powerful on the moons of Ganymede, hiding behind the cover of an ill-conceived mining charter. The gangs brought stims and addictive hallucinogenic drugs to Espero, distributing them to the young on the planet...
  • Eye of the Storm by John Ringo

    Eye of the Storm by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In an instant the world changed for Lieutenant General Michael O'Neal. Having reached the end of their usefulness his beloved Corps, the last remaining ACS, are destroyed at the order of the Darhel, by their own Fleet. His staff are shot before his eyes, and he is arrested on the charge of war crimes...
  • Augmented by James D. Prescott

    Augmented by James D. Prescott

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Breathable air on Earth is running out and no one knows why. A mysterious discovery nearly thirty million years old may hold the answer.To find it, a glaciologist and the inventor of a cutting-edge brain implant will need to work together...
  • Libre by S.H. Jucha

    Libre by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The saga of the Rêveur continues in this second novel in The Silver Ships series.The surviving Méridiens have returned to Confederation space, aided by their recently discovered cousins, the New Terrans. They expect a celebration after their 71-year absence. Instead, they’re shocked to find the silver ships have destroyed half the Confederation...
  • Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

    Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them."--Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years...
  • Gust Front by John Ringo

    Gust Front by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Thanks to human valor and alien technology, the Posleen were fought to a standstill. But the invasion of Earth is just months away Only these shell-shocked survivors can save the Earth from utter devastation...
  • Into the Black by Evan Currie

    Into the Black by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This edition of Odyssey One has been completely edited and remastered to correct the typos and content issues that reviewers commented on in the original edition. Beyond the confines of our small world, far from the glow of our star, lies a galaxy and universe much larger and more varied than anyone on Earth can possibly imagine...
  • The Heart of Matter by Evan Currie

    The Heart of Matter by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    After an epic maiden voyage that introduced Earth to a larger universe—and a cosmos full of terrifying new enemies—Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC spacecraft Odyssey have spent months cooling their heels under their admiral’s watchful eye...
  • Fear the Survivors by Stephen Moss

    Fear the Survivors by Stephen Moss

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet have striven for and died in an effort to scour the skies of four vast alien satellites, but their success has brought a terrible vengeance down upon us. While alien Agents stalk the earth, a team of exhausted scientists and military outcasts struggle to fight them amongst a planet on the brink...
  • Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper

    Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Are Fuzzies People?Pendarvis' Decision had finally declared the Fuzzies to be intelligent beings, and that meant some drastic changes for the Earthmen who had colonized their planet, changes that a lot of people weren't going to accept easily. But why worry? said others.The Fuzzies seemed lovable, fun-loving creatures, only two feet high, and covered with soft, golden fur...
  • Live Free or Die by John Ringo

    Live Free or Die by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    First Contact Was Friendly When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief...
  • First Contact by Dean M. Cole

    First Contact by Dean M. Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the Bestselling Author of Solitude!As part of the Greatest Generation, Major Anthony Spinelli, a World War II fighter pilot, flew into combat to save his family and keep them free. Two years later, he lost them in the blink of an eye, leaving Tony rudderless and without purpose...
  • Latent Flaw by Andreas Karpf

    Latent Flaw by Andreas Karpf

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It has been three years since the crew of the Magellan returned…Earth may now be a target: “Latent Flaw” – The highly-anticipated sequel to “Prelude to Extinction.”A crescent moon set against a jeweled field of stars gracefully slid into view. The thin arc of its crater-filled landscape drew Jack’s mind in...
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