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Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.Taking the easy way out isn’t in his nature, however... -
![The Void by Dirk Patton]()
The Void by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's been a year since Robert Tracy (Agent Bering), saved from the executioner's needle, foiled the Cabal's plan to assassinate the President and take control of the country. Seizing the opportunity for a new life, he is happy and in love. But a rift in the very fabric of space-time, and an undefeated Cabal, conspire to strip away everything he cares about... -
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Line War by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAsher is brilliant at conveying the vastness of space, the strangeness of alien life, and the sweep of planetary horizons.”—SFX MagazineFrom the mind of Neal Asher and his Polity universe comes Line War, which has Agent Cormac once again on the trail, investigating an attack of his AI masters... -
![Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...Categorized as:
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![Extinct by R.R. Haywood]()
Extinct by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas…While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn’t make sense... -
![Storm's Fury by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus]()
Storm's Fury by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young girl who saw her father die. A soldier who lost everything. Now, in the shadow of the apocalypse, they will fight to survive.The skies above America darken as powerful, corrupt forces inadvertently unleash a disaster of biblical proportions.In a quiet southern town, a lonely soldier lives each day in a bottle, forever regretting sins and losses of the past... -
![War Factory by Neal Asher]()
War Factory by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity... -
![Jack the Bodiless by Julian May]()
Jack the Bodiless by Julian May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the year 2051, Earth stood on the brink of acceptance as full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the galaxy. Leading humanity was the powerful Remillard family, but somebody--or something--known only as "Fury" wanted them out of the way...Categorized as:
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![Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards]()
Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
![Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale]()
Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArtificial life is a hot-button topic in the summer of 2061. BioTek Microtechnologies have revealed Eve, the first real bioroid, and the rights of AIs and other infomorphs are on everyone’s mind, at least partially because MarTech now has the capability to digitise the human brain... -
![The Gospel According to Artyom by Dmitry Glukhovsky]()
The Gospel According to Artyom by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe recently created and previously unpublished epilogue of METRO 2033, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky. This bonus piece was never published in English and comes exclusively on Amazon... -
![The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren]()
The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAboard a notorious gangster's luxurious starliner, Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of the war... -
![Melt by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus]()
Melt by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new, frighteningly realistic series from #1 best-selling post-apocalyptic author Mike Kraus. A bold scientific breakthrough? Or an end to modern society as we know it It was supposed to be a ground-breaking demonstration: "Melt" a newly created compound, promised to revolutionize waste processing... -
![Brace for Impact by Harley Tate]()
Brace for Impact by Harley Tate
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if an EMP was only the first strike? With a credible threat to the United States and a plane stuck on the tarmac, Grant Walton is thirty seconds from full-blown panic mode. He’s the only one in the airport who knows the truth. When the power goes out, he can’t waste another second. It’s the beginning of the end and every man for himself. A nuclear attack will rip the country apart...Categorized as:
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![Tsunami Storm by D.F. Capps, David F. Capps]()
Tsunami Storm by D.F. Capps, David F. Capps
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Bronze medal winner in the 2017 Reader's Favorite Book Awards for fiction - thriller - general. *The US has launched secret weapons of mass destruction on other countries. And awaits what might be cataclysmic retaliation…China is devastated by an 8.0M earthquake that leaves 70,000 people dead with hundreds of thousands injured and untold property destroyed...Categorized as:
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![Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt]()
Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town... -
![Nightfall by Daniel Barnett]()
Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...Categorized as:
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![The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn]()
The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAND SO IT BEGINS... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea . . . Iran . . . Russia . . . and soon the gates of Hell will open. DEFCON 1--FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality...Categorized as:
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![The Ark by Christopher Coates]()
The Ark by Christopher Coates
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the not too distant future, technology has developed to the point where a person can be placed in a Sleep State, which is a cross between suspended animation and a drug induced coma. Theoretically a person can be put to sleep for any length of time and age only a couple of days for each year that they are asleep...Categorized as:
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![Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield]()
Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen society falls, how will you protect those you love?They knew the solar flair was coming, but no one knew the effect it would have. The EMP kills the lights and all electronics. Now it’s only a matter of time before chaos erupts.Jim owns a small electronics repair store in Rochester, NY. Unlike his friend, he quickly realizes the reality of the situation... -
![Resistance by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale]()
Resistance by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fight for the future of humanity begins... Jessica Rollins has made it to safety inside the Sanctuary system with the help of Ufuk Erdogmus, but is her mysterious savior really who he says he is? What secrets does he hide? And how is he connected to Dr. Muller? Jess doesn't have much time to ponder these questions, as soon she is fighting again for her life.. -
![Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge]()
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMultiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now... -
![Ice Country by David Estes]()
Ice Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler...Categorized as:
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![Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin]()
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.Maxine was made to do one thing: die...Categorized as:
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![Stark's Crusade by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell]()
Stark's Crusade by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Barnes & Noble ReviewStark's Crusade is the concluding volume of a popular military science fiction trilogy written by former U.S. Navy officer John G. Hemry. The first two books, Stark's War and Stark's Command, began chronicling the life of Sergeant Ethan Stark, a living military legend who is sent to the moon to take back control of what America believes is its property...Categorized as:
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![The Terminal State by Jeff Somers]()
The Terminal State by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory... -
![The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers]()
The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it... -
![Under Darkness by Jasper T. Scott, Ben Jaeger-Thomas]()
Under Darkness by Jasper T. Scott, Ben Jaeger-Thomas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the USA Today best-selling author of Dark Space... a series of unrelated stand-alone sci-fi novels; no sequels and no cliffhangers The sun vanished and darkness fell in the middle of the day, and then the meteors began to fall.... Bill Steele is in the trenches, trying to survive in the competitive world of luxury vacation resorts on the island of Kauai... -
![Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper]()
Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more...Categorized as:
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![Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham]()
Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges – how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe...Categorized as:
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![The Price of Peace by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd]()
The Price of Peace by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the wake of the war between the Society of Humanity and the Unity Party, military ship Captain Inez Umboto and Lieutenant Terrance "Trouble" Tordon patrol the universe. But in the no-man's-land of Rim Space, pirates roam freely. And Umboto and Tordon will soon learn that enforcing the peace can be just as expensive as fighting the war.. -
![Intrepid by Mike Shepherd]()
Intrepid by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsKris Longknife has been assigned to The Wasp, the best warship beyond the Rim of Human Space. But while hunting for pirates, Kris stumbles upon something. It's a plan to kill one of the members of the aristocratic Peterwald family --and the would-be killers are setting her up as the assassin... -
![The Time Travel Chronicles by Crystal Watanabe, Samuel Peralta]()
The Time Travel Chronicles by Crystal Watanabe, Samuel Peralta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past...Categorized as:
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![Corridor by Robin Parrish]()
Corridor by Robin Parrish
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO RUN.On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, Troy Goggin finds himself inexplicably transported to an impossibly huge, miles-long structure called the Corridor. But what is the Corridor, and why was he brought to it?It’s a place of mystery, wonder, and heart-stopping danger. It will test him and push him both mentally and physically...Categorized as:
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![Sketches by Teyla Branton]()
Sketches by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...Categorized as:
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![Мова by Віктар Марціновіч]()
Мова by Віктар Марціновіч
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар... -
![Nexus by Suki Williams, Jarica James]()
Nexus by Suki Williams, Jarica James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife in the city of Lumen is filled with secrets, especially if you're a scavenging tinkerer from the Mids.Lumen was made to keep us safe from the world beyond our walls, but this oasis quickly turned into a totalitarian hellhole where the government monitors our every move... -
![Resolute by Mike Shepherd]()
Resolute by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsKris Longknife has been given her first independent command in the very remote system of Chance, an assignment that's as much exile as promotion.But Kris isn't on the job long when she captures pirates hiding the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology... -
![The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden]()
The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had... -
![Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare by James Dashner]()
Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare by James Dashner
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsShort flashback that occurs between "The Scorch Trials" and "The Death Cure...Categorized as:
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![Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London]()
Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd’s bodyguard and must protect him with his life...Categorized as:
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![Killing Frost by Grace Hamilton]()
Killing Frost by Grace Hamilton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNathan and his family are on the run from a catastrophic polar shift—but the bitter cold is the least of their worries. Nathan was led to believe Detroit would be the Promised Land, but when his family arrives they find a city struggling just to survive frigid conditions... -
![Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear]()
Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs long as there's an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . . Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized... -
![Defender by G.X. Todd]()
Defender by G.X. Todd
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The world is ending. But the voice in your head might just save you. Listen to it very carefully...ON THE CUSP OF SLEEP, HAVE WE NOT ALL HEARD A VOICE CALL OUT OUR NAME?In a world where long drinks are in short supply, it's dangerous to listen to your inner voice.Those who do, keep it quiet...Categorized as:
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![2 x s by Nigel Findley]()
2 x s by Nigel Findley
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings2XS, THE HALLUCINOGENIC CHIP OF CHOICE.To Excess - that's how they say it on the streets, before it destroyed their minds.Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows those streets. He's watched the change with the world, as the powers of magic grow and alter the balances of power. He thinks he understands even the deepest shadows and the darkest of hearts. He is wrong... -
![They Also Serve by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd]()
They Also Serve by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAdversaries in an interstellar war are now working together to keep the peace... -
![The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless]()
The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA brilliantly written, page-turning, post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity’s future.More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction...Categorized as:
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![Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price]()
Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world where life is disposable, two men fight to escape oppression and find the truth…together. Ernest just turned thirty. It’s time for retirement, freedom from the tedious drudgery of his job as a data clerk. Time to emerge from his pod and explore parts of the city he’s never seen before—to meet some actual people. And at the end of the month? Time to die...Categorized as:
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![Run by Gabby Tye]()
Run by Gabby Tye
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn exciting new novel by one of Singapore's youngest authors, Gabby Tye, 14: The scientists got it wrong. Dead wrong. Groundbreaking work in genetics have unleashed something unimaginable. Something that has killed off every living thing except humans. Somewhere in Singapore, a 15-year-old girl wakes up with no memory...Categorized as:
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Defiant by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBorn into a family of wealth and political power. Kris Longknife turned her back on high society and followed a different family tradition by joining the Marines. But now she finds herself relieved of duty. She's gotten in the way of someone's agenda--to bring down her father, the Prime Minister of Wardhaven.Now, with the fleet off on a propaganda mission...
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