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Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe exciting conclusion to the Star Kingdom series!Even though Professor Casmir Dabrowski has been fighting for months to help the kingdom and humanity as a whole, few people in positions of power have appreciated his unorthodox methods. Now he's a captive of the king and being taken back to his home world without his friends or the crushers he relies upon to protect him... -
![Shaved Ape Key by Jerry Boyd]()
Shaved Ape Key by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhat 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... -
![Orphan Black: The Next Chapter by Malka Ann Older, Madeline Ashby]()
Orphan Black: The Next Chapter by Malka Ann Older, Madeline Ashby
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe official continuation of Orphan Black, narrated by Emmy Award winner Tatiana Maslany. The story we never wanted to end continues... -
![Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten]()
Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses... -
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![Whammo Ranch by Jerry Boyd]()
Whammo Ranch by Jerry Boyd
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA saucer comes in damaged, with sick people aboard. A deadly plague threatens Earth. Can Bob and his crew save the day? Will Bob's good nature cost him his life? Julie's boss wants to retire. Can she handle running the restaurant? Can Bob find her the help she needs? Dee has come down with a terrible case of pedestrianism... -
![Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor by Gloria Fuertes]()
Lo que pasa es que te quiero: Poemas de amor y desamor by Gloria Fuertes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPara Gloria Fuertes el amor era algo involuntario, como la poesía o el hipo. Curiosa, melancólica y mordaz, durante toda su vida amó y escribió con un espíritu de libertad y ternura insólito en la España de su época. Le rompieron el corazón mil veces, y mil veces lo recompuso para seguir queriendo... -
![Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey]()
Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble... -
![Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast by Benjanun Sriduangkaew]()
Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVishnu’s Leviathan: a half-beast, half-machine warship famed for its speed and might. The great prize that armies across the galaxies will kill to possess.Admiral Anoushka was once a ghost. Now she's the universe's most brutal commander with a debt to a godlike AI. To repay it—and to complete her long revenge—she’s set her sights on the leviathan... -
![Emergence by Niall Teasdale]()
Emergence by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmergence: noun. 1. The process of becoming visible after being concealed. 2. The process of coming into existence or prominence. 3. In philosophy, art, and systems theory, a process where complex systems can exhibit properties none of its constituent parts possess. Sometimes, when something emerges, you’re better off not knowing... -
![The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale]()
The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFox has undergone a pretty big change in her life. For one thing, her batteries need charging each night, but her confidence has taken a hit too. When you’re questioning the choices you’ve made, a good way to start is at the beginning. Fox returns to Topeka where people are dying due to faulty implanted organs... -
![Criminal Minds by Niall Teasdale]()
Criminal Minds by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Marie lands what seems to be the chance of a lifetime, starring in a new, rather low-budget, action movie based on the Whitechapel murders, she is thrilled. But when sex workers begin being murdered, their bodies mutilated in a chillingly familiar fashion it falls to Fox Meridian to hunt down the killer. But it seems that the new Jack has a few tricks up his sleeve which the old one did not... -
![Dominance by Niall Teasdale]()
Dominance by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the new private policing contracts coming in at the start of the 2062, Fox Meridian can finally relax and devote all her time to her new position as the terrorism liaison for Palladium Security Solutions. She may have no boyfriend and no life, but at least she’s back doing what she wants to do: investigate crimes... -
![State Machine by K.B. Spangler]()
State Machine by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNearly a year has passed since the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies went public. Agent Rachel Peng has adapted to her new life as the cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but for Peng and her team, murder is usually just the beginning... -
![Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova]()
Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntonina Black, or just Nina, is a wise-mouthed but wounded girl. She is sent to live with her aunt in America. After leaving her homeland Russia, Nina tries to adjust to a new life with her homophobic cousins and American high school. But her life begins to take a strange new turn when an enigmatic girl shows up. Allecra Knight is a gorgeous blonde mystery... -
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![We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy]()
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, swords, spears, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins. Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in the science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material... -
![Maker Space by K.B. Spangler]()
Maker Space by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConspiracies, political cover-ups, acts of terrorism… As one of the first cyborgs employed by the federal government, Agent Rachel Peng thought she had already lived through it all. Then, without warning, fourteen blocks of downtown Washington, D.C. are gone, blown apart by bombs unlike anything Rachel has ever seen... -
![Off The Written Path by Natalie Debrabandere]()
Off The Written Path by Natalie Debrabandere
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSOMETIMES THE MORE YOU RUN, THE BETTER YOU’LL BE FOUNDCommunity rescue pilot, Kai Walker, has learned the hard way that needing anyone can be dangerous. Appreciated by all, she is known by few. Her intimate relationships also remain short, sweet, and superficial. Her life may be empty, but it is safe, and good enough.Science-fiction author, Eleanor St James, needs peace and quiet to work... -
![Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown]()
Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStudying the past hasn’t prepared Daisy Parker—anthropologist-turned-matchmaker—for her latest client. Finding Lindsey Jamieson-Ford a life partner isn’t exactly a simple exercise. Not only hasn’t Lindsey dated for years, the prickly reclusive scientist relates better with her robots than with people. Lindsey has no idea what matchmaking involves when she hires Daisy... -
![Then Will the Sun Rise Alabaster by Benjanun Sriduangkaew]()
Then Will the Sun Rise Alabaster by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOn a remote planet, a convent harbors a deadly secret buried beneath quiet violence--a secret that the woman known only as the Alabaster Admiral will obtain at any cost. Set in the same universe as And Shall Machines Surrender... -
![Instantiation by Greg Egan]()
Instantiation by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan: • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” • “Zero For Conduct” • “Uncanny Valley” • “Seventh Sight” • “The Nearest” • “Shadow Flock” • “Bit Players” • “Break My Fall” • “3-adica” • “The Slipway” •... -
![Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! by Todd Tarpley]()
Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! by Todd Tarpley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA playful robot bedtime story, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco! Quiet at last. Not a peep. Three little robots are... BEEP! BEEP!When his three rambunctious robots give every possible excuse not to go to sleep, what's a little boy to do? With a fun refrain that will have readers of all ages chanting along, here's a book that kids will be begging to read every night before bed... -
![The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi]()
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian... -
![Prelude to War by T.S. Paul]()
Prelude to War by T.S. Paul
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWith the destruction of the Earth ship Colossus the 3rd interstellar war is about to begin. The Cabal plan to reveal their political intentions to the Galaxy, but before they can, they have to eliminate their enemies first. Athena and her whole family are in their sights along with anyone that stands in the way of progress and control... -
![Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon]()
Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations... -
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![In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson]()
In Dyer Need: The First Chapter by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe latest Romance from Claire Highton-Stevenson Ren Dyer is at the pinnacle of her career. Newly appointed as head of the protection team for Home Secretary Andrea Fielding, she is a woman focused only on her job. Andrea Fielding is a woman who is looking for love and finding it in all the wrong places... -
![Machine's Last Testament by Benjanun Sriduangkaew]()
Machine's Last Testament by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo give humanity peace, the artificial intelligence Samsara will wage an eternal war . . .In a universe torn by combat, Samsara's world is the final haven that refugees will pay any price to enter. At the Selection Bureau, Suzhen Tang upholds the AI's will and grants citizenship to those deemed worthy... -
![Robots Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner, F. Paul Wilson]()
Robots Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner, F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Gallegher must solve the mystery of his own machines before his dodgy financing and reckless lifestyle catch up with him! This complete collection of Kuttner's five classic "Gallegher" stories presents the author at the height of his imaginative genius... -
![Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Kirsten Berg, Nnedi Okorafor]()
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Kirsten Berg, Nnedi Okorafor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFuture Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who’s-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today.Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Emily St... -
![Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott]()
Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly sisenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power... -
![Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott]()
Dreaming Metal by Melissa Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval... -
![T-Minus Two by K.G. MacGregor]()
T-Minus Two by K.G. MacGregor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the boldest conquest of our time—the colonization of Mars. Of the thousands who clamored for a one-way ticket to the Red Planet, only a fraction remain in the running. Now they're converging on Hawaii’s Big Island for a nail-biting competition to be the first to launch. Mila Todorov has prepared for this moment throughout her young life... -
![Deep Merge by Linda North]()
Deep Merge by Linda North
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaesah, a geneticist from an all-female species living on the other side of the galaxy, is stranded on Earth when her mate, who was vital in piloting their starship, dies. Kaesah must report the disturbing events on Earth that could impact the survival of her species... -
![Safe Passage by Rachel Ford]()
Safe Passage by Rachel Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGo big or go home. For privateer Captain Magdalene Landon, it's all about going big. For Kay Ellis, it's about getting home. Together, they're about to architect the most daring heist in the galaxy. Kay knows too much. She knows it’s a matter of time before a Conglomerate hitman finds her. She’s desperate for safe passage back to Union space... -
![A&B by J.C. Lillis]()
A&B by J.C. Lillis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEighteen-year-old Barrie Krumholtz is a super-tall optimist hell-bent on a single goal: securing a slot on Pop University, a reality show for singer-songwriters helmed by her #1 musical idol. When she humiliates herself on national TV and loses a spot in the finals to smug balladeer Ava Alvarez, the door to Barrie’s well-hidden dark side swings open... -
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![the earthquake room by Davey Davis]()
the earthquake room by Davey Davis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the near future, Oakland is haunted by natural disaster and political collapse. When k realizes that she has infected her girlfriend, bea, with a disease, she loses herself in a masochistic quest for atonement, leaving bea to contend with her fears about an increasingly precarious world by herself... -
![Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson]()
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
![Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig]()
Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets... -
![Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders]()
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future... -
![The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter]()
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaya Andreyeva is a "camera", a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre... -
![Robots, Robots Everywhere by Sue Fliess]()
Robots, Robots Everywhere by Sue Fliess
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the ground and in the air,/Robots, robots everywhere!Up in space, beneath the seas,/Robots make discoveries . . .So begins this rollicking Little Golden Book featuring robots of all kinds, from ones up in space to the ones we use at home... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
![Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith, J.K. Potter]()
Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith, J.K. Potter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdited by world-renowned lesbian fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable writers -- gay and straight -- creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment... -
![Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart]()
Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis novel tells of a world in which men and women are separated, with women fleeing to the hills for freedom while men remain in the cities. Women gain telepathic abilities, unique flying and healing techniques, and go on duty to assist women in the cities still struggling for enlightenment... -
![T-Rexes & Tax Law by Rachel Ford]()
T-Rexes & Tax Law by Rachel Ford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA routine tax fraud investigation. A strange lab. A mysterious button.He shouldn’t have pushed the button. But Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, pushed the button. And now he’s 67 million years in the past, stranded out of time with a coworker who hates him and a bunch of tax cheats... -
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![The Rivals by Jane Pek]()
The Rivals by Jane Pek
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA prescient literary mystery about corporate espionage, family dynamics, and the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review)“Exhilaratingly well-written. I loved it so much that I didn’t want it to end.” —Emily St... -
![Fixit by Erik Schubach]()
Fixit by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFixit, she's out of this world... This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky... -
![The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks]()
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis novella chronicles a Culture mission to Earth in the late Seventies, and also serves as a prequel of sorts to Use of Weapons by featuring one of that novel's characters, Diziet Sma. Here, Sma argues for contact with Earth, to try to fix the mess the human species has made of it... -
![Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. Knight]()
Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. Knight
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCharlotte Perkins Gilman was a turn-of-the-century American feminist and socialist thinker. In her works of fiction, Gilman sought to illustrate her ideas about the way American society squandered the talents and economic contributions of women... -
![Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest]()
Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLate in the 22nd century, the settling of a new world falls on the strong shoulders of young Megan. The perfect leader, she undertakes to guide her sisters to a new planet, free from the shackles of the brutal Earth regime. Negotiating politics in a society of women is second only to securing their safety... -
![The Box by Hugh Howey]()
The Box by Hugh Howey
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when artificial intelligence comes online, only to find itself locked in a room with a...
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