Diving Universe Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

3.73 · 79 ratings
  • Diving into the Wreck: A Diving Universe Novella (Diving Universe #.1)
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    Diving into the Wreck: A Diving Universe Novella (Diving Universe #.1)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2013

    The UPC award-winning novella that launched the Diving Series. Boss loves to dive derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Then one day, she finds the claim of a lifetime. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past wont give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.

  • The Room of Lost Souls (Diving Universe #0.5)
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    The Room of Lost Souls (Diving Universe #0.5)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2013

    Boss remembers the Room. It haunts her. Her mother died there. Now, a client wants her to go back. She wants Boss to help her uncover the Room’s mysteries. But the truths she discovers might destroy everything Boss holds sacred.The Room of Lost Souls novella also appears in a slightly different form in the novel Diving into the Wreck.

  • Diving into the Wreck (Diving Universe #1)
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    Diving into the Wreck (Diving Universe #1)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings · published 2009

    Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she’s an active historian. She wants to know about the past—to experience it firsthand. Once she’s dived the ship, she’ll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It’s a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people... more

  • City of Ruins (Diving Universe #2)
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    City of Ruins (Diving Universe #2)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2011

    Boss, a loner, loved to dive derelict spacecraft adrift in the blackness of space.... But one day, she found a ship that would change everything - an ancient Dignity Vessel - and aboard the ship, the mysterious and dangerous Stealth Tech. Now, years after discovering that first ship, Boss has put together a large company that finds Dignity Vessels and "loose" stealth technology... more

  • Boneyards (Diving Universe #3)
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    Boneyards (Diving Universe #3)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings · published 2012

    Searching for ancient technology to help her friends find answers to the mystery of their own past, Boss ventures into a place filled with evidence of an ancient space battle, one the Dignity Vessels lost.Meanwhile, the Enterran Empire keeps accidentally killing its scientists in a quest for ancient stealth tech. Boss’s most difficult friend, Squishy, has had enough. She sneaks into the Empire and destroys its primary stealth-tech research base... more

  • The Diving Series Box Set: Books 1-3 (Diving Universe #1-3)
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    The Diving Series Box Set: Books 1-3 (Diving Universe #1-3)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2017

    Three novels packed with page-turning SF adventure in classic style; set in the far future, this series takes you to deep space and deeper suspense. “A page-turning space adventure” says Publisher’s Weekly, “adventure SF in the old tradition” by Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine, and “a refreshingly new and fleshed out realm of sci-fi action and adventure” by Astro Guyz, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Diving Series offers stellar tales of the far future... more

  • Skirmishes (Diving Universe #4)
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    Skirmishes (Diving Universe #4)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2013

    The answers Captain Jonathon “Coop” Cooper and the crew of the Ivoire seek lie in the Boneyards. But they must wait for Boss and her team to dive it, explore the wrecks, and piece together what happened in that faraway place.Boss loves the challenge. Thousands of ships, centuries of history, all play to her strengths. In her absence, she trusts Coop to defend the Nine Planets Alliance against the Enterran Empire... more

  • The Application of Hope (Diving Universe #4.5)
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    The Application of Hope (Diving Universe #4.5)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2014

    Captain Tory Sabin knows all too well the dangers of the anacapa drive, and that sometimes ships enter foldspace never to return. The ships simply disappear, taking their crews with them. Responding to a distress call from Captain Jonathan “Coop” Cooper, Sabin knows she must race against time to find him and his ship. Because although the Ivoire becomes the latest ship to enter foldspace and not return, she refuses to give up hope. She resolves to find the Ivoire... more

  • The Falls (Diving Universe #5)
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    The Falls (Diving Universe #5)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2016

    Fleet sector bases close as the Fleet moves on. Everyone knows and expects it. But still, the announcement that Sector Base E-2 will close—although still thirty years in the future—breeds a mood of tension and anxiety. So, when Rajivk Agwu finds two pairs of shoes on a trail near Fiskett Falls, but no sign of their occupants, his already heightened senses warn of danger. Those on the base fare no better... more

  • The Runabout: A Diving Novel (Diving Universe #6)
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    The Runabout: A Diving Novel (Diving Universe #6)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2017

    A graveyard of spaceships, abandoned by the mysterious Fleet thousands of years earlier. Boss calls it “The Boneyard.” She needs the ships inside to expand her work for Lost Souls Corporation. Yash Zarlengo thinks the Boneyard will help her discover if the Fleet still exists. Boss and Yash, while exploring the Boneyard, discover a small ship with a powerful and dangerous problem: The ship’s active anacapa drive. To escape the Boneyard, Boss must deal with the drive... more

  • Searching for the Fleet (Diving Universe #7)
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    Searching for the Fleet (Diving Universe #7)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2018

    An epic search sparked by a dangerous hope. Leaving Boss behind to continue diving the Boneyard, Ivoire Engineer Yash Zarlengo returns to the Lost Souls Corporation’s headquarters to analyze the data from the runabout they discovered there.Convinced that the experience in the Boneyard proves the Fleet still exists, Yash buries herself in her work, interested in little else.Ivoire Captain Jonathan “Coop” Cooper notices Yash’s growing obsession with finding the Fleet and joins her in her search... more

  • The Renegat (Diving Universe #8)
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    The Renegat (Diving Universe #8)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2019

    As a young recruit, brilliant engineer Nadim Crowe accidentally destroys an entire Scrapheap full of ships. Now, decades later, he ends up on the crew of the Renegat, the only ship in the Fleet ever sent on a mission backward to investigate an ancient Scrapheap. Something invaded that Scrapheap, and the Fleet wants to know what. Or who. The Renegat: The only ship the Fleet dares risk. The Renegat: A ship of misfits and screw-ups sent on an impossible mission. All alone in deep space... more

  • Escaping Amnthra (Diving Universe #8.5)
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    Escaping Amnthra (Diving Universe #8.5)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2020

    When the captain and senior crew abandon the Renegat, linguist Raina Serpell assumes command. She needs to get the ship and remaining crew home.As the ship comes under attack from the planet below, Raina must first figure out how to operate the ship’s firepower. Harder still, she must battle her own past to become captain in more than just name alone.A gripping, fast-paced read. Award-winning Kristine Kathryn Rusch working at the top of her form... more

  • Thieves (Diving Universe #9)
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    Thieves (Diving Universe #9)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2021

    A race against time.Weeks after Boss’ injury from the runabout dive, she continues the mission to salvage Fleet wrecks for the Lost Souls Corporation. But Boss feels like she lost something after that fateful dive.Until something happens in the Boneyard to catch her attention. Something that sparks her interest with an intensity she thought she lost.Now, Boss must assemble a team—her old team—to dive this new discovery.But Boss worries that someone knows her plans... more

  • Squishy's Teams (Diving Universe #10)
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    Squishy's Teams (Diving Universe #10)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2020

    Diving readers know that Squishy enlisted others to help her destroy stealth tech in the novel Boneyards. But exactly what happened to those teams remained a mystery—until now. Ten people signed up to help Squishy in her fateful mission. Only five returned. Paired up in teams of two, they set out across the Enterran Empire to infiltrate and sabotage the Empire’s bases used to back up their stealth tech research... more

  • The Chase (Diving Universe #11)
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    The Chase (Diving Universe #11)

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2021

    On the run.After fleeing pursuers from two different missions, Boss and Coop reconvene at the Lost Souls Corporation headquarters. Both share exciting but troublesome news.And a whole lot of questions.But before they begin to even scratch the surface of the new information, they face threats from all quarters.And when an old adversary of Coop's gets involved, Boss questions who to trust to survive and find some long-awaited answers... more

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