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Starship Grifters

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The Android's Dream

John Scalzi · 400 pages

When a human kills an alien during diplomatic negotations, the fallout is astronomical. To prevent interstellar war, humanity must deliver an extremely rare sheep for the alien's coronation ceremony - or face enslavement. So Earth's government turns to Harry Creek: ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire. It should be a straightforward mission, but there are others who covet the priceless anim

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Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu

L. Neil Smith · 182 pages

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The Sheriff of Yrnameer: A Novel

Michael Rubens

Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.Reluctantly compe

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Will Save the Galaxy for Food

Yahtzee Croshaw · 286 pages

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Their Fractured Light

Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 400 pages

A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn's a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck-now, they live a public life in front of the cameras,

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Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

Terry Jones · 246 pages

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Mechanical Failure

Joe Zieja · 352 pages

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Rebel Dawn

A.C. Crispin · 349 pages

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Ports of Call

Jack Vance · 300 pages

The adventures of an interplanetary con man. He is Myron Tany, a young sailor on a tramp cargo vessel. He journeys from one exotic world to another, turning a buck and breaking hearts. By the author of Night Lamp.

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God Emperor of Didcot

Toby Frost · 323 pages

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And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

And Another Thing... is the sixth novel in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels.Belson said of Eoin Colfer, "I love his books and could

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Willful Child

Steven Erikson · 344 pages

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Hard Sell

Piers Anthony · 268 pages

Its about a middle aged man who loses everything to a scam artist and has to start from scratch. He tried many different jobs and never seems to be able to make it at one. He ends up adopting a mouthy orphan who aids him in his search to land a job. They end up in a high speed race, and cemetery, and undercover job dealing with shrinking corpses. n amazing book, its never dull.

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Hal Spacejock

Simon Haynes · 349 pages

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Cytonic

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction from the author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus a

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Dancing with Bears

Michael Swanwick · 268 pages

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All Systems Red & Artificial Condition

Martha Wells · 339 pages

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Making Money

Terry Pratchett · 400 pages

The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations—including his own. So

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Heaven's River

Dennis E. Taylor · 676 pages

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How Much for Just the Planet?

John M. Ford · 253 pages

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Space Team

Barry J. Hutchison · 286 pages

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