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Winning Colors

Elizabeth Moon · 416 pages

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Flag in Exile

David Weber · 416 pages

Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds. But the People's Republic of Haven is rising from defeat to threaten Grayson anew, and the

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Hellburner

C.J. Cherryh · 359 pages

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Blood Legacy

Michael A. Stackpole · 384 pages

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Light Bringer

Pierce Brown · 823 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastati

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A Call to Arms

David Weber, Timothy Zahn, Thomas Pope · 426 pages

"Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for them,

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The End of All Things

John Scalzi · 384 pages

Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement... for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is l

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Conventions of War

Walter Jon Williams · 677 pages

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Conquerors' Pride

Timothy Zahn · 389 pages

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Dawn

Yoshiki Tanaka

v. 1. "The Golden Brat" Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire's enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute--yet benevolent--dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve democracy even if he must sacrifice hi

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Torch of Freedom

David Weber, Eric Flint · 602 pages

As the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki and the notorious Havenite secret agent Victor Cachat set off on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth concerning a wave of mysterious assassinations that have been launched against Manticore and Torch. Most people are sure that the Republic of Haven is behind the

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Caliban's War

James S.A. Corey · 608 pages

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a

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Raising Caine

Charles E. Gannon · 560 pages

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Ally

Karen Traviss · 400 pages

The worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil.Civil war on Umeh—ignited by outsiders—threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of a grossly overpopulated planet. On Bezer'ej, the handful of native aquatic creatures who survived extermination must take extraordinary and terrible steps to ensure the future of their kind... And the interlopers from a distant planet called Earth can only watch t

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Ocean's Echo

Everina Maxwell · 464 pages

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Empire's End

Chris Bunch, Allan Cole · 525 pages

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Insurrection

David Weber, Steve White · 416 pages

a corrupt central Terran federation, space battles galore, and a tiny ferocious admiral leading a fight for independence from the Federation. This is not the Harrington universe but Weber uses many of the same themes. A decent but somewhat darker read as it is probably more realistic.

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The Risen Empire

Scott Westerfeld · 496 pages

The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods

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Rebellion

B.V. Larson · 326 pages

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Vortex

Allan Cole · 416 pages

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Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks · 471 pages

Consider Phlebas is perhaps one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless the first, of the revelationary late Iain M. Banks' science fiction books. Consider Phlebas introduces us to the complex world of the mind-controlling, ubiquitous utopia of the Culture, which contrasts to their mortal sentient enemies. Iain Banks creates an imaginative and encapsulating premise to keep the reader hooked for more

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The Prince

Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling · 1,151 pages

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Furious

Mike Shepherd · 368 pages

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