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Not Till We Are Lost

Dennis E. Taylor · 12 pages

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Golden Son

Pierce Brown · 464 pages

"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded amo

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Conquest (Edge of Victory, #1)

Greg Keyes · 291 pages

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Shadows Upon Time

Christopher Ruocchio · 928 pages

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Rebel Dawn

A.C. Crispin · 349 pages

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Babylon's Ashes

James S.A. Corey · 544 pages

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Galactic Patrol

E.E. "Doc" Smith, John Clute · 255 pages

From back cover of Jove/HBJ paperback February 1979: **terror from space** The pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Masterminded by a super-scientist, their fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol. When lensman Kim Kinnison of the Patrol found the secret Boskonian base, it was impregnable to outside a

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Twilight Company

Alexander Freed

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Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Alan Dean Foster · 216 pages

On a mission in the Circarpous system, Princess Leia Organa and Alliance Pilot Luke Skywalker are forced to crash land on Circarpous V, a mysterious, mist shrouded world known to its inhabitants as Mimban. They quickly discover a hidden, and highly dangerous, Imperial mining operation. They encounter a much greater mystery when a chance encounter has them joining a quest for the Kiaburr Crystal,

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The Armageddon Inheritance

David Weber · 344 pages

This is the second book of the DAHAK series. This sequel has Earth facing the Achultanni, Colin and a picked crew of earth soldiery are now out to find out why the old empire has not responded to the alert message from the outer sensor bouys. While they are searching for answers the earth is left in the hand of Horus and a very select group of generals. These men are responsible for overseeing the

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Hard Merchandise

K.W. Jeter, Timothy Zahn · 353 pages

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Tarnished Knight

Jack Campbell · 388 pages

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Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones

R.A. Salvatore · 368 pages

There is a great disturbance in the Force…. From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threate war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether to r

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Aurora: CV-01

Ryk Brown

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Return of the Jedi

James Kahn · 188 pages

Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth Vader and the Emperor

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The Heart of Matter

Evan Currie

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Constitution

Nick Webb · 335 pages

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Miles Errant

Lois McMaster Bujold · 745 pages

Truth and Consequences. Miles' attempt to juggle both his identities, Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan, crashes when a new player enters the game: the brother he never knew he had, Mark Pierre. First unified edition includes Borders of Infinity, Brothers In Arms, and Mirror Dance.

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Starship: Rebel

Mike Resnick · 327 pages

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Shadows and Secrets

Kieron Gillen

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Heir to the Empire

Timothy Zahn · 402 pages

It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years a

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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 Lost Command

Vaughn Heppner · 446 pages

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Polaris

Jack McDevitt · 370 pages

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