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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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Neverness

David Zindell · 505 pages

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Star Trek Log Five

Alan Dean Foster · 195 pages

Adaptations of the Star Trek animated series episodes "The Ambergris Element", "The Pirates of Orion", and "Jihad".

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The Endymion Omnibus

Dan Simmons · 992 pages

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The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey · 248 pages

From back cover of Del Rey paperback 1979: HELVA HAD BEEN BORN HUMAN ... but only her brain had been saved -- saved to be schooled, programmed and implanted in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner -- male or female -- to share her exhilarating escapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding -- resplendent with dari

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Heaven's River

Dennis E. Taylor · 676 pages

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Star Trek 11

James Blish · 188 pages

On the Enterprise's latest mission an alien presence of unsurpassed beauty invades the Starship; an eighteenth-century squire entertains the crew on an uncharted planet; Kirk declares war on the Klingons; and more!

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Empire

B.V. Larson · 346 pages

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Seeker

Jack McDevitt · 366 pages

In the far future when space travel is comm0nplace, antiquities dealers Alex and Chase find/sell artifacts, come across a cup from Seeker, a huge spaceship that left Earth 9,000 yrs earlier. They find the ship after a lot of work, but it raises more questions, and someone keeps trying to kill Alex and Chase .

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Double Share

Nathan Lowell · 330 pages

AN INEXPERIENCED OFFICER. A DYSFUNCTIONAL SHIP. LIFE IN THE DEEP DARK JUST GOT A LOT HARDER. In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are derelict and abusive, the crew demoralized and undisciplined, and change unwelcomed and dangerous. Can Ishmael use

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Midshipman's Hope

David Feintuch · 415 pages

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Expendable

James Alan Gardner · 344 pages

From the back cover: Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is now war, little crime, and life is sacred... unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible

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Star Trek 12

James Blish, J.A. Lawrence · 177 pages

Kirk: slave McCoy: murdered Spock: outlaw - in a universe gone mad A universe where worlds are ruled by neo-Nazi dictators... A universe that immunizes children to the wholesale slaughter of their parents... A universe where the slightest thought unleashes total terror... Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the crew of the Starship Enterprise enter the darkest dimensions of exist

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Vacuum Diagrams

Stephen Baxter · 430 pages

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar syst

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The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide

Douglas Adams · 624 pages

Finally, here they are in one outrageous volume--all five best-selling Hitchhiker stories by Douglas Adams. Plus, you'll find a perplexingly frank introduction by the author himself, giving a behind-the-scenes look at each book and the zany radio series that inspired them. But that's not all! You also get a ferocious giggle of a short story, starring the two-headed, three-armed, ex-president of th

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The Golden Globe

John Varley · 471 pages

From back cover Ace paperback September 1999: *All the universe is a stage* -- and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe, bringing Shakespeare -- a version of it anyway -- to the outer reaches of Earth's solar system. Sparky can transform himself from young to old, fat to thin, even male to female, by altering mag

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Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 319 pages

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o

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Q-Zone

Greg Cox · 270 pages

From the book jacket: The puckish super-being called Q has bedeviled Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise since their first encounter at Farpoint Station. But little was known of Q's enigmatic past or that of the transcendent plane where he sometimes dwells. Now Picard must discover Q's secrets for the sake of all that exists. While the Enterprise struggles to surv

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Med Ship

Murray Leinster · 634 pages

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Explorer

C.J. Cherryh · 468 pages

Cherryh's second trilogy set in her Foreigner Universe comes to a thrilling conclusion with "Explorer" where a human delegate trapped in a distant star system faces a dangerous alien ship.

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Zima Blue and Other Stories

Alastair Reynolds · 488 pages

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Dark Force Rising

Timothy Zahn · 443 pages

The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord--Grand Admiral Thrawn--has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. With the aid of unimaginable weapons long hidden away by the Emperor on a backwater planet, Thrawn plans to turn the tide of battle, overwhelm the New Republic, and impose his iron rule throughou

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Boneyards

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Changer of Worlds

David Weber, Eric Flint · 396 pages

This collection of short stories has Honor Harrington as a Midshipmen. Introduces the character of Victor Cachet, Helen Ziliwiki, and her Dad. There is also the Coup against Rob Pierre in Haven.

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