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Midshipman's Hope

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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)

Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata

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Fearless

Jack Campbell · 320 pages

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The Legend of Corinair

Ryk Brown · 280 pages

A captain coming into his own… A handful of refugees stranded on board… A possible traitor in their midst… A voyage into the territory of the very enemy that pursues them… Sometimes legends become realities in unexpected ways. It seems that fate has the crew of the Aurora firmly in its clutches.

Military Sci-FiReluctant HeroSpace OperaSpace Exploration
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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

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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Empire

Michael R. Hicks · 310 pages

EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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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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Earth Strike

Ian Douglas

The first book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceThere is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from cross

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey · 592 pages

When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.

Space ExplorationSpace OperaReluctant HeroScience Fiction
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Battle Cruiser

B.V. Larson · 401 pages

One starship will either save Earth or destroy her.

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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Mutineers' Moon

David Weber · 317 pages

MUTINY! For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helpl

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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The Lost Starship

Vaughn Heppner · 390 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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The Flight of the Eisenstein

James Swallow · 416 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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Warship

Joshua Dalzelle · 320 pages

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Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein · 222 pages

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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To Honor You Call Us

H. Paul Honsinger · 454 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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Lt. Leary, Commanding

David Drake · 610 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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The Silver Ships

S.H. Jucha · 306 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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The Heart of Matter

Evan Currie

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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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

Space ExplorationMilitary Sci-FiSpace OperaScience Fiction
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Shards of Honour

Lois McMaster Bujold · 296 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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The Hitch Hiker's guide to the galaxy

Douglas Adams · 590 pages

Reluctant HeroSpace ExplorationSpace OperaScience Fiction
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Cain's Last Stand

Sandy Mitchell · 409 pages

Military Sci-FiReluctant HeroScience FictionFirst Person Narrator
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A Galaxy Unknown

Thomas DePrima · 413 pages

Military Sci-FiSpace OperaSpace ExplorationScience Fiction
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Prospero Burns

Dan Abnett

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