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The Silver Ships

S.H. Jucha · 306 pages

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End Game

Peter David · 184 pages

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The Good That Men Do

Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin · 464 pages

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A Time to Be Born

John Vornholt · 284 pages

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Cathedral

Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels · 404 pages

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Fallen Gods

Michael A. Martin · 368 pages

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The Final Fury

Dafydd ab Hugh · 295 pages

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The Reality Dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton · 936 pages

Space is not the only void...In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader s

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Heaven's Reach

David Brin · 557 pages

Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo--both human and alien--brace for

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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.

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Power Hungry

Howard Weinstein · 274 pages

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A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge · 520 pages

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Rebellion

Ryk Brown

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Synthesis

James Swallow · 400 pages

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The Entropy Effect

Vonda N. McIntyre · 224 pages

The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from a starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time - then killing them instead. But when Mordreaux escapes, bursts onto the bridge and kills Captain Kirk, Spock must journey back in time to avert disaster - before it occurs. Now there's more at

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The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle · 560 pages

Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as the "crazy eddy point". Introduces the concept of frictionless toilets that don't have any water in them but I suspect the authors didn't think it all the way through - I don't recall a negative air pressure that would keep odours in their rightfull place. Nevertheless a fascin

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Web of the Romulans

M.S. Murdock · 220 pages

Ravaged by a killer virus, the Romulans enter Canara, where the only antidote can be found. Desperate, they incite a victorious Enterprise attack on one of their vessels - but Kirk discovers their ruse. Meanwhile, the central computer has fallen in love with him, severely crippling the Enterprise. Now Kirk must bring the antidote to the Romulans - before the galaxy crashes over the brink of war

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Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov · 426 pages

After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation. A search is begun to determine if the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, the Second Foundation finds that there is evidence of an independent force acting against the Mule to

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Fusion

Kirsten Beyer · 393 pages

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Guises of the Mind

Rebecca Neason · 277 pages

Captain Picard and his companions are drugged and captured when they arrive on Capulon IV, a world about to join the Federation. The group must escape and stop the new ruler's coronation to prevent mass destruction.

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Rising

Sally Malcolm · 240 pages

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The Captains' Honor

David Dvorkin, Daniel Dvorkin · 255 pages

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Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 397 pages

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens. Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that

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Summertide

Charles Sheffield

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