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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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Winterfair Gifts

Lois McMaster Bujold, Liuis Makmast'r Biudzhold · 76 pages

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy · 354 pages

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Cinder

Marissa Meyer · 448 pages

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when

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Synthetic Men of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 192 pages

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Agent of Change

Sharon Lee, Steve Miller · 283 pages

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Isolation

Dan Wells · 75 pages

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Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

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Shadows in Flight

Orson Scott Card · 240 pages

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The Line Of Polity

Neal Asher · 423 pages

Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon is somehow involved. Agent Cormac must investigate this, also navigate the difficulties of Masada, a world about to be subsumed as the Line of Polity is drawn across it. The wilderness of Masada is without breathable air and full of dangers. Roaming out ther

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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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Deathstalker Destiny

Simon R. Green · 450 pages

Owen Deathstalker's greatest love—Hazel d'Ark—has been abducted by the Blood Runners, a culture dedicated to the extremes of genetic experimentation. Stranded in a mission on Lachrymae Christi, Owen busies himself with the task of ensuring the survival of the leper colony living there, awaiting an opportunity to rescue Hazel...or avenge her death.

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Fear Nothing

Dean Koontz · 432 pages

Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you've ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night a

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Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

Eric S. Nylund · 384 pages

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Heaven's Queen

Rachel Bach · 394 pages

"From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to

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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

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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

Vonda N. McIntyre · 223 pages

Prepare yourself for warp-10 excitement! The galaxy's ultimate future is in the hands of James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterprise… The galaxy's ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers… A battle that will shake the universe cannot be avoided… And the ultimate adventure is about to begin!

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The Ship Who Won

Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye · 330 pages

Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. So, like others before her, she decided to 'become' a spaceship, with a guy called Keffas as her brawn. Their mission is to search the galaxy for signs of intelligent life. Unfortunately their quest is largely in vain, until they arrive on Ozran, a pleasant little world peopled by some very friendly a

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Starship: Pirate

Mike Resnick · 336 pages

Branded as mutineers, Captain Wilson Cole and the crew of the starship Theodore Roosevelt, enter the world of piracy and find themselves ill-prepared for the likes of alien pirate Hammerhad Shark.

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Section 31: Abyss

David Weddle, Jeffrey Lang · 292 pages

From the back cover: They are the self-appointed protectors of the Federation. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the Federation at any cost. Mere days after the startling events of Avatar, Dr. Julian Bashir faces his darkest nightmare when Section 31 compels h

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The Stainless Steel Rat

Harry Harrison · 160 pages

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The Last Watch

J.S. Dewes · 480 pages

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