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The Trials

Linda Nagata · 464 pages

"Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one b

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Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson · 347 pages

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

P.W. Singer, August Cole · 416 pages

"What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghos

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Cytonic

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction from the author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus a

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Archangel Protocol

Lyda Morehouse · 342 pages

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Iron Sunrise

Charles Stross · 448 pages

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Sunrise Alley

Catherine Asaro · 433 pages

When research scientist Samantha Bryton comes to the aid of a stranger who washes up on the beach near her home, she is unaware that he is the result of an experiment conducted by Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research.

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Slant

Greg Bear · 455 pages

Greg Bear is the acclaimed winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has written many books and short stories that have been praised by readers and critics alike. Earth, in the sixth decade of the twenty-first century, is a planet transformed by rapid technological advances. Nanotechnology has been refined and perfected, allowing people the ability to transform their bodies and environments

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Crossover

Joel Shepherd · 463 pages

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Forest of Memory

Mary Robinette Kowal · 88 pages

Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and memories with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people's lives have value, after all. But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear, she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world. The man who ste

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Redemption Ark

Alastair Reynolds · 592 pages

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Factoring Humanity

Robert J. Sawyer · 343 pages

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Building Victoria

M.D. Cooper · 330 pages

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Proxima

Stephen Baxter · 483 pages

The story of how we colonise a new world, and the discovery of an ancient secret that will change our understanding of our place in the Universe for ever. Sequel is Ultima.

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 272 pages

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The Last Firewall

William Hertling · 322 pages

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All That We See or Seem

Ken Liu · 404 pages

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Sol

S.H. Jucha · 344 pages

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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 385 pages

"2035: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. The future of the human race is to be inevitably linked with its most brilliant creation. But there are some who do not want the future to arrive.... Intelligent and driven, Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency in psychiatry at Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital, where a select group of patient

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Flash

L.E. Modesitt Jr. · 508 pages

Jump ahead a couple of centuries to a world not so different from today except in advanced technology, a colony on Mars, and self aware AI's. Find a retired Lt. Col who quit the marines over violating his personal ethics, despite his proficiency as a commando, who goes on to get his doctorate and his own business at what we would call advanced advertising today. Extremely good in his profession

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Hum

Helen Phillips · 272 pages

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Mass Effect: Revelation

Drew Karpyshyn · 336 pages

Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars; the newest interstellar species, struggling to carve out its place in the greater galactic community.On the edge of colonized space, ship commander and Allianc

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Congo

Michael Crichton · 348 pages

The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery —and now Congo! It's Crichton in top form—and the terrain this time is darkest Africa. Three daring adventurers trek into the jungle—into the very' heart of the Congo, through cannibal country, past flaming volcanoes—in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Pure H. Rider Haggard, but with the incomparable Crichton difference! His intrepid ba

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Transcendence

G.S. Jennsen · 412 pages

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