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Shadow of Empire

Jay Allan · 377 pages

"Arkarin Blackhawk is smuggler and a mercenary, earning a comfortable but precarious living as a freelance adventurer. He and his followers, the crew of the ship Wolf's Claw, live on the fringe of human society in the Far Stars. Blackhawk is a veteran fighter, as deadly with a blade as he is with a gun. But he is also a man haunted by a dark past, a cynical hero struggling to hold back the guilt a

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy · 354 pages

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Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

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Saga, Vol. 2

Brian K. Vaughan · 144 pages

"Après avoir réchappé aux horreurs de la planète Clivage, à ses champs de bataille, et aux chasseurs de primes lancés à leur poursuite, Alana, Marko et leur fille Hazel, symbole d'une paix possible entre les deux peuples, s'apprêtent à relever leur plus grand défi : faire la connaissance des grands-parents !" [Source : 4e de couv.].

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Labyrinth

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Agent of Change

Sharon Lee, Steve Miller · 283 pages

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Rogue World

B.V. Larson

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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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Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star, Volume 2

Cain Kuga, Hajime Yatate · 176 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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Born of Shadows

Sherrilyn Kenyon · 418 pages

In the universe where the League is law, most live in fear. We fight back. Welcome to a world where corrupt assassination politics dominate everyone. It's kill or be killed. Caillen's destiny was to become the next generation of Dagan smugglers. Until fate intervenes. Suddenly, his life is not his own and his loyalties are split in a way he could have never imagined.

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Redemption

Joshua Dalzelle

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The Faded Sun Trilogy

C.J. Cherryh · 399 pages

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Bloodlines

Karen Traviss · 380 pages

A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold in this second original novel in a brand-new multibook epic featuring Luke, Mara, Han, Leia, their children and allies. Original.

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Star Wars Omnibus: Boba Fett

Thomas Andrews, John Wagner, Mike Kennedy, Ron Marz, Ian Gibson, Andy Mangels, John Ostrander · 496 pages

Collected here are nine stories of Boba Fett's high risk and high adventure missions. From settling diplomatic disputes (with extreme prejudice) to a bounty hunter free-for-all, from a duel with Darth Vader to dealing with Boba Fett imposters, if the price is right, there is no job too perilous for this mysterious man in Mandalorian armor!

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Phoenix Island

John Dixon · 309 pages

When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.

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Hard Merchandise

K.W. Jeter, Timothy Zahn · 353 pages

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Slave Ship

K.W. Jeter · 324 pages

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Havoc

Ann Aguirre · 310 pages

When the prison ship Perdition is taken over by mercenaries with orders to execute the prisoners, Dresdemona "Dred" Devos leads a ragtag army of inmates into a bloody war to make sure the mercenaries do not complete their mission.

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Starship: Mercenary

Mike Resnick · 323 pages

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Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth · 512 pages

On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not -- their gifts make them vulnerable to others’ control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra is

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Black Hole Sun

David Macinnis Gill

On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.

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Star Soldiers

Andre Norton · 457 pages

The galactic civilization that considered Earthmen fit only to be their mercenaries in their constant conflicts - and Earthmen were not allowed to go into space in any other role - which wound up with the Earthmen rebelling against the galactic oppressors. After long centuries the last vestiges of the Galactic Union is falling apart and Earthmen are out to make their own stamp upon the galaxy I

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