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Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille

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Redshirts

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams · 225 pages

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum. The book title refers to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the s

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The Sheriff of Yrnameer: A Novel

Michael Rubens

Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.Reluctantly compe

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Will Save the Galaxy for Food

Yahtzee Croshaw · 286 pages

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Mechanical Failure

Joe Zieja · 352 pages

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God Emperor of Didcot

Toby Frost · 323 pages

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Willful Child

Steven Erikson · 344 pages

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Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

Terry Jones · 246 pages

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The Dark Side of the Sun

Terry Pratchett · 158 pages

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And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

And Another Thing... is the sixth novel in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels.Belson said of Eoin Colfer, "I love his books and could

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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Nona the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 480 pages

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole ci

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Hal Spacejock

Simon Haynes · 349 pages

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The Tub of Happiness

Howard Tayler · 144 pages

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Super Extra Grande

Yoss · 156 pages

Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--amoebas that cover entire worlds, sensual females that feed on substances from their males' reproductive systems, talking reptiles, and other creations drawn from the classics of Cuban and inter

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Space Team

Barry J. Hutchison · 286 pages

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Last Human

Doug Naylor · 320 pages

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Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life

Grant Naylor · 608 pages

Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf in one volume – Red Dwarf and Better Than Life – plus the first draft of the original TV pilot script. It all when Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last t

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Backwards

Rob Grant · 352 pages

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How Much for Just the Planet?

John M. Ford · 253 pages

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The Incal

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius · 309 pages

"John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called 'The Incal.' Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic

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Debatable Space

Philip Palmer · 488 pages

Flanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena , the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait.Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball. Flanagan and his crew have seen this before, of course, but since they've learned a few tricks from the bad old days and since they know

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Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove · 407 pages

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Master of Formalities

Scott Meyer · 434 pages

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