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Shadow Puppets

Orson Scott Card · 352 pages

As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to consolidate his power with the help of Bean and Petra.

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Slow Bullets

Alastair Reynolds · 192 pages

"A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur-and for humanity-peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revive

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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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The Primarchs

Christian Dunn · 416 pages

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Promethean Sun

Nick Kyme

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Deathstalker War

Simon R. Green · 522 pages

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Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

Matthew Woodring Stover · 311 pages

When Luke Skywalker and his companions are lured to Mindor and into battle with the Black Stormtroopers, they are unaware that the confrontation is part of a plot by Lord Shadowspawn to destroy the heroes of the New Republic and to restore the Empire with himself as ruler.

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Trouble on Paradise

Craig Alanson · 98 pages

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Rebel Fleet

B.V. Larson

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Vorkosigan's Game

Lois McMaster Bujold · 492 pages

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Wild Space

Karen Miller · 360 pages

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The Butcher of Anderson Station

James S.A. Corey · 32 pages

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The Heart of Matter

Evan Currie

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Leviathan

Jack Campbell · 323 pages

"Two Syndicate Worlds star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. As the government

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Garro: Legion of One

James Swallow · 464 pages

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After the Coup

John Scalzi

In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy—when possible—is important. So being a Colonial Union officer attached to an interplanetary diplomatic mission sometimes means taking a fall. Literally. This story is set in the universe of Old Man’s War, and was acquired and edited for Tor.com by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

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To Honor You Call Us

H. Paul Honsinger · 454 pages

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Midshipman's Hope

David Feintuch · 415 pages

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A Call to Arms

David Weber, Timothy Zahn, Thomas Pope · 426 pages

"Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for them,

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The Armageddon Inheritance

David Weber · 344 pages

This is the second book of the DAHAK series. This sequel has Earth facing the Achultanni, Colin and a picked crew of earth soldiery are now out to find out why the old empire has not responded to the alert message from the outer sensor bouys. While they are searching for answers the earth is left in the hand of Horus and a very select group of generals. These men are responsible for overseeing the

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Shadow of the Scorpion

Neal Asher · 272 pages

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Heir to the Empire

Timothy Zahn · 402 pages

It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years a

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