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Speed of Darkness

Tracy Hickman · 242 pages

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Liberty's Crusade

Jeff Grubb · 256 pages

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Halo: First Strike

Eric S. Nylund · 340 pages

Featuring author Eric Nylund at the helm, this tale bridges the events that take place in the game Halo: Combat Evolved (as novelized in The Flood) and its blockbuster follow-up, Halo 2. After destroying the first Halo, Master Chief and Cortana attempt to voyage back home among a myriad of deadly Covenant attacks. With a battle weary squad, that includes the last of the Spartan-II survivors and

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Halo: The Flood

William C. Dietz · 341 pages

Fleeing the destruction of the planet Reach, the Master Chief and a few human survivors crash-land on Halo, where they race to unravel its secrets in order to gain control of a great source of power before the alien occupiers do.

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Knee-Deep in the Dead

Dafydd ab Hugh, Brad Linaweaver · 250 pages

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Crysis: Legion

Peter Watts · 318 pages

A soldier on his own in alien-controlled New York City, on the run from his own superiors as well as the enemy when the rest of his unit is massacred, is convinced that he might be able to change everything if he only knew the true situation.

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Halo: Last Light

Troy Denning · 391 pages

2526. It has been almost a year since humanity engaged in its destructive first contact with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. Now the hostilities have led to open war, and the United Nations Space Command understands virtually nothing about its new enemy. There are only two certainties--the Covenant is determined to eradicate humanity, and they have the superior

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Queen of Blades

Aaron Rosenberg · 349 pages

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Nova

Keith R.A. DeCandido · 304 pages

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Twilight

Christie Golden · 384 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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Halo: Evolutions, Volume II

Tobias S. Buckell · 400 pages

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Halo: Broken Circle

John Shirley · 339 pages

"Witness an untold chapter in Halo lore as John Shirley's Halo: Broken Circle takes us to the dawn of the Covenant and the fateful first bargain between the Prophets and the Elites. Broken Circle will explore an Elite splinter group rebelling against the Covenant in its earliest days, a brave Prophet caught in the machinations of the new Covenant leadership, and the root of the betrayal that would

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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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Halo: Silentium

Greg Bear · 379 pages

Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshiped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds.

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Lost Stars

Claudia Gray · 560 pages

"The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them. But Thane sours on the dream when he sees firsthand the horrific tactics th

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Garro: Legion of One

James Swallow · 464 pages

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Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

Tobias S. Buckell, Jonathan Goff, Robert McLees, Karen Traviss, Kevin Grace, Eric Raab, Frank O'Connor, Fred Van Lente, Tessa Kum, Eric S. Nylund, Jeff VanderMeer, B.K. Evenson, Robt McLees · 526 pages

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Battle for the Abyss

Ben Counter · 416 pages

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Blood Legacy

Michael A. Stackpole · 384 pages

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Priests of Mars

Graham McNeill

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Horus Rising

Dan Abnett · 416 pages

A Horus Heresy Novel - Book 1 After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at its height. His dream for humanity accomplished, the Emperor hands over the reins of power to his Warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra. It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. It is

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Betrayer

Aaron Dembski-Bowden · 416 pages

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