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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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Diving into the Wreck

Kristine Kathryn Rusch · 334 pages

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Saturn's Children

Charles Stross · 323 pages

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determi

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Aftermath

Ann Aguirre · 307 pages

During the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace "jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel--and the lives of 600 Conglomerate soldiers. Now she's on trial for dereliction of duty, desertion, mass murder, high treason ... and her life.

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Seeker

Jack McDevitt · 366 pages

In the far future when space travel is comm0nplace, antiquities dealers Alex and Chase find/sell artifacts, come across a cup from Seeker, a huge spaceship that left Earth 9,000 yrs earlier. They find the ship after a lot of work, but it raises more questions, and someone keeps trying to kill Alex and Chase .

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Not Till We Are Lost

Dennis E. Taylor · 12 pages

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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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To Trade the Stars

Julie E. Czerneda · 479 pages

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Zodiac

Romina Russell · 319 pages

When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens, Rhoma Grace, a sixteen-year-old student from House Cancer, must convince twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac against Ophiuchus, the exiled thirteenth Guardian of Zodiac legend, who has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy.

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Darkship Thieves

Sarah A. Hoyt · 370 pages

"Athena Hear Sinistra has survived reformatories, madhouses and ballet schools. But nothing prepared her for waking up in her father's space cruiser with a stranger looming over her bed." "Facing mutiny armed only with a torn nightgown and her wits, Athena has no choice but to escape into space - and to confront singlehanded the darkships that have terrorized Earth's power collectors for centuries

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Shards of Honour

Lois McMaster Bujold · 296 pages

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Dreadnought!

Diane Carey · 251 pages

Star Empire is the Federation's most powerful new weapon -- a dreadnought, first in a class of super-starships -- capable of outgunning a dozen Klingon cruisers, or subduing a galaxy. On the eve of her maiden voyage, Star Empire is stolen by terrorists who demand a rendezvous with the Starship Enterprise -- and with Lieutenant Piper, stationed aboard Kirk's ship on her first training cruise.

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Molly Fyde and the Land of Light

Hugh Howey · 338 pages

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Furious

Mike Shepherd · 368 pages

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Neverness

David Zindell · 505 pages

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Moss'd in Space

Rebecca Thorne · 368 pages

Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic com

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Empire

B.V. Larson · 346 pages

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers · 441 pages

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past. But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash o

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Acorna's People

Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough · 384 pages

Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna's Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy

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Aftermath

Chuck Wendig

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Revenger

Alastair Reynolds · 427 pages

"The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them ... Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, s

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Omega Games

S.L. Viehl · 372 pages

Dr. Cherijo Torin faces a different kind of epidemic - a mysterious black crystal spreading like cancer throughout the galaxy. The hunt for information leads Cherijo to the planet Trellus, whose inhabitants exhibit excessive paranoia and anger, taking out their frustrations in the Omega Dome in simulated combat against battle drones. But someone is killing victims outside the arena, and Cherijo be

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The Ship Avenged

S.M. Stirling · 405 pages

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Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 225 pages

After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule had failed to find it the first time -- but now he was certain he knew where it lay. The fate of

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