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Acts of Contrition

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The Kif Strike Back

C.J. Cherryh · 302 pages

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Diamond Mask

Julian May · 480 pages

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Change of Command

Elizabeth Moon · 440 pages

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Komarr

Lois McMaster Bujold · 311 pages

Agent Miles Vorkosigan investigates terrorism and financial speculation on the planet Komarr. The story is told through the eyes of Ekaterin, the unhappily married wife of a government official with whom Vorkosigan falls in love.

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Firebird

Kathy Tyers · 288 pages

Lady Firebird was born a princess of the royal family of Naetai. Because of her birthplace in the family, however, her life is expendable. Honorable suicide is the highest calling she could hope to attain. When she is chosen to lead an attack on the neighboring planet of VeeRon her death is expected. She is taken prisoner during the battle and is held by the enemy. With her own people seeking h

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The Unincorporated Future

Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin · 350 pages

Sandra O'Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O'Toole has become a powerful political figure determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been going badly. Nothing is predictable, even the behavior o

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The Quantum Rose

Catherine Asaro · 400 pages

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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza · 332 pages

When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe.

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High Priest on Union Station

E.M. Foner · 209 pages

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The Honor of the Queen

David Weber · 410 pages

This is the second book in the Honor Harington series, a large and growing collection of classic space opera style written by someone very well versed in military history and tactics. Webber's writing style and level of detail provide a compelling and almost unstoppable urge to read the whole thing through in one sitting, or at least from the middle onward, after he has made his introductions and

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Enigma

C.F. Bentley, Irene Radford · 410 pages

High Priestess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begin negotiations to establish diplomatic relations between long-isolated Harmony and the wider universe.

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Omen

Christie Golden · 250 pages

The Jedi Order is in crisis. The late Jacen Solo's shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentimen

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Defiant

Mike Shepherd · 400 pages

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My Enemy, My Ally

Diane Duane · 309 pages

Juvenile fiction. Captain Kirk unites with his old enemy Ael t' Rlailiiu, a Romulan commander, to destroy the laboratory that is genetically harnessing the mind power of Vulcans.

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The Diabolic

S.J. Kincaid · 416 pages

Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.

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Hellhole

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

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Sunreach

Brandon Sanderson · 208 pages

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The Oncoming Storm

Christopher G. Nuttall

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Perilous Shield

Jack Campbell

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Shield of Lies

Michael P. Kube-McDowell · 354 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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The Empress Game

Rhonda Mason · 371 pages

"One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn't won by votes or marriage. It's won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their ho

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Knight Errant

John Jackson Miller · 400 pages

**A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away . . .** The Republic is in crisis. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who i

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City of Pearl

Karen Traviss · 392 pages

Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten the tenuous balance of a coveted world. Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission to Cavanagh's Star, knowing that 150 years would elapse before she could finally return home. But her landing, with a small group of scientists and Marine

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