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Not Till We Are Lost

Dennis E. Taylor · 12 pages

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Crashlander (Known Space)

Larry Niven · 288 pages

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Empire

B.V. Larson · 346 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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Neverness

David Zindell · 505 pages

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Double Share

Nathan Lowell · 330 pages

AN INEXPERIENCED OFFICER. A DYSFUNCTIONAL SHIP. LIFE IN THE DEEP DARK JUST GOT A LOT HARDER. In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are derelict and abusive, the crew demoralized and undisciplined, and change unwelcomed and dangerous. Can Ishmael use

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The Endymion Omnibus

Dan Simmons · 992 pages

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Waypoint Kangaroo: A Novel (The Kangaroo Series)

Curtis C. Chen · 312 pages

"Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use it. But he's pretty sure the agency only keeps him aroun

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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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Variable Star

Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson · 320 pages

Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

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Will Save the Galaxy for Food

Yahtzee Croshaw · 286 pages

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Q-Squared

Peter David · 434 pages

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Midshipman's Hope

David Feintuch · 415 pages

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Admiral

Sean Danker · 309 pages

""I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire--a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but

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Double Star

Robert A. Heinlein · 170 pages

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the M

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The Stainless Steel Rat

Harry Harrison · 160 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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Wanderlust

Ann Aguirre · 312 pages

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Pi in the Sky

Wendy Mass · 264 pages

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Mutineers' Moon

David Weber · 317 pages

MUTINY! For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helpl

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To Honor You Call Us

H. Paul Honsinger · 454 pages

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City of Ruins

Kristine Kathryn Rusch · 303 pages

When Boss learns of mysterious deaths on a planet in the Enterran Empire, she suspects steam tech may be the cause. Venturing to the city of Vaycehn to investigate the mysterious "death holes" that explode in the city randomly, Boss and her team find more answers than they seek, as well as something that will change not only their lives, but the universe as well.

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Lt. Leary, Commanding

David Drake · 610 pages

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Orphan's Journey

Robert Buettner · 416 pages

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