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Finity's End

C.J. Cherryh · 517 pages

Life in space starring Fletcher Neihart, 17, a youth who becomes an apprentice crewman on his family's merchant spaceship. He does not like space, but he has no choice and gradually comes to enjoy it. A coming-of-age story.

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Burndive

Karin Lowachee · 417 pages

From the author of the acclaimed and bestselling debut novel "Warchild" comesa new action-packed adventure about a young man's journey into adulthood amidinterstellar war. Original.

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A Call to Duty

David Weber, Timothy Zahn · 384 pages

"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the S

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Children of Dune

Frank Herbert · 429 pages

The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Empe

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Ocean's Echo

Everina Maxwell · 464 pages

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Miles in Love

Lois McMaster Bujold · 880 pages

Military genius Miles Vorkosigan returns in an omnibus containing "Komarr," in which he investigates an act of treachery; "A Civil Campaign," which follows his efforts to court the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson; and the novella, "Winterfair Gifts." Military genius Miles Vorkosigan returns in an omnibus containing "Komarr," in which he investigates an act of treachery; "A Civil Campaign," wh

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Owner's Share

Nathan Lowell · 574 pages

Sometimes getting what you want is not enough. When Diurnia Salvage and Transport undergoes a change in management, Captain Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself adrift in a sea of red ink, and intrigue. He dives in only to find that he is over his head in a universe where cut-throat competition takes on an all new meaning. What tragic price will he pay for his Owner’s Share?

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Kenobi

John Jackson Miller · 400 pages

As tensions escalate on Tatooine between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to the desert planet.

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Traitor

Matthew Woodring Stover · 320 pages

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never Ending Sacrifice

Una McCormack · 352 pages

Young Rugal, a Cardassian orphan raised by loving Bajoran adoptive parents, is reunited with his Cardassian father, whom he believed to be dead, and sent to Cardassia to confront an alien culture that he does not understand.

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The Star King

Jack Vance · 205 pages

Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it. These are the names of the five Demon Princes who led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, which destroyed not only Kirth's family but his entire world as well. He roams the universe, searching the endless galaxies of space, hunting down the Demon Princes and exacting his revenge. First he must find A

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The Mercy of Gods

James S. A. Corey · 366 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. ★ “Masterful . . . . This is space opera at its best.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The start of something truly epic." ― Fonda Lee, author of Jade City How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in th

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Shadows in Flight

Orson Scott Card · 240 pages

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The Night's Dawn Trilogy

Peter F. Hamilton

The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist chronicled an epic, far-future struggle set in a universe of thrilling complexity. Multiple worlds, alien races, two types of future humanity, and uncountable forms of fascinating future technology make up the universe created by Peter F. Hamilton. The "reality dysfunction" is a break in the fabric of reality that allows the dead to return to ou

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The Rowan

Anne McCaffrey · 324 pages

The Rowan was one of the strongest Talents ever born, but she was also lonely and without family, friends -- or love. Then a telepathic message came from a distant world facing an alien threat, a message sent by an unknown Talent named Jeff Raven, and be it power, danger, or love -- the Rowan is about to meet her match.

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The Galaxy Game

Karen Lord · 340 pages

"In this new novel, Rafi, a student at a school for super-human psychic abilities, travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team, encountering strange new worlds and alien cultures. Lord's bold new vision of 21st-century science fiction has appeal to both devoted genre fans and readers of literary fiction"--

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Earthrise

M.C.A. Hogarth · 420 pages

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Grail

Elizabeth Bear · 330 pages

Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear’s brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion. At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just happens to be populated already: by humans who call their home Fortune. And they are wary of sharing Fortune—espec

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Unworthy

Kirsten Beyer · 378 pages

After the Borg are absorbed into the Caeliar gestalt, the Starship Voyager leads a fleet into the home quadrant of the one remaining Borg to get answers, find new allies, and resolve old enmities, but things do not go as planned.

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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine · 448 pages

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Shadow of the Scorpion

Neal Asher · 272 pages

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For Love of Mother-Not

Alan Dean Foster · 256 pages

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Empire

Michael R. Hicks · 310 pages

EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their

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Star Surgeon

James White · 158 pages

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