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Prime Directive

Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, David Stern · back to the book

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The Entropy Effect

Vonda N. McIntyre · 224 pages

The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from a starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time - then killing them instead. But when Mordreaux escapes, bursts onto the bridge and kills Captain Kirk, Spock must journey back in time to avert disaster - before it occurs. Now there's more at

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Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert · 256 pages

**Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time** Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the po

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A Deepness in the Sky

Vernor Vinge · 699 pages

The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time. By the author of A Fire upon the Deep.

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Fallen Gods

Michael A. Martin · 368 pages

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Into the Void

Peter David · 151 pages

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Star Trek 4

James Blish · 143 pages

Six assignments in space and time. In the name of the Federation Council and the Starfleet Command, Spock and the Enterprise crew grapple with: A silicon-based monster An interplanetary spy An amorous Amazon A misguided mobster "boss" A time-jumping technician And the mind-enslaving elders of Talos IV, the the "Hugo" Award-winning episode "Menagerie"

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Guises of the Mind

Rebecca Neason · 277 pages

Captain Picard and his companions are drugged and captured when they arrive on Capulon IV, a world about to join the Federation. The group must escape and stop the new ruler's coronation to prevent mass destruction.

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The Ashes of Worlds

Kevin J. Anderson · 672 pages

The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale. Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making. The Saga of Seven Suns

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The Eyes of the Beholders

A.C. Crispin · 249 pages

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Power Hungry

Howard Weinstein · 274 pages

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Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov · 426 pages

After the defeat of the Mule by the Second Foundation, Terminus enjoys a period of prosperity and stability which is publicly attributed to the Seldon Plan, but which some feel is the work of the Second Foundation. A search is begun to determine if the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile, the Second Foundation finds that there is evidence of an independent force acting against the Mule to

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Caliban's War

James S.A. Corey · 608 pages

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a

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Heaven's Reach

David Brin · 557 pages

Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo--both human and alien--brace for

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The Silver Ships

S.H. Jucha · 306 pages

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Summertide

Charles Sheffield

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Taking Wing

Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels · 370 pages

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The Red King

Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin · 374 pages

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Q-Zone

Greg Cox · 270 pages

From the book jacket: The puckish super-being called Q has bedeviled Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise since their first encounter at Farpoint Station. But little was known of Q's enigmatic past or that of the transcendent plane where he sometimes dwells. Now Picard must discover Q's secrets for the sake of all that exists. While the Enterprise struggles to surv

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Here There Be Dragons

John Peel · 275 pages

When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise receive news of a Human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate. Penetrating the cloud, the starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the i

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Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 397 pages

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens. Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that

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The Final Fury

Dafydd ab Hugh · 295 pages

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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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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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Rising

Sally Malcolm · 240 pages

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