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A Matter for Men

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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · 496 pages

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."? -- The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece ... should do for aliens what Twilight.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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The Rise of Nine

Pittacus Lore · 360 pages

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Swarm

B.V. Larson · 262 pages

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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Assault Troopers

Vaughn Heppner · 325 pages

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Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 334 pages

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed priv

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The Darkness

W.J. Lundy · 246 pages

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War Dogs

Greg Bear · 304 pages

"They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established a beachhead

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Orbs

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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A Hymn Before Battle

John Ringo · 467 pages

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Columbus Day

Craig Alanson · 303 pages

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All You Need Is Kill

Ryosuke Takeuchi · 550 pages

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Orphan's Triumph

Robert Buettner · 384 pages

Jason Wander has had to deal with a lot. First the Slugs wiped out his family, then they tried to go after his planet. Now he's going after them as the commander of Earth's garrisons on the emerging allied planets with a doomsday weapon that could reverse the war--or destroy humanity.

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Formic Wars: Burning Earth

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston

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Battle Earth

Nick S. Thomas · 294 pages

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Apocalypse

Kyle West · 262 pages

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The Illusion

Katherine Applegate · 156 pages

Tobias and the other Animorphs discover that the Yeerks, a parasitic alien race bent on enslaving Earth, plan to test a device that could put an end to the Animorphs' fight against the Yeerks.

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Breakers

Edward W. Robertson · 298 pages

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In Her Name: Omnibus

Michael R. Hicks · 312 pages

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Liberty's Crusade

Jeff Grubb · 256 pages

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The Tripods Trilogy

John Christopher

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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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Fear the Sky

Stephen Moss · 394 pages

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