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Firebird

Jack McDevitt · 375 pages

Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.

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Cytonic

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction from the author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus a

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Neptune's Brood

Charles Stross · 346 pages

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

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Expendable

James Alan Gardner · 344 pages

From the back cover: Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is now war, little crime, and life is sacred... unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible

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Aftermath

Ann Aguirre · 307 pages

During the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace "jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel--and the lives of 600 Conglomerate soldiers. Now she's on trial for dereliction of duty, desertion, mass murder, high treason ... and her life.

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Crashlander (Known Space)

Larry Niven · 288 pages

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The Ship Who Saved the Worlds

Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye · 608 pages

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Moss'd in Space

Rebecca Thorne · 368 pages

Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic com

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Empire

B.V. Larson · 346 pages

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · 528 pages

*She's a soldier.* Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. *He's a machine.* Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis,

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Neverness

David Zindell · 505 pages

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A Pocket Full of Lies

Kirsten Beyer · 400 pages

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Heaven's River

Dennis E. Taylor · 676 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 Cassini Division

Ken MacLeod · 256 pages

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Hellfire

Jean Johnson

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Survivors

Jean Lorrah · 253 pages

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The Ghost Brigades

John Scalzi · 320 pages

From the back cover: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, fast, strong, and totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity -- and it's about to become more dangerous. Three races we've

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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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Castle Vroman

Thomas DePrima · 346 pages

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Omega Games

S.L. Viehl · 372 pages

Dr. Cherijo Torin faces a different kind of epidemic - a mysterious black crystal spreading like cancer throughout the galaxy. The hunt for information leads Cherijo to the planet Trellus, whose inhabitants exhibit excessive paranoia and anger, taking out their frustrations in the Omega Dome in simulated combat against battle drones. But someone is killing victims outside the arena, and Cherijo be

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The Ship Who Searched

Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey · 312 pages

A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness. Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the

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Sea of Stars

Amy A. Bartol · 291 pages

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Beholder's Eye

Julie E. Czerneda · 416 pages

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