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Tin Star

Cecil Castellucci · 233 pages

"Beaten and left for dead, fourteen-year-old Tula Bane finds herself abandoned on a space station called Yertina Feray after traveling with the colonist group, Children of the Earth"--

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Inside Out

Maria V. Snyder

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Mothership

Martin Leicht, Isla Neal · 336 pages

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Islands in the Sky

Arthur C. Clarke · 190 pages

When young Roy Malcolm won the Aviation Quiz Contest, the sponsor, World Airways, never dreamed he could legally claim a trip to the Inner Space Station as his prize. Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, this is an amazing yarn about a teen-ager's adventures and conflicts five hundred miles up on a strange, artificial outpost that circles our planet. What promised to be merely a sight

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Gemina

Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff · 672 pages

Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.

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Nova

Margaret Fortune · 320 pages

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The 100

Kass Morgan · 323 pages

When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world. When one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world. The plot contains profani

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Starsight

Brandon Sanderson · 481 pages

The #1 New York Times bestseller! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. All her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the t

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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Robert A. Heinlein · 388 pages

Mission: retrieve the computer backups that can restore the sentient computer who masterminded the 2075 revolution that freed Luna.

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Alien: Out of the Shadows

Tim Lebbon · 304 pages

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Rimrunners

C.J. Cherryh · 288 pages

RIMRUNNERS In space the line between patriot and pirate is as thin as a laser. And a lethal battle for power can be as near as your starship’s next deck . . . THE SPOOK Loki – mercenary spy ship and bounty hunter. It’s the legal arm of the Merchanters’ Alliance; but once enlisted, no crew member leaves Loki alive . . . THE SOLDIER Bet Yeager – a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lo

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Vacation on Union Station

E.M. Foner · 238 pages

The Wanderers have just moved on from Union Station and the ambassador is ready to take her first vacation in fifteen years. Unfortunately, the rules on paid vacation for EarthCent employees have changed for the worse, retroactively. Libby suggests spending some time exploring the station as an alternative, and Kelly cautiously goes along with it. Back at the embassy, while the cat's away, the mic

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Cress: Chapters 1-5

Marissa Meyer · 52 pages

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Cold Eternity

S.A. Barnes · 248 pages

"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author Cold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death... Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for w

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Tracer

Rob Boffard

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Space Case

Stuart Gibbs · 352 pages

Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.

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On a Red Station, Drifting

Aliette de Bodard · 106 pages

For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper’s brightest minds have been called away to defend the Emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station’s resources. As d

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The Fuse, Vol. 1: The Russia Shift

Antony Johnston

Working homicide on an orbiting energy platform, in a five-mile-long, jury-rigged steel city stuffed with a half-million people, and no help from your so-called colleagues back on Earth, is more than tough ... it's murder.

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Second Star

Dana Stabenow · 208 pages

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Worlds

Joe Haldeman · 240 pages

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This Alien Shore

C.S. Friedman · 578 pages

This "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year explores the second age of space colonization, when one of Earth's first colonies has restored humanity at a high price—a monopoly over all human commerce. When a satellite is attacked by corporate raiders, a woman flees to a ship bound for the Up-and-Out and is about to discover a secret the universe may not be ready to face.

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Steel Beach

John Varley · 479 pages

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Solaris

Stanislaw Lem · 223 pages

The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris is a must-have for fans of Lem's classic novel. Telling of humanity's encounte

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