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Trader to the Stars

Poul Anderson

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Vacuum Diagrams

Stephen Baxter · 430 pages

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar syst

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The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey · 248 pages

From back cover of Del Rey paperback 1979: HELVA HAD BEEN BORN HUMAN ... but only her brain had been saved -- saved to be schooled, programmed and implanted in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner -- male or female -- to share her exhilarating escapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding -- resplendent with dari

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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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The Eyes of the Beholders

A.C. Crispin · 249 pages

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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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Prime Directive

Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, David Stern · 406 pages

Starfleet's highest law has been broken. Its most honored captain is in disgrace, its most celebrated starship in pieces, and the crew of that ship scattered among the thousand worlds of the Federation... Journey with Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the former crew of the starship Enterprise to Talin—the planet where their careers ended. A world once teeming with life that now lies ruined, its citi

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Star Trek 12

James Blish, J.A. Lawrence · 177 pages

Kirk: slave McCoy: murdered Spock: outlaw - in a universe gone mad A universe where worlds are ruled by neo-Nazi dictators... A universe that immunizes children to the wholesale slaughter of their parents... A universe where the slightest thought unleashes total terror... Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the crew of the Starship Enterprise enter the darkest dimensions of exist

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The Foundation Trilogy

Isaac Asimov · 312 pages

- Foundation - Foundation and Empire - Second Foundation Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are some of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women working to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and viol

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Changer of Worlds

David Weber, Eric Flint · 396 pages

This collection of short stories has Honor Harrington as a Midshipmen. Introduces the character of Victor Cachet, Helen Ziliwiki, and her Dad. There is also the Coup against Rob Pierre in Haven.

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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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Summertide

Charles Sheffield

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Galactic North

Alastair Reynolds · 384 pages

The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, Galactic North imparts the centuriesspanning events that have produced this dark and turbulent world.Centuries from now, solidarity stretches thin as humanity spreads past the solar system and to the nearest stars. Technology has produced powerful new tools,

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Halo: Hunters in the Dark

Peter David · 368 pages

A coalition of humans and Elites must overcome their differences as they embark on a covert mission back to the Ark, an enigmatic place beyond comprehension from which few have returned.

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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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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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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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The Silver Ships

S.H. Jucha · 306 pages

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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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And Another Thing...

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

And Another Thing... is the sixth novel in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels.Belson said of Eoin Colfer, "I love his books and could

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