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Rogue World

B.V. Larson

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Killbox

Ann Aguirre

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The Warrior's Apprentice

Lois McMaster Bujold · 317 pages

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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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Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

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Iron Gold

Pierce Brown · 624 pages

"Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned"--

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The Prince

Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling · 1,151 pages

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Better to Beg Forgiveness

Michael Z. Williamson · 432 pages

When word comes that President Bishwanath, the local honest leader of Celadon, is dead, every corrupt politician and ruthless megacorp in the universe sets out to seize control of the planet, unaware that Bishwanath is not dead.

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Slave Ship

K.W. Jeter · 324 pages

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Once a Hero

Elizabeth Moon · 400 pages

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Avalon

Mindee Arnett · 448 pages

"Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon."--

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Falkenberg's Legion

Jerry Pournelle · 432 pages

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Defiant

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about

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Deserter

Mike Shepherd · 346 pages

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Saga, Vol. 1

Brian K. Vaughan · 160 pages

From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous o

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Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Kevin J. Anderson · 368 pages

In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters—amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe…for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful—and feared—hun

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Star Guard

Andre Norton · 235 pages

When Earthmen got into space, they found advanced races who deemed Earth far too barbaric to join them. They were assigned the only task deemed suitable, mercenaries on other backwards planets. Kana Karr, Arch Swordsman, Third Class, has his first assignment on Fronn. However, there they find weapons that belong only to the Galactics, and mechanized Terrans, all illegal. They must fight the en

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Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan · 400 pages

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers,

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Zero Recall

Sara King · 590 pages

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Hammer's Slammers

David Drake

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Halo: Glasslands

Karen Traviss

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In Enemy Hands

David Weber · 496 pages

Book seven in the Honor Harrington Series. Follows Honor Among Enemies. The events leading up to her capture and her terrible treatment at the hands of State Security. Precedes Echoes of Honor.

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The Truth of Valor

Tanya Huff · 329 pages

When former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds out why space pirates needed salvage operator Craig Ryder, she calls in the Marines to get him back--and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.

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