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Fledgling

Sharon Lee, Steve Miller · 375 pages

Having lived on a world that hosts one of the galaxy's premier educational institutions, Theo Waitley finds her life disrupted by her professor mother's decision to relocate her to faculty housing, where she is embroiled in school politics.

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Jaran

Kate Elliott · 495 pages

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Shards of Honour

Lois McMaster Bujold · 296 pages

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Provenance

Ann Leckie · 464 pages

A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.

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All Systems Red

Martha Wells · 156 pages

The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.

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The Mercy of Gods

James S. A. Corey · 366 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. ★ “Masterful . . . . This is space opera at its best.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The start of something truly epic." ― Fonda Lee, author of Jade City How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in th

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If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 272 pages

*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, an

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy · 354 pages

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The Splinter in the Sky

Kemi Ashing-Giwa · 384 pages

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The Engines of God

Jack McDevitt · 419 pages

Enjoyable space opera, with a mystery- why did advanced civilizations on several planets suffer catastrophes that plunged them into chaos, death and sometimes rebirth as a primitive civilization, and why is there a huge stone fake city (Oz) on a nearby planet- what was its purpose? A team of scientists and archeologists tries to finish their work as the terraforming deadline looms on a planet cho

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A Call to Duty

David Weber, Timothy Zahn · 384 pages

"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the S

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The Star King

Jack Vance · 205 pages

Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it. These are the names of the five Demon Princes who led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, which destroyed not only Kirth's family but his entire world as well. He roams the universe, searching the endless galaxies of space, hunting down the Demon Princes and exacting his revenge. First he must find A

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After Long Silence

Sheri S. Tepper · 326 pages

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Cold Welcome

Elizabeth Moon · 431 pages

"After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence. Summoned to the home planet of her family's business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero's welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other sh

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City of Pearl

Karen Traviss · 392 pages

Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten the tenuous balance of a coveted world. Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission to Cavanagh's Star, knowing that 150 years would elapse before she could finally return home. But her landing, with a small group of scientists and Marine

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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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Embassytown

China Mieville · 359 pages

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, Humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can spea

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Reap the Wild Wind

Julie E. Czerneda · 459 pages

In the first book of the Stratification series, set in an earlier time in Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe, the Clan has not yet learned how to manipulate the M'hir to travel between worlds. Instead, they are a people divided into small tribes, scattered over a fraction of their world, and prevented from advancing by two other powerful races who control both technology and terrain.

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Variable Star

Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson · 320 pages

Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

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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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Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions

Ursula K. Le Guin · 384 pages

The author's first three novels--City of Illusions, Rocannon's World, and Planet of Exile--are included in an omnibus edition, all set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness, as her characters battle forces in society that seek to tear them apart.

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Kutath

C.J. Cherryh

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Half Share

Nathan Lowell · 252 pages

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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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