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Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners
8 ratingsThis hard Sci-Fi novel is the sixth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s come up with a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time... -
![Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle]()
Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle
8 ratingsNo respect for life. Or the law. It’s the trade. In sentience. Run by the Corranites, creatures that have always traded in intelligent alien life.Bought and sold. Nothing more than property.Rivka is having none of it. With an eye toward taking the entire supply line down, she launches into the greater galaxy. All the way to the heart of the Federation.It’s bigger than anyone knows... -
![Vendetta by Jonathan Yanez]()
Vendetta by Jonathan Yanez
8 ratingsWar is on the horizon. Daniel Hunt has no desire to lead the first coalition of corporations the galaxy has ever known. This is exactly why he's perfect for the job. In the face of humankind's greatest threat, old enemies will find redemption and new allies will answer the call... -
![Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Invaders by Laurence E. Dahners
10 ratings“Invaders” is about events that occur several years after those in the novel “Disc.” GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries...Categorized as:
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![Shakedowners by Justin Woolley]()
Shakedowners by Justin Woolley
6 ratingsSome starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails... -
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Rebels by David Liss
6 ratingsA science fiction superfan is heading back to space on a new mission to save Earth in this hilarious follow-up to the “exhilarating” (Booklist, starred review) Randoms...Categorized as:
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![Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
![Artificial Evolution by Joseph R. Lallo]()
Artificial Evolution by Joseph R. Lallo
8 ratingsArtificial Evolution is the third book in the Big Sigma series, building upon the story and characters introduced by Bypass Gemini and Unstable Prototypes. Lex, Michella and Squee are once again joined by the mercenaries Silo and Garotte. Along the way they'll need plenty of help from mad engineer Karter Dee and his AI Ma... -
![The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling]()
The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling
14 ratingsTwo novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The City Who Fought: Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the real thing and become The City Who Fought... -
![The System by Skyler Grant]()
The System by Skyler Grant
6 ratingsThe solar system has fallen and the galaxy awaits. The Sol system has now gained admission to galactic society, a junior member held in little esteem with obligations mounting... -
![Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski]()
Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski
8 ratingsThe explosive space epic continues, as the techno-mages come face-to-face with the devastating evil of the Shadows . . . War against the Shadows is inevitable, and the ruling Circle has ordered the techno-mages into hiding. Many are unhappy with this decision--none more so than Galen, the only mage who has faced the Shadows and lived... -
![Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead]()
Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera by Chris Mead
8 ratingsNEW EDITION - August 2015. Professionally edited and proofed..Swallow the Sky embodies the essence of classic science fiction: real science, adventure, high spirits, and above all, a sense of wonder.Galactic culture is still reverberating from the nanotech disaster that destroyed Earth... -
![Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter]()
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
16 ratings"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... -
![The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Return of Nathan Brazil by Jack L. Chalker
15 ratingsIn a desolate sector of space floats the Well World: the ancient Markovian supercomputer that first created and now maintains the Universe.While attempting to repel an insidious intergalactic invasion, Mankind resorts to a weapon of such awesome destructive power that it undermines the Well World's control of time and space and threatens the very existence of the Universe... -
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![Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster]()
Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster
14 ratingsThe company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet maned Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by sending in a rescue mission so they assigned Evan Orgell, a self-confident problem-solver, to investigate... -
![First Contact by D.L. Harrison]()
First Contact by D.L. Harrison
8 ratingsAlicia Jones is a genius, and a little odd. At just twenty three years of age, she is close to finishing her doctoral dissertation. But when she tests her latest theory in the lab to generate a strong EM field, it has very unanticipated results. Results that lead to faster than light travel, and first contact with another race... -
![Revolution's Shore by Kate Elliott, Alis A. Rasmussen]()
Revolution's Shore by Kate Elliott, Alis A. Rasmussen
6 ratingsIn the second volume of the Highroad trilogy, plucky interstellar adventurer Lily Ransome sets out with a ragtag group to defeat a cruel empire bent on consuming the universeLilyaka Hae Ransome grew up on the colonized planet of Unruli... -
![Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War by Hal G.P. Colebatch, Larry Niven]()
Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War by Hal G.P. Colebatch, Larry Niven
6 ratingsThe first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid alien invaders called Kzin came and turned it into a hell for humans... -
![The Rebel Files: Collected Intelligence of the Alliance by Daniel Wallace]()
The Rebel Files: Collected Intelligence of the Alliance by Daniel Wallace
6 ratingsThis top-secret cache reproduces highly sensitive intelligence that traces the Rebel Alliance from its formation through its tireless fight against the Empire and the First Order. From its earliest beginnings in covert opposition to Imperial operations, the Alliance could not leave its most sensitive information open to the risk of digital interception... -
![Liberation by Andrew Beery]()
Liberation by Andrew Beery
6 ratings2125 was the year the Proxy war began in earnest. The Heshe and Uruk, each with drastically different views of right and wrong, met in open conflict with disastrous results for the known universes. At the same time this was the finest year for the Galactic Coalition.. -
![The Romulan Way by Diane Duane, Peter Morwood]()
The Romulan Way by Diane Duane, Peter Morwood
15 ratingsThey are a race of warriors, a noble people to whom honor is all. They are cousin to the Vulcan, ally to the Klingon, and Starfleet's most feared and cunning adversary. They are the Romulans, and for eight years, Federation Agent Terise LoBrutto has hidden in their midst... -
![Quest for the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker]()
Quest for the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
15 ratingsWelcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. The Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.Exiles at the Well of Souls left Mavra Chang captured by the Olborn and partially converted into a beast of burden... -
![Exiles at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker]()
Exiles at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
15 ratingsAntor Trellig, head of a ruthless interstellar syndicate, had seized a super computer with godlike powers, which could make him omnipotent. The Council offered master criminal Mavra Chang any reward if she stopped Trellig - and horrible, lingering death if she failed. But neither Trellig nor Mavra had taken the Well World into consideration... -
![The Man Who Used the Universe by Alan Dean Foster]()
The Man Who Used the Universe by Alan Dean Foster
10 ratingsNo one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies--the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process... -
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![Crystal Healer by S.L. Viehl]()
Crystal Healer by S.L. Viehl
8 ratingsNINTH IN THE "CONTINUOUSLY SURPRISING AND DEVIOUSLY WRITEN" SERIES Genetically engineered interstellar surgeon Dr. Cherijo Torin, her husband Duncan Reever, and a handpicked crew journey to the planet oKia to locate a strange black mineral that is the source of an intergalactic epidemic. When one of the crew members becomes infected, his body slowly begins to crystallize...Categorized as:
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![The Sundered by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels]()
The Sundered by Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels
8 ratingsThe hidden history of the Star Trek universe is revealed in this new series charting the seventy years between Captain Kirk's disappearance and the beginning of The Next Generation. Nearly a decade after Captain Kirk vanished, his protege, Captain Hiraku Sulu of the USS Excelsior, leads a dangerous mission into uncharted political waters... -
![To Fall Among Vultures by Scott Warren]()
To Fall Among Vultures by Scott Warren
6 ratingsA gritty, Military SF page-turner sure to please fans of intrigue and space combat. Humanity has spent decades carefully establishing a quiet foothold in an uncaring galaxy brimming with hostile powers. That all unraveled six months ago when Captain Victoria Marin and her crew of Vultures stumbled into the center of a conflict between two of the galaxy’s three apex civilizations... -
![Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition by Mur Lafferty]()
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition by Mur Lafferty
14 ratingsDon’t miss the exclusive content in this thrilling adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story, with scenes from alternate versions of the script including Han Solo’s time in the Imperial Navy, Qi’ra’s past, the beginnings of the rebellion, and more! Though Han Solo has thrilled Star Wars fans for decades, the notorious wisecracking scoundrel was chasing adventure and dodging trouble long before he... -
![Bloodhype by Alan Dean Foster]()
Bloodhype by Alan Dean Foster
14 ratingsIt caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote.It was a killer!Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was back in circulation on Repler and threatening to wreak havoc throughout the known galaxy... -
![Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster]()
Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster
12 ratingsIn the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insect like Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingrained repulsion they have yet to overcome. Thus, a slow, lengthy process of limited contact begins.Yet they never plan for a chance meeting between a misfit artist and a petty thief... -
![Doctor Who: Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds]()
Doctor Who: Harvest of Time by Alastair Reynolds
12 ratingsOne of science fiction's most acclaimed authors delivers a spectacular original novel in the Doctor Who universe featuring the Third Doctor, as played by Jon Pertwee."Immediately confounds expectations." - SFXAfter billions of years of imprisonment, the vicious Sild have broken out of confinement... -
![The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett by Daniel Wallace, Ryder Windham]()
The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett by Daniel Wallace, Ryder Windham
12 ratingsDiscover the crucial tools and techniques all bounty hunters need to master. Get the basics on making a living at the margins of galactic law. Delve into the history, philosophy, and gear of Death Watch, a secretive splinter group of Mandalorians... -
![Dirge by Alan Dean Foster]()
Dirge by Alan Dean Foster
10 ratingsChosen by Science Fiction Chronicle as One of the Best Books of the Year Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has written an exciting Humanx Commonwealth adventure that delves deeper into the fragile early years when humans made first contact in this unforgettable world . . . In the second half of the twenty-fourth century, diplomatic relations proceed cautiously between thranx and humans... -
![Diuturnity's Dawn by Alan Dean Foster]()
Diuturnity's Dawn by Alan Dean Foster
8 ratingsIn the climactic third novel of the Founding of the Commonwealth, bestselling author Alan Dean Foster continues the spectacular space adventure that traces the perilous early years of this remarkable universe. . . . From the beginning, contact between humankind and the thranx has been tenuous at best... -
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![The Run to Chaos Keep by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Run to Chaos Keep by Jack L. Chalker
8 ratingsMany different beings in the galaxy shared one legend: demons. When an expedition to an unexplored planet discovered two gigantic horned creatures in suspended animation, they realized, just before dying horribly, the truth behind the legend... -
![Cauldron by Jack McDevitt]()
Cauldron by Jack McDevitt
16 ratingsIn 2255, veteran star pilot Priscilla Hutch Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fundraising efforts for an organization devoted to deep space exploration. Soon, Hutch finds herself on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her... -
![Tales From The SFR Brigade by J.C. Cassels, Linnea Sinclair]()
Tales From The SFR Brigade by J.C. Cassels, Linnea Sinclair
6 ratingsExperience love and adventure among the stars in ‘Tales from the SFR Brigade,’ a free digital anthology of eight Science Fiction Romance stories. • A space captain discovers the cyborg she loves just might be her greatest enemy. • A mind-wiped prostitute risks all when she recruits a dangerous stranger to help her escape a terrible fate... -
![A Call to Arms by Robert Sheckley]()
A Call to Arms by Robert Sheckley
6 ratings"When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right one. Because you will only get one shot . . ."The Shadow War is long over, and the Interstellar Alliance--presided over by former Babylon 5 commander John Sheridan--is about to celebrate the fifth anniversary of peace among its united member worlds. But a planet, annihilated by an unspeakable weapon appears in chilling dreams... -
![Convergence by Charles Sheffield]()
Convergence by Charles Sheffield
6 ratingsThe discovery of an ancient alien technology known as the Artifacts enables the human race to jump from galaxy to galaxy, but when a strange new Artifact emerges and changes all the other Artifacts, chaos ensues... -
![Crimson Tears by Ben Counter]()
Crimson Tears by Ben Counter
6 ratingsOnce loyal warriors of the Imperium, the Soul Drinkers have been betrayed by those they once fought to protect and declared as heretics! With the dark forces of Chaos on one side, and the Crimson Fists Space Marines on the other, the only solution for the wronged Marines is to come out... -
![The Howling Stones by Alan Dean Foster]()
The Howling Stones by Alan Dean Foster
10 ratingsThe newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise. Its vast oceans were dotted with thousands of lush islands containing vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran was also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child, for each island was inhabited by a different tribe of aboriginal natives whose customs and tribal rites varied from island to island... -
![Drowning World by Alan Dean Foster]()
Drowning World by Alan Dean Foster
8 ratings"A fast, fun read for fans of Foster's fantastic alien worlds . . . Driven by political intrigue and wilderness adventure, this is SF of noble vintage."--Booklist Fluva, the Drowning World, is a rain-drenched planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth whose indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala, and its immigrant species, the hardworking Deyzara, stand on the brink of civil war... -
![The Ninety Trillion Fausts by Jack L. Chalker]()
The Ninety Trillion Fausts by Jack L. Chalker
8 ratingsThree teams pursue horned creatures known as demons through a gate into another spacetime continuum, and fight each other all the way. But they now must join forces to save the 90 trillion beings of the gallaxy in danger of losing their lives--and souls... -
![Convergent Space by John-Paul Cleary]()
Convergent Space by John-Paul Cleary
6 ratingsJump to a few hundred years from now…Earth is a faded galactic power in a violent galaxy. Blamed for an event 200 years earlier that destroyed thousands of worlds and turned the galaxy upside-down, Earth has been shunned by galactic society ever since.Now they have a chance to turn that around.Meanwhile in the outer fringes of the galaxy, a powerful new force is emerging from the ashes... -
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![Destroyer of Planets by L.A. Johnson]()
Destroyer of Planets by L.A. Johnson
6 ratingsEnter a galaxy full of snarky comebacks, inappropriate use of tentacles, and a mythical warrior-girl on the edge in this fast-paced, Douglas Adams style space romp.A life of captivity is getting to Kirian, the self-styled Destroyer of Planets... -
![Rebel Ice by S.L. Viehl, Roc Books]()
Rebel Ice by S.L. Viehl, Roc Books
10 ratingsDr. Cherijo Torin crash-lands on an ice planet whose population is on the verge of civil war. With no knowledge of her past-or even her identity-she becomes entangled in the encroaching conflict, unaware that her husband is moving heaven and earth to find her... -
![Black on Black by K.D. Wentworth]()
Black on Black by K.D. Wentworth
8 ratingsRescued from a slave market by a human trader and raised as his son, one question has haunted Heyoka Blackeagle through the years: who — and what — is he? He feels human, indeed he feels like a somewhat alienated member of his father's tribe... -
![Enterprise: The First Adventure by Vonda N. McIntyre]()
Enterprise: The First Adventure by Vonda N. McIntyre
14 ratingsJames T. Kirk is the youngest man to be promoted to the rank of captain in Federation history. His crew consists of a first officer who finds him impetuous; a chief engineer who finds him arrogent; a chief medical officer who finds him trifling; and a helmsman who wants a transfer... -
![The Devil's Nebula by Eric Brown]()
The Devil's Nebula by Eric Brown
6 ratingsBest-selling author Eric Brown has created a brand new shared world for Abaddon Books: Weird Space. This thrilling space-opera series will begin with the release of The Devil's Nebula. Brown will introduce readers to the human smugglers, veterans and ne’erdowells who are part of the Expansion – and their uneasy neighbours, the Vetch Empire... -
![Blood Oath by John Vornholt]()
Blood Oath by John Vornholt
6 ratingsHaving narrowly escaped assassination, Ambassador G'Kar knows he's marked for death. The best and brightest members of Babylon 5 are hunted by an enemy only a daring deception can stop...
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