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Halting the Reaper by Laurence E. Dahners
8 ratingsThis hard Sci-Fi novel is the fourth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s developing a device that allows them to stop time within limited volumes of space-time... -
![Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang]()
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
10 ratings"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others. Its major themes are language and determinism... -
![M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs]()
M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
6 ratingsFollowing the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M... -
![Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten]()
Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten
6 ratingsWhat happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses... -
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![The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado]()
The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado
10 ratings"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices:Me: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same.The boy who will grow into a man, and be my spouse: robust with his own good fortune.My father: Like your father, or the man you wish was your father... -
![The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Lily Tomlin]()
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Lily Tomlin
12 ratingsThis side-splitting yet dramatic tour-de-force features a dazzling parade of characters immediately familiar to the coast-to-coast Wagner/Tomlin fans. Enhanced with remarkable onstage photographs of Tomlin. 78 halftones... -
![Dreamstorm by M.C.A. Hogarth]()
Dreamstorm by M.C.A. Hogarth
6 ratingsJahir and Vasiht’h have spent five years together in practice on Starbase Veta, and their life is everything they’d hoped: their practice is fantastic, their social standing great, and their domestic life a blissful routine... -
![Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme]()
Viendra le temps du feu by Wendy Delorme
6 ratings"Elles étaient toutes brisées et pourtant incassables. Elles existaient ensemble comme un tout solidaire, un orchestre puissant, les organes noués en ordre aléatoire, un grand corps frémissant. Et j'étais l'une d'entre elles." Une société totalitaire aux frontières closes, bordée par un fleuve... -
![Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova]()
Black Knight by Svetlana R. Ivanova
6 ratingsAntonina Black, or just Nina, is a wise-mouthed but wounded girl. She is sent to live with her aunt in America. After leaving her homeland Russia, Nina tries to adjust to a new life with her homophobic cousins and American high school. But her life begins to take a strange new turn when an enigmatic girl shows up. Allecra Knight is a gorgeous blonde mystery... -
![Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade]()
Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
6 ratingsAfter the traumatic events at the dreaded prison Red Bay, Ronja is hanging by a thread. Whispers trail her through the Belly, carrying rumors of her borderline supernatural voice. Plagued by nightmares and haunted by the memories of those she could not save, she clings to the promise that her gift will soon become the weapon of the Anthem... -
![Infiltration by T.S. Paul]()
Infiltration by T.S. Paul
8 ratingsAthena Lee is the new Martian Ambassador but she is at odds with the old one. So much so that she is in a jail cell on charges of insubordination and treason, again. Visions of torture and persecution have her worried. Outside the Embassy, Dar is frantic with worry and has put a team together to storm the Embassy and free her. This comes of the Eve of change for the known Galaxy... -
![The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Vindication by C.J. Cherryh
10 ratingsA compelling heroine…a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune…and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end. Strongly recommended... -
![Villains Don't Train Heroes! by Mia Archer]()
Villains Don't Train Heroes! by Mia Archer
5 ratingsNight Terror, the greatest villain the world has ever known, has problems. Life should be great. She saved the day again. She sort of defeated her new archnemesis again. She got the girl again. Only Night Terror is learning that if she starts doing heroic things then the world, and her girlfriend, is going to start expecting her to be heroic... -
![The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale]()
The Zanari Inheritance (Children of Zanar, #1) by Niall Teasdale
6 ratingsKaya Trevorny’s world came to an end in the student welfare office of Abertine University. The colony where she had grown up, her family, was gone, dead under circumstances the authorities seemed keen to hide. To find the truth, Kaya must team up with a mercenary and a rag-tag group of smugglers. And the truth is something which will change her life forever... -
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![Fits Like a Glove: A Velvet Glove Tale by Sean Michael]()
Fits Like a Glove: A Velvet Glove Tale by Sean Michael
6 ratingsHercules is the owner of the Velvet Glove, the premier men's bdsm club in the galaxy. He's made sure to hire the best people for their jobs, from the cleaners to the trainers. It's exclusive, it's hot and it's all his. Malachi is the club's main trainer and an extraordinary top; he was handpicked by Hercules. The man has a secret though, one that Hercules discovers and shares with him... -
![Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel]()
Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
![Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown]()
Reinventing Lindsey by Maggie Brown
6 ratingsStudying the past hasn’t prepared Daisy Parker—anthropologist-turned-matchmaker—for her latest client. Finding Lindsey Jamieson-Ford a life partner isn’t exactly a simple exercise. Not only hasn’t Lindsey dated for years, the prickly reclusive scientist relates better with her robots than with people. Lindsey has no idea what matchmaking involves when she hires Daisy... -
![The Barriers by Katie French]()
The Barriers by Katie French
6 ratingsBook Five in the best-selling young adult dystopian series, The Breeders Riley hasn't seen her boyfriend Clay or her nine-year-old brother Ethan for two months. Between violent road gangs and ongoing clashes between the Breeders and the Free Colonies, are they even still alive? But Riley will never stop looking... -
![Bajo el metal by Irene Morales]()
Bajo el metal by Irene Morales
6 ratingsJapón, 2304.Hotaro e Ichiro son dos mecatrónicos de los bajos fondos de la desértica ciudad de Tokio. Su fama de aceptar cualquier encargo, por truculento o retorcido que sea, lleva a un capo de la mafia a proponerles un nuevo y jugoso trabajo: arreglar y actualizar al último neómano del país, un androide ilegal al que planea subastar entre las altas esferas... -
![The Moments by Nicole Pyland]()
The Moments by Nicole Pyland
6 ratingsBailey Sayers has a decision to make. That decision will impact her entire life. If she says something, she risks embarrassment and her heart. If she doesn’t say something, she may never know if Jenna Cabot feels the same way about her. In Path I, Bailey risks it all and asks Jenna out on a date on their high school graduation day... -
![Imperial Subversion by T.S. Paul]()
Imperial Subversion by T.S. Paul
8 ratingsThe revolution is over and the corrupt government officials are in prison. A Secret Society called the Cabal has raise up it's head and has one goal, control of the Galaxy. Athena Lee and her family find themselves caught in the center of this new conflict when the Cabal tries to take over her planet. This secret group has subverted the military who believe if they can't have it no one can... -
![Insurrection by T.S. Paul]()
Insurrection by T.S. Paul
8 ratingsAthena Lee and her planet are still reeling from the revolution that swept their part of the galaxy. The Space station has new management and Athena's ship has left without her on board. The Empire ship Paney is still on patrol and is being threatened by the Bad Penny Pirate clan. Mutiny, piracy and general mayhem seem to follow her as she discovers that a secret plot threatens the known galaxy... -
![Ninguém nasce herói by Eric Novello]()
Ninguém nasce herói by Eric Novello
8 ratingsNum futuro em que o Brasil é liderado por um fundamentalista religioso, o Escolhido, o simples ato de distribuir livros na rua é visto como rebeldia... -
![The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh]()
The Betrayal by C.J. Cherryh
13 ratingsThe first part of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained clones called azis, is a major power center. Reseune's lead scientist, the fierce and cruel Dr. Ariane Emory, has dominated Cyteen's political scene for decades... -
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![La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares]()
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares
12 ratingsEl argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nacido en 1914, tiene en su haber una larga y consistente labor literaria finalmente reconocida al concedérsele el Premio Cervantes en 1990. En el presente volumen se ofrecen dos de sus obras más características, la novela La invención de Morel y la colección de cuentos cortos El gran Serafín... -
![E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon]()
E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon
10 ratingsYou are about to enter fantastic worlds beyond your wildest imaginings--worlds of mystery and monster, terror and ethereal love, sudden death and miraculous life, jet-propelled shivers and humor.On this incredible, awesome journey you will meet:• a strange, yet exquisitely beautiful and profoundly wise, race of.. -
![Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older]()
Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older
10 ratingsThis is an Alternate Edition of Book ISBN: 9781368060677Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the Jedi are the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy! Another exciting young adult adventure featuring Jedi and Jedi Padawans as they fight the nefarious villains known as the Nihil!The New York Times bestselling series...Categorized as:
lgbtq action-adventure audiobook book children-books fiction space-opera young-adult -
![Revolutionary by T.S. Paul]()
Revolutionary by T.S. Paul
8 ratingsAthena Lee had returned home to her planet of birth. She is home to visit the family she has not seen for over 16 years. Her ship the James Cook is there to repair damage caused by the O'Malley pirates. She finds that her once peaceful agrarian world is overrun with corruption and graft. Her own family is wrapped up in a daily power play for control of the planet and its resources...Categorized as:
lgbtq action-adventure book children-books fiction galactic-empire space space-opera -
![Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer]()
Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer
7 ratingsSequel to Villains Don't Date Heroes! Night Terror, the greatest villain Starlight City has ever known, finally had it all. A beautiful girl she couldn’t get enough of. The city finally sort of liked her after she saved it from a giant robot attack. Now it was time to live happily ever after, right? Yeah, right... -
![The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra]()
The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra
6 ratingsStudents, heed this little rhyme: When it's science project time, Do not make goop, or glop, or grime, And never mess with mutant slime... -
![Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Seanan McGuire, John Chu]()
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Seanan McGuire, John Chu
6 ratingsLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales... -
![Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany]()
Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
6 ratingsArnold Hawley, a gay, African–American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections — in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days... -
![The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri]()
The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri
6 ratingsThe Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself... -
![Deep Merge by Linda North]()
Deep Merge by Linda North
6 ratingsKaesah, a geneticist from an all-female species living on the other side of the galaxy, is stranded on Earth when her mate, who was vital in piloting their starship, dies. Kaesah must report the disturbing events on Earth that could impact the survival of her species... -
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![Bug Week by Airini Beautrais]()
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
6 ratingsA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night... -
![Six American Poets by Joel Conarroe, Walt Whitman]()
Six American Poets by Joel Conarroe, Walt Whitman
6 ratingsHere are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume... -
![Silence in Solitude by Melissa Scott]()
Silence in Solitude by Melissa Scott
6 ratingsIn Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence Leigh discovered that she was not only unusual, as a female pilot, but that impossible thing, a female magus. Her unique abilities make her the only person capable of reaching Earth, humanity's original home, now sealed behind a mysterious barrier — but first she must learn to use her new-found talents... -
![Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany]()
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
10 ratingsWhy?From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies... so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.Far beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining coffin... in a world where not dying is the ultimate form of punishment... -
![The Rule of All by Ashley Saunders, Leslie Saunders]()
The Rule of All by Ashley Saunders, Leslie Saunders
10 ratingsAs America’s twenty-first-century revolution reaches its endgame, twin sisters must outrun, and outlive, the Common enemy.Outlaw twin sisters Ava and Mira Goodwin were born to defy Texas’s tyrannical and oppressive Governor Roth. They inspired millions across the country to liberate themselves and fight to live free under the new Common rule... -
![Humans Wanted by Vivian Caethe, Jody Lynn Nye]()
Humans Wanted by Vivian Caethe, Jody Lynn Nye
8 ratingsHumans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans will walk for days on broken bones to get to safety. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster. You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Or to ensure the survival of others they feel responsible for. If you're hurt, if you're trapped, if you need someone to fetch help? You really want a human... -
![Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell]()
Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
8 ratingsOn a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan. But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance... -
![Velvet Glove: Volume I by Sean Michael]()
Velvet Glove: Volume I by Sean Michael
8 ratingsThe Velvet Glove. An interplanetary exclusive club with every luxury available to its members, The Glove is also a place to explore the deepest levels of sex and love, a place where every member has a chance to find the one thing they really desire, leaving behind the mundane world and entering a fantastical land where rules are meant to be broken... -
![Other by Gordon R. Dickson]()
Other by Gordon R. Dickson
6 ratingsBleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human public.But within his inner circle is Henry McLean, Soldier of God, and a True Faith-Holder... -
![The Seer by David Stahler Jr.]()
The Seer by David Stahler Jr.
6 ratingsThe gripping sequel to Truesight continues the Orwellian tale of a colony that embraces blindness. Jacob Manford is the 13-year-old boy stricken with sight who must see the truth before those he loves are lost forever...Categorized as:
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![Extra (Ordinary) People by Joanna Russ]()
Extra (Ordinary) People by Joanna Russ
6 ratingsFive elegant stories from Hugo & Nebula award-winning author Joanna Russ, in the form of a history lesson to a child of the future...Categorized as:
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![Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold]()
Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold
6 ratingsA trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only for 13-year-old Charles "Chigger" Dingillian his family is anything but perfect. His parents fight so much they put the 'dis' into dysfunctional... -
![The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90 by Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler]()
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90 by Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler
6 ratingsIn the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton anthologies, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberry's Norton Book of Science Fiction provided the first truly comphrehensive and cohereent look at the best of contemporary science fiction... -
![Puppy Love: A Velvet Glove Book by Sean Michael]()
Puppy Love: A Velvet Glove Book by Sean Michael
6 ratingsWho can resist a free room at the Velvet Glove in exchange for rehabilitating an abused puppy? Certainly not Dane, who accepts the offer, but is surprised find that the pup in question is actually Tyg, a young man and sub who was left by his master, in a cage, with no food or water. Tyg needs help and, Dane is the man for the job, even if he's used to working with animals, not humans... -
![Revolution by Jenna Black]()
Revolution by Jenna Black
6 ratingsNadia Lake and Nate Hayes find themselves at the center of a horrifying conspiracy in this conclusion to the series that began with Replica.At the conclusion of Resistance, Nadia Lake and the Replica of her best friend, Nate Hayes, found themselves at the center of a horrifying conspiracy... -
![Connor's Journey: A Velvet Glove Story by Sean Michael]()
Connor's Journey: A Velvet Glove Story by Sean Michael
6 ratingsConnor attends a friend's pre-commitment send-off at the Velvet Glove, and he knows he's out of place, but is determined to enjoy his one night among the rich. Then he meets Desmond, a regular member, who wants to show him everything about being a sub if he'll take a five year contract. It beats his old job, but can he do the things Desmond wants him to? Originally published by Torquere Press...
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