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Gate Quest by Lindsay Buroker
15 ratingsRoboticist extraordinaire Casmir Dabrowski has a new nemesis: astroshaman leader Kyla Moonrazor. She’s stolen the ancient wormhole gate the king ordered Casmir to retrieve, and she’s entrenched in an underwater base on a forsaken moon. Moonrazor is more educated and more experienced than Casmir, and she has legions of killer robots and cyborg defenders on her side. Casmir has his friends and.. -
Called by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
12 ratingsAfter earning access to a secret base beneath their safe house, Molly and her team are beyond excited by the "toys" they find. However, before they get to explore the super advanced tech and ships they find there, they need to pass one more test. A test which may be more convoluted and intriguing than they could possibly have imagined... -
Sanctioned by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
10 ratingsGeneral Lance Reynolds needs Molly’s team for a clandestine operation. The only problem? It kicks off in one week, and the Syndicate needs cleaning up once and for all. So what is a girl to do? Go on the offensive, of course. But with the ultimate take down planned for the bad guys of Planet Estaria, you know it’s going to be EPIC... -
Cloaked by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
10 ratingsNot everything someone sees is real. Now, both sides of the story are tested by those who hide their reasons. For some, the reasons are good, for others not so much. Molly, Oz, Joel, Sean, Jack and the others are back in Action, supporting the Etheric Federation to stop a planet from being destroyed... -
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Retribution by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
10 ratingsSometimes, retribution is a slippery slope towards self-destruction. When the General Invites Molly and her crew to the ArchAngel, it's not long before news also arrives of a serious threat to the Federation. It falls to Molly and her team to deal with the threat, which winds up in an intense hostage situation... -
Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz
10 ratingsWhen a starship decides to play Santa Claus… Ahab is a mLa’an artificial intelligence embedded in the starship, Orion. The campaign for AIs to be recognized as full citizens of Galaxy Proper is within reach of its extraordinary goal. The only thing that could stop it now is if an AI did something foolish…like take a space station hostage to save seven orphaned children...Categorized as:
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Penitent by Dan Abnett
11 ratingsBook 2 in the Bequin seriesAlizebeth Bequin's world has been turned upside-down. Now she must choose who she will follow as Inquisitors Eisenhorn and Ravenor battle to discover the secrets at the heart of Queen Mab... -
Rebel by Jenny Schwartz
12 ratingsLife is complicated along the Hadrian Line. Decisions made on the border will decide the fate of the entire Human Sector.Nora is adjusting to her new role as a player in the games of the powerful. She's gained some interesting enemies and some even more dubious allies. She has also been presented with a unique opportunity, courtesy of Jonah... -
Cajole by Jenny Schwartz
12 ratingsIf life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector... -
Archangel Rising by Evan Currie
14 ratingsArchangel Squadron faces off against the forces of the brutal Protectorate to claim a prize, and save humanity, in a gripping novel of deep space jeopardy by the author of the Odyssey One series. At the helm of a commandeered freighter, Captain Steph Michaels has infiltrated the Free Star systems... -
Liberty by Nick Webb
14 ratingsWar. It rages across United Earth space, claiming millions of lives. The Swarm have returned, larger, more fierce, and more technologically advanced than ever before. The voice from Saturn's moon Titan claiming to be Tim Granger is warning humanity that this time, the Swarm may be unstoppable... -
Annihilation by Jonathan Yanez
8 ratingsThe Battle For Mars Comes to a Bloody End Daniel Hunt has been many things in his life but a commander in a full out military conflict has never been one of them. The Voy is a deadly opponent and if humanity is going to have a chance every faction must come together... -
Alpharius: Head of the Hydra by Mike Brooks
8 ratingsA Primarchs novelWho better to relate the tale of Alpharius than the primarch himself? As he tells of his deeds, bear one thing in mind: nothing can be trusted when it comes from serpent's mouth.READ IT BECAUSEI am Alpharius… and so are you.THE STORYLegends abound of the glorious – or infamous – deeds of the Emperor's sons...Categorized as:
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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
19 ratingsThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves...Categorized as:
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Alien Artifacts by Jasper T. Scott
10 ratingsA DEADLY MISSION ON AN UNCHARTED WORLD RIDDLED WITH ANCIENT SECRETSOn his last job, Cade Korbin lost his ship, lost his credits, and barely escaped with his life, but it’s not over. His enemy is still out there, nursing a decades-old vendetta that has yet to be quenched. Making matters worse, his guild is coming after him for breaking their rules... -
Old Enemy by Nathan Hystad
10 ratingsWhen all new threats are dealt with, old enemies emerge from the shadows. Dean Parker has brought his wife home, and he’s looking forward to relaxing and having a future with his family on New Spero. The Iskios vortex is gone, vanquished by the Hero of Earth, but unforeseen enemies linger in the universe. The Bhlat send a warning to the humans, one that suggests the Kraski may not all be dead...Categorized as:
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Astray by Jenny Schwartz
12 ratingsNora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it... -
Retaliation by Paul C. Middleton, Michael Anderle
12 ratingsThinking that Boris was dead - a mistake. Not making sure was a bigger one. They attacked his town – HUGE mistake. He knows who was responsible - for the attack, for the destruction, for the deaths. What comes next is justice, is RETALIATION! A third of his people have chosen to fight at his side... -
Colony Mars Boxset by Gerald M. Kilby
12 ratingsAll contact is lost with the first privately funded colony on Mars during a long and destructive sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site...Categorized as:
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Betrayer by C.J. Cherryh
14 ratingsBetrayer (Foreigner, Book 12)The twelfth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…In the wake of civil war, Bren Cameron, the brilliant human diplomat of the alien atevi civilization, has left the capital and sought refuge at his country estate, Najida... -
Star Force: Galactic Empire Revealed by Aer-ki Jyr
6 ratingsA mysterious dragon has emerged from the galactic core to inform the V'kit'no'sat of the true nature of the Hadarak threat they face...and a great deal more...Categorized as:
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Lucky Justice: Lucky's Marines | Book Seven by Joshua James
6 ratingsA simple mission gone impossibly wrong. Ambushed by an enemy that shouldn't exist, Lucky and his Marines must overcome powerful forces with limitless resources – and a princess with limitless ego. But Sergeant Lucky Savage has a powerful weapon of his own. Whether he can manage to control it is an open question... -
Absolution by Jonathan Yanez
8 ratingsRedemption exists but the price must be paid in blood. Daniel Hunt is still searching for answers to his past. Along the way, he stumbled across The Order, an ancient society credited for toppling Earth. His search will take him into the Badlands where a former member of the Pack Protocol has made her home. Except all is not as it seems in the small town and war is in the air... -
Warhawk by Chris Wraight
8 ratingsSiege of Terra Book 6With the Lion's Gate space port taken by the enemy, Jaghatai Khan of the White Scars prepares a brazen gambit, but one of his former brothers rises to take up arms against him.READ IT BECAUSEThe heroic and dynamic White Scars hurtle headlong into combat with the unyielding Death Guard. As brother battles brother, the fate of Terra itself hangs in the balance...Categorized as:
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Terminus Cut by Rick Partlow
8 ratingsMercenaries with a mission. Logan Conner has given up the life of a warrior prince to become Jonathan Slaughter, a mercenary captain of a rough-and-ready band of mech-jocks for hire. Already legendary throughout the Periphery, their next job brings them head-to-head with the Jeuta, militant aliens who seek to loot and plunder isolated human colony worlds... -
Hero to the End by Timothy Ellis
8 ratings'If we fall, humanity is lost. Those are the stakes.' The Darkness War rages on, and a war weary Jonathon Hunter faces obstacles which only humans can create, while an enemy which keeps growing stronger continues to force him to retreat... -
Divergence by C.J. Cherryh
10 ratingsThe twenty-first book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron, advisor to the atevi head of state... -
Hero to the Rescue by Timothy Ellis
10 ratings"I'm not in the rescue business," states Jonathon Hunter, to the amusement of his crew. But rescues are the least of his concerns. Darkness is coming, and there are still people out there who don’t like him. The Sirius system has always fascinated Jon, and he is drawn to solve its mysteries...Categorized as:
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Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz
10 ratingsNew ER doctor Alexi Sur always intended to join an aid agency. She'd just expected to work among humans. But when the Pax Galactica Corps becomes her only option (don't ask - the debts aren't hers, but the family is. Much to her regret), Alexi finds herself traveling the galaxy and learning alien physiology and culture, all while becoming a reality TV star...Categorized as:
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Ruins of the Earth by Christopher Hopper, J.N. Chaney
12 ratingsA secret buried in the Antarctic.A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years.And a Brooklyn-born Master Gunnery Sergeant who's royally pissed that he has to babysit the researchers sent to figure it all out.Patrick "Wic" Finnegan's last op as a Marine Raider before retirement sends him to the frozen Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands... -
Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
12 ratingsYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net... -
Magnificat by Julian May
16 ratingsThe eagerly awaited finale of a modern SF classic--May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy, which began with Jack the Bodiless and continued with Diamond Mask. The mystery involving Jack the Bodiless, the metaphysically talented Dorothea, and Fury, the insane metaphysic creature determined to become sole ruler over all humankind, explodes anew...Categorized as:
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Victory by Nick Webb
16 ratingsUnited Earth burns. The Swarm runs rampant across our space. We mourn the loss of thousands of ships and millions of fallen comrades. Billions of fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers--all gone, all dead. It is time we end this, for our moment has come. But victory never comes without sacrifice. Heroes are not taught nor trained, but forged in blood and ashes...Categorized as:
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Independence by Nick Webb
16 ratingsWe hoped, desperately, that they came in peace. We were wrong. Thirty years after the Second Swarm War devastated Earth and its colonies, a powerful, mysterious alien ship has invaded our space. Entire planets are ravaged, whole moons shattered. Any starship sent against it never comes home... -
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Starseers by Lindsay Buroker
17 ratingsThe mysterious and powerful Starseers have Captain Alisa Marchenko's daughter, and she will do whatever she must to get her back, even if it means traveling to their stronghold and confronting them personally. Unfortunately, her strongest ally, the cyborg Leonidas, may become a liability since the cyborgs and the Starseers have a long history of hating each other... -
Strange Company by Nick Cole
6 ratingsStack bodies, get paid, get to the ship.“If you can survive Reaper Platoon in the Strange, then Ghost or Dog Platoons will get you for their own. Best to steer clear of the freaks in Voodoo, kid.”Surrounded and outgunned, a group of private military contractors known as “Strange Company” find themselves on a remote planet at the edge of known space, and on the losing end of a bad contract... -
Revelation Run by Rick Partlow
6 ratingsMission accomplished… until the enemy finds out. Logan Conner thinks his days pretending to be mercenary captain Jonathan Slaughter are behind him now that the ancient Imperial outpost of Terminus Cut has been uncovered. He’s returned to his duties while his brother, Terrin, leads a team of scientists studying the lost technology of the fallen empire... -
Click Click Boom by Jonathan Yanez, Justin Sloan
6 ratingsRiot has tasted the turbulence of the universe, and she loves it. With echoes of wonder and cries for help, swarms of claws and clans under siege, the vastness calls out for a hero. Instead, Riot and her War Wolves will rush in to save them. But after she's blown some stuff up... -
A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick
6 ratings"Heiress? They've already stolen the estates. I'm heir to nothing." When disgraced aristocrat Zara Aguirre barely escapes with her life from her home world, she hopes that she's found safety on the planet Kernow. She wants nothing more than to be left in peace, hidden away in a remote town on the wild and untamed western coast... -
Fabius Bile: Manflayer by Joshua Reynolds
6 ratingsFabius Bile Book 3As his Homo Novus project comes to fruition, Fabius Bile faces a new threat – the dreaded haemonculi of the Thirteen Scars...Categorized as:
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Portals by Ann Christy
6 ratingsThe world sees the portals as an invasion. For Lysa, they're an invitation. The portals appeared without warning. Every thirteen minutes they take a thousand humans, leaving exact duplicates in their place. Now, chaos reigns and no one is sure anyone is still the person they knew. Whoever is sending the portals has destroyed human society without firing a shot... -
Mechs vs. Dinosaurs by Isaac Hooke
6 ratingsAn alien entity has stolen a time weapon. Rade and the Argonauts must retrieve the weapon and travel back sixty-five million years to ancient Earth to stop the entity from intervening in humankind's evolution. The stakes are high. If the team fails, they will return to find a galaxy populated not by humans, but by the descendants of the dinosaurs. The mission won't be easy... -
The Dark of Light by Audrey Sharpe
6 ratingsIn the mid twenty-third century, unexplained planetary destruction threatens Earth’s sister planet, Gaia, and the nearly one million humans who call it home. Colonized when Earth faced environmental collapse, the planet has been a valuable agricultural resource, but the recent devastation threatens Gaia’s future. The Galactic Council assigns the crew of the Starhawke to investigate... -
Nemesis by Jonathan Yanez
6 ratingsVillainy has a new face. With the Voy recently dispatched, Daniel Hunt and the rest of the Pack think they have a moment of reprieve from the madness. They would be wrong. A stranger from the future comes with a story so wild it's hard to deny. If this wasn't enough a new Relic is introduced onto the field. Every faction will do whatever it takes to claim it as their own... -
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The Enemy Within by Jasper T. Scott
6 ratingsDISCOUNTED FROM $3.99 UNTIL AUGUST 27thTHEY LEFT SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS FROM THE COSMOS AND FOUND AN EVIL AS OLD AS TIME Lucien, Garek, Addy, and Brak are all that's left of the Inquisitor's crew... -
Revenge by Nathan Hystad, Flynn Earl Jones
6 ratingsThe Rift has opened. The aliens invaded. The Eureka is on the other side. Flint, Wren, and Ace, along with Charles, are now members of the Eureka, a state-of-the-art vessel heading for a world in the far reaches of a new galaxy. Sixty years ago a colony ship was sent there, along with someone close to their benefactor... -
Starship Revenant by Tripp Ellis
6 ratingsThe extermination of mankind has begun!Lieutenant Commander Zoey Bryant is the best pilot in the fleet. But her loyalty to Captain Slade gets her kicked out of the Navy. She teams up with a ruthless band of mercenaries to rescue the wrongly dishonored captain... -
Starship Guardian by Tripp Ellis
6 ratingsThe invasion has begun. Humanity is doomed!Captain Slade, a legendary hero of the first Verge War, is in command of the last star destroyer in the galaxy. Along with her ragtag crew, she must battle a superior alien fleet as they invade New Earth. To save mankind, Slade will need help from a former enemy.Presley Johnson is a military brat who dreams of becoming a Navy pilot... -
Obsidian Detective by Michael Anderle
8 ratingsTwo Rebels whose Worlds Collide on a Planetary Level. On the fringes of human space, a murder will light a fuse and send two different people colliding together. She lives on Earth, where peace among the population is a given. He is on the fringe of society where authority is how much firepower you wield. She is from the powerful, the elite. He is with the military... -
Hero in Darkness by Timothy Ellis
8 ratingsIt's crunch time for Jonathon Hunter. The Darkness War has begun. His nightmares led him to the edge of Death, waiting for Darkness. Prophesy will not be denied, and the nightmare seemed to suggest all would go black...
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