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The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett
8 ratingsFleeing an alien menace of galactic proportions, a starship named The Dreamer crash-lands on Earth in the year 2436 BCE. Responding to the crash, the primitive earthlings discover the ship's commander Valerie Dunne is a 5,000-year-old woman from the future, forced to escape her nemesis, the Boecki, by hiding in the past...Categorized as:
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![Challenges by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle]()
Challenges by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle
10 ratingsTabitha has one night to challenge her past, and her belief in herself. Normally, a person would fail. However, Tabitha has an ace in the hole. A female vampire with hundreds of years of life and wisdom and she is willing to protect Tabitha and tell her the truth. Whether Tabitha wants it, or not. And whether the Vampire wants to hurt others is not in question...Categorized as:
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![Blackout by Edward W. Robertson]()
Blackout by Edward W. Robertson
12 ratingsThe final book in the post-apocalyptic BREAKERS series... -
![She is the Principle: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Michael Anderle]()
She is the Principle: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Michael Anderle
6 ratingsA teenage boy with a terminal condition, a group of school bullies, and an incognito Empress with a short temper…Kirian Larsen knows he won’t live to see adulthood. Dex and his gang only care that he’s a human living on “their” planet.Their determination to make his life harder bothers Kirian less than their efforts to do the same for their other victims...Categorized as:
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![Delphi Alliance by Bob Blanton]()
Delphi Alliance by Bob Blanton
14 ratingsThe McCormacks have their floating city growing in the South Pacific, and their space station well underway. As they continue their quest to unite Earth and bring her into the modern age of space travel and repair her environment before it’s too late, they have to fight with the major powers that aren’t too sure they want to change the status quo... -
![Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners]()
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... -
![The Art of Smuggling by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle]()
The Art of Smuggling by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle
8 ratingsWhy would anyone steal art? Who can you sell it to? The High Chancellor puts Rivka on the trail of serial art thieves. Dismantle the ring. Recover the art. Put the thieves behind bars, thieves who stay one step ahead.Insiders? Or maybe outsiders with inside knowledge? No suspects. No clues...Categorized as:
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![His Name was Wren by Rob Winters]()
His Name was Wren by Rob Winters
8 ratingsDuring the blackout of 1944, in the small English town of Hurstwick, something mysterious obliterates the church spire and slices through the nearby woods. Was it a secret Nazi weapon, as some locals suggest? Or just a downed plane? Evacuee George Moss finds an otherworldly explanation, then tries to keep it hidden.Years later, Max Cannon moves to town...Categorized as:
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![Ingathering: The Complete People Stories by Zenna Henderson]()
Ingathering: The Complete People Stories by Zenna Henderson
10 ratingsZenna Henderson is best remembered for her stories of the People which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early '50s to the mid-'70s. The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human in appearance, they possessed many extraordinary powers... -
![Fair Trade: An Alien Invasion Story by Mackey Chandler]()
Fair Trade: An Alien Invasion Story by Mackey Chandler
10 ratingsMost of my writing is in a series people seem to enjoy but there is a constant small crowd who say: I'd really like your take on an alien invasion story. Well this is for them. The bulk of the aliens come to Earth stories assume their vast superiority, sometimes invincibility. Sometimes they suddenly appear on the white house lawn dictating terms...Categorized as:
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![Burn: by Tana Stone]()
Burn: by Tana Stone
8 ratingsMy hot Drexian best friend was tempting--but off-limits. Then we got stuck together on an Inferno Force battleship. Now resisting him is torture.When the Inferno Force battleship I’m working on jumps away to save a colony under attack, I have no choice but to become part of the crew...Categorized as:
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![Tamed By an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross]()
Tamed By an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross
10 ratingsHe’s shy and scarred and thinks no one will ever love him. She’s determined to show him he’s the hottest alien in the universe.Durran: The Earthling females are settling into our clan, finding new homes high in the forest's canopy. Matches are being made, but not for me. Scarred as I am, none will ever glance my way. But one Earthling..Categorized as:
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![Death Match by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle]()
Death Match by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle
10 ratingsWhat happens if the final for your freshman year is to take the hardest, deadliest test the Nexus Academy has devised for your skill classification? And then open it up for player-vs-player action where even your partners can gain skill points for stabbing you in the back? It is time for Kaiden to grow up a little and play with a larger team to accomplish a three-peat... -
![Tracker by C.J. Cherryh]()
Tracker by C.J. Cherryh
12 ratingsTracker is the sixteenth installment of CJ Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series.It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space—a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos... -
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![Emergence by C.J. Cherryh]()
Emergence by C.J. Cherryh
12 ratingsThe nineteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space... -
![The Meridian Ascent by Richard Phillips]()
The Meridian Ascent by Richard Phillips
14 ratingsIn their battle to save Earth from becoming another conquest of the alien Kasari Collective, Mark and Heather Smythe have struck crucial blows against the enemy. But their best efforts have still failed to derail the completion of the wormhole gateway that would give the insidious extraterrestrial invaders access to the planet—and doom humankind as helpless slaves of the Kasari hive mind... -
![Pretender by C.J. Cherryh]()
Pretender by C.J. Cherryh
16 ratingsExhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader, is missing... -
![Incoming by Mel Todd]()
Incoming by Mel Todd
6 ratingsGetting back home with the knowledge that aliens are coming for your planet is one thing. Figuring out how to get anyone in a position of power to listen to you is something else. With the knowledge that the Elentrin are weeks away from Earth, McKenna must persuade the government that she isn’t crazy and that aliens are coming. But first she has to convince friends and family...Categorized as:
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![Volunteer for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins]()
Volunteer for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
6 ratingsI didn’t want to compete in the Alien Bride Games. But I would do anything to save my sister.Hannah’s just a kid. Yeah, sure, she’s 21, old enough for her name to be drawn in The Alien Bride Lottery. But she’s got her whole life in front of her.I, on the other hand, have nothing left to live for...Categorized as:
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![Commander by Mel Todd]()
Commander by Mel Todd
6 ratingsDiscovering an Artificial Intelligence lives in your head, strike one. Having the Artificial Intelligence explain aliens are the origin of shifters on Earth, strike two. Having it announce you are the commanding officer of the earth shifters, strike three... -
![Daisy's War by Scott Baron]()
Daisy's War by Scott Baron
6 ratingsWith powerful forces working behind the scenes, Daisy seemed to be on the path to what may very well be a rousing victory. Or a glorious death, should she fail. For obvious reasons, she hoped for the former rather than the latter.She and her friends had persevered and come out on the other side time and again. Now they just had to pull together one last time to stand against their greatest foe... -
![Stardust by Edward W. Robertson]()
Stardust by Edward W. Robertson
6 ratingsThe invaders have arrived. The last battle for humanity is about to begin. STARDUST is the final book in the Rebel Stars series... -
![Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield]()
Connection Unknown by Michael Chatfield
6 ratingsLuke Tavares has dreamed of joining the vast gaming guilds of the hypernet. After recently graduating high school, his parents have given him the same ultimatum as his siblings; he has one month to get a job to pay for his air, gravity, and water aboard the Dahlia.The freighter needs more hands, but Luke doesn’t want to be a trader-ship engineer... -
![Delphi Castaways by Bob Blanton]()
Delphi Castaways by Bob Blanton
6 ratingsBook 16 in the popular Delphi in Space series. During the war with Thorea, Jason and Miranda are jumping through a wormhole when a power surge causes the wormhole to jump. The wake up to find themselves in another star system. With no contact with the Delphi League, they decide to land on a planet in the system. There they discover humans living in the stone age...Categorized as:
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![Camp Alien by Gini Koch]()
Camp Alien by Gini Koch
8 ratingsThe President and First Lady, aka Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, don't get any downtime once the Mastermind has been revealed to the world. Not only do they have myriad high-level government positions to fill, but the scrutiny and pressure on this Administration has gone into overdrive.The sudden reappearance of a long-forgotten adversary turns out to be the tip of the iceberg... -
![Alien Education by Gini Koch]()
Alien Education by Gini Koch
8 ratingsAs if learning as much as possible about every alien race in the galaxy, fending off the advances both business and personal from a variety of Hollywood types, dealing with the assimilation of various alien races, and navigating the Embassy Daycare kids' first day of "real" school wasn't bad enough, President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini must now deal with new robotic attacks that... -
![Shock Action by Rick Partlow]()
Shock Action by Rick Partlow
8 ratingsCam is a Marine, not a spy.That’s what he keeps trying to tell Fleet Intelligence, but when he and Vicky signed back up, they agreed to follow orders. And their orders are to keep working for the Corporate Security Force and find out what the private paramilitary force knows about Zan-Thint and his plans to use Predecessor technology against the Commonwealth...Categorized as:
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![Claimed by the Stryxian by Ella Blake]()
Claimed by the Stryxian by Ella Blake
8 ratingsWhen Axika Naxek is tasked with upgrading a newly acquired human space station, he comes straight up against Gwen, a brilliant human female whose strategic mind is integral to operations. He thinks little of the weak humans he is in charge of, but to his astonishment, she ignites his mala and his interest...Categorized as:
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![Saved by the Stryxian by Ella Blake]()
Saved by the Stryxian by Ella Blake
10 ratingsWhen Brandy Trentler’s wealthy family insists she marry the jerk who cheated on her, she signs up for the Stryxian mate lottery. Who knew her number would be drawn in the first round? Nothing goes right after that—the transport ship is attacked, she is captured by the enemy Morr-ta aliens and thrown in prison... -
![Welcome to the Occupied States of America by Peter Cawdron]()
Welcome to the Occupied States of America by Peter Cawdron
10 ratingsAshley Kelly is your typical American teenager—or she would be if it wasn’t for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Seven years after the invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spent seven years learning to walk again, and she’ll be damned if she’s going to lie down for anyone, human or otherwise... -
![Deliverer by C.J. Cherryh]()
Deliverer by C.J. Cherryh
14 ratingsIn the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir Cajeiri, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the seat of power. The usurper, Murini, has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over... -
![Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf]()
Prelude to Extinction by Andreas Karpf
14 ratingsEarth's first interstellar mission -- An alien colony in ruins -- Their fight for survival has only just begun.When Jack Harrison climbed down the short ladder from the airlock and stepped onto the debris covered soil, the ground crackled with the sound of dried leaves and twigs... -
![Defender by C.J. Cherryh]()
Defender by C.J. Cherryh
16 ratingsNearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship Phoenix, the alien atevi have three functioning space shuttles, and teams of atevi engineers labor in orbit to renovate the space station... -
![Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh]()
Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh
16 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war... -
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![Roar! by Zeta Star]()
Roar! by Zeta Star
6 ratingsWithout Roar – you try pronouncing it, okay? -- I’d be dead in that pod. And when he purrs and does that thing with his... I think I’ll keep him.Abducted by space lizards? Check.Experimented on? Check.Rescued by seven feet of hot, alien male? Check!Roar’s a bit shy, furry with claws and a metal arm, and his best friend is a spaceship named Killer. That’s a little scary... -
![Thran by Alana Khan]()
Thran by Alana Khan
6 ratingsNewly-freed slaves are forced together on a dangerous mission. Can they keep their hands off each other long enough to survive lecherous villains, dangerous explosions, and a dwindling air supply?MelodieThran can’t take his eyes off me. Because of what I’ve been through, I spend most of my time avoiding him...Categorized as:
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![Infiltration by K.D. Jones]()
Infiltration by K.D. Jones
6 ratingsWarning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. M/F Kiljorn Interrogator StrykER must infiltrate the Purist rebellion in order to discover what kind of threat is posed to the Katieran and Kiljorn nations. His unique abilities make him the perfect candidate. He knows it will be dangerous, that he might not make it back alive... -
![A Future for Zharor by Lynnea Lee]()
A Future for Zharor by Lynnea Lee
6 ratingsCHRISSY The alien captain rescuing me from the Dominion breeding facility is nothing like the other Tallean males I’ve met. He’s wild, untamed, and hot as sin. The fierce warrior sets my body on fire. He stalks right up to me and tells me I’m his... -
![A Promise for Vore by Lynnea Lee]()
A Promise for Vore by Lynnea Lee
6 ratingsShe hated him the moment they met. Burned by love, Lettie is finally ready to date again after a long, self-imposed hiatus from men. But Vore is everything Lettie abhors. He’s a self-proclaimed ladies’ man and totally not her type. Then why does her body react every time he flashes her his fangs? “Love them and leave them.” That’s what Vore has always said...Categorized as:
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![A Claim for Calix by Lynnea Lee]()
A Claim for Calix by Lynnea Lee
6 ratingsHe’ll do anything to find his mate! Calix has been looking for his mate for years. There’s someone fated just for him, and no one else will do. But one look at Emma has Cal overwhelmed with protectiveness. He knows Emma is not the one, but that doesn’t stop him from stealing her and claiming her as his own. Emma stinks. Stinking is ideal for avoiding attention... -
![Stargods by Ian Douglas]()
Stargods by Ian Douglas
6 ratingsThe last installment in the Star Carrier series, where first contact, space opera, and military adventure combine, from New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas! Will this be the end? Or a new beginning… Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier... -
![Lost to the Alien Lord (Lords of Destra, #1) by Ella Blake]()
Lost to the Alien Lord (Lords of Destra, #1) by Ella Blake
6 ratingsA Sci-Fi Alien Romance I signed up for a research mission with five other women. Instead, we crashed on an alien planet with too many dangers to count. Separated from the other women, I'm on my own until a huge alien with color-changing skin and a massive sword gets me out of a bad spot. I don't understand Savair's language, but I think he's under the impression that I'm his.I am NOT his... -
![No Choice by Mel Todd]()
No Choice by Mel Todd
6 ratingsDoing your duty isn't a choice, even if you become a cougar. Officer McKenna Largo's life is thrown into turmoil when she is catapulted onto the worldwide stage as the focal point for a bizarre event occurring across the planet.She finds herself famous and infamous when, in the middle of a bank robbery call, she turns into a cougar... -
![Interstellar War by G.P. Hudson]()
Interstellar War by G.P. Hudson
6 ratingsA homeland in ashes. A merciless ancient enemy. A vicious new foe. A galaxy convulsing with war. With humanity on the brink of annihilation, only one option remains, Interstellar War. Can Jon Pike achieve victory, and revenge, for himself and humanity? Find out in Interstellar War, Book 5 of The Pike Chronicles...Categorized as:
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![Ronin by Edward W. Robertson]()
Ronin by Edward W. Robertson
6 ratingsThe Hive has survived their first fleet action against FinnTech. But in the process, they've lost the Hive itself. With their manufacturing base in Finn's hands, it's only a matter of time before they're outnumbered and destroyed. As Rada searches for a path to victory, she stumbles on a horrifying secret: the aliens who've kept humanity confined to the Solar System are about to make their move... -
![Her Fated King by Roxie Ray]()
Her Fated King by Roxie Ray
6 ratingsCould she be my queen?I was tasked with retrieving the would-be queen from Earth. King Brixta is no friend to me, but I will do my duty.Except Alora haunts my dreams.She isn’t mine and can never be.One taste of her will never be enough.When I dream, I am the one placing a crown on her head.I’m the one sitting on the throne.It is my duty to surrender her... -
![Trapped with the Alien by Luna Kingsley]()
Trapped with the Alien by Luna Kingsley
6 ratingsThe Yinean may be gone but their human victims are left to deal with the aftermath.Two months after the destruction of the Yinean and MIla still can’t move on. Going home isn’t an option and even if it were, she’s no longer the woman she was before she was taken. Every day she wakes from a fitful sleep and searches for something that will make everything better again... -
![AL CLARK by Jonathan G. Meyer]()
AL CLARK by Jonathan G. Meyer
8 ratingsA thousand specially selected people left a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin planet thirty years away.Their ship is state-of-the art, and almost totally automatic; it's passengers safely sleeping through the journey - but something has gone wrong. Something unexpected.A man suffering from amnesia awakens to a new life, with more questions than answers, to begin a journey of discovery... -
![A Chance for Arus by Lynnea Lee]()
A Chance for Arus by Lynnea Lee
8 ratingsPlaying with fire.Recently rescued from a Dominion slave ship, the last thing Mia needs is to be bogged down by a relationship. But she can’t get the sexy mercenary and the things he did to her body out of her head. The guy is built like a god, and even better with his mouth.Mia knows it’s dangerous to keep seeing him...Categorized as:
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![Vyce by Madison Savage]()
Vyce by Madison Savage
8 ratingsAbducted and sent to a cold, grim alien prison, Ashley isn't prepared for the harsh realities she's forced to face. She's also not prepared for the tortured gladiator named Vyce to whom she's given.With a hatred of small spaces and full of a nearly uncontainable energy, there are two things that can take Vyce's mind off his torment.Singing, and sex.And Ashley can't sing worth a damn...
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