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Author
Series
Farian war volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When Hail confronts the Farian gods, the last thing she expected was to discover that they were part of a race of aliens who'd attacked the galaxy long before humanity's ancestors had crawled out of the sludge of Earth's oceans. The discovery carries with it dire news: The Hiervet, who'd once subjugated the mighty Svatir, are coming - a consequence of Hail's decision not to kill the Farian gods. Now the fate of the galaxy is on the line and Hail...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child...
24) The outside
Author
Series
The outside volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Super-intelligent AI Gods rule the galaxy. Their algorithms determine the rewards you reap before and after death. But the Gods give and the Gods take away. And Yasira has never been good at Gods... Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive on board The Pride of Jai that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone left inside. The Gods declare...
25) Martians abroad
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fearing her dream of becoming a galaxy-traveling starship pilot will never come true when she is sent to Earth's Galileo Academy, Polly teams up with her popular brother to investigate dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates.
26) Neptune
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets-- billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia-- are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago Ilona Magyr's father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead: crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. With legendary...
27) Azura ghost
Author
Series
The Graven novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Caiden has been on the run for ten years with his unique starship in order to keep his adversary, Threi, imprisoned. But when an old friend he'd once thought dead reappears, he is lured into a game of cat and mouse with the one person whose powers rival Threi's: Threi's sister Abriss. Now with both siblings on the hunt for Caiden and his ship, Caiden must rescue his long-lost friend from their clutches and uncover the source of both his ship's power...
Author
Series
Starlight's Shadow volume 3
Language
English
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Description
As a recovery specialist, Lexi Bowen's jobs typically require more trickery and thievery than honest work. Her former captain might not approve of her flexible morals, but stealing artifacts for rich assholes pays the bills, and Lexi's had enough of war and death. The FHP left her to die once; she doesn't plan to give them a chance to finish the job. Unfortunately, her latest contract takes her to Valovia itself--and right back into the orbit of...
29) Chilling effect
Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead...
30) Heris Serrano
Author
Series
Serrano legacy volume 1-3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1,041 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
33) Invisible things
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving on Jupiter, Nalini and her crew find a city encased in a bubble where they are taken captive and forced to start new lives in a place riven with wealth, populated by alien abductees and plagued by an invisible entity.
34) Alliance rising
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Series
Language
English
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Thousands of years in the future, humanity has expanded to the stars, maintaining a loose connection to its home planet, largely due to the 10-year trip, each way, between Earth and the nearest station, called Alpha. Alpha is the Earth Company's base on this side of the universe, devoting most of its resources to a faster-than-light ship named The Rights of Man -- a not-quite functional monstrosity built using early drafts of stolen designs. The working...
35) Willful Child
Author
Series
Willful Child volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical space-opera spoof follows the misadventures of foolish but exceedingly cocksure Captain Hadria Sawback and his motley crew aboard the starship Willful Child as they plant the Terran flag on subjugated alien worlds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The barque cats, mistaken for a public health hazard, flee Earth for the feline-dominated planet, Mau, with the help of Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with his own spaceship. Oddly, no one--including the humans--is bothered that he plans to take over the universe on behalf of felinekind.
Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra find themselves once again on the fringe of populated space--and at the center of a raging covert war. When Eva's sister asks for help locating a missing scientist, promises of a big paycheck and a noble cause convince Eva to take the job despite lingering trust issues. With reluctant assistance from her estranged mother, Eva and her crew follow the missing scientist's trail across the universe,...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an alien race warns them that an unidentifiable force is roaming the galaxy, destroying everything in its path towards human space, Kris Longknife and her crew must take on new roles in order to combat this unknown threat.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas gunslinger and genius Menelaus Illation Montrose is awakened from cryo-suspension to harness developing forces of evolution and social engineering to counter a threat against another historical period.
40) Eternity's mind
Author
Series
Saga of shadows volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two decades after the devastating Elemental War, which nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation restored peace and profitable commerce among the peoples and worlds of the Spiral Arm. The ambitious, innovative Roamers went back to their traditional business of harvesting the vital stardrive fuel ekti from the clouds of gas giant planets, and the telepathic green priests of Theroc provided instantaneous galaxy-wide communication via their...
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