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Saga of seven suns volume 2
Language
English
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Early in the 25th century, humans ignited a fierce war with the hydrogues. Now the gas-giant planets, once a major source of fuel for Earth, are off limits, and the fearsome hydrogues scour the solar system, incinerating humans and the trees of the world forest. As political unrest spreads throughout Earth's space colonies, a possible ally is discovered: an ancient race of water-based creatures.
62) Embassytown
Author
Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Author
Series
Flight engineer volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
An Admiral novel volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intergalactic war has ended and hostilities between the Evagardian Empire and the Commonwealth are officially over, but the admiral is far from safe; he and others are kidnapped by criminals as peace talks approach that could end the intergalactic war for good.
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Language
English
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Description
Warden Torin Kerr has put her military career behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. From the good, from the bad. From the heroics, from the betrayal. She's created a place and purpose for others like her, a way to use their training for the good of the Confederation. She has friends, family, purpose. Then Torin's past suddenly comes back to haunt her. Big Yellow, the ship form of the plastic aliens responsible for...
Author
Series
The Giants' series volume 5
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
68) The shiva option
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
753 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
69) Admiral
Author
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire--a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship's records confirm he is their superior officer....
70) Darth Plagueis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Darth Plagueis, a Sith Lord who knows the Dark Side so well that he has power over life and death, joins forces with his apprentice, one-day emperor Darth Sidious, to try to dominate the whole galaxy.
71) Scattered suns
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The war between the hydrogues and the faeros rages with the humans and Ildirans caught in the crossfire. The many factions of humanity are bitterly divided as Chairman Wenceslas's vendetta against all independent colonies blinds him to outside dangers--the deadliest being the Klikiss robots that have infiltrated the entire human military and launched their long-planned extermination of all things flesh and blood. Meanwhile, Jora'h, the Ildiran Mage...
72) Metal swarm
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 6
Language
English
Description
While the Earth is overrun by swarms of ancient robots built by the not-so-extinct Klikiss race, King Peter breaks away from the resistance-crushing forces of the Hansa's brutal Chairman in order to forge independent colonies.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn — an action packed science fiction novel.
Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either.
After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it — trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can,...
Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either.
After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it — trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can,...
Author
Series
Star volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A near-future Earth has shaken off the devastating colonization by alien Lokaran invaders and totalitarian rule by the alien's human puppets. But now Earth is flung into galactic intrigue and war. The Lokaran empire teeters on the edge of a meltdown and a cabal of ancient enemies hope to use Earth as a proxy to destroy the empire and rule over a new Galactic dark age. Captain Andrew Roark, the son of heroes of the rebellion and an officer trained...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In the tradition of Star Wars, a galaxy-hopping space adventure about a galactic kingdom bent on control and the young misfit who must find the power within before it's too late. Cade Sura holds the future of the galaxy in his hands: the ultimate weapon that will bring total peace. He didn't ask for it, he doesn't want it, and there's no worse choice to wield it in all of space, but if he doesn't, everyone's totally screwed. The evil Praxis kingdom...
76) Made of stars
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Outlaws Shane and Ava, determined to thwart military leaders from taking over their home world, make interstellar headlines with each new heist, determined to bring the planet to its knees--or die trying"--Provided by publisher.
77) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
Expanse volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay....
79) Berserker's star
Author
Series
Berserker series volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
80) Hidden empire
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 1
Language
English
Description
Humans have colonized the worlds of the Spiral Arm and the rest of the galaxy seems to be theirs for the taking. The Klikiss Torch is a device capable of transforming gas giants into new suns, however, the Jovian worlds are home to an alien species. The victims of unintentional genocide, the advanced hydogues aren't looking for an apology or reparations when they launch their warships on a single mission to annihilate every last human in the universe....
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