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Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, corporations have created their own militaries. On a rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined one, but he now sees its ruthless exploitation. His only hope for escape is to buy his place into a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell the Resistance, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune. To get the money he needs, he plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone -- the Fallen Dragon. However,...
Author
Series
CoDominion universe. Second Empire volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
SCIENCE FICTION. Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." "The San Francisco Chronicle" declared that "as science fiction, "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as "Footfall "and "The Legacy of Heorot, " return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod...
Author
Publisher
Bookbaby
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, humanity has listened to the stars, yearning for a sign of intelligent life beyond our world. Finally, that moment arrives when a radio message from an advanced alien civilization reaches Earth. But with this groundbreaking revelation comes a profound question: How should we respond? The source of the message lies far away, and the aliens' survival over the vast expanse of space and time is uncertain. To make contact, humanity must...
5) Matter
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 8
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos--the galaxy's finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett--find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalone with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata's ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others--including men from Delta and...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune--Frank Herbert's final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As...
8) Alpha wave
Author
Series
Sleepers war volume 1
Publisher
Aethon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Created to defeat the invaders. Forgotten in victory. They will rise again-- We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One Spec-Ops agents into deadly super soldiers. In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace. The Flock surrendered and spent the next two hundred years making reparations, indentured to humanity, doing everything humans did not want...
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