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Author
Series
Venus ascendant volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After finding a mysterious artifact on the surface of Venus, George-Étienne and his children form The House of Styx to prevent this new technology from falling into the wrong hands, aspiring to become one of the most powerful families in the known galaxy--or die trying.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
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
Ringworld series volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must...
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...
Author
Series
Ice planet barbarians volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Josie has always dreamed of finding The One, but the hunter chosen for her is nothing like what she expected (or wanted)-but he might be exactly what she needs. "Resonance" is supposed to be a dream-that's when your soulmate is chosen for you. And every woman on the ice planet has hooked up with a big, hunky soulmate of their own-except me. So do I want a mate? Heck yeah. More than anything, all I've ever wanted is to be loved by someone. But the...
10) Princess of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
11) 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...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As a teenage Padawan, Sav has been training her entire life to understand the ways of the Force and become a Jedi Knight, until a chance encounter with pirate queen Maz Kanata and her outlaw crew finds Sav longing for greater adventures beyond her world of disciplined studies. By chance, the news of an alliance of dark Force users forces Sav to take on a deadly mission, undercover as member of Maz's crew to discover the true nature of this dark alliance"--...
13) Ghost station
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It's personal to her, and when she's assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something. And Ophelia's crewmates...
Author
Series
Space Holes volume 1
Publisher
CamCat Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Saving an alien planet is nothing compared to meeting your sales quota. Marcus Aimond, untrained tag-along aboard humanity's first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel, has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise. When the rookie and his crew encounter the Nerelkor, a frog-like civilization, he is thrust head-first into an alien civil war. The opposing factions, Rejault and Dinasc, are stuck in an ill-fated feud driven by deep-rooted...
15) Dragonseye
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Weyrs and Holds struggle to ward off the second coming of the Red Star and the deadly Silver Thread with dwindling technology.
16) 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
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
Author
Series
Eighth continent volume 1
Publisher
Aethon Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A lowly construction worker on the Moon is Earth's only chance... Nick Morrison always wanted to be an astronaut. When a startup company recruits him to build a lunar launch system at the Moon's south pole, Nick gladly leaves behind his troubled life on Earth-but Nick doesn't know that the company is in financial and legal trouble. Deprived of support from Earth, the team on the Moon must figure out how to survive on their own. Worse yet, there's...
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...
20) Hunters of Dune
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...
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