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201) Babylon's ashes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...
202) Demon in white
Author
Series
Sun eater volume 3
Language
English
Description
For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne. This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on the humans' Empire. To make matters worse, a cult of personality has formed around Hadrian, spurred on by legends...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is...
Author
Series
Sun eater volume 1
Publisher
DAW BOOKS, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster....
206) Machine vendetta
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the death of Ingvar Tench, one of Panoply's most dangerous operatives, Prefect Tom Dreyfus, riddled with guilt, is plunged into a deadly conspiracy and pitted against an old enemy who refuses to die.
208) Calamity
Author
Series
Uncharted hearts volume 1
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her...
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Banking on a short, victorious war to replenish their depleted treasury, the ruling class of the People's Republic of Haven do not count on coming up against Captain Honor Harrington and the Royal Manticoran Navy.
211) Revan
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior-the man called Revan has been all of these. He left Coruscant a Jedi, on a mission to defeat the Mandalorians. He returned a Sith disciple, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was the loss of his memories. All that's left are nightmares-and deep, abiding fear. What happened beyond the Outer Rim that Revan can't quite remember or entirely forget?...
213) Honor among enemies
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 6
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Honor, the finest and most daring admiral in the Royal Manticoran Navy, had been forcibly retired for political reasons. Now, though, with space pirates dogging and destroying merchant freighters, the Navy calls her back into action. Along with her telepathic tree-cat, Nimitz, Honor boards the Wayfarer, a starship crammed with weapons, young, untried officers and a most motley crew. Honor must not only battle pirates but also keep the bullies on the...
214) Toll of honor
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart? She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's...
215) Architects of memory
Author
Series
Memory War volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon."--Provided by publisher.
216) Excession
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen is swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe to the brink of annihilation when he is selected to investigate the disappearance of an ancient star.
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden...
217) Red noise
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Caught up in a space station turf war between gangs and corrupt law, a lone asteroid miner decides to take them all down. When an asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the solitude she craves, she gets swept up in a three-way standoff with gangs and crooked cops. Faced with either taking sides or cleaning out the Augean Stables, she breaks out the flamethrower."--Publisher.
218) Ninefox gambit
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 1
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao....
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballentine Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Language
English
Description
On the Outer Rim world of Murkhana, Jedi masters Roan Shryne, Bol Chatak, and Padawan Olee Starstone lead an attack on a Separatist stronghold unaware that the Sith have gained control of the galaxy. They barely escape execution and now must fear the power of Darth Vader and protect the twin infants Leia and Luke Skywalker who are the Jedi's hope for the future.
220) The eighth continent
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...
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