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A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts...
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By the author of The Forever War: In the decades following the ultimate conflict, the last remnants of humanity face extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars, in the momentous conclusion to Joe Haldeman’s acclaimed Worlds saga
The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have...
The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have...
3) Worlds
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In this near-future novel by the author of The Forever War, an idealistic student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony is ensnared in a political conspiracy.
By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandoned Earth to live in satellites orbiting the strife-ridden planet. Each of these forty-one Worlds is an independent entity boasting its own government and culture, yet each remains...
By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandoned Earth to live in satellites orbiting the strife-ridden planet. Each of these forty-one Worlds is an independent entity boasting its own government and culture, yet each remains...
4) Worlds Apart
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By the author of The Forever War: In the breathtaking sequel to Worlds, a survivor of the terrible conflict that destroyed the Earth and most of its satellite Worlds must work to save the human race from extinction
The war that destroyed everything lasted a single day. After an initial nuclear strike, the Earth’s population was further devastated by an insidious bioweapon targeting anyone above the age of puberty....
The war that destroyed everything lasted a single day. After an initial nuclear strike, the Earth’s population was further devastated by an insidious bioweapon targeting anyone above the age of puberty....
5) Starworld
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Starworld is a novel by Harry Harrison, author of innumerable science fiction novels and stories.
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What happens when a cadet defies tradition in the name of duty? A young cadet rebels against an arranged marriage to a privileged suitor. Desperate to remain a soldier, she confronts corruption within the military and a brutal encounter with the infamous Manderian Secret Service, the Black Squad. Join her in a fight for justice.
7) Homeworld
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Homeworld is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF.
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8) Wheelworld
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Wheelworld is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF.
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"As if being born Diasporan wasn't enough, Technician Nash Korpes had the bad luck to resemble his Tyran ancestors almost identically in both form, and manner. These traits, though highly prized by the special projects division at the shadowy Korlune Military Research and Development, mark him as a specter from their warlike past. With only his intellect holding his sanity in place, he wages a private war against the entire socioeconomic status quo...
10) Annin's Bargain
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Love and Law in a Watery WorldIn a struggle against fierce ocean tides driven by two moons and channeled into icy fjords, the humans of Fenria have developed a matriarchal clan system with three classes: fishermen, craftswomen, and Seaguard-cyborgs who serve the tide and the planet-wide AI network. Those who don't conform-the clanless, indigents, and rebels-lead a liminal existence of extreme danger on perilous seas.Among the rebels are Annin and...
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A Solitude of Stars is disturbing and breathtaking in equal measure. It could be, called a science-fiction dystopia, but I think the book goes much deeper than that. What interested me very much was how to tell the story of the Apparat and Dirigiste societies ranging across our local planetary system seeking peace by waging war to achieve it, much as we do today, while also weaving in elements of a wider galactic history, a history that links both...
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In The Crucible of Time, John Brunner creates a true epic of SF invention. Imagine a planet existing in a debris-strewn corner of the galaxy. Cosmic dust and rubble cause an endless succession of ice ages followed by tropical warmth followed by more ice ages, and on and on. Meteors of all sizes plummet to the surface of the planet frequently and burgeoning civilizations have a sad tendency to be wiped out all of a sudden. Society survives, sort of,...
13) A Modern Utopia
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A Modern Utopia is a novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." To this planet "out beyond...
14) Splinter Salem
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Splinter Salem
What if the worst version of you is exactly what the world needs?
The epic Space Fable Splinter Salem is a tale of love and loss, life and death, of redemption and copious amounts of space grog.
With inspiration from Douglas Adams, Hunter.S.Thompson, Terry Pratchett, Clive Barker and Stephen King.
Splinter Salem is currently a three part series.
Think DEADPOOL meets RED DWARF.
15) On Destiny
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"This has become my second favorite series right behind Harry Potter. I will continue to read this series again and again and be sad every time I get to the end. Worth every second!" – Nathan F.
From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin comes the exciting finale in the Aunare Chronicles
When Amihanna di Aetes first got to Sel'Ani, she never thought she'd have the full support of the Aunare, but she does....
From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin comes the exciting finale in the Aunare Chronicles
When Amihanna di Aetes first got to Sel'Ani, she never thought she'd have the full support of the Aunare, but she does....
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My name is Haldin Raish. Legionnaire.
And the High General just murdered my parents.
My dad was well respected in the Legion. Always had a reputation for doing the right thing, no matter the cost. He was a good man. And whatever he stumbled onto got them both killed. Messily.
Now, that red-eyed thing is coming for me. It walks like the High General. Talks like him, too. But it's not. Human beings don't shirk off gunfire and smack grown men across...
17) The Resistance
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How do you escape when there's nowhere to run? Reggie Sylvester and her friends are fugitives from the tyrannical rage of Admiral Xavier, which is no longer contained to the New Fleet. Without crops or fuel for their shuttle, though, they won't last very long alone in the black. When they learn the Resistance is still alive and well – and fighting back against Xavier's First Fleet invasion – Reggie hatches a plan to increase their allies and join...
18) The Legacy
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Reggie knows how to stop Xavier. She just needs the one thing she hasn't got: time. With their friends captured and their list of allies slashed to zero, Reggie and Noah embark on a quest to locate the lost navigation keys before Xavier does. The prize? Control over the fleet. But Xavier's not giving up without a fight. He'll execute a prisoner every day–Resistance members and tournament contestants alike–until Reggie and Noah turn themselves...
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Tijaran Tales - The Complete Series
Set in a distant future, Tijaran Tales follows Scottish teen Julius McCoy during his years on the Moon at the ZED Lunar Academy.
Between spaceship piloting, engineering and mind control classes, Julius and his friends will find themselves at the front line of a desperate battle with the Arneshians, a banished sect of humanity seeking to seize control of Earth.
Tijaran Tales is a popular SF series for teens of...
20) Big Pill
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Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
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