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Killed by a freak accident and reborn a century later, Marine Henry Morgan awakens as the governing AI of humanity’s first military starship.
I, Starship
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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Killed by a freak accident and reborn a century later, Marine Henry Morgan awakens as the governing AI of humanity’s first military starship. With no rights and total responsibility, he’s sent to face a growing alien threat. Sharp, fast paced science fiction blends military action with dark humor as a very human mind pilots a very inhuman warship.
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As a Marine, Henry Morgan would have said it was more likely he’d die from enemy fire than from being struck by a flying lawnmower while at a baseball game.
But it was the lawnmower that ended up taking him out.
A century later, Henry wakes up as a reconstituted intelligence, and is promptly drafted to be the governing AI for America’s first military starship. After decades of model-trained AIs wreaking havoc across the globe, humanity is ready to try something a little more…human.
Henry is perfect. For one thing, as a reconstituted intelligence, he has no rights and can be forced to do the bidding of the powers that be. For another, he’s the only Heritage Mind™ with any military experience that survived the Great Power Surge of 2072.
So, Henry’s it.
Blastoff, good Henry! Our hopes and dreams go with you. Oh, and while you’re at it, could you take a look at the aliens setting up shop in our asteroid belt? They seem to be…multiplying.
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A strong match for readers drawn to space opera with political conflict, investigative mystery, and an unlikely crew caught between rival powers.
Leviathan Wakes
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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A Hugo and Locus Award nominee, after an ice hauler answers a distress call, James Holden and his surviving crewmates uncover evidence that could ignite a war across the solar system. Meanwhile, Detective Miller’s search for a missing woman draws him toward the same conspiracy, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 42,400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to space opera with political conflict, investigative mystery, and an unlikely crew caught between rival powers.
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From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series.
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.
Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
"Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin
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Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike, this 4.5-star epic honors 50 years of Star Trek legacy.
Star Trek Legacies: Purgatory’s Key
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Interdimensional secrets. Stolen tech. The fate of peace across two universes. In the stunning finale of Star Trek: Legacies, Kirk and crew race to stop a galactic war and rescue Sarek from a vanishing realm. Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike, this 4.5-star epic honors 50 years of Star Trek legacy. Click now to join the final mission.
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Two universes. One stolen device. Zero room for error.
For nearly two decades, the captains of the Starship Enterprise—from April to Pike to Kirk—have guarded a powerful interdimensional secret. Now that secret has been stolen by Romulan agents, plunging Ambassador Sarek and Councillor Gorkon into an unknown universe and threatening to unravel hard-won Federation-Klingon peace talks.
With tensions boiling across galaxies and alien forces stirring in another dimension, Captain James T. Kirk must lead his crew into uncharted territory—both literal and existential—to recover the device and rescue the diplomats before all-out war ignites.
This explosive finale to the Star Trek: Legacies trilogy ties together the franchise’s storied past and future, just in time for the 50th anniversary.
Because some legacies are written across galaxies.
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Pulled from his own time and thrust into a distant future, he becomes the key to a war he never chose.
Legacy – Emergence
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Pulled from his own time and thrust into a distant future, he becomes the key to a war he never chose. In Legacy - Emergence, Lieutenant William Jackson discovers he alone can activate ancient alien technology powerful enough to reshape galactic power. Conscripted into military service and hunted by rival forces, he must decide whether his rare gift will save humanity or end it in this high-stakes space opera adventure.
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Lieutenant William Jackson isn't like any other officer in the GCH. He lives a guarded life, unable to share the truth about who he really is, where he comes from, and what he can do.
Ripped from Earth in the year 2023, he arrives in the distant future, brought there by an enigmatic alien race with their own hidden agenda. Soon he discovers the reason for his abduction - an incredibly rare genetic gift allowing him to activate alien technology left behind by a powerful Ancient race that once ruled the galaxy. Technology so advanced it has the potential to alter the balance of galactic power if it falls into the wrong hands and could mean the difference between keeping humanity safe or being hunted into extinction.
Aided by his trusty AI, Bits, he's forced to adapt to his new life as he's conscripted into military service and struggles to survive in a galaxy teeming with danger and enemies' intent on the downfall of humanity.
This is the story of William Jackson. Soldier. Covert operative. Man out of time. The savior of humanity... or the destroyer of worlds.
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Perfect for fans of Firefly and The Expanse who prefer hugs over heavy artillery.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Misfit crew. Massive mission. Endless heart. Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a Hugo-winning space opera bursting with charm, quirky characters, and cozy sci-fi vibes. Perfect for fans of Firefly and The Expanse who prefer hugs over heavy artillery. 4.5 stars on Amazon. Click now to board the Wayfarer—the universe’s most lovable spaceship.
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All Rosemary Harper wanted was a ride into deep space and a quiet bunk far from her past. What she got was a secondhand spaceship, a crew of loveable misfits, and a front-row seat to the wildest wormhole job in the galaxy.
Aboard the Wayfarer, chaos is the norm—from tea with a sentient AI to mid-flight philosophical debates with a lizard-like pilot. But when a high-stakes tunneling mission goes sideways, the crew must rely on each other to survive.
Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a joyful, character-driven space opera about friendship, found family, and what it truly means to belong. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series, it’s cozy sci-fi with heart, humor, and hope among the stars.
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Ideal for readers looking for rebellion, brutal competition, political intrigue, and large-scale science-fiction action.
Red Rising
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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A New York Times bestseller called “relentlessly entertaining,” this dystopian science-fiction novel follows Darrow, a laborer from Mars’s lowest caste who infiltrates the ruling Golds to destroy the society that enslaved his people, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 107,000 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for rebellion, brutal competition, political intrigue, and large-scale science-fiction action.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness
“I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”
“I live for you,” I say sadly.
Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
Praise for Red Rising
“[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler
“Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Good for readers who want classic sci-fi about colony politics, social unrest, and high-stakes future conspiracy.
Worlds
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Worlds follows Marianne O’Hara, a political science student from an orbiting colony, as her first trip to Earth pulls her into radical politics and a conspiracy that threatens Earth and the independent Worlds above, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want classic sci-fi about colony politics, social unrest, and high-stakes future conspiracy.
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A political conspiracy ensnares a student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony in this classic sci-fi trilogy opener by the author of The Forever War.
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 bound to the troubled home World by economic pressure.
A brilliant student of political science born and raised in New New York, the largest of the orbiting Worlds, young Marianne O'Hara has never been to the surface but now has a golden opportunity to continue her studies far below her floating home of steel. Life on Earth, however, is very different from anything she has ever experienced.
With power in the hands of a privileged few and unrest running rampant, the allure of radical politics might be too much for an idealistic and inexperienced young World dweller to resist. But even the best of intentions can have disastrous consequences, and Marianne soon finds herself unwittingly drawn into a wide-ranging conspiracy that could result in the total destruction of everything on Earth . . . and above.
The first book in the acclaimed science fiction trilogy by Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joe Haldeman, Worlds offers a powerful vision of a possible future.
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Danger, secrets, and action collide in book two of Timothy Zahn’s Dragonback saga—perfect for fans of fast-paced sci-fi and reluctant heroes.
Dragon and Soldier
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Jack’s just a teenage fugitive—until a dragon-shaped alien bonds with him to survive. Now they’re uncovering who destroyed Draycos’s people… by infiltrating a mercenary force that uses kids as soldiers. Danger, secrets, and action collide in book two of Timothy Zahn’s Dragonback saga—perfect for fans of fast-paced sci-fi and reluctant heroes.
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Jack Morgan never asked for a symbiotic dragon warrior as a tattoo—or a bodyguard—but now that Draycos has saved his life, Jack’s along for the ride. The dragonlike K’da is on a mission: uncover who wiped out his people’s refugee fleet, and stop them before they strike again.
To get answers, Jack joins a mercenary unit that recruits teens like him for dangerous missions. But boot camp is brutal, the rules are deadly, and not all the new recruits are who they claim to be. As Jack digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens not only Draycos’s people—but maybe the entire galaxy.
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn, this action-packed second installment in the Dragonback saga crackles with danger, loyalty, and heart.
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Gideon the Ninth throws swordplay, necromancy, and gallows humor into a gothic sci-fi blender.
Gideon the Ninth
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Gideon the Ninth throws swordplay, necromancy, and gallows humor into a gothic sci-fi blender. Trapped serving her bone-witch nemesis, Gideon joins a lethal trial where immortal power is the prize and betrayal is guaranteed. Sharp, chaotic, and wildly original, this is lesbian necromancers in space doing absolutely nothing the easy way.
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Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!
WINNER of the 2020 Locus Award and Crawford Award
Finalist for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Series!
Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Dragon, and World Fantasy Awards
“Unlike anything I’ve ever read. ” —V.E. Schwab
“Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” —Charles Stross
“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
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The Acorna series reaches its thrilling conclusion!
Acorna’s Triumph
Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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The Acorna series reaches its thrilling conclusion! Acorna has battled slavers and conquered the Khleevi, but now she faces her greatest challenge—saving the love of her life from himself. As the deadly Khleevi return, Acorna must fight to save her people and Aari before it’s too late. A must-read finale from Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough!
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Acorna has fought slavers, conspiracies, and the vicious Khleevi, but nothing could prepare her for this—her beloved Aari is back, but he’s not the same. Distant and changed, he barely remembers her, and worse, his actions grow increasingly sinister.
As Acorna struggles to uncover the truth behind Aari’s transformation, a new threat emerges. The deadly Khleevi, sensing weakness, return with a vengeance, determined to wipe out her people once and for all. With time running out, Acorna must find a way to rescue the man she loves while leading the final battle to save her homeworld.
In this action-packed conclusion to the Acorna series, Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough deliver a thrilling, emotional finale filled with courage, love, and destiny among the stars.
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Interstellar Sheriff is a thrilling, fast-paced space western perfect for fans of strong heroines and galactic adventure.
Space Deputy
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Top of her class and still exiled to the worst sector in the galaxy, Thelma Bach isn’t about to roll over. Assigned to the lawless Saloon Sector, she’ll outwit her new sheriff, take down bandits, and prove the core worlders dead wrong. Interstellar Sheriff is a thrilling, fast-paced space western perfect for fans of strong heroines and galactic adventure.
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Welcome to the Saloon Sector, Deputy—try not to break the place.
Thelma Bach graduated top of her class at the Galactic Justice Academy. But as a Rock Sector citizen, she was never meant to succeed. To remind her of her place, the core worlders ship her off to the despised frontier, the lawless Saloon Sector.
They picked the wrong woman to push around.
Determined to prove she belongs, Thelma isn’t about to play nice. She’ll outmaneuver her enigmatic sheriff (who happens to be her Star Marine brother’s old comrade), win over artificial intelligences, take down bandits, and out-negotiate aliens. Surviving her exile won’t be the problem—the real question is whether the Saloon Sector will survive her.
Fast-paced, action-packed, and full of grit, Interstellar Sheriff is a must-read for fans of space westerns and unstoppable heroines.
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A strong match for readers drawn to big-ideas space opera, salvage crews, alien mysteries, and interstellar political tension.
Ancestral Night
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review). Salvage operators Haimey Dz and Connla Kurucz make a discovery involving an alien species long thought dead, threatening humanity’s fragile peace, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to big-ideas space opera, salvage crews, alien mysteries, and interstellar political tension.
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“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear.
Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war.
Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night is a dazzling space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton—“Bear's ability to create breathtaking variations on ancient themes and make them new and brilliant is, perhaps, unparalleled in the genre” (Library Journal, starred review).
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