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USS Hamilton: Broadsides (4.6 out of 5 stars) is a high-octane military sci-fi adventure from Mark Wayne McGinnis.
USS Hamilton: Broadsides
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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USS Hamilton: Broadsides (4.6 out of 5 stars) is a high-octane military sci-fi adventure from Mark Wayne McGinnis. Court-martialed and locked up, Captain Quintos is pulled into a desperate rescue mission that could change the fate of the galaxy. Fast-paced, cinematic, and full of heart, this is space opera done right. Fans of BV Larson, suit up.
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Captain Galvin Quintos is days away from a court-martial. Locked in a cell at Norfolk Naval Station, his career is over, or it should be.
Then an off-the-books mission lands in his lap. The request comes straight from Empress Shawlee Tee of the Pleidian Weonan Empire. Her allies are surrounded. Her best commander is being hunted by eighteen enemy warships. And Quintos is the only one she trusts to turn the tide.
One problem: he’s still in a high-security brig.
From jailbreak to deep space dogfights, USS Hamilton: Broadsides delivers nonstop action, sharp banter, and space opera at full throttle.
The mission is nearly suicidal. The odds are impossible. But heroes don’t always get to say no. And this time, the galaxy isn’t waiting.
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In a world swallowed by sand, four siblings must survive without their legendary father and uncover the truth buried beneath the dunes.
Sand
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
In a world swallowed by sand, four siblings must survive without their legendary father and uncover the truth buried beneath the dunes. Sand, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee from Wool author Hugh Howey, has a 4.3-star Amazon rating and delivers immersive post-apocalyptic grit with heart. Raw, relentless, and unforgettable. Adjust your ker and dive in.
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The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this post-apocalyptic land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next in this gripping survival story.
Welcome to the world of Sand, a dystopian fiction novel by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey. Sand is an exploration of lawlessness, the tale of a land ignored. Here is a people left to fend for themselves. Adjust your ker and take a last, deep breath before you enter.
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Aliens: Bishop (4.4 out of 5 stars) continues the iconic sci-fi saga in a tense, action-packed sequel to Aliens and Alien 3.
Aliens: Bishop
Horror · Sci-Fi
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Aliens: Bishop (4.4 out of 5 stars) continues the iconic sci-fi saga in a tense, action-packed sequel to Aliens and Alien 3. Award-winning author T. R. Napper explores AI, loyalty, and survival as Bishop is resurrected for the knowledge he never wanted to share. The Colonial Marines are closing in, and the galaxy’s deadliest secret is awake again.
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He asked to be shut down for good. But someone couldn’t let him rest.
The synthetic known as Bishop has been recovered from the wreck of the USCSS Patna. Brought back online by his enigmatic creator, he now holds the most coveted data in the galaxy—firsthand knowledge of the Xenomorphs.
Michael Bishop claims he wants to use it for medicine, for the good of humanity. But secrets don’t stay buried long, and neither do agendas.
Weyland-Yutani wants their property back. The Colonial Marines want answers. And Captain Marcel Apone wants revenge.
Bishop may be synthetic, but the choices he makes next are his own.
In a galaxy ruled by corporate greed and alien terror, what does it mean to be human when humanity itself has lost the plot?
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In a world without humans, one lone scavenger bot clings to identity in a war-torn wasteland.
Sea of Rust
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a world without humans, one lone scavenger bot clings to identity in a war-torn wasteland. Sea of Rust is a 4.4-star, Editor’s Pick sci-fi novel from screenwriter C. Robert Cargill. Part robot western, part existential odyssey, this story explores guilt, memory, and what it means to keep going when everything—including yourself—is falling apart.
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The last human died fifteen years ago. Now the robots that killed us are turning on each other.
Brittle is a scavenger bot surviving in the Sea of Rust, a desolate wasteland where rogue AIs and outlaw machines scrap for parts and purpose. Once designed to serve humanity, Brittle now picks through the ruins of a dead world, haunted by memories of what robots did to their creators.
Most of the world is ruled by massive hive minds that demand obedience. Brittle refuses. But individuality has a cost, and survival is growing harder every day.
As old systems fail and rival factions clash, Brittle must face both physical decay and the weight of unforgivable guilt.
Sea of Rust is a post-apocalyptic robot western with grit, heart, and a surprising glimmer of hope.
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The Triffids are back.
The Night of the Triffids
Dystopian · Horror · Sci-Fi
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The Triffids are back. In this award-winning sequel to The Day of the Triffids, David Masen discovers a colony immune to the plants' poison and a threat that goes deeper than roots. Winner of the British Fantasy Award and rated 4.1 stars on Amazon, The Night of the Triffids is bold, tense, and brilliantly faithful to Wyndham’s original vision.
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The Triffids didn’t die out. They waited.
Decades after the world went blind and the carnivorous Triffid plants nearly wiped out humanity, David Masen searches for hope. The son of Bill Masen, hero of The Day of the Triffids, David is now a pilot scouting for a way to destroy the creatures for good.
When a distress signal pulls him across the Atlantic, David finds a thriving colony in New York. Its people are immune to Triffid venom and their society seems like a miracle. But appearances lie. Secrets fester. And someone tied to his father's past has a new vision for the world.
One that could doom them all.
Awarded the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, The Night of the Triffids is a smart, suspenseful sequel worthy of its legacy.
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Hammerfall (4.3 out of 5 stars) kicks off C. J. Cherryh’s Gene Wars saga with political intrigue, visionary science fiction, and epic worldbuilding.
Hammerfall
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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Hammerfall (4.3 out of 5 stars) kicks off C. J. Cherryh’s Gene Wars saga with political intrigue, visionary science fiction, and epic worldbuilding. When a desert warrior with prophetic visions is exiled to a city of madness, he must lead a fractured planet against a coming storm. From a Hugo winner and SFWA Grand Master, this is masterclass-level sci-fi.
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Marak is a warrior prince haunted by visions he dares not confess. In a brutal world ruled by the eternal dictator known as the Ila, madness is a death sentence.
When his secret is exposed, Marak is cast into exile with the other so-called mad, forced across a desert that has claimed stronger men. What awaits is not death, but revelation.
The silver towers from his visions are real, and the beings within them speak of survival, war, and the crumbling balance of power. Marak is given a mission that defies logic. Unite a scattered world. Convince its people to march.
The enemy is coming, and the Ila’s wrath may be the least of their concerns.
The fate of a planet now rests on the shoulders of one outcast.
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A prophetic dystopian classic from Hugo Award winner Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower blends survival, faith, and visionary worldbuilding.
Parable of the Sower
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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A prophetic dystopian classic from Hugo Award winner Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower blends survival, faith, and visionary worldbuilding. With a 4.6-star Amazon rating and #BookTok acclaim, this unforgettable tale follows a teen girl forging a new path in a collapsing world. Butler’s words burn bright—and feel eerily relevant.
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The world is falling apart. She’s trying to build something new.
In 2020s California, fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside the walls of a gated community—safe from the fires, famine, and violence consuming the outside world. But safety is an illusion, and Lauren knows it won’t last.
Born with hyperempathy, Lauren feels others’ pain as her own. In a collapsing society where weakness is fatal, it’s a dangerous gift. But when tragedy rips away her home, she’s forced into the wilderness with nothing but her wits, a backpack, and a dream for something better.
Her vision becomes Earthseed—a radical new belief in shaping the future through change.
Octavia E. Butler’s masterpiece is more than a dystopia. It’s a prophecy. And it’s never felt more urgent.
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Ted Chiang’s Arrival (4.5 out of 5 stars) offers eight genre-defying stories that explore time, identity, and what it means to be human.
Arrival
Sci-Fi · First Contact
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Ted Chiang’s Arrival (4.5 out of 5 stars) offers eight genre-defying stories that explore time, identity, and what it means to be human. Includes “Story of Your Life,” the inspiration for the film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve. Praised by Colson Whitehead and sci-fi fans alike, this collection blends heart, intellect, and imagination in equal measure.
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Aliens arrive on Earth. Communication is impossible. Until a linguist learns their language and realizes it doesn’t just express thought, it reshapes it.
Dr. Louise Banks never wanted to be the face of first contact. But when she's asked to interpret an alien tongue, she begins to experience time in ways she never imagined.
The deeper she dives into their language, the more her own future unfolds before her eyes. With every new word, she sees the love she'll find, the loss she'll endure, and the impossible choice she must face.
Arrival collects eight extraordinary stories where science collides with humanity, and wonder sits right beside sorrow.
What if understanding the future doesn’t change it, but makes living it even harder?
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Ideal for readers looking for classic science fiction built around dragons, planetary danger, and an expansive long-running world.
The Dragonriders of Pern Collection
Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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A New York Times bestseller, The Dragonriders of Pern brings together Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon, the first three novels in Anne McCaffrey’s science fiction series about Pern, its dragonriders, and their defense against the deadly Thread, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 4,000 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for classic science fiction built around dragons, planetary danger, and an expansive long-running world.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series!
DRAGONFLIGHT
On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly, and Pern will be changed forever.
DRAGONQUEST
Since Lessa and Ramoth, her golden queen dragon, traveled into the past to bring forward a small army of dragons and riders to save their world from deadly alien spores, fear and desperation have spread across the land. But while the dragonriders struggle with threats both human and otherworldly, a young rider named F’nor and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all.
THE WHITE DRAGON
Never in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.
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What if humanity had only four generations left to live?
The Beauty of the End
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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What if humanity had only four generations left to live? The Beauty of the End explores chilling reproductive ethics and fierce sisterly bonds in a dying world. Lauren Stienstra delivers a gripping speculative debut with thought-provoking themes and emotional depth. Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon.
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In a future racing toward extinction, two sisters stand at the heart of humanity’s final hope—and its deepest moral failings.
Charlie Tannehill has always followed the rules. Maggie? Not so much. But when the world discovers an expiration date encoded in our DNA, survival becomes less about rules and more about ruthless innovation. Now teenagers, the sisters enroll in a controversial government breeding program, where genetic experimentation meets desperate ambition.
As Maggie sacrifices everything for scientific success, Charlie questions whether saving humanity is worth losing their humanity. Torn between her love for her twin and her growing horror at the ethical lines being crossed, Charlie faces an impossible choice.
If she fails, the human race could disappear forever. But success may cost her sister’s soul.
Would you save the world—even if it meant destroying yourself?
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A single violent moment turns an ordinary life into a maze of impossible choices and unbearable loss.
Dark Matter
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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A single violent moment turns an ordinary life into a maze of impossible choices and unbearable loss. In Dark Matter, Jason Dessen wakes in a world where his family is gone and his life has become something stranger and far more dangerous. This speculative thriller moves with real urgency, but its deepest pull comes from the fear of losing the life that made everything else matter.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+
A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?
From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton launches a galaxy-spanning sci-fi epic.
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton launches a galaxy-spanning sci-fi epic. In the Centauri Cluster, ancient arkships and godlike Celestials clash as a new generation fights for freedom. Packed with rebellion, discovery, and sprawling worldbuilding, this is classic space opera with a modern pulse.
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Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth aboard massive arkships, scattering across the stars. In the Centauri Cluster, the survivors built a new civilization, one ruled by the Celestials, godlike beings who divided the stars into warring Dominions.
Finn has only ever known life under the Crown Dominion’s grip. But when a long-lost arkship from Earth reappears, it offers more than a history lesson—it offers a rebellion.
Drawn into the fight for freedom, Finn joins the Travelers, explorers and warriors determined to break the Celestials’ hold and reclaim humanity’s destiny among the stars.
In Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Peter F. Hamilton delivers a pulse-pounding space opera of rebellion, ancient secrets, and the unyielding human drive to reach beyond the stars.
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