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Guild deserter Jal falls in with the oddball crew of the Ambit, a ship run by an AI and staffed by misfits who answer a distress call on…
Cascade Failure
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Space Opera
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Guild deserter Jal falls in with the oddball crew of the Ambit, a ship run by an AI and staffed by misfits who answer a distress call on a dead world. A lone survivor reveals a corporate plot that has already claimed multiple planets. Cascade Failure delivers fast paced sci fi with found family, danger, and heart.
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L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes's Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to be—and not to be—human.
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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 a little . . . different.
They're also in over their heads. Responding to a distress call from an abandoned planet, they find a mass grave, and a live programmer who knows how it happened. The Trust has plans. This isn't the first dead planet, and it's not going to be the last.
Unless the crew of the Ambit can stop it.
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Ideal for readers who like science fantasy, alien cultures, planetary mysteries, and long-running space adventures.
Acorna’s Search
Epic Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Acorna’s Search follows Acorna as restoration begins on her devastated homeworld and members of the Linyaari, including her lifemate Aari, disappear. Her search uncovers evidence of an ancient civilization and new answers about her people’s origins, with a 3.8-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers who like science fantasy, alien cultures, planetary mysteries, and long-running space adventures.
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The unicorn girl is on a desperate hunt in the series by the New York Times–bestselling, Nebula-winning authors: "Fast-paced action . . . entertaining fare indeed." —Booklist
The homeworld that Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari—the unicorn girl's gentle, spiritual race—live on. Now is the time for healing and rebuilding, for restoring the natural beauty corrupted by the savage insectile oppressors.
But Acorna's Linyaari friends and colleagues begin mysteriously disappearing soon after work gets under way, among them her beloved Aari. And her desperate search for answers will lead courageous Acorna to a shocking discovery beneath the surface of her people's world—and deep into the realms of limitless space, where the truth of the origin of everything awaits.
"This popular adventure series demonstrates the storytelling expertise of co-authors McCaffrey and Scarborough." —Library Journal
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Omega Squad’s covert missions grow perilous as the Clone Wars escalate and a hidden threat challenges the loyalty of the galaxy’s finest commandos.
True Colors: Star Wars Legends
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Omega Squad’s covert missions grow perilous as the Clone Wars escalate and a hidden threat challenges the loyalty of the galaxy’s finest commandos. Allies and enemies become impossible to distinguish, pushing clones, civilians, and Jedi into dangerous uncertainty. True Colors delivers a tense, character driven chapter in the Star Wars Legends saga.
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The Clone Wars burn across the galaxy, pushing every soldier toward the breaking point. For Omega Squad, the Republic’s most skilled and adaptable commandos, each mission reveals another layer of deception beneath the fight they were bred to serve. Their orders grow riskier, the stakes higher, and the enemy harder to define.
As covert operations intensify, the squad uncovers a threat that strikes at the heart of their loyalty. The lines between ally and adversary blur, leaving even Jedi and generals unsure whom they can trust. Doubt spreads through the ranks, challenging the purpose that has shaped the clones’ lives since birth.
In this gripping installment of the Star Wars Legends series, True Colors explores identity, allegiance, and the hidden costs of a war that reshapes every soul it touches.
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Kyr has been raised to become a weapon for the last remnants of humanity, but obedience fractures when Command decides her future for her.
Some Desperate Glory
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Kyr has been raised to become a weapon for the last remnants of humanity, but obedience fractures when Command decides her future for her. Some Desperate Glory follows her escape from Gaea Station into a larger, stranger universe, blending queer space opera, political indoctrination, revenge, and identity with the difficult work of unlearning a war.
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Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller!
Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel!
Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist!
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist!
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s explosive debut novel.
National Bestseller | Sunday Times Bestseller | An Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | a Goodreads Choice Finalist | With three starred reviews!
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While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
"Some Desperate Glory surprised me at every turn. At once a space thriller, a tale of deprogramming, and a missive on identity and meaning, the result is a vitally refreshing addition to the SFF genre. This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."—V. E. Schwab
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."—Tamsyn Muir
"This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."—John Scalzi
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Best for readers who like military science fiction with reluctant commanders, fleet action, and large-scale conflict.
Battlestations
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Called “bold, action-packed military science fiction” by Rhett C. Bruno, Lt. Colonel Arthur Hanson is thrust into command after coordinated terrorist strikes devastate the fleet in the Orion Spur, forcing the engineer at heart to lead the survivors against the attackers, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like military science fiction with reluctant commanders, fleet action, and large-scale conflict.
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They struck without warning. Now, survival depends on a man who’s never led.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Hanson was supposed to be an engineer, not a hero. Promoted to second-in-command aboard the CSV Margaret Thatcher, Arthur hoped for a quiet tour of duty—showing strength and keeping the peace.
He never expected a coordinated terrorist onslaught that would shatter the fleet and leave tens of thousands dead.
With the Thatcher crippled and reinforcements trapped behind political red tape, Arthur is thrust into command. Haunted by doubt but driven by duty, he must rally the broken survivors and strike back against a ruthless enemy who shows no mercy.
Because in the Orion Spur, freedom isn’t given. It’s fought for.
And aboard a ship named after the Iron Lady herself, surrender is not an option.
Perfect for fans of epic space battles, gritty heroes, and heart-pounding military science-fiction.
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When Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by former Browncoats who believe he betrayed them at Serenity Valley, the crew of Serenity must uncover the truth before vengeance claims him.
Big Damn Hero
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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When Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by former Browncoats who believe he betrayed them at Serenity Valley, the crew of Serenity must uncover the truth before vengeance claims him. Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove and Nancy Holder delivers classic Firefly tension, sharp character dynamics, and a mystery rooted in the war that shaped them all.
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Some ghosts of war refuse to stay buried, especially when they know your name.
When Captain Malcolm Reynolds is taken by a group of bitter former Browncoats, he finds himself accused of betraying his own during the final days of Serenity Valley. Evidence points to sabotage, and Mal’s captors are determined to deliver justice by their own harsh code. As he faces a tribunal built from old wounds and older grudges, the crew of Serenity races across Persephone to uncover the truth.
With old allies, forgotten rivals, and wartime secrets resurfacing, the line between loyalty and survival grows dangerously thin.
Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove and Nancy Holder is a gripping return to the world of Firefly, filled with tension, heart, and the bonds that hold a crew together.
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Space trucker Jake McGraw hauls freight along the Skyway, an endless alien-built road linking the stars.
Starrigger
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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Space trucker Jake McGraw hauls freight along the Skyway, an endless alien-built road linking the stars. When word spreads that he holds its secret map, every rival in the galaxy gives chase. Starrigger by John DeChancie is a Locus Award–nominated sci-fi classic packed with grit, speed, and unforgettable cosmic adventure.
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Some roads never end, especially when they run between the stars.
Independent space trucker Jake McGraw hauls cargo across the Skyway, an ancient highway built by unknown hands that connects countless worlds. With his father’s mind wired into the rig and a mysterious hitchhiker riding shotgun, Jake stumbles into a conspiracy that could change the galaxy.
Rumors of a hidden map to the full Skyway put every power on his trail—from alien hunters to human warlords and one ruthless rival who wants him dead. Now Jake must keep his wheels turning through the infinite dark or risk losing everything, including his freedom.
Starrigger by John DeChancie is a Locus Award–nominated space adventure fueled by danger, mystery, and momentum.
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The sentient warship Trouble Dog once fought a war that scarred the galaxy.
Embers of War
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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The sentient warship Trouble Dog once fought a war that scarred the galaxy. Now, as part of a rescue mission gone wrong, she must face her violent past to save her crew. Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War is a fast-paced, character-driven space opera about redemption, rebellion, and the price of doing what’s right.
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A sentient warship built for destruction. A crew searching for redemption. A mission that could ignite a new galactic war.
After the horrors of genocide, the warship Trouble Dog abandons her past and joins the House of Reclamation, rescuing ships lost among the stars. But when a civilian vessel disappears in a contested system, her crew of outcasts is drawn into a rescue that’s anything but routine.
Across the galaxy, a secretive poet holds the key to a conflict that could consume entire worlds. To save her crew, Trouble Dog must confront the violence she was created for—and decide what kind of being she wants to be.
Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War is a thrilling, emotional space opera of redemption, rebellion, and survival.
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A good pick for space opera readers who enjoy far-future survival, alien threats, and returning to an established science fiction universe.
Inhibitor Phase
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Miguel de Ruyter has spent forty years protecting his family and community from the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors in this Revelation Space science fiction adventure, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,400 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for space opera readers who enjoy far-future survival, alien threats, and returning to an established science fiction universe.
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A stellar new science fiction adventure from the author who redefined space opera, set in his bestselling Revelation Space universe.
For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-pocked world called Michaelmas. Beyond their solar system lie the ruins of human interstellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitely patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors. One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times, and given them hope against the wolves: Miguel de Ruyter.
When a lone human ship blunders into their system, and threatens to lead the wolves to Michaelmas, de Ruyter embarks on a desperate, near-suicide mission to prevent catastrophe. But an encounter with a refugee from the ship—the enigmatic woman who calls herself only Glass—leads to de Ruyter's world being turned upside down.
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Follow Anakin Skywalker’s transformation from gifted boy to fallen hero in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.
The Prequel Trilogy: Star Wars
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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Follow Anakin Skywalker’s transformation from gifted boy to fallen hero in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. From the sands of Tatooine to the fall of the Republic, The Prequel Trilogy: Star Wars unites three epic novels of prophecy, power, and the making of a galactic legend.
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A boy dreams of freedom beneath twin suns. A hero rises to save the galaxy. A legend falls to darkness.
Across The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars saga unfolds in a tale of courage, prophecy, and betrayal. From the sands of Tatooine to the halls of Coruscant, Anakin Skywalker’s destiny is forged in conflict and love, tested by fear, and transformed by power.
As the Republic crumbles and the Jedi fade, one choice will alter the fate of the galaxy forever.
Written by Terry Brooks, R. A. Salvatore, and Matthew Stover, The Prequel Trilogy: Star Wars collects the complete journey from gifted child to the rise of Darth Vader.
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On the planet Darien, humanity’s forgotten colony becomes the prize in an interstellar war.
The Orphaned Worlds
Sci-Fi · Space Colonization · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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On the planet Darien, humanity’s forgotten colony becomes the prize in an interstellar war. As rival powers clash, a buried temple hides a secret capable of destroying entire civilizations. Michael Cobley’s The Orphaned Worlds is a bold and thrilling space opera of politics, ancient powers, and the battle to decide the fate of the galaxy.
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War has found the stars again. On the distant planet of Darien, the battle for humanity’s future has already begun.
Once a forgotten outpost, Darien is now the center of an intergalactic struggle. The Hegemony controls its skies, Earth stands powerless, and the fragile balance of the galaxy is beginning to fracture. When Earth’s ambassador uncovers a hidden temple that conceals a prison older than civilization itself, the conflict threatens to ignite a catastrophe beyond imagining.
Within that prison lie entities so ancient and powerful that their awakening could consume every sentient world.
Michael Cobley’s The Orphaned Worlds delivers sweeping space opera on a cosmic scale—where politics, faith, and survival collide in a war that spans the stars.
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After Earth’s near-destruction, humanity survives on a distant world built from desperation.
Seeds of Earth
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Colonization · Space Opera
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After Earth’s near-destruction, humanity survives on a distant world built from desperation. Generations later, hidden truths awaken an ancient intergalactic struggle that threatens everything the colonists believe is safe. This epic space opera blends alien politics, buried history, and high-stakes survival, earning 4 stars on Amazon and strong genre recognition.
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Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable.
The first intelligent species to encounter mankind attacked without warning. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth's last roll of the dice was to dispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. The human race would live on . . . somewhere.
150 years later, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, which enjoys a peaceful relationship with an indigenous race, the scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilization. Unknown to its colonists, Darien is about to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle where the true stakes are beyond their comprehension. And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed and the skies grow dark with the enemy?
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