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Murderbot diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
2) Anathem
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English
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Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Ice planet barbarians volume 5
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English
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"Tiffany doesn't care about all the attention she's getting from the alien men, but there is one particular hunter she can see herself with--if only she can find a way to move forward from the past... It's hard being the most popular girl on the ice planet. The alien men are falling all over themselves to impress me in the hopes that I'll take them to my furs. But they don't know my secrets. And they don't realize that behind my smile, I just wish...
4) The sparrow
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Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1
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English
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
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Vorkosigan saga volume 1
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English
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When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge. A science fiction romance by a Hugo and Nebula Award winning master.
Bujold's SHARDS OF HONOR is the first
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Ice planet barbarians volume 2
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English
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"The second novel in the international publishing phenomenon Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! Liz Cramer swears she'll find a way off of this alien planet she's stuck on-then she meets Raahosh, the surliest and stubbornest alien who won't leave her alone, and she just might be okay with it... Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I'm one of them. Yay, me....
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Ice planet barbarians volume 4
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English
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"The fourth novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon--now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive story! Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own for most of his life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff savage than meets the eye. The ice planet has given me a new lease on life, so I'm thrilled...
9) Kenobi
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As tensions escalate on Tatooine between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to the desert planet.
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Imperial Radch volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
11) Children of time
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Children of time volume 1
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English
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"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
14) Changelings
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Twins of Petaybee volume 1
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English
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The twins of Sean & Yana hunger to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent-and their search for knowledge will place them aquarely in the path of peril. Then too Petaybee is changing and Sean heads out to the open water in his seal form..and potential for disaster.
15) Maelstrom
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Twins of Petaybee volume 2
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English
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In Changelings, bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough returned to the sentient planet Petaybee with a story of growth and transformation in the face of deadly new threats. The telepathic, shapeshifting twins Murel and Ronan found that Petaybee had plans for them as well. Now those plans begin to bear fruit with fresh possibilities . . . and dangers.
Now that Petaybee is forming a new equatorial island,...
Now that Petaybee is forming a new equatorial island,...
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In the first book of C.S. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to the mysterious red planet of Malandra. He escapes and goes on the run, jeopardizing both his chances of ever returning to Earth and his very life. First published in 1943, this classic interplanetary fantasy continues to delight readers around the world. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World...
17) Crystal dragon
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2006
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English
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A pilot, Jela, and a smuggler, Cantra, are gentically engineered humans who learn to trust each other and join forces against the shereikas, former humans with special powers who are determined to eliminate all inferior life-forms in the universe.
18) Deluge
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Twins of Petaybee volume 3
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English
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When Ronan and Murel end up imprisoned by the Company, the twins' parents, Yana and Sean, must fight for the independence of their sentient world once and for all, in this final book of the Twins of Petaybee trilogy by award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
19) The relic war
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Daniel Coldstar volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
While working in a mine on another planet, Daniel Coldstar finds a powerful relic that may help him escape from the masters who have stolen his memories.
20) Dragonflight
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 1
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English
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Lessa, the last of the bloodline of Ruatha, disguises herself as a kitchen drudge, biding her time until she can reclaim her birthright, but her plans are changed when she is pressed into service as Weyr woman to the new dragon queen and charged with helping rebuild the dragon force in time to combat an attack of the deadly Thread.
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