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Star Wars - The Old Republic - Fatal Alliance Star Wars - The Old Republic - Fatal Alliance Sean Williams Tassaa Bareesh, a matriarch in the Hutt crime cartel, is holding an auction that's drawing attention from across the galaxy. Representatives of both the Republic and the Sith Empire are present, alon… OL15244161W
There and back again There and back again Pat Murphy Bailey was heading home in his steam-powered rocket when he found a message pod. It was only by luck that he spotted it, disabled and drifting in an eccentric orbit around a large M-type asteroid. St… OL15436385W
Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax # 3) Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax # 3) Ann Aguirre "Sirantha Jax isn't known for diplomatic finesse. As a 'jumper' who navigates ships through grimspace, she's used to kicking ass first and taking names later--much later. She's not exactly the obviou… OL15462024W
Judas unchained Judas unchained Peter F. Hamilton The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a s… OL15739965W
Star Trek New Frontier - Blind Man's Bluff Star Trek New Frontier - Blind Man's Bluff Peter David Nothing could have prepared Captain Calhoun for simultaneous threats from the D'myurj, bent on the domination or destruction of humanity, and Morgan Primus, a sophisticated computer simulation taking… OL16319355W
When sparks fly When sparks fly Autumn Dawn "Perhaps it was his wild black hair and indigo eyes, or maybe it was his enigmatic aura, but there was something about Hyna Blue that drew Gem. The man had clearly done hard labor, his cybernetic imp… OL16473812W
Eternity Eternity Greg Bear Earth is struggling from the ravages of nuclear Death. The leader of the first expedition to Thistledown, an asteroid starship, Garry Lanier, has grown old, bitter, weary, unwilling to live. Suddenly… OL16516W
Earth Unaware Earth Unaware Orson Scott Card,Aaron Johnston The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of… OL16585661W
Aftermath Aftermath Ann Aguirre During the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace "jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel--and the lives of… OL16648391W
Kris Longknife Kris Longknife Mike Shepherd "Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determin… OL17117239W
The battle of the hammer worlds The battle of the hammer worlds Graham Sharp Paul Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the other remnants of the Ishaq are confined to a prison camp, forced to do battle against an enemy out to hide all evidence of their culpability in an attack on… OL17657287W
Alpha centauri Alpha centauri Barton, William The word in the year 2239 is that the human race is doomed. With the Earth groaning beneath the weight of 200 billion people and with the limit of derivable scientific knowledge frighteningly close a… OL17727278W
Astronaut Astronaut Mae Jemison "In 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison made history by spending eight days in Earth's orbit, making her the first black woman ever to visit space. Twenty years later, Dr. Jemison is pushing space travel forward a… OL17920512W
Pawn: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War Pawn: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War Timothy Zahn Nicole Hammond's life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But after one of Bungie's 'deals' goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a my… OL19349630W
The Freeze-Frame Revolution The Freeze-Frame Revolution Peter Watts "How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that nev… OL19359160W
Noumenon Noumenon Marina J. Lostetter With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, a… OL19715543W
Weird space Weird space Eric Brown A first installment in a wacky new space-opera series introduces the world of Weird Space, where human smugglers, veterans, ne'erdowells and the adversarial Vetch Empire are targeted by an evil race … OL19841724W
Doctor Who: Engines of War Doctor Who: Engines of War George Mann The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. The Daleks and the Time Lords deploy ever more dangerous weapons in desperate attempts at victory, but there is no end in sight. On … OL19917898W
Take back the skies Take back the skies Lucy Saxon To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. To escape f… OL19980915W
Echopraxia Echopraxia Peter Watts A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings and ghosts, where defunct biologist Daniel Br… OL19982983W
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