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Engaging the Enemy Engaging the Enemy Elizabeth Moon For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award--winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice. The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta,… OL14871715W
Crown of slaves Crown of slaves David Weber,Eric Flint The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Added to the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controll… OL14951935W
March upcountry March upcountry John Ringo,David Weber When his spaceship crashes en route to a boring ceremonial appearance, Roger MacClintock, a spoiled young prince, and his guardian Royal Marines must take a perilous trek across a planet filled with … OL14951954W
Pretender Pretender C. J. Cherryh The epic tale of the human survivors of a lost spacecraft, marooned on a planet inhabited by a hostile alien race, follows the civilization's rise from the age of steam through early space flight to … OL15179411W
Destroyer Destroyer C. J. Cherryh C.J. Cherryh, one of the most prolific and acclaimed SF writers in the world, delivers the seventh book in her Foreigner series, and the first book in the new Foreigner trilogy-the epic tale of the s… OL15182156W
The alien years The alien years Robert Silverberg Les Entités ont envahi la Terre et réduit l'humanité à l'esclavage ... Tel est le thème de ce roman inédit d'un des maîtres de la science-fiction. OL1960519W
Ecce and Old Earth Ecce and Old Earth Jack Vance Sequel to Araminta Station. It was just an old piece of paper. The original Title Deed and Charter that preserved for all time the unspoiled wilderness beauty ofthe planet Cadwal: no human settlemen… OL2071482W
Judas Unchained Judas Unchained Peter F. Hamilton Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as the… OL474023W
The ships of Earth The ships of Earth Orson Scott Card The Oversoul's chosen people flee the city of Basilica (destroyed in their wake by General Moozh) and travel across the desert wastes, eventually to settle in the hidden valley where long ago the exi… OL49575W
Treason Treason Orson Scott Card An unusually gifted man who has the power of self-healing and bodily regeneration as well as the ability to cause earthquakes and drain lakes is exiled on a primitive planet and leads a revolution ag… OL49653W
The Killing of Worlds The Killing of Worlds Scott Westerfeld "Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover… OL547163W
Old Man’s War Old Man’s War John Scalzi John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonia… OL5734647W
Brightness reef Brightness reef David Brin David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. … OL58695W
Foundation's Triumph Foundation's Triumph David Brin The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Gregory Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale … OL58698W
Infinity's shore Infinity's shore David Brin Nebula and Hugo award-winning author David Brin continues his bestselling Uplift series in this second novel of a bold new trilogy. Imaginative, inventive, and filled with Brin's trademark mix of adv… OL58700W
Four Ways to Forgiveness Four Ways to Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is… OL59826W
Manifold Manifold Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor. Heralded by Arthur Clark as "a major new talent," Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envi… OL72862W
Axis Axis Robert Charles Wilson,Robert Charles Wilson We are taken to the mysterious planet Equatoria, a world apparently engineered for humanity by the inscrutable machine intelligences known as the Hypotheticals. Turk Findley, a man with a criminal pa… OL8339320W
Dragon and soldier Dragon and soldier Timothy Zahn This series title continues the story of Jack Morgan. He fights with Draycos, trying to fend off attempts to kill the draconic race. To do this, he enlists in a mercenary army that recruits teenagers. OL83593W