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1) Starbreaker
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English
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Captain Tess Bailey and Shade Ganavan are the galaxy's Mos Wanted, while the universe is on the brink of catastrophic war. As their attraction builds, they must decide if they trust each other to change the course of history together.
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Expanse volume 1
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English
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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The ultimate tale of Earth's invasion, written by one of the fathers of the science fiction genre. They came from a depleted, dying planet. Their target: the riches of a moist, green Earth. With horrifyingly advanced machines of destruction, they began their inexorable conquest. The war for Earth seemed destined to be ... but was it?
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2014.
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English
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"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
5) Deep space
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Star carrier volume 4
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The fourth book in the popular Star Carrier science fiction series, Deep Space by Ian Douglas is an action-packed tale of humankind's struggle to bring down an evil empire that spans the universe.
Twenty years after the fragile truce with the Sh'daar, Koenig is now President of the USNA, and Gray is skipper of the CVS America... soon to be promoted to commander of the entire battle group, Koenig's old position, and one which he might not be ready...
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Makaum War volume 1
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Harper Voyager, am imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"They call it The Green Hell. A maze of tangled jungle, the planet Makaum is one of the most dangerous places in the universe. And for Terran Military Master Sergeant Frank Sage, it is now home. The war between the Terrans and the Phrenorians rages, and both sides have their sights set on Makaum. If the planet's rich resources fall into enemy hands it could mean devastation for the Terran Army. To ensure that doesn't happen, Sage is sent to assess...
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Safehold volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Not yet thirty years old, Cayleb Ahrmahk has won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom. The Church of God Awaiting, which...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Special Forces are used to crazy ops, but orbiting a black hole to slow down time and fight Earth's dirty battles in the future? That's new, even for them. But that's the mission for Owen Quarry, Anaya Pretorius, and the rest of COG, a company of elite, disgraced, soldiers from around the globe. They join a defrocked company commander, an AI warship with self-confidence issues, and a crew of misfit troupers on a dizzying time-quest: prove the concept...
10) Dark Star rising
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The star sailing ship HMSS Daring and its misfit crew go undercover to infiltrate the pirate network and the closer they get to its center and the elusive Dark Star, the clearer it becomes that all is not what it seems.
11) Winds of marque
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Blackwood and Virtue volume 1
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Tasked by the emperor to destroy a fleet of space pirates, the crew of the star-sailing ship HMSS Daring find their mission compromised by a traitor in their midst.
12) Embassytown
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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Safehold series volume 1
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English
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Humanity pushed its way to the stars--and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures to create a religion, with mind control and hidden high technology, designed...
14) Hidden empire
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Saga of seven suns volume 1
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English
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Having colonized other worlds, humans are certain the galaxy is theirs for the taking. But they soon discover the horrifying price of their arrogance when a scientific experiment awakens the wrath of the previously unknown Hydrogues and begins a war.
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Luna
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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When a rag-tag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies are defeated and imprisoned by Rojok invaders, their female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself.
16) Legion
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Lazarus war volume 2
Publisher
Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
Mankind has spread to the stars, only to become locked in warfare with an insidious alien race. All that stands against the alien menace are the soldiers of the Simulant Operation Programme, an elite military team remotely operating avatars in the most dangerous theatres of war. Captain Conrad Harris has died hundreds of times - running suicide missions in simulant bodies. Known as Lazarus, he is a man addicted to death. So when a secret research...
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Saga of seven suns volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Early in the 25th century, humans ignited a fierce war with the hydrogues. Now the gas-giant planets, once a major source of fuel for Earth, are off limits, and the fearsome hydrogues scour the solar system, incinerating humans and the trees of the worldforest. As political unrest spreads throughout Earth's space colonies, a possible ally is discovered: an ancient race of water-based creatures.
18) Exodus
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Eternity war volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Following Pariah comes Exodus , the second book in The Eternity War series - an explosive tale of elite marines, deep-space exploration and warring galactic empires. Lieutenant Keira Jenkins and her Jackals may have survived confrontations with the Black Spiral terrorist network and a betrayal by one of their own. Yet their troubles are only just beginning. With their starship badly damaged, they find themselves adrift in hostile territory. Somehow...
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Ever since an attempt on his life marooned him with his bodyguards on the hostile planet Marduk, with its unending series of threats, obstacles, and adventures, Prince Roger McClintock has evolved from a spoiled, petulant heir into a true leader of humans and aliens alike.
This third installment in the Prince Roger series takes the Bronze Barbarians across the Eastern Ocean of Marduk, facing giant sea monsters, pirates, and the barbarian
...20) Guerilla
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Makaum War volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"He's behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet. In the jungles of Makaum, the Terran military is locked in a critical standoff over the planet's resources with the hostile Phrenorians, even as both species maintain uneasy relations with the locals. Tensions could ignite at a moment's notice. And Master Sergeant Frank Sage has just stumbled upon the spark plug. Alongside trusted Makaum scouts, Sage is running recon on what...