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1) Grimspace
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Sirantha Jax novels volume 1
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English
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As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace—a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her, for a price: her help in overthrowing the established order.
4) Binti: home
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Binti volume 1
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English
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It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now, she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But, Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.
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They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: the Galaxy Primes, two men and two women aboard the experimental spaceship Pleiades billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered
7) Binti
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Binti volume 2
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English
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
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Andromedan dark volume 2
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English
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In a distant corner of space, colony ship commander Grayson St. Clair must protect his passengers and crew, try to return to the Milky Way, and avoid a force of unimaginable destruction.
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The Hermetic Millennia, by John C. Wright, is a kaleidoscopic vision of future history and human evolution- perfect for fans of hard sci-fi and space opera.
Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose-Texas gunslinger, idealist, and post-human genius- has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity's value as slaves.
Montrose intends to...
10) Skylark three
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Danger stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton, whose allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy while Seaton's arch-nemesis, DuQuesne, has embarked on a nefarious mission of his own
11) Defy the fates
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Constellation trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Abel, the most advanced robot in the galaxy, must save teenaged soldier Noemi by resurrecting her into a human-mech hybrid, a decision which will have consequences throughout the galaxy and may just turn the tide in the war between Genesis and Earth"--
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To keep secret their means of interstellar travel, the alien Lhari race permit humans to travel aboard Lhari vessels only in a cold, deep sleep. Bart Steele has surgically altered his appearance to masquerade as a Lhari on a homeworld-bound vessel, in an attempt to steal their secret
13) Bright light
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Trevor Gray has been stripped of his starship command, but the super-AI Konstantin has a plan for him: to visit the remote star Deneb, make contact with an alien civilization, and maybe--if he can make it in time--save humanity --
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies...
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When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's top spaceliner Arcturus embarks on a routine flight to Mars it begins a most unexpected voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the liner ditches on Ganymede, where the survivors must master that world's primeval terrors, construct a new spacecraft, and find a way to deal with the warring intelligences of the Jovian system
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Barque cats volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
17) 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....
18) Doubleblind
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"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 obvious choice to sell the Conglomerate to the Ithtorians, a people whose opinions of humans are as hard as their exoskeletons. And Ithtorian council meetings aren't the only place where Ambassador Jax needs to maneuver carefully. Her lover is frozen in permanent...
19) Goldilocks
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race; perfect for readers of The Martian, The Power, and Station Eleven. Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human habitation. It's humanity's last hope for survival, and Naomi, Valerie's...
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