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41) The downloaded
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer. In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work...
42) Grimspace
Author
Series
Sirantha Jax novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Jax has the ability to jumb ships through grimspace, but the process cuts into her life expectancy. When a ship she's navigating crash-lands, Jax is thought to be at fault and is imprisoned. A mysterious man breaks into her cell and offers freedom if Jax will help his small band of rogue jumpers.
43) The Icarus plot
Author
Series
Icarus saga volume 1
Description
"There wasn't much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter career that had cost Gregory Roarke his left arm six years ago. And thanks to his Kadolian partner Selene's ultrasensitive sense of smell, they occasionally discovered a medically promising seed or spore they could sell under the table. It was a quiet life, uneventful and mostly legal. Until Roarke was...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 18
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When Zack and his friends enter the Starcade gaming competition, Zack thinks it is all fun and games--until he realizes that the decisions he makes while playing the game starts to affect his daily life on Nebulon.
47) Jedi search
Author
Series
Jedi Academy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
p1994
Description
When Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel.
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Series
Saga of shadows volume 1
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Description
"Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars, galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and factions of humanity are pitted against...
50) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
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Series
Daybreak colony volume Book 1
Description
Anikka has worked her butt off to earn a place on the Last Resort, a colony ship leaving overcrowded Earth. But instead of a peaceful trip to a new world, Anikka wakes from cryo-sleep as the Last Resort hits the atmosphere and crashes in the jungle, completely ruining her plans.
Wounded and alone except for an anxious AI, Anikka is determined to survive even when the planet itself is trying to kill her. All she has to do is get to the colony. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction--only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they've ever encountered"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now,...
54) Chilling effect
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Series
Chilling effect volume 1
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Description
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the universe delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate which holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her...
Author
Series
Protectorate volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship breaking up around her as her evac pod expanded, sealing her away for salvage medics to pick up. She expected to awaken in friendly hands, patched up and patched back into a new gunship. Instead, she wakes up 230 years later on an empty enemy smartship, The Light of Berossus or, as he prefers to be called, Bero. The war is lost. The star system is dead. But is that the full story? After all, in the vastness...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine's forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace. Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol....
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
A cryptic and desperate message from a long-lost friend Dr. Beverly Crusher draws Starfleet legend Admiral Jean-Luc Picard into the most daring mission of his life, forcing him to recruit allies spanning generations old and new. The legacy of Picard's past meets explosive new revelations that will alter the fate of the Federation forever. Experience the Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion three decades in the making like you've never seen it before,...
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Series
Mass Effect. Andromeda volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The Quarian ark Keelah Si'yah sails toward the Andromeda galaxy, carrying 20,000 colonists from sundry races including the drell, the elcor, and the batarians. Thirty years from their destination, a routine check reveals drell lying dead in their pods, and a deadly pathogen on board. Soon, the disease is jumping species, and it quickly becomes clear that this is no accident. It's murder, and the perpetrator is still on board. The ship's systems rapidly...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown. Alone in space, Jakub discovers a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, who becomes his unlikely companion. Over philosophical conversations about the nature...
Author
Series
Helfort's war volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"The savage Hammer Worlds are not only near invincible but almost certain to win their war to crush the Federated Worlds and control humanspace-unless the Feds can find and destroy their secret antimatter warhead facility. Only dreadnoughts, the lone Federated ships able to withstand antimatter missile attacks, can do the job, and only Lieutenant Michael Helfort has the skill to lead them. But skill may not be enough, because Helfort is more than...