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"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
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I'm Sam Wu and I am not afraid of anything! And definitely not space, with all its black holes, meteors and imploding stars. So when I went to Space Camp with my friends this summer, I knew that we had to: 1) be seen as the bravest space explorers and 2) win the Space Camp Challenge trophy. Easy as landing on the moon, right?
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"Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization? As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago,...
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John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.
7) Colossus
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"...a spine-tingling sf novel certain to wow readers who want to explore sentient AI, parallel universes, paranoia, and sustaining human consciousness for generations to come." - Booklist
For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES
Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish-a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of...
9) Journey Home
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The Terrani Republic and the Eranian Kingdom have been at war for over a century. When the Terrani Republic lost this war, they had no choice but to evacuate their worlds, leaving everything that they once knew behind. They fled in a massive fleet, with the Eranians in direct pursuit.For over seven long and bitter years, they evaded the pursuing Eranian forces, yet nothing changed for the Terrani. However, the desire for a change in circumstance only...
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VENGEANCE SHALL BE THEIRS…Three years after the massacre of their families on Bromhead, the hard-bitten mercenary unit Hansen's Roughriders have already exacted revenge against Taurian Concordant forces on the planet Lindsay. But that is only the beginning.When the Second Taurian Lancers-the unit responsible for the massacre-lands on Midale to conduct a supply raid, they run into Colonel Wolfgang Hansen and the entire Roughriders force-all out for...
11) The Flightline
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Follow the military career path of Max Morgan, an Avionics Troop performing maintenance on bombers and cargo ships. See all the struggles, shenanigans and memories as all his fellow maintainers attempt to succeed on the Flightline. Feeling trapped on a space station far from home, they do all they can to maintain the spaceships and endure the insanity of it all. Experience the madness of roll-calls, redballs and deployments to foreign moons. No career...
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DREAMS OF 'MECHS AND MERCS…Katie Ferraro dreams of nothing more than being a MechWarrior. Orphaned at a young age, she learns everything she can about 'Mech repair from her mentor and adoptive father. On the distant planet of Jerangle, though, her chances of fulfilling her dreams are slim.But when she finds an abandoned Kit Fox in the jungle, she realizes her dreams might not be so far away. As she goes to work on the 'Mech in secret, she makes...
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The Veneer Empire is collapsing. A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire seceded from the UPA and entered into a secret alliance with the Unity. Today, the seeds of the empire's collapse have taken root and are blossoming into a chaotic darkness that threatens to destabilize the entire region. The Veneer home world has suddenly gone silent. An entire planet with billions of inhabitants and there is nothing but silence. Without the guidance and leadership...
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Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell.As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he's made the right call.The First Mission Book Two of The Shadow Order - is a fast-paced, planet-hopping, space opera adventure.
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BRACE FOR IMPACT!Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your ultimate target for tales of hard-hitting, explosive BattleMech action across the battlefields of the 31st century and beyond!Trapped on a forgotten planet, a lone MechWarrior fighting to survive must stay one step ahead of the relentless barbarians hunting her down. Amid a naval battle for the ages, a damage-control technician will do his part to put an end to the greatest evil in...
16) Tomorrowland
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Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
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"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
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Lies crafted from good intentions. Death spreading through the stars. When the past returns to claim its due, will anyone survive? A millennia's old battle is brought to Sol and it threatens the very existence of humanity. Our ability to adapt and our ingenuity may be all that sits between us and extinction. The Olivaw family has been destined to defend humankind against the threat of the Galactic Alliance, whether they like it or not. Their ancestors...
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Amidst unwavering determination, Maki comes to a profound realisation-his desires can only be fulfilled through the mastery of metaphysical sorcery and the art of teleportation.
Yet burdened with an overwhelming task, he must avert a cataclysmic future alien invasion on his beloved homeworld, halt the merciless massacre of Noirplasts on Planet Artheus, and rescue his aunt and her daughters from the far reaches of Plan8's interstellar boundaries.
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