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Matter
by Iain M. Banks  
Powells.com Staff Pick Matter continues Iain Banks's humorous, thrilling, and complex universe, the Culture, where interstellar ships are the smartest and funniest characters of them all. Recommended by Doug Chase, Powells.com...
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Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks Publisher Comments he war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to...
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Childhood's End (Racksize) (53 Edition)
by Arthur C. Clarke Publisher Comments Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind...
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3001: The Final Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke Publisher Comments One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But...
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Vatta's War #04: Command Decision
by Elizabeth Moon Publisher Comments With the Vatta's War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back-and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #08: Revelation
by Karen Traviss Publisher Comments During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solo’s tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no one–not even the Solos and the Skywalkers–knows if anything can...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #05: Sacrifice
by Karen Traviss Publisher Comments Civil war rages as the Galactic Alliance-led by Cal Omas and the Jedi forces of Luke Skywalker-battles a confederation of breakaway planets that rally to the side of rebellious Corellia. Suspected of involvement in an assassination plot against Queen...
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The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks Publisher Comments The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh...
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Vatta's War #05: Victory Conditions
by Elizabeth Moon Publisher Comments Elizabeth Moon’s thrilling Vatta’s War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is back–locked and loaded...
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Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher Comments The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary...
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Judge
by Karen Traviss Publisher Comments The Eqbas have come, bringing justice, change, hope to some . . . and death to many. Seeking to punish the human gethes who caused the near destruction of an ocean-dwelling race in the distant Cavanagh’s Star system, the Eqbas have finally landed on...
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Dragon's Kin: A New Novel of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern)
by Anne McCaffrey Todd McCaffrey Publisher Comments Beginning with the classic Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination...
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At All Costs
by David Weber Publisher Comments What price victory? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase...
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Space Viking
by H. Beam Piper Synopsis After his wife is murdered on their wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge, becoming a Space Viking in the process, in this thrilling intergalactic saga....
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Iron Sunrise (Ace Science Fiction)
by Charles Stross Publisher Comments Charles Stross's visionary (Library Journal) debut novel Singularity Sky was hailed as a carnival of ideas (Michael Swanwick) and sealed his reputation as the writer who owns the cutting edge of science fiction (James Patrick Kelly). Now he moves beyond...
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Off Armageddon Reef
by David Weber Publisher Comments 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...
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Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
Publisher Comments On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time...
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Absolution Gap
by Alastair Reynolds Publisher Comments With his top-notch (Maxim) debut, Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds was widely hailed as the new leader of cutting-edge hard-science fiction; a reputation he confirmed with the awe inspiring sequel, Redemption Ark. Now, with Absolution Gap, he...
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Endymion
by Dan Simmons Publisher Comments The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph — the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion — with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's Hyperion was...
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Bloodlines :Star Wars Legacy of the Force
by Karen Traviss Publisher Comments A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new territory. Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious...
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